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Pearl Jam vs Rock Posters

Pearl Jam, Champaign, Illinois, 4/23/03, by Ames Bros.

For almost 30 years, posters produced for Pearl Jam concerts around the world have been among the best anywhere, in any era. Going back to the band’s third-bill appearance in 1991 on a devilishly good Harry Rossit poster (headliner was Red Hot Chili Peppers, with support from Nirvana), Pearl Jam’s posters have mirrored the band’s […]

Lee Conklin: 50 Years of Psychedelic Art at the Haight Street Art Center

For many music fans, Lee Conklin is the “Santana-lion” guy, a reference, of course, to his famous design for Santana’s first album, whose central image was taken from Conklin’s Fillmore West poster advertising a pair of 1968 shows headlined by Steppenwolf (August 27, 28, 29, with Santana at the bottom of a three-act bill) and […]

Emek Career Retrospective Comes to the Haight Street Art Center

Over the years, fans of rock-poster artist Emek have unwittingly enjoyed a slow-motion retrospective of the artist’s work—albeit one year’s worth at a time—every time they visited the artist’s spacious booth at the Festival of Rock Posters in Golden Gate Park. But from February 24 though the end of April, 2018, time will stand still […]

Haight Street Art Center at Bottlerock

It looks like a good time has been had by all at Bottlerock this year, especially if you visited the Haight Street Art Center’s remote printing studio. On Friday, those at the music festival to hear Stevie Wonder could leave with a print by Chris Shaw. On Saturday, fans of Florence + the Machine could […]