Here are 10 favorites—mostly first-run prints—drawn from both photos and fine-art posters for specific shows, including many commissioned by legendary Bay Area concert promoter Bill Graham. 1.

Stephenson’s Auction of the Perry Pfeffer estate’s collection of rock concert posters will be held live at the company’s gallery at 1005 Industrial Blvd., Upper Southampton, on Friday, Aug. 14.

Many get papered over or recycled and are never seen again.But as the recent new book, "Gig Posters Volume 1: Rock Show Art of the 21st Century" reveals, those scores of design-it-yourselfers are ...

Jason Munn makes concert posters that rock Art By Aidin Vaziri, Chronicle Pop Music Critic April 9, 2010 Flight of The Conchords, concert poster Jason Munn, The Small Stakes/Chronicle Books ...

Stephenson’s Auction of the Perry Pfeffer estate’s collection of rock concert posters will be held live at the company’s gallery at 1005 Industrial Blvd., Upper Southampton, on Friday, Aug. 14.

(Courtesy Norman Orr) “In my poster for the Poco concert,” Orr says, “I employ a flowing quality to many of the design elements. The snake element, and stylized foliage are reflections of the ...

A Chicago nightlife regular since the 1970s, graphic artist Shelley Howard designed rock concert posters for Jam Productions and also was believed to be the local club scene’s first club vide… ...

Usually when you go to concerts, you come home empty-handed and broke -- must be the $12 beers. But if you attend a rock show at The Mann Center for the Performing Arts this summer, you’ll be ...

When we think of rock-concert posters, what comes to mind is the famous psychedelic art of the 1960s, with its swirly colors and elastic bubble lettering, or perhaps the aggressively lo-fi ...

The invitations are more like event posters than traditional wedding invitations, describing the date and location of the wedding as if it were a long-anticipated concert.

Dennis Newhall, a DJ at Sacramento’s “underground” rock station KZAP in the ’70s, collects memorabilia for the Sacramento Rock and Radio Museum. “In building the museum (which includes as much ...

Well, likely because the item promoted a concert appearance in Munich, Germany on March 21, 1973 that has been called "one of the heaviest, darkest, meanest, and most brutal" that Led Zeppelin ...