Rock ’n’ roll is here to stay, and the old posters advertising live shows seem to be sticking around, too. In a new edition of “The Art of Rock” (Abbeville Press, $45), out next month, rock historian ...

Well before Facebook and Twitter, rock posters were the best way to spread the word about the next big concert, and none were as attractive as the ones created in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury.

If you want something done right, do it yourself. That was Matt Terich’s motivation when he started designing posters to promote shows for his band, the Senate Arcade. When he attended Flatstock 3, a ...

Hellraising in Helvetica: A designer takes the CBGB aesthetic of vintage punk posters into clean, alpine lines. Swiss modernism, a typographic style that originated in the Alpine country in the 1950s, ...

“They were the best worst advertisements ever,” says Mary Weaver Chapin of the works featured in the Portland Art Museum’s upcoming exhibit, “Psychedelic Rock Posters and Fashion of the 1960s.” While ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In what seems to her like another lifetime, Donna Wallace-Cohen, a retired vice president of Bloomingdale’s in New York, was living on a houseboat in ...

It could be the Holy Grail of rock posters — and it has a Minnesota connection. No, it’s not related to Bob Dylan or Prince. It’s from the Winter Dance Party 1959, the fateful Upper Midwest tour that ...

In Portland — where it sometimes seems as if everybody under age 30 plays in a band — concert posters pop up everywhere: stapled to telephone poles, tacked to bulletin boards at coffee shops and ...

The venue is packed. The energy of the room radiates a passion for music, and the work of dedicated artists is finally being showcased. This isn’t a rock concert, though, it’s Flatstock 18 — the ...

Rock Posters, Australia’s most established street poster company with the largest national network, has been creating outdoor advertising solutions in Australia since 1986, largely to amplify ...