Kris Mikkelson moved to Hawaii in 1974, leaving behind the comforts of his parents' Piedmont home and the remnants of his happy childhood, some of which he abandoned intact and tacked up on his ...
Classic rockers who flip on MTV for an hour might find themselves asking, “Whatever happened to the art of music?” It’s a valid question, one that is posed even more effectively at the “The Ultimate ...
DENVER, Colorado ” An Animals’ song was going through my head as I entered the Denver Art Museum to see its large collection of psychedelic music posters: there’s no place left to go… Adding to the ...
It’s being reported today that Wes Wilson, artist and poster designer whose style became synonymous with the ’60s, has died. “RIP Wes Wilson who is regarded as the inventor of the psychedelic poster.
Carl Lundgren does not own a single one of the original posters he designed in the ’60s and ’70s for rock ’n’ roll concerts in his native Detroit. “I sold them all years ago,” he says. “I couldn’t ...
Andrew Hawley deals in nostalgia. Even if it’s nostalgia that Hawley isn’t technically nostalgic for. Too young to have seen Bob Dylan’s 1965 show at the long-gone, Back Bay Theatre on Mass. Ave.,the ...
Alton Kelley, the man who created the Grateful Dead's famed "skull and roses" poster and did the artwork for albums like the Dead's "American Beauty" died Sunday at his home from complication of ...
An exhibit at The Lily Pad in Willimantic is a trip backwards, to a time of concerts by bands like Mott the Hoople, Brotherhood of Light, Humble Pie, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Canned Heat and ...
Nearly 60 years after the first rock poster was screen-printed to promote newly blossomed rock and roll, Salt Lake City's own poster artists are pushing the craft in exciting new directions. Nearly 60 ...
It's being reported today that Wes Wilson, artist and poster designer whose style became synonymous with the '60s, has died. "RIP Wes Wilson who is regarded as the inventor of the psychedelic poster.
Artist Alton Kelley, who created the psychedelic style of posters and other art associated with the 1960s San Francisco rock scene, has died. He was 67. Kelley died Sunday of complications from ...