December 6, 2007

Billboard’s 25 Best Rock Posters Of All Time

By Jeff Vrabel

Billboard — Like vinyl records, hair metal and Ricky Martin, the world of rock art – album covers, posters and the like — just doesn’t score as much attention as it once did. These days, the few non-video visuals that remain part of the music experience usually get shrunk down to fit on an iPod screen, if they show up at all. One holdout that’s not only still alive, but thriving, however, is the custom designed concert poster. So many shows, so little time? Here’s a look at the 25 coolest posters in rock history. And yes, it’s undeniable: San Francisco figures prominently.

Check out the collection here.

• Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
• Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
• Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)
• Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)
• Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)
• More

• Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
• Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)

Like this:

Like Loading...

Related

About Jeff Vrabel

My writing has appeared in GQ, Men’s Health, Success, the Washington Post, the official BruceSpringsteen.net, Indianapolis Monthly, Billboard, Modern Bride and more. View all posts by Jeff Vrabel

This entry was posted on Thursday, December 6th, 2007 at 10:22 pm and tagged with art, Billboard, concerts, music, posters and posted in Billboard, Music Writing. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

---

2 responses to “Billboard’s 25 Best Rock Posters Of All Time”

• EMEK
  December 7th, 2007 at 7:21 pm

  Hi Jeff.
  Thank you for writing about the amazing world of rock concert poster art that I am happy to be a part of. However, you miscredited my Ben Harper poster (#23 on your list) to House of Blues artist. I assure you, I am the artist and art director of all my works. Thank you
  emek
  http://www.emek.net

  LikeLike

  Reply
• Chris
  November 30th, 2009 at 3:59 pm

  Hi Jeff,
  I’m a poster collector. Your link to this article doesn’t work anymore and I would love to see the choices (your choices?). Maybe the page was deleted. Do you have a fresh link to the picks.

  LikeLike

  Reply

Leave a Reply to EMEK Cancel reply

Enter your comment here...

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Email (required) (Address never made public)

Name (required)

Website

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out /  Change )

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

Notify me of new comments via email.

Notify me of new posts via email.