“It was a move to Austin, Texas in 1978 that touched off my fascination with poster art,” says Nels Jacobson, better known as psychedelic-poster artist Jagmo. “That move changed my life.”
In Texas at Club Foot as a bar manager and promotions director, Jacobson was able to mingle with music legends such as B.B. King, James Brown, and Stevie Ray Vaughan and also artists that he commissioned for concert posters.
Since 2005, the co-founder of Peripheral Media Projects and Ad Hoc Art Gallery has brought lowbrow art, street culture, and social activism to the Brooklyn masses through his gallery space, design studio, and community art collaborations.
For Immaculate Infatuation, a music-driven NYC food blog, P.O.S was invited to Pure Food and Wine to grab some eats and teach some beats. Check out the video below.
TriBeCaStan travels across the musical landscape of the entire world with dizzying speed: one second you’re grooving to a banjo-led southern folk-funk jamboree, and the next you’re boogieing to a Caribbean jazz breakdown relocated to a Grecian island.
At 20 years old, John Porcellino’s hand-drawn comic zine King-Cat is a veritable dinosaur of the industry.
When publication began in 1989, King-Cat was doubtlessly viewed as just another perzine. Over the years, the scope has increased, and, perhaps remarkably, each issue still has something new to say. By the time he released King-Cat Classix, a collection, in 2007, the zine had officially become a phenomenon.
It’s a pretty safe bet that whoever coined the phrase “post-punk” didn’t envision Nathan Bell‘s music. Likewise, it’s unlikely that the average banjo picker ever envisioned the instrument being manipulated to produce the array of sounds that Bell wrings from his instrument.
First working out of a tiny home studio in Lexington, Kentucky, Brian and Sara Turner created Cricket Press, a hand-printing, silk-screening, poster-making operation, in 2003. Since then, the duo has generated work for hundreds of bands, ranging from “indie rock to free jazz, bluegrass to punk, as well as promotional work for events both local and national,” the Turners say.
When it comes to cities known for experimental art scenes, Philadelphia might not be the first to come to mind. Yet over the past few years, the city’s tight-knit art community and DIY ethos have been attracting more and more artists to consider relocating.