The Beatles Butcher album cover isn’t their most notorious scandal. It doesn’t hold a candle to the time they snubbed the Queen or dissed GOD. But the image of the lovable mops tops draped in raw meat while holding decapitated baby dolls did create a …
Give ‘Em Enough Rope artwork print signed by Mick Jones and Paul Simonon If you’re lucky enough to have a first pressing of Give ‘Em Enough Rope, you’ll know that the cover is not exactly the same as the limited edition print featured above. The …
Peter Blake signed Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band screen prints. Hands down one of the most famous album covers of all time, Snap Studios has been promoting limited edition Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band screen prints signed by co-creator Sir Peter Blake. The …
One look at this image from Gaslight Anthem’s ‘59 Sound Sessions Photobook and you can smell the beer. Sweat in the air. Cramped dance floor. The low suspended ceiling adds to the romance. The thrill of seeing a band about to step up fuelled by …
The Beatles photograph by Astrid Kirchherr Before Ringo, before the fame, before Love Me Do and any talk about wanting to hold hands. Before they were fab, the Beatles were bad. Leather clad, pompadoured, badASS. This 1960 photo taken by Astrid Kirchherr, who subsequently fell …
God Save The Sex Pistols Deluxe Editions If Joe Corre happens to be on your x-mas shopping list, do not get him God Save The Sex Pistols. The book, packed with punk rock nostalgia celebrating the Pistols through poster art and photography, has received two …
Bowie Blackstar Album Art Jonathan Barnbrook’s give away of the David Bowie Blackstar album art work is probably the coolest tribute yet to the late legend’s legacy. And there’s been a lot of them. I, admittedly, am very late to the party…ahh, to pass on my condolences. …
Fans of The Clash will recognise the London Calling colors used in the featured print. But before you scream rip off know that the piece is part a Clash limited edition series based on sketches by Ray Lowry. Ray Lowry was the designer behind the …
First US visit ’64 by Ringo Starr So you’re 23 in a band on their first visit to America. For you the US is a mystical place. Hell it’s the birthplace of the music that makes your band relevant. Your band, BTW, is causing quit …
I am going to go out on a banana tree limb here and say that no other album artist comes close to the epicness of Andy Warhol. The covers you know are The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers and The Velvet Underground and Nico. Both bulging …
The Jam: About the Young Idea Exhibit One would think that with just three members it would be easier to keep a band together. Oh sure there’s Rush, but they are Canadian, they probably spend more time apologizing to each than anything else. Two of …
The Rolling Stones Exhibitionsim Charlie Watts is a man of very few words, but his candor makes each syllable gold. Take this quote describing Exhibitionism, the band’s first major memorabilia exhibition. Charlie: We’ve got an awful lot of stuff…and it was offered to us. We …
Limited Edition U2 Achtung Baby Lithographs by Anton Corbijn U2 have always been an ambitious band. The kind of band that would invite themselves into your i-tunes account. A truly first world crime that hipsters everywhere still cry themselves to sleep over. In 1991, the …
Travel to Hong Kong with Blur Comic Book When Damon Albarn’s Gorillaz dropped onto the world in 1998 music loving comic geeks peed themselves with joy. Admit it, your drawers got a little wet when your eyeballs caught sight of the world’s first virtual band. …
Yesterday we pimped Rock ‘n’ Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip at the Skirball. Today we’re taking a look at the main draw at the LA cultural center. The Bill Graham and the Rock & Roll Revolution Exhibition is as much a look at the …