Let's say you're poking through a cardboard box of old band posters tucked away into the back of a thrift store or hanging out on someone's lawn at an estate or tag sale. How do you know what it's ...

A piece of music memorabilia from “The Day the Music Died”—when a deadly plane crash killed early rock and roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and, J.P. “the Big Bopper” Richardson—has made auction ...

When the Grateful Dead played its first live show Dec. 4, 1965, the band wasn’t exactly a newcomer to the music scene. The group, including Jerry Garcia, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan and Bob Weir, had been ...

Few types of music memorabilia have enjoyed a prolonged renaissance quite like concert posters. Once relegated to light poles and store shop fronts, these impressive pieces of art have come to be ...

Original Text: Anyone who buys a one-year membership to PASTE.COM will receive their choice of any poster included in the list below. Buy a two-year membership and choose any two posters listed below.

Lamp posts and storefront windows in downtown Provo are continually plastered with advertisements for local concerts. Some are creative, inspiring and high quality. Others are not. Regardless of their ...

From vintage T-shirts to used guitar picks, music memorabilia can be extremelyvaluable. Tour posters, in particular, gain value because they're often onlymade in small quantities to advertise an ...

July 16, 1966, the Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco. Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead have just finished their sets, and as patrons shuffle to the exits they’re handed fliers for another ...

Decades ago, when rock was young, the idea that it would become an art form would've been offensive to most of an older generation. The idea that rock posters would one day wind up in the Met would ...

David Edward Byrd was the house poster artist for the Fillmore East in New York City in 1969 when its founder, the legendary rock promoter Bill Graham, called one day to tell him some guys from ...