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Posted on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 by Jeffrey Everett
Last year I was asked by Be Your Own Pet and Mudsugar to do a poster for their backstage show at the Black Cat. I had no clue who they were then but quickly fell in love with the songs. I did not get a chance to see them and was kicking myself for missing the show. When they toured with Sonic Youth I missed them again. Lucky me that I get to do the poster for Be Your Own Pet as they play the Black Cat next month and move up to the mainstage. My own kitty modeled for the main figure and she was quite pleased in how it turned out.
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Posted on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 by Jeffrey Everett
I was able to do the poster for Band of Horses and I was quite excited to have this opportunity. The music is melencholy without being whiny, atmospheric without being boring, and has a sense of humor as well which is evident with the “yee-haw” at the begining of a song. A top notch show indeed. The song “Monster” was the basis of the imagery; a confused and gentle monster killing a lowly cowboy who was trying to do him in as well. The limited-edition, silk-screened poster will be available at the show as well as on El JEFE DESIGN. Check out our new store for all your poster needs by clicking here. |
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Posted on Monday, August 7, 2006 by Anthony Dihle
You will be at this show because: It’ll be the first non-Rancid show in four nights, and in addition to the music it’s going to benefit DC’s Street Sense organization, which helps DC’s homeless people to help themselves. The text at the bottom reads:
Basically, Street Sense publishes and and sells newspapers as a means of provide income to people who would otherwise have none, and gives them a voice with which to speak to the community at large. Poster is seven colors total, about 11.5″ wide by 23″ tall. I’m going to sell posters on my website via paypal someday, once I kick the habit of sleeping altogether and put together a store page of some sort. I just got back from Nashville a couple hours ago. Checked off a couple things on my to-do list by seeing Tom Waits live in concert, at the Ryman Auditorium. My buddy and I got seats in the second row due to me being on the Waits mailing list– we were so close we could literally see Mr. Wait’s fillings in the back of his teeth when he bellowed. The Show was well worth the 25 hrs spent driving to and from. Also got to see Hatch Show Prints in Nashville, one of the oldest operating letterpresses in the US, which makes some of the raddest posters you’ll every see in your life. I bought twelve of them, coulda bought 200. Hatch Show Prints: |
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Posted on Sunday, August 6, 2006 by Jeffrey Everett
Having been going to punk and hardcore in and around DC, New York, and Boston for over half my life I have seen my fair share of show flyers and posters. When it comes to punk posters it is fairly easy to whip one of these off, especially for such an iconic band as Rancid. You need several of these elements in any combination: 1) skull 2) reference to a youth crew 3) an anarchy/straightedge/peace/vegan/upside-down flag/mohawk symbol, 4) reference to “punk is not dead”, 5) picture of band looking miffed showing their sleeve of ink, 6) horribly done type that is made to be almost illegible due to being written in sharpie or photocopied beyong recoginition, 7) a myspace web address, 8) only black, white, and red can be used for a color scheme and 9) no sexy portrayals of women, men, plants, minerals, or animals. In truth, the idea came off of listening to Rancid’s album “Indestructible,” especially the song “Spirit of ‘87″ which has such a military pin-up sounding name. And nothing beats a beautiful woman and falling bombs considering our current political situations. This is part of our ongoing local artist concert poster and hanbill gallery — if you are an artist, or band and would like to submit the poster or handbill from your upcoming show email the poster image with artist information, and show information including a blurb about the show and the poster to posters [at] mudsugar [dot] com. Please make sure images are at least 416 pixels wide but no larger than 1mb. |
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Posted on Tuesday, August 1, 2006 by Jeffrey Everett
Ever since I got The End of Silence record as a freshman in high school I knew the Rollins Band was for me. Combining elements of funk, jazz, hardcore, and straight-up rock, Rollins and crew have been delivering the soundtrack to my life since then. So it was an honour to be able to do this poster promoting the tour as it stops at the 9:30 Club in DC with The Riverboat Gamblers, the classic Rollins Band lineup, and LA punk legends X. Using the tour title, As the World Burns and the classic Rollins Band song “Hotter and Hotter” the poster represents the twenty+ years Rollins and X spent on the road playing heavy and harder than most bands half their age. It also is a welcome home of sorts for Henry and Chris with use of the DC map in the background. The poster is four colors with a nifty silver varnish printed on recycled grey paper. The limited-edition, silk-screened poster is available only at El JEFE DESIGN. Check out the new store for all your poster needs by clicking here. This is part of our ongoing local artist concert poster and hanbill gallery — if you are an artist, or band and would like to submit the poster or handbill from your upcoming show email the poster image with artist information, and show information including a blurb about the show and the poster to posters [at] mudsugar [dot] com. Please make sure images are at least 416 pixels wide but no larger than 1mb.
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Posted on Friday, July 21, 2006 by Anthony Dihle
So this is going to be the last Beat Grinder at Capital City Records on U street, because Cap City is closing its doors. But we’re gonna try and keep on with the Beat Grinder series elsewhere. If you haven’t gone, it’s free, all ages, in the middle of everything, friday evening from 7pm-midnight. I went to a show on a Saturday and thought I’d deliver these posters as long as I was in the neighborhood, but Capital City had closed for the night. I didn’t want to lug a stack of 100 posters around so I hid them in a thatch of weeds in an alley off U street. Picked them up later, they were no worse for the wear aside from a couple grass stains. This is part of our ongoing local artist concert poster and hanbill gallery — if you are an artist, or band and would like to submit the poster or handbill from your upcoming show email the poster image with artist information, and show information including a blurb about the show and the poster to posters [at] mudsugar [dot] com. Please make sure images are at least 416 pixels wide but no larger than 1mb. |
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Posted on Wednesday, July 5, 2006 by Jeffrey Everett
I have been a fan of Black Heart Procession ever since the cute girl I met in college told me about them about ten years ago. I saw them for the first time at the old Black Cat and was amazed as they toyed with fire and played a rusted saw on stage (especially since the fire thing was about eight inches from my face). Thus it was pleasure to do a poster for these guys as they travel the US promoting their new album Spell. Usually when I do a poster I tinker with one or two thoughts and jump into the final piece. I try not to dilly-dally since I make no money doing these and I want to keep the excitement high. With this poster though I did about ten versions based on various songs on the album before ending with a hybrid of a voodoo doll, my heart-skull logo, and an x-rayed cat doll. The limited-edition, silk-screened poster will be available at the show as well as on El JEFE DESIGN in a few weeks. Check out the new store for all your poster needs by clicking here. |
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Posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 by Anthony Dihle
It’s about 11 x 22, 8 colors including my first attempt at a split fountain in a poster. The split fountain is the red to orange fade in the upper part of the poster. I made about 45 prints before I started getting consistent results like this one, I expected the colors to blend naturally as I went but the two actually seperated like oil/water. Ended up spearing the two on the screen with a spoon. So this show is the mainstage meeting of two Baltimore and DC bands. Not a battle of the bands really but more of a lusty rendezvous. As you may know, the Bonapartes are their way out as a band, and this is gonna be their last show. We refrained from putting the word ‘waterloo’ on there… but you can do the sinking ship math for yourself. Someone Talked: The Bonapartes, Two if by Sea, The Hard Tomorrows, The Heavycoats at Black Cat, Washington, DC, June 2nd, $10. This is part of our ongoing local artist concert poster and hanbill gallery — if you are an artist, or band and would like to submit the poster or handbill from your upcoming show email the poster image with artist information, and show information including a blurb about the show and the poster to posters [at] mudsugar [dot] com. Please make sure images are at least 416 pixels wide but no larger than 1mb. |
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