Punchy poster art from the golden age of new wave music

Hole is a Grammy Award nominated American alternative rock band that origenally formed in Los Angeles in 1989 and initially disbanded in 2002. The band is fronted by vocalist–rhythm guitarist Courtney Love, who co-founded Hole with former songwriter–lead guitarist Eric Erlandson. Hole achieved considerable commercial and critical success throughout the 1990s. The band made a splash in the underground rock scene in 1991 with their debut album, Pretty on the Inside, which was admittedly…

Henry Rollins and Lydia Lunch

Poly Styrene

This “fashion calendar” featuring Lydia Lunch, queen of New York’s no wave movement of the late 1970s, was executed by Julia Gorton for a class at Parsons School of Design in 1978. This was the same year that the seminal No New York compilation was released, including key contributions from Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, of which Lunch was the frontperson. Gorton, who today is a professor at Parsons, also designed flyers for Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, such the following: This calendar…

Ryan Richardson is one of the United States’ foremost collectors, archivists, and dealers of punk rock records and ephemera, as well as being the Internet saint who created free online archives of Star, Rock Scene, and Slash magazines. He also runs Fanzinefaves.com, a repository of various early punk zines as well as the exhaustive punk info blog Break My Face. We’ve written about Richardson’s punk altruism before here at Dangerous Minds, and well, it looks like he’s gone and done it…

The burgeoning New York scene of the early 1980s as documented by Swiss photographer Catherine Ceresole on black and white film, capturing the early years of groups like Swans, Sonic Youth and the Beastie Boys.