Our Favorite Posters from the Indie Rock Poster Book

“I see where the inspiration came from,” someone might say squinting at a smudge of brown paint on a canvas in a brightly-lit gallery. But it’s often difficult to see where an artist is coming from when the only explanation is a neatly printed card with a singular word or phrase accompanied by a high-price tag....  read more

The Dears: Degeneration Street

The Dears frontman Murray Lightburn eats alt-rock drama for breakfast. The guy can’t resist a carefully crafted minor-key epic, and in his band’s 11-year recording career, he’s come up with some damn fine ones. But The Dears’ brand of complex, heady emo is a distinctly acquired taste, and that fact helped maintain the band’s status as somewhat of a hidden gem. But even still, they have a hard time earning much respect—Lightburn’s been dogged by tired Morrissey comparisons since day one, and, as a Canadian indie-art-rock band breaking through in the heart of the 2000s, they’ve been somewhat overshadowed by...  read more