Rocka Rolla Show
Date
Credits
Format
- Flyer 159
Techniques
- 1-color printing 77
- drawing 96
- illustration 255
- photocopy 34
Dimensions
- Height
- 11in
Printed Pages
Locations Made
- United States 985
- Minneapolis
- Minnesota 17
Links
About this Object
- This is a flyer for a music show at the Nomad in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- Text reads:
- Rocka Rolla Show!
- Support Local Music!
- Featuring
- The Violent Shifters (garage, punk, blues, surpyness)
- Blue Ruin (a Rock Band!)
- Tornado (A roll band?) (Totally Experimental)
- Flyer features hand lettering in pen with additional illustrations.
- This is a Xeroxed copy.
About Underground Music Promotional Graphics
This work is an example of how anti-mainstream musicians (often referred as “underground” or “DIY”) depict their music through promotional graphics, uniting sound with visual expression. Designers of these pieces gain total freedom of expression by producing pieces like these in-house—often literally with collaborative making in their homes. Designers might choose production methods for ease of access, as a statement against mainstream production and capitalism, to eliminate digital screens and make by hand, or purely for artistic expression.
About the Minnesota Underground Music Archives (MUMA)
Housed in the Andersen Library Performing Arts Archive at the University of Minnesota, MUMA was formed in 2013 by local collectors Tim Carroll and Liseli Povlika. This community-driven archive is a unique assemblage of publications, publicity, photographs, recordings, and ephemera documenting Minnesota's independent, punk, and underground music culture from 1950 to the present. Its archivists are dedicated to the collecting and preserving of materials associated with the Minnesota music scene of the past, present, and future.
