Poster Of The Week: Cocky Americans, The Southern Sea, Elkhart

This week's featured poster, designed by Gavin Mulloy, is for the Saturday Double-Wide show featuring Cocky Americans, The Southern Sea and Elkhart. I like how the language on the poster comes off as robotic and stilted, like "five dollar entrance fee" and especially "Three bands that rock your simple human...

By Jesse Hughey

April 2, 2009

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This week's featured poster, designed by Gavin Mulloy, is for the Saturday Double-Wide show featuring Cocky Americans, The Southern Sea and Elkhart.

I like how the language on the poster comes off as robotic and stilted, like "five dollar entrance fee" and especially "Three bands that rock your simple human brain to death." I don't know where the image came from, but if you look closely, the hand is detailed down to the fingernails and padded fingertips.

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