Mary Allen and the Percolators — “Aint Nothin New” LP
Date
Credits
- designer unknown 155 Artist
Format
- Album Art 704
Techniques
- silk-screen 62
- drawing 131
- illustration 374
- printing 1006
- screen printing 91
Dimensions
Printed Pages
Locations Made
- United States 1058
- Minneapolis
- Minnesota 23
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About this Object
"Ain't Nothin New" album on LP by Mary Allen And The Percolators. The front album cover features a three-color screen print on uncoated heavy purple paper stock. The back cover features a one-color screen print of a live band photo and hand-made typography for the track listing.
Front text reads:
- Mary Allen Percolators
- Ain't Nothin New
Back text reads:
- Amazon
- Whiplash
- Grass
- Dice
- Tiger City USA
- Swamp Think
- Push Push Coast
- Intergalactic
- Be Brave
Label: Disgraceland Records
Released: 2014
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.
