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New Documentary Pays Tribute to Concert Posters Throughout the Decades

By Catherine Plato
East Bay Express | June 17, 2009
Four years ago, as she was working a "cushy corporate television job," Merle Becker (former MTV staffer and founder of indie film company FreakFilms) stumbled across The Art of Modern Rock, a then newly published coffee-table book of rock posters. She says she was "blown away."
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