Most independent labels are built around a taste. Man’s Ruin was built around a squeegee. Frank Kozik was already the most recognisable rock poster artist in America when he started the label in 1994. He had gone from black and white flyers stapled to telephone poles in Austin to large format silkscreens for Nirvana, Soundgarden [
There is no venue in this story. Sometime in the late 1980s, in the wind-scoured flats east of Palm Springs, a group of teenagers loaded amplifiers and a gasoline generator into a truck, drove until the city lights disappeared, and played until the fuel ran out. No stage, no address, no closing time, and no […]
