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possible-streetwear · 10 months

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REVOLTING COCKS x FRANK KOZIK

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postpunkindustrial · 1 year

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Frank Kozik poster for Pain Teens

RIP Frank Kozik

#experimental #industrial #electromoc #indie #punk #frank Kozik

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jgthirlwell · 1 year

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I was saddened to hear of the death of poster and toy artist Frank Kozik. Kozik designed posters for Nirvana, Sonic Youth, White Stripes, Butthole Surfers, Melvins, Foetus, Beastie Boys and hundreds of others.

“I was part of the trash world,” Kozik said in 2018. “I was a no-education loser person, and was definitely into hedonistic experiences. While I have an appreciation of fine art and I understand it, I was going to punk rock shows, not college nor museums. All of the stuff that really turned my crank was that stuff, and it was all stuff that we could kind of reproduce in our own lives; we could get a shitty car and drive around real fast, and we could hang out with fun people and party… and a lot of that stuff is really visually arresting. It’s all power imagery, and it really gets basic impulses across: sex, drugs, violence, weird shit.”

#Frank Kozik #Melvins #Foetus #Beastie Boys #poster art #rock posters

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yuritestikov · 1 year

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⚡💔 Frank Kozik💔⚡

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ourladyofomega · 1 year

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🖌️: Frank Kozik

#Frank Kozik #Melvins #alternative #puppies #children #omega #our lady omega

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lisamarie-vee · 7 months

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#sonic youth #rock and roll hall of fame #frank kozik #1980s

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gotankgo · 1 year

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cavedwellermusic · 1 year

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RIP Frank Kozrik

Receiving widespread acclaim in the 90s, his tireless work forever shaped the face of underground music’s visual aesthetic.

His most notable work included Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Melvins, The Offspring, Butthole Surfers, and Helmet.

His label Man's Ruin Records was pivotal in shaping the 90s underground scene, releasing albums from The Hellacopters, Nebula, Kyuss, High on Fire, Entombed, Turbonegro, 13eaver, Queens of the Stone Age, The Sex Pistols, Acid King, Goatsnake Fu Manchu and many more.

On a non musical front he was also a notable figure in the designer toy world, creating Smorkin’ Labbit and founding Kidrobot.

He will be sorely missed but his amazing legacy will live on in his work and in his reputation as a passionate and driven individual with an amazing amount of talent.

#frank kozik #rest in peace #graphic design

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 3 months

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"THE GREATEST STONER/ GARAGE/ PSYCHEDELIC/ PUNK/ METAL BAND EVER. THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN HUGE."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on CD package design for the KYUSS/ QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE split release, artwork by the late, great Frank Kozik (1962-2023), issued under the legendary Man's Ruin Records (Man's Ruin MR 063) in 1997.

OVERVIEW: "Emerging wild-eyed and stoned from the desert surrounding Palm Springs, California, in 1992 with their classic second album "Blues for the Red Sun," KYUSS proceeded over the ensuing three years and through two further masterpieces to become the greatest stoner/ garage/ psychedelic/ punk/ metal band ever. They should have been huge.

But saddled with a record company that didn't have the first idea what to do with them, KYUSS only sold records to friends, family and a relatively minuscule band of diehard fans. So they split. Admittedley at a creative high point, but also at a time when they had so much to offer. This much is testified to by the first three tracks on "Queens of the Stone Age." Here are the last songs Kyuss recorded, all first released on a highly-prized 10-inch single and each encapsulating the hypnotic intensity and gargantuan blugeon the band summarily conjured up.

The first track is a frazzled eight-minute deconstruction of BLACK SABBATH's "Into the Void'. KYUSS remain one of the very few bands capable of doing Sabbath's black-hearted doom justice; accomplised in this instance by taking the original tracks prehistoric slurge of a riff and dragging it through a series of skewed rhythmic shifts and a long spaced-out jam.

Like all great bands, KYUSS' sound was utterly distinctive: essentially, Josh Homme's fuzzed-up guitar operating in tandem with Scott Reeder's monstrous bass rumble to create riffs that hit you with the force of a bulldozer to the chest, while singer John Garcia howled away impressively, and intermittently, over the top. All of this is contained in the two-part "Fatso Forgotso" -- a vast 10-minute expanse of soul-drenched, head-spinning rolling thunder.

The album is completed by three tracks from Homme's new band, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE. These too are extraordinary. The music is still dense, trippy and relentlessly heavy, with an even more extreme psychedelic edge. On "If Only Everything" and "Born to Hula." Homme -' who also sings -- appears to be playing a sitar with a road drill, while the whacked-out instumental "Spiders and Vinegaroons" is clearly the work of a man who's imbibed a vast amount of mind-altering substances, and gone mad. We'll not see their like again."

-- "KERRANG!" (review by Paul Rees), published January 10th 1998.

Source: https://mikeladano.com/2023/09/26/review-kyuss-queens-of-the-stone-age-1997-split-ep & discogs.