MR. CASTILLO GIVES US A FIVE YEAR LOOK AT HIS ART OF ROCK

Ah the rock poster. You are trusty and informative. Sometimes you are brilliantly designed. Sometimes you are nay legible. Sometimes you are penned by patient hands. Sometimes you are scribbled out quickly in MS Paint. Sometimes you draw upon a shared set of attributes and iconography sufficiently to wrap a broader visual narrative blanket around a scene. Here in town, we are fortunate to have quite a number of designers and artists whose promotional prints move from mere information to collectible art. Arguably, none have been more prolific in the past several years than one Mr. Castillo.

Interminably old-school, as evidenced by his trend-transcending style, wardrobe, and prodigy email address Dan “Mr.” Castillo in unveiling a retrospective of some of his (and ours, coincidentally) favorite works at the Proletariat this evening.

“At first I was going to focus only on the Proletariat, but as I began sorting through my files I realized that many of the people I have worked with have moved on to other things and many of the venues have closed down,” Dan commented in an email conversation he hopefully did not intend to remain private. “Hell, in the case of Link Wray, Poor Dumb Bastards and Guitar Wolf, some people have actually passed on. I thought that with the closing of the Proletariat it would be a good time for me to display what I have contributed as well as try to make some sort of a visual commentary on the scene itself.”

Love it. When asked to pick a few of his favorites (and, as the totally incomplete collections on gigposters.com and his MySpace attest, there is a metric-ton to choose from), he mentioned one for Sparklehorse with Danny and the Nightmares a few years back (which you will just have to go to see).

Five Year Run opens tonight at the Proletariat, which is also the final Rockbox, by the way, and runs until the club shuts her doors Friday night.