06/01/2026
TLDR: Down with AI posters. Support local artists. Local artists, DM me your info if you want to design show posters.
We've been seeing more and more AI generated posters lately, and I get it. Art is hard. Show posters are hard. How do you represent your band, the other bands, and get people to come to your show in 1 image?
Even if you have a genius idea, maybe you can't execute it - and nothing is worse than putting something out into the universe that didn't turn out how you envisioned. You're not alone in this feeling either.
(If you haven't listened to the excerpt of the interview Ira Glass did with Marc Rettig, "The Gap", highly recommend.)
Until recently the only solution to this problem was either putting out something that you felt meh about, or getting someone else to help. Cue AI. Now we're putting that idea into some form of AI, asking it for a million changes, and a million iterations later you have something that is FINE. This amalgamation of every artist in the history of forever is missing...something. It's hard to make a genuine connection when everything human has been filtered through robots.
SO. Here's what I'm going to do about it. There are plenty of people (myself included) that love music, but have no musical talent. I'm taking it upon myself to start a list of visual artists that want to design show posters. The excuse "I don't know any artists or designers" will no longer be valid.
That list will be a google doc available to anyone who wants it. You don't have to book with us to have access, but everyone who books with us will get the link.
If you are an artist and would like to be included, DM me. Give me your name, how you'd like to be contacted, any genre or style preferences, a link to your portfolio if you have one, and a price range of what you might change for a poster.
To put my money where my mouth is, if you designed a show flyer for a show at Cannonball, you and a +1 get in on me.
Disclaimer: I know I'm not perfect, I dabble in AI. I can be better, for the environment, for my brain, for all creatives everywhere.
This post was written without the help of AI.
Cassie
