Musiccosmos

Pearl Jam have a fervent fanbase, the kind that arrives early and lines up at the merch stands hours before the show is set to begin. Why? Well, in past years one constant has often been their posters, featuring art specific to that show and never to be used elsewhere, a memento for the people who were there. Sometimes you’ll find these for sale on their site, or being traded between members of the fanbase. They, however, don’t usually spark headlines or much acknowledgment at all outside of the Pearl Jam world. But then again, the posters don’t usually feature Donald Trump’s corpse. For Pearl Jam’s show in Missoula, Montana this past Monday night, bassist Jeff Ament cooked up a real doozy of a poster with the artist Bobby Draws Skulls. It wasn’t just another Pearl Jam show — this one was helping raise funds for Montana’s Democratic senator Jon Tester, who is running for re-election and who Pearl Jam have thrown their support behind in the past. So the top of the poster depicts smok...