Michelle Carr’s fertile imagination has garnered a career in the arts and entertainment industry for over 17 years. At the very young age of 20, Michelle Carr along with her partner Gary Dent created Jabberjaw, the main location for underground music in Los Angeles between 1989-1997. For many new bands and fans Jabberjaw would become a kind of headquarters for the young open-minded and experimentally inclined. Carr’s studied attention to rare “high” kitsch and eccentric style in decor (which would eventually land her on the cover of the L.A. Weekly’s Design Issue) provided a cozy home away from home favored by many traveling bands. Jabberjaw was a launching pad for revolutionary underground bands as well as a place already famous acts would play out of appreciation for the venue, such as Nirvana, Beck, Sonic Youth, The Beastie Boys, Weezer and Elliott Smith. Free to invent its own program from scratch, Jabberjaw released two critically acclaimed compilation albums, “Good To The Last Drop” and “Pure Sweet Hell” and joined forces with legendary silkscreen rock poster artists Kozik, Coop, Lindsey Kuhn, Pablo and The Pizz, thus contributing to the rebirth of the classic rock poster.
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