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Journalist
Pete Howard founded, owned, published and edited ICE magazine for 19 years, from 1987-2006 (click to learn more).  England’s New Musical Express called ICE “probably the best source of CD news in the world.” Pete was also a Contributing Editor for Rolling Stone magazine from 1988-1995, writing his regular “CD News” column for their Record Review section (plus other stories).  He also penned Goldmine magazine’s 22,000-word cover story on collectible music posters in 1995.

Media Pundit
Pete Howard is often called upon by the media as an expert in the field of music.  He’s appeared in numerous television shows, national radio programs and print publications (see list).  You’ll come across Pete’s name in the acknowledgments of a wide variety of music projects, from 1992’s Crosby, Stills & Nash four-CD box set to Peter Guralnick’s 2005 biography Dream Boogie:  The Triumph of Sam Cooke.  In addition, Pete has licensed images of concert posters to several prominent record labels for inclusion in CD booklets.  These include releases by Elvis Presley, James Brown, The Beach Boys, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Marvin Gaye, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Supremes, The Band, Muddy Waters, The Everly Brothers, Fats Domino and Hank Williams.

At the Museums
A large part of Pete’s personal collection has been on display in museums since 1995.  The Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland had 10 of his items on display when they opened their doors in 1995, and ever since has always had a few of his items on exhibit. The Experience Music Project (EMP) museum in Seattle displayed 11 of Pete’s items in its traveling exhibit called “Bob Dylan’s American Journey 1956-1966.”  This exhibit opened in 2004, passed through several museums across America, and finally closed in the Spring of 2008 in Los Angeles.  And Pete had 15 items on display at the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art's “Rock 'N Roll 1939-1959” exhibit in Paris, France in the summer and fall of 2007.

Author
Pete is busy at work on a coffee-table book with the working title of Torn Down and Thrown Away: The History of the American Concert Poster 1920-1970. He is the only person in the world with a serious, comprehensive (3000+) collection of rare concert-poster images from this time period. If you have any unusual concert posters that you would like to submit for possible inclusion, please see Pete’s Contact page.

Music Fan
Pete’s entire occupational and hobby lives have involved music for over 35 years. He’s passionately attended hundreds of concerts over the years, from The Jimi Hendrix Experience to the Carpenters, from Frank Sinatra to The Clash, from Elvis Presley to George Jones, from B.B. King to Yanni, from Ruth Brown to Elvis Costello, from Miles Davis to Sammy Davis Jr., to every U2 tour since 1981.
He was a professional disc jockey in the 1970s, followed by several years as an executive at CBS Records.  In the 1980s Pete headed up the radio syndication firm which created Earth News and Country News, and then he started ICE magazine.

Pete’s Media Appearances

• Billboard
• Chicago Tribune
• Entertainment Weekly
• Goldmine magazine
• KLOS-FM, Los Angeles
• KMPC-FM, Los Angeles
• Los Angeles Times
• Musician magazine
• The Nation
• National Public Radio
• New York Daily News
• New York Times
• Playboy
• Rolling Stone
• TV Guide
• USA Today
• Vogue
• Washington Post
• Worth magazine

And on TV

• Collector's Cafe
  (PBS-TV pilot)
• MTV (pilot taping)
• Now It Can Be Told (Geraldo Rivera)
• Showbiz Today (CNN)
• Under Scrutiny
  (Jonathan Alter)