There’s something about these 80s album covers that just sticks with us. Whether it’s their sex appeal, their boundary-breaking nature, or their trend-setting illustrations, these covers would look ...

As a southern gal growing up on country music, there are a lot of country albums that I hold near and dear to my heart. But far be it for me to recognize half of them in the record store. Country ...

There are times when you really shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. The covers for the Neapolitan Novels by Italian writer Elena Ferrante look like straight-up stock imagery, but Ferrante’s prose and ...

When it came time to decide the cover image for Wet Leg's sophomore album, the British indie rock band packed items that might provide inspiration — velvet worms sewn by guitarist Hester Chambers, an ...

You can’t always judge something by its cover, but let’s be honest, a good record deserves one. Album covers don’t make music better, but they can sure make it easier to connect with. Some artists hit ...

The best or worst years of an artist’s career can be defined by a single square image. Album cover art is often the first step toward that album’s reception — good or bad — and we often associate the ...

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It's becoming more common in this day and age for musicians of all kinds to mess with their album artwork after the albums have already been released. Of course, musicians can't change the physical ...