As vinyl sleeves grew into larger creative canvases, musicians in the 1970s increasingly turned to visionary photographers, ...

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More than half a century after it quietly disappeared, one of the Grammy Awards' most visually driven honors is making a ...

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There’s something about these 80s album covers that just sticks with us. Whether it’s their sex appeal, their ...

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For the first time in 50 years, the Grammys are honoring outstanding album art. By Lina Lecaro When Sabrina Carpenter unveiled the cover this past summer for her latest album, Man’s Best Friend, she ...

Jay-Z, Ye, Lil Kim, Nicki Minaj and more. An artist’s album cover is arguably the most critical piece when rolling out a new project. Whether it’s a debut album or a performer’s swan song or anywhere ...

The album cover of Deafheaven’s second album, 2013’s Sunbather, accrued a weighty, polarizing significance that its creators never anticipated it would bear. It garnered derision from metal purists, ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...