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

If a Canadian rock band named RUSH is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the name Tom Sawyer, then this collection of vinyl covers is perfect for you. RUSH is the prog rock turned hard ...

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

Nowadays, you’ll rarely encounter a music release without some sort of visual accompaniment. Album covers have become as necessary as the music itself, since Columbia Records began designing vinyl ...

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 ...

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

A picture is worth a thousand words, and these classic rock album covers inspired a few choice words from fans and critics who hated them. It’s worth noting that we know people don’t exist in a vacuum ...

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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 ...

There is a near-25% likelihood of users skipping a song within five seconds of listening to it. If our Instagram Reels-riddled attention spans can’t even last through a standard three-minute song, why ...

The best album packaging gives artists the opportunity to enhance the story told throughout their music or tell a new one entirely — and all the artists on our list of Album Cover Easter Eggs took ...