Perfume Genius has some of the most striking album covers in recent memory. Take the defiant pose Mike Hadreas, donned in a metal vest, assumes on 2014’s Too Bright. There’s also the way his shirtless ...

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

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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 ...

In the early days of vinyl records, album covers were nothing more than a safety feature, blank paper jackets meant to protect the fragile content inside. That is, until, designer Alex Steinweiss at ...

Content warning: This article contains images which some readers may find offensive. If you’re a music lover and enjoy a bit of drama, you must have heard that controversy is brewing over the artwork ...

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 ...

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 ...