Mae West, "way out" rock and roller - as far as musical Bad Ideas go, this ranks right up there with Pat Boone's heavy metal ...

These trippy album covers use vibrant artwork and photographic manipulation to make you second-guess your own reality with ...

What makes an album cover controversial? In the classic 1984 rock mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, record industry executive Bobbi Flekman (played by the great Fran Drescher) finds herself embroiled ...

It's one of the most iconic covers in rock history.

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 ...

Tyler, the Creator's 'Chromakopia' won the first-ever awared for Best Album Cover at the 2026 Grammy Awards, with the award going to Tyler Okonma under his real name.

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 ...

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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 ...

Sometimes, all it takes is an eye-catching album cover to get the average record store visitor interested in a particular band. These iconic records from some of the greatest classic rock bands ...

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, ...