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 ...

They say don’t judge an album by its cover, but for artists and fans alike, sometimes it’s just impossible not to obsess over the packaging. Whether it’s an intimate portrait, abstract ...

Album covers can sometimes make or break the appeal of an album. These five super-cool album covers from the 1990s only made the music within their sleeves even better. Let’s take a look at just ...

We’re ranking all 40 of his studio albums by the quality of the cover art. We’ve left out archival discs like the Bootleg Series and hits collections: It’s relatively easy to pick a stellar ...

That makes him the perfect person to turn to for an appraisal of our list of the worst album covers of 2024 (as well ... Factory era art direction, Vaughan Oliver's early 4AD era in particular ...

But when an album does have a great cover, it stands out. When that cover’s visually representative of the music itself, it stands out even more. Below is a list of some of the most notable ...

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 ...

From pop star to Pop Pop star: Octogenarian Keith Martin stands in for David Bowie in a recreation of the "Starman" singer's 1973 "Aladdin Sane" album cover. BCP council / SWNS Look what you made ...

It’s not very common to see a truly controversial album cover nowadays. But back in the 1970s, plenty of rock stars decided to push boundaries and release albums with taboo cover art.

Taylor brought in an arranger who had worked with both Smith and Montgomery individually: Oliver Nelson ... suit and hat as in the resulting album’s cover photo – took his guitar out of ...

Micah Nelson, who also produced the album. The first single from the collection is a cover of Tom Waits’ “Last Leaf,” a melancholy meditation from Waits’ 2011 Bad As Me album about the ...

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 ...