The Bronx kept their punk rock cred intact, while the Coq Roq commercial caught the eye of Slipknot's legal team ...

As drug culture became more and more pervasive in the mid to late 1960s, album artwork began to reflect this growing sense of experimentation, psychedelia, and reality-bending. It wasn’t enough just ...

I’m 32 years old, and I’m at the xaviersobased show. For many people, and for me most days, that might sound relatively young. But if you’re a fan of xaviersobased and his dissonant, very online brand ...

Harry Styles is entering his disco era. On January 15, Styles announced his fourth studio album, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally., via Instagram. His post featured the album cover, which shows ...

Nearly four years after the release of his Grammy-winning album, Harry’s House, Styles announced he’s coming back with Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally. He released the lead single, “Aperture,” ...

If you want people to listen to your music, you need to grab their attention first—and album artwork has always been one of the fastest ways to do that. A striking cover can spark curiosity, set ...

Cover Me is a column highlighting the stories behind great album covers, as told to Grant Sharples by the artists and bands who made them. Nearly every one of Joyce Manor’s album covers contains what ...

How did Lisa Hughes become the cover model for Deftones' sophomore set, Around the Fur? The Pacific Northwesterner, along with photographer Rick Kosick and art director Kevin Reagan have shared a few ...

Even beyond the iconic grooves “My Own Summer (Shove It)” and “Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)”, few early Deftones moments have captured the imagination quite like the hot tub-close-up found on the ...

When artist Robert Rauschenberg died in 2008, Talking Heads frontman David Byrne wrote an op-ed for the New York Times. Reflecting on both their friendship and creative collaborations, Byrne recounted ...

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 ...