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 ...

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 ...

Music videos in the 1980s were to music what the album cover art of the 1970s was to musicians. You bought hook, line, and sinker into these albums based on their cover art, not the snippets you might ...

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 ...

The Grammy Awards has recently introduced a new category for Best Album Cover, and there are so many albums from years gone by with incredible and iconic covers. Here are just three classic rock album ...

The cover of The Who Sell Out by The Who is probably the oddest one of the bunch. This concept album was released in 1967 and features two of the band’s members in opposing photographs. Pete Townshend ...