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 ...

Durand Bernarr, Eric Bellinger, Ari Lennox, and others all put their own spin on the iconic reclining pose for the covers of ...

The 1990s weren’t all bubblegum pop and boy bands. From the emerging grunge scene to punk taking over to rap and R&B finding their place in the spotlight, the 1990s was brimming with exciting music.

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, ...

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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 ...

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 ...

It’s safe to say that Chris Stapleton’s life changed with the arrival of Traveller. In May 2015, Stapleton released the album that took him from a behind-the-scenes songwriter and under-the-radar ...

Award-winning singer and songwriter Taylor Swift doesn’t just release iconic hits; her artistic flair stretches to her album cover art too. Unsurprisingly, cover art plays a part in the marketing of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gabrielle Ulubay is a Music writer at Collider. She has previously been published in The New York Times, Bustle, HuffPost Personal, and other magazines, and wrote at Marie Claire for nearly three ...