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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rihanna Music is an experience, an intentional work of storytelling, and a means of expression that uses sound, lyricism and ...

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 ...

Billy Squier’s 1982 album, Emotions in Motion, features the artistic touch of Warhol. In the artist’s pop art style, the cover depicts the rocker with a Mona Lisa gaze, awash in color blocks of red, ...

For artists and fans alike, album covers serve as more than just packaging; they are gateways to stories filled with creativity, controversy, and the madness of rock ‘n’ roll. The Beatles’ legendary ...

Named after a popular All-Star NBA basketball player (signed to Nike) from the ’80s and ’90s, the band had an affinity for Blaylock, who was a hard-nosed player who could score and dish out passes.

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 ...

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 ...