There has been plenty to feast on in the world of music this year, including some long-awaited returning acts. Jamie xx released his first album since his widely acclaimed debut, 2015’s In Colour, and ...

The album cover — once a crucial part of any band's identity — has been dying a slow death for decades. For the most part, music fans put up with the shrinkage of album art from expansive ...

Album covers can be a powerful form of storytelling. Regardless of the artist or genre, they serve as a crucial way to express another facet of the ideas, themes and concerns a musician explores ...

Album cover designer Vaughan Oliver, who developed a signature abstract style as the 4AD label's in-house man on top of doing classic work for bands like the Pixies, has died at age 62. No cause ...

Though he didn’t design the aged Abel Tesfaye on the official album cover, he’s responsible for nearly everything else: single art, four separate alternate covers, and tour merch.

The Toronto musician and graphic artist admits it's a controversial choice, but over the past year, he's been using the tool to help design his band's new album covers. Each one showcases grand ...

There’s a story that album designer Gary Burden liked to tell about shooting the cover for the Doors’ 1970 classic Morrison Hotel.The manager from the eponymous hotel had refused to let the ...

Exhibit featuring album covers has returned to the OC Fair in Costa Mesa, where music lovers had a chance to interact with award-winning art director John Kosh on Aug. 3.

Ever since Spotify launched Canvas, which displays a looping video instead of album art in the Now Playing screen, album art has felt more and more sidelined. Gone are the days wh ...

By being in on her own joke, Carpenter’s hypersexualization comes off as campy and satirical, and predictably unserious.

I deliberately made my design look gritty and messy as I wanted to stay with this theme and the fact that real album covers are not usually neat or symmetrical as this makes them look more effective.

This trend of expanding album covers with AI is pointless, and exemplifies two things. One, it demonstrates music fans overstepping the boundaries of their favorite artists.