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After you've dumped blood, sweat, and tears into recording and mixing an album, there still remains the final step of creating album artwork. While this element of the process may not be one artists ...

Records are similar to books in one odd way: people judge them by their covers. It isn’t fair, but it’s the reality every indie artist deals with when releasing new music. And with streaming platforms ...

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As vinyl sleeves grew into larger creative canvases, musicians in the 1970s increasingly turned to visionary photographers, ...

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A picture is worth a 1,000 words, but how many should an album cover be worth? The several artists, designers, and photographers we spoke to behind some of 2025's best album covers can't say for ...