Here’s What’s Happening Outside Of Famous Music Album Covers
Russian artist Igor Lipchanskiy has created a hilarious series of photos that show what’s really happening outside of the frames of iconic album covers: Continue reading »
Famous Classic Album Covers Mashed Up With Star Wars Characters
Steve Lear is a London-based, digital artist with a self-proclaimed, “unhealthy obsession for movies, music and Photoshop.” And he’s making the freaking awesomest Star Wars themed album cover mash-ups you’ve ever seen. Continue reading »
Famous Album Covers Brought Onto Their Original New York City Locations Where They Were Shot
The Ramones at Inscope Arch. (cover to a 45-single)
(photo by David Gahr)
Bob Egan’s hobby is really interesting. He brings classic albums to the present. He finds the actual location, where each cover was shot and alternates the angle and distance, so as the photo can match the current version of the venue. Continue reading »
Awkward Christian Music Album Covers
The digital music revolution has, for the most part, been great for music fans. But even though listening to music online costs less and gives you access to millions and millions of songs you might not otherwise hear, one thing has sadly been lost in the streaming era: Appreciation for incredible album art. Continue reading »
Famous Album Covers Get The Star Wars Treatment
Music and movies fan Steven Lear runs an Instagram account called @WhyTheLongPlayFace where he shares his “random vinyl/movie mash ups” – generally, they’re riffs on classic album covers featuring popular characters from iconic films, and generally they’re very good indeed! Continue reading »
“Star Wars Bands”: Superfi Spoofs Popular Album Covers Using Star Wars Puns
Tupacca – All Jediz on Me
The bloggers at Superfi have used the escalating hype to create something rather amusing: “Star Wars Bands,” a series of iconic album covers twisted to match Star Wars-related puns. Lady Gaga’s face from The Fame is mutated into a grinning “Lady JarJar”; Chewbacca throws up Tupac’s “westside” on the cover of 2paca: all jediz on me. Other spoofs include the Sex Pistols, Run-D.M.C., and Green Day. Clever and good-humored, “Star Wars Bands” will amuse music and movie lovers alike. Continue reading »
An Artist Has Gone To Incredible Lengths To Paint Several Iconic Album Covers On Her Own Face
London-based artist Natalie Sharp wanted to celebrate Record Store Day in a unique way, and asked her Facebook friends for suggestions about which album covers to paint. Continue reading »
Classic Album Covers Reimagined With Kittens
These copycats are feline in the mood for rock… Legendary albums from a world dominated by kittens! All kitteny album parodies by Alfra Martini of aymvisuals. Continue reading »
A Designer Assembled a Hundred Covers of Famous Music Albums from LEGO
Brooklyn-based designer Adnan Lotia has published almost a hundred of his unusual works in the last 4.5 months, trying to recreate iconic album covers from LEGO cubes. He posts his mesmerizing works on Instagram almost every day, in which he repeats the image of this or that cover. Continue reading »
Eliran Kantor Paints Modern Metal’s Most Iconic Covers, Blending Classical Brushwork With Nightmarish Symbolism
Eliran Kantor is a Berlin‑based Israeli artist and illustrator best known for highly detailed, painterly album covers for metal bands such as Testament, Helloween, Gojira, My Dying Bride, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Hatebreed and Thy Art Is Murder. Continue reading »
The Man Who Made Everyone Look Famous: Richard Bernstein and His Iconic Interview Covers
If you are a fan of pop art and celebrity culture, you have probably seen the work of Richard Bernstein. He was the artist behind the striking covers of Interview Magazine for almost 20 years, from 1972 to 1989. His portraits of stars like Madonna, Grace Jones, Mick Jagger, Cher, Michael Jackson and many others captured their glamour, charisma and personality with a distinctive style that blended realism and fantasy. Continue reading »
Outtake Photos From The Doors’ Debut Album Cover in 1967
Almost every rock fan is familiar with The Doors 1967 eponymous debut album containing the hit songs “Light My Fire”, “Break On Through”, “Soul Kitchen” and “The End”. The album’s iconic front and back covers were photographed by Joel Brodsky. The back cover photo was also used for a billboard advertisement; the first album to ever get that treatment on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood. Continue reading »
For the Record: Photography & the Art of the Album Cover
For the Record: Photography & the Art of the Album Cover celebrates the unique ‘object d’art’ that is the Album Cover and reflects upon its role in shaping and making artists – both in front of and behind the camera.
For the Record brings together over 200 album covers, highlighting the central role photography plays in defining artists and bands, and showcasing some of the most iconic album covers of our times.
Grace Jones – Nightclubbing, Island Records, 1981, by Jean-Paul Goude
The Nightclubbing cover is regarded as one of the most iconic of album sleeves. Despite Goude and Jones’s controversial relationship, this is perhaps the most memorable image of the singer. Continue reading »
Metal Albums Look Much Less Scary With Googly Eyes
Monsters, grim reaper, demons, skeletons, snakes… All these creatures on metal albums are supposed to look menacing. However, if you get a pair of googly eyes, these scary covers become quite funny and amusing. Scroll down to see the best examples! Continue reading »
Street Artist Timothy Goodman Covers The World In Raw Emotion
Timothy Goodman is many things. A designer, illustrator, muralist, and author, he admits that when people ask him to describe what he does he says that his grandma calls him an artist. His art and words have populated anything and everything, from walls, buildings and packaging to cars, people, shoes, clothing, book jackets, magazine covers and galleries all over the world. Continue reading »
“Asylum Of Shadows”: Horror, Nightmares And Dreams In Metal Albums Art By Ken Sarafin
“Metal bands want to portray the opposite of a happy life on their album covers,” says Ken Sarafin, and the Vale of Pnath frontman knows from whence he speaks. In addition to creating the awe-inducing artwork for his band’s latest release, The Prodigal Empire, Sarafin has illustrated at least a dozen album covers for an array of acts, both local and national, including Axeslasher, Listen to Reason, Exotype, Acedia, Arcania, Blue Waffle and Voiceless Location, among others. Continue reading »
Photographer Spends 10 Years Tracking Down The Original Locations Of Vinyl Covers
Alex Bartsch is a photographer who is a true reggae fan. He was first introduced to Bob Marley when he was a child, and he got so inspired that he spent 10 years of his life traveling around London searching for original locations of the most famous reggae vinyl covers from 1967 to 1987. Continue reading »
This Artist Created Very Cute Covers Of The Music World, Replacing Singers With Cats
The kittens always success on the internet. For those who like to see them in fun poses, musician and designer Alfra Martini has created The Kitten Covers, a blog with classic album covers with cats digitally inserted on the scene, replacing the stars cover. Continue reading »
Animals That Look Like They’re About To Drop The Hottest Albums Ever
These animals totally knew they were posing for their hotly anticipated album covers. They’ve got hits for days stored in their nests, and they’re just waiting for the right time to send them to radio and top all of the charts. If your furry friend is also plotting a #fire new release this year, plug them into our list below. Continue reading »
Incredible Digital Photography That Transforms Everyday Architecture Into Melancholic Scenes
Nini Kachakhidze is a Georgian conceptual photographer and digital artist based in Tbilisi. Nini’s work primarily focuses on atmospheric street photography, minimalist landscapes, and architecture. Continue reading »
Amazing Atmospheric 3D Architecture And Melancholic Landscapes of Josh Brockett
Josh Brockett is a freelance 3D digital artist and generalist based in Metro Detroit, Michigan. He specializes in concept art, album covers, and visualizers, but is most widely recognized for his “Everydays” project. Continue reading »
Ligne-claire Illustrations By French Artist Simon Bailly, Blending Franco-Belgian Comics With Sharp Editorial Storytelling
Simon Bailly is a French illustrator and graphic designer from Lyon (born 1993) whose work fuses ligne claire Franco‑Belgian comics with poster design and dry, often sarcastic visual storytelling. Continue reading »
Breathtaking Grotesque Illustrations Capturing Humanity’s Darkest Corners by Vergvoktre
Vergvoktre is a reclusive Russian dark artist known for haunting ink and paint illustrations of hellscapes, ghostly figures and unsettling surrealism, maintaining deliberate anonymity (“Russian, male, adult” is all he shares). Continue reading »
An Artist Paints Aristocratic Frogs, Masked Lemurs And Weird Florals In Lush Gouache, Turning Classical Portraiture Into Surreal Dreams
Bill Mayer is an American illustrator and painter based in Decatur, Georgia, celebrated for exquisitely rendered gouache paintings that fuse classical still life and portrait traditions with strange, whimsical and sometimes dark fantasy characters—royal frogs, masked lemurs, birds in suits, flowers with human faces and more. Continue reading »
Arcano XV Stitches Saints, Skulls And Sinners Into Digital Collages That Look Like Catholic Altarpieces Rewritten As Grindhouse Horror Posters
Arcano XV is the dark‑art persona of Brazilian digital collage artist Felipe Froeder, based in Curitiba, who splices vintage photos, religious iconography and anatomical fragments into nightmare‑like occult images. Continue reading »