Here are 50 of the most controversial hard rock and metal album covers of all time. Rock and metal are no strangers to provocation, whether it's a deliberate attempt to be shocking for the sake of ...

Here’s the title track of “Julie’s Sixteenth Birthday.” Follow the link above to check out The Braillettes, the Faith Tones, and the incomparably sexy Igor & Natasha. The U.S. stands to ...

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Hundreds of the world's "worst" album covers have gone on display in Northumberland. The exhibition, at Alnwick's Bailiffgate Museum and Gallery, includes 400 covers by the Beatles, Prince and the ...

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From 'Murmur' to 'Automatic for the People', we run through the records of Athens, Georgia's finest 1980s indie outfit, REM a band like no other.

One album cover has been selected from each year, dating back to 1949, which is represented by Alex Steinweiss’s design for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 – created as an alternative to the plain sleeves ...

Who’s Next was originally conceived by Pete Townshend as Lifehouse, a rock opera follow-up to ... see Pet Sounds as “the best album with the worst cover” in the history of the music business.

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Art director Hugh Syme talks to UCR about the prog-rock trio's playful cover of the 1989 LP. How an Unused Jimi Hendrix Album Cover Led to Journey's Scarab How an Unused Jimi Hendrix Album Cover ...

the band’s second album, is a cover of The Beatles’ It’s All Too Much. The other tracks run like a loose jam session, veering ...