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Bands like Creed, Nickelback, and Hinder used to get made fun of, but a 2000s revival has made them more beloved than ever.
UConn’s Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts has announced its fall season featuring concerts, dance troupes and a family ...
Sabrina Carpenter has released an alternate cover for her "Man's Best Friend" album after the initial art sparked a wave of backlash.
Don’t judge an album by its cover... Easier said than done for some. Following the controversy surrounding the album image for Sabrina Carpenter’s new album, we look at the most controversial ...
Still astoundingly modern today, Roxy Music remains not only one of the finest debut albums in history, but rock music’s first true postmodern masterpiece.
When the pop star Sabrina Carpenter dropped the cover art for her forthcoming album, “Man’s Best Friend,” this week, it became an instant conversation piece. The image — of Ms. Carpenter ...
The Recording Academy has tweaked some of its rules for the 2026 Grammy Awards, including carving out a stand-alone category for best album cover.
Grammys to split country album into two categories and revive album cover field Next year’s Grammy Awards will include a new country category, among other changes.
A Scottish women’s charity said Carpenter’s new album cover evokes “tired tropes” of women being “possessions,” while fans have defended her cover as satirical commentary on sexism.
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 ...
Rock and roll was the music of youth, growing side by side with existential dread. It was a release that challenged the rules that preceded it. In the same way that surrealism came to define the ...