J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

The most important part of an album is what is inside. The sound has to be compelling enough to keep an audience entertained for an hour or so. But, as much as we don’t want to admit it, we judge an ...

Gabrielle Ulubay is a Music writer at Collider. She has previously been published in The New York Times, Bustle, HuffPost Personal, and other magazines, and wrote at Marie Claire for nearly three ...

This is one of the most iconic images in rock music history.

There’s been a renewed spotlight on album covers this year, especially after the Grammys announced a brand-new Best Album Cover category. For decades, cover art has been a visual entry point into the ...

Soon, though, the overwhelming quality of the music itself eclipsed any opinions people had about what was on the front of the CD. It’s not hard to envision Y2K! being on a similar trajectory. If her ...

Can you guess the iconic album from the cover art? Long before Napster and LimeWire, before YouTube and Spotify, music was only available to purchase in physical form. Generations of teens spent their ...

Even before he had a record contract, Bob Dylan was thinking about his visual presentation. Folk singer Dave Van Ronk advised him that he needed to think about his image, Dylan’s girlfriend Suze ...

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