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 ...

The Federal Reserve has been consistently lowering interest rates over the last year, making a certificate of deposit (CD) account a less appealing prospect than it was in 2023 and 2024 when interest ...

The 1980s were the decade when album covers became statements in their own right. Advances in graphic design, photography and print coincided with the rise of artists who understood the power of ...

Sometimes an image hits you, and you can’t get it out of your mind. Has that ever happened to you? You’re walking down the aisle at the thrift store, and you see an album cover on a far-off shelf. You ...

Recording artists are taking a larger role in the art direction of their albums. Turns out, creative people are creative in lots of ways. By Paul Grein As final-round Grammy voting opens on Friday ...

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 ...

Have you ever picked up an album, stared at its cover, and thought that the art on the front might be better than the music on the actual record? It’s happened to all of us. Sometimes the art is just ...

21 Savage's latest album, What Happened to the Streets series, is now available with four alternate covers in collaboration with designer and artist Slawn, and we've got them on Complex. The collab ...

After a few years of releasing music as part of the collective Death’s Dynamic Shroud, Orange Milk co-runner Keith Rankin returned to the Giant Claw moniker for Decadent Stress Chamber, a ...