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The work of graphic designer Mike Joyce is a marriage made in heaven: Typography and Punk. Joyce has transformed the d.i.y. flyers announcing punk and indie shows–the collaged, the Xeroxed, the...
View ArticleTruth in Packaging (For Better and For Worse)
You may recall this series that Mr. Moderator has run in the past. He posts an album cover and then says: In 50 words or less, please describe how the album cover for Album Title, by Artist says all...
View ArticleRoger, You Went Outside the Marriage for This?
Perhaps you’re familiar with this album cover. Go ahead, click the link. Or this one. I want you to see this in as close to full size as possible. Pages: 1 2 3 4
View ArticleVinyl Victory: The Benefits of Distraction
Digital music. Streaming services. All that newfangled jazz. I keep a toe in the digital waters. There are benefits to the medium, but I don’t think I’ll ever be swayed by the new technologies, like my...
View ArticleNSFW Last Man Standing: Tastefully Nude Album Covers
I cracked open the gatefold sleeve of my recent purchase of Eric Burdon & War‘s Black Man’s Burdon and was greeted by this NSFW image. I was quickly reminded of a dozen other album covers featuring...
View ArticleBands/Albums I Don’t Believe I’ve Ever Heard and, Frankly, Don’t Feel a...
Have you ever browsed through a used records bin and been confronted with a band or album you’ve seen repeatedly yet never heard? As a music obsessive, I usually think to myself, I need to hear this...
View ArticleLast Man Standing: Album Covers With Musical Diagrams
Our recent Last Man Standing on Tastefully Nude Album Covers (at least initially) resulted in less entries than I expected. Expecting one of those long, endless LMS competitions, I prepared, in...
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