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  • Hipgnosis Cover of the Week: Audience, ‘The House on the Hill’

    Artist: Audience Title: The House on the Hill Year: 1971 Label: Elektra For more great sleeves, visit the The Hipgnosis Album Cover Gallery.

  • You Never Thought You’d Be Alone This Far Down the Line

    The temperature outside hovers around 100 degrees, and the Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling (GLOW) are overacting on my TV screen.

  • From The Stacks: Upp, ‘This Way Upp’ (White Label Promo)

    Upp is one of those bands that are unfairly forgotten.

  • From The Stacks: The Turtles, ‘1968’

    I was a teenager working in a record store when I first saw this picture disc.

  • Cheesecake Cover of the Week: Noro Morales, ‘Holiday In Havana’

    Artist: Noro Morales and His Orchestra Title: Holiday In Havana Year: 1958 Label: Design Compatible Fidelity Cover Artist/Designer/Photographer: Unknown, presumed in house art department   For more great sleeves, visit the Cheesecake Album Cover Gallery.

  • Deep Cuts: Driving Songs

    What will become of the epic road trip in the era of autonomous cars?

  • Hipgnosis Cover of the Week: ‘The Electric Light Orchestra’

    Artist: Electric Light Orchestra Title: The Electric Light Orchestra Year: 1971 Label: Harvest For more great sleeves, visit the The Hipgnosis Album Cover Gallery.

  • Wanted: Epic Car For Epic Road Trip

    I was raised in a road trip household. Hitting the highway for summer vacation wasn’t uncommon when I was a kid, but I think in my family’s case it was a matter of practicality. Gas was 35 cents a gallon, after all, while cross-country flights were $300 per round trip ticket. A family of five…

  • From The Stacks: Cheap Trick, ‘Found All the Parts’

    The coolest thing about this Cheap Trick record isn’t the music that it contains.

  • From The Stacks: Bernie Green, ‘Musically Mad’

    Like many middle school-aged boys, I spent a little time obsessed with Mad magazine.

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