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London-based framing experts and album cover art gallery Art Vinyl holds an annual competition to determine the best cover art of the year. In 2008 competition was fierce as recording and visual artists collaborated ever more closely on album art and high-concept visual design. With rising stakes in mind, here are Art Vinyl’s Top 10 [...]

The tireless left-leaning reporters over at The Huffington Post picked up a story from the Associated Press wire listing songs played at Guantanamo Bay to help wear down detainees. While acknowledging the power of pop music, the article is also terrifying for revealing the sordid ends that power can be applied towards.
While the AP list [...]

With last’s night’s announcement of this year’s Grammy nominees (which is really just an encyclopedic list of music industry goings on), there are some surprise names to be found, and others strangely absent. On the one hand, the big award nominees make for a compelling Radiohead-Coldplay art rock showdown to be played out on Grammy [...]