The album cover — once a crucial part of any band's identity — has been dying a slow death for decades. For the most part, music fans put up with the shrinkage of album art from expansive ...

Here, exclusively (at least for a couple minutes), is the cover of the forthcoming Bryan Ferry album, Olympia, featuring Kate Moss photographed upside down and between what look like satin sheets.

The cover art of a new album can set the tone for the music just as much as any lyrics might. Which is why the Takashi Murakami artwork that will appear on rapper Kid Cudi's upcoming joint album ...