Saturday, December 24th, 2016
Even though album sales continue to decline, album cover art is more important than it was during the days when vinyl ruled the world.
As I have discussed on my blog, today album cover art acts as a visual imprint repeated across a number of touch points: the artist’s website, social ...
Tags: album covers, David Deal, DJ Khaled, Major Key, Snapchat, Superhype, The Keys, vinyl, visual storytelling
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2016
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The success of Adele's 25 triggered speculation that maybe, just maybe, record albums were coming back as an art form following years of declining sales. But by July, album sales figures released by Nielsen Music brought those hopes crashing down to an ugly reality. Consumers had purchased 100.3 million album ...
Tags: albums, Beyonce, David Bowie, David Deal, Lemonade, music, Superhype, vinyl
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Friday, July 29th, 2016
Whenever I see the cover of Exile on Main St., I think of my courtship with Janice Deal in the late 1980s. We learned about each other through our vinyl collections during that time. Jan's Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel albums gave me a glimpse into her poetic artistry that ...
Tags: David Deal, Exile on Main St., Rolling Stones, Superhype, vinyl
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Friday, July 15th, 2016
Have you ever come across someone who captures a style that you can admire but never hope to emulate? Elton John made me awestruck when I found a copy of Greatest Hits in my sister Karen's room when I was a kid. The album came out at a time when ...
Tags: albums, David Deal, Elton John, Greatest Hits, Superhype, vinyl
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Thursday, December 17th, 2015
The massive success of Adele's 25 has prompted the music industry to speculate that maybe the record album as an art form is back. Well, record albums aren't back -- Adele is. Meantime, the album remains stuck in a long, sad period of decline. But the demise of the album ...
Tags: album covers, albums, Bjork, Colleen Green, David Deal, Grimes, Kendrick Lamar, Superhype, vinyl
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2015
Some album covers are memorable because they perfectly express an artist's image (or brand, if you will) as well as music. Such is the case with Sticky Fingers, the 11th American studio album of the Rolling Stones. Sticky Fingers, newly re-issued to celebrate its 44th anniversary, created controversy in 1971 ...
Tags: Andy Warhol, David Deal, Mick Jagger, Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers, Superhype, vinyl
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Friday, November 4th, 2011
Daniel Edlen makes art out of vinyl LPs. Yup, I'm talking about the shiny black LPs that defined how we experienced music in the pre-digital era, which have become in vogue again more than 60 years after vinyl was introduced. Daniel's business, Vinyl Art, offers stunning images of iconic musicians ...
Tags: Amy Winehouse, Andy Warhol, Best Buy, CDs, Daniel Edlen, Eminem, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Johnny Cash, Led Zeppelin, Lou Reed, Mick Jagger, Miles Davis, Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers, Velvet Underground, vinyl, Vinyl Art
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