Photo: Jason Pietra Music is an aural art form. But the packaging for the recordings—the album cover—has a distinct aesthetic, one that has evolved along with distribution technologies and ...

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Dec 06, 2016 Web Exclusive By Scott Dransfieldt. Tampa, Florida rock band Merchandise‘s new album A Corpse Wired for Sound is relentlessly minor-key and contains more than enough moaning about ...

Fergie revisited her 2006 solo album, ... computer-animated face from the album cover of “The E.N.D ... Section C, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Wired for Sound, and ...

Mac Miller announced his plans to deliver a live album, titled Live From Space, on December 17. It will feature five unreleased songs from WMWTSO.

Merchandise had never set foot in a studio until they started recording A Corpse Wired for Sound, their second album for 4AD – even the polished futuristic-pop of their debut for the label, After the ...

Klipsch makes great speakers and earphones. The latest on test here is the Klipsch T5M Wired earphones. That big Klipsch sound will soon have your feet tapping.

J. Cole has shared the album cover, and back cover, and thus the tracklist, for his surprise new album, KOD. The artwork is ill, with a kingly, though kind of haggard, ...

If Merchandise weren't a rock band before, they certainly are now. They've gotten a little more earnest and shoot for a bigger sound. It's a mixed bag, but it's hard to hate them for it.

Wired for Sound collects three mixes of jungle-ragga mashups. In total, there are 60 tracks here-- most of which were first released on vinyl-only in the mid-1990s-- spread over 70 minutes ...