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A picture is worth a 1,000 words, but how many should an album cover be worth? The several artists, designers, and photographers we spoke to behind some of 2025's best album covers can't say for ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

The charming octagonal bar in the patio of the Black Marlin Bayside Grill may see the end of its days soon. Owners submitted plans for its demolition along with designs for a new rectangular bar that ...

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Now that Hilary Duff is back in the music world, she’s showing how “Mature” she’s become — with some help from her wardrobe. On Nov. 6, the actor officially returned to music after a decade-long wait ...

Conway The Machine is gearing up for a powerful return. The Buffalo rapper has officially announced his next album, You Can’t Kill God With Bullets, arriving December 12. The project follows a ...

On this day in 2003, Brooklyn’s own Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter released what was intended to be his final album, The Black Album. Billed as his retirement project, it played more like a victory lap — an ...

Forgetting for the moment any revisionism applied to the The Rolling Stones album Black & Blue (Rolling Stones Records, 1976), the iconic British band was in more than a little disarray when it ...

It looks like singer Summer Walker has the internet in an uproar yet again. Ahead of the R&B star’s third album release on Nov. 14, she officially dropped the cover art for her project titled “Finally ...