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A special interview episode of the Judged by the Cover podcast, and this time it is with a great friend of mine Brent Crowe!

Pre-made cover art is pre-designed cover options, that are partially customizable with your artist name, your track name, and some allow pho

On todays episode we are going to be looking at an album cover with a little controversy to it.

If you are a band, musician, or a podcaster...you might be asking yourself can I design my own cover art...? I think my answer might surpris

be discusses his new signal Brave the Storm, an upcoming 2 song EP, tips on song writing, a synthwave side project, and much much more!!!

New episode of the Judged by the Cover podcast, with the theme Cars on Album Covers.

Welcome back to the Judged by the Cover Podcast, a JW Creates podcast. Today I have an album cover that I am really excited to talk about. As a hint, when I say the name Steve Miller Band….What imagery or album cover pops into your mind…? If it’s not a horse or a Pegasus….then you probably haven't listened to or looked at any of Steve Miller Band's album covers. That's ok because I was actually surprised at how few of their album covers had this imagery…but a couple of their

Phil Hyland, singer songwriter and a great friend of mine, comes on the Judged by the Cover podcast to talk about his career in the entertainment industry, his band Girlfriend, and his new release Too Good. Hear a snippet of the song, and get some behind the scene info on the song itself. Too Good - Girlfriend Custom Album Cover It wouldn't be the Judged by the Cover podcast if we didn't talk album covers, and album cover design. We talk some of Phil's favorite album covers,

One of the my favorite, most formative albums, Meteora turned 20 this year!!! I never knew what made this album cover so special, but now I

Custom album cover process for the band FACE. Check out the behind the scenes process in creating the album cover for the band FACE.

How important cover art is for music in our digital streaming music world. In today’s digital world, we don’t interact with physical albums

One of my favorite things to create, and what actually started this business, is album covers. I love getting to visually communicate the story of a song or album through graphic design. To best show you the process for my custom cover art, I thought we could look at one of my favorite projects, the cover design for the song I Never Knew by Brent Crowe. This project is special to me because I got an inside look at the process of this song starting from a rough idea to a fully

Intro When we think of bands, we usually think of a group of guys or gals that start jamming together, writing some songs, they start playing some shows, and then record some music all in hopes to get a record deal. Now that’s probably true for a lot of bands, but not for the band we are talking about today. On this episode of the Judged By the Cover Podcast, we are going to talk about this great album cover, from the self titled debut album for the band Boston. Before we get

Intro Welcome to the first episode of the Judged by the cover podcast. Today we are talking about the album cover that started this thing I call JW Creates. Now this isn’t a cover that I created, but it was the cover that made me want to pursue designing album covers. Let’s begin. I mentioned that this is the album cover that started JW Creates….because when I saw the behind the scenes video of how the designer made the cover my mind literally exploded. It was my lightbulb t