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

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!!!

2023 has been a busy year so far. Here's a few updates about what's going on at JW Creates. It's hard to believe that we are already in the last week of August. where did this year go...? It hasn't been an easy year, but I have way more to be thankful for than to complain about. Since I have been a little quiet on here, I figured it would be a good idea to share some of the exiting things happening in the JW Creates world. Judged by the Cover I have been busy growing my podca

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

The group that put band logos on the map Guess who’s back….back again….. Welcome back to the Judged by the cover podcast. After what seems like an eternity, I am back to bring you examples of great album cover design, and some fun behind the scenes knowledge that I find along the way. I will also be continuing our Near Miss segment at the end of the show to discuss some unfortunate cover art design as well. You will notice that there is a slight format change. There will not

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

I’m sad that I didn’t grow up during the hey day of vinyl records. What an experience it must have been to go to the store and find the record for the artist/song that you heard on the radio. To pick it up, to feel and study the art work and packaging, and read every single word on the cover. Our modern format of buying and discovering music doesn’t even compare! One of the major things that gets lost in our modern music buying, is the liner notes. Liner notes were usually th