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RockPop Gallery Mission:

RockPoP Gallery is dedicated to bringing customers the best selection of limited-edition, rock music album cover-related fine art prints, photos and related collectibles available on the market today.

RockPopGallery Selection:

Our selection of the best in rock and pop music-related artwork, illustration, photography and other collectibles – with a focus on album cover and CD cover imagery – from the leading artists in their respective fields, combined with our in-depth product descriptions, available custom framing services, and a no-hassle guarantee of satisfaction, make it simple, safe and fun for collectors to make a selection that they’ll be happy with now and for many years to come.

RockPopGallery History:

RockPoP Gallery was founded in 2005 in Huntington, NY, by Michael Goldstein, a former televison and interactive programming development, creative and production executive and long-time collector of music-related artwork. Since that time, RockPoP Gallery has helped music fans and collectors worldwide locate and buy copies of some of the most cherished images from the last 30 years of rock n’ roll albums, CDs, promotional materials, concert photography and other imagery, allowing these customers to decorate their homes, apartments, and workplaces with the highest-quality products at highly-competitive prices.

RockPopGallery Blog:

Our blog, Cover Stories, is a series of interviews will give you, the music and art fan, a look at “the making of” the illustrations, photographs and designs of many of the most-recognized and influential images that have served to package and promote your all-time-favorite recordings.

In each Cover Story, we’ll meet the artists, designers and photographers who produced these works of art and learn what motivated them, what processes they used, how they collaborated (or fought) with the musical acts, their management, their labels, etc. – all of the things that influenced the final product you saw then and still see today.

RockPop Gallery is committed to providing music enthusiasts with rare images of album and cd cover art, concert posters, collectible figures, and other unique one of a kind gifts. We strongly urge you to visit our site to familiarize yourself with our exclusive collection and to take advantage of our special promotions.

I have an Ipod nano, one of the older ones, and the album artwork isn’t really syncing up with the songs. I’ll be listening to one song and the album artwork for another song will pop up. Is there something I can download in order to fix it or am I just screwed?

In 1939, Alex Steinweiss was employed at Columbia Records as the first art director for the company and decided to spruce up and repackage vinyl records. We all know the result, album cover art has become an important part of music and pop culture. (Prior to Steinweiss’s creative influences, records were generally stored in plain, undecorated packaging).

For collectors, album cover art can sometimes be as valuable as the vinyl record it holds. For instance, one of the most famous album covers of all time, the Beatles “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” cover was one of the most inventive at the time and included cut out inserts and lyrics. The price one would pay for a copy of this album is influenced by whether or not it has the original contents and they are intact. There are many album covers that included posters of the band as well and other “perks” for the buyer and all these elements factor into the resale price and collectiblity.

There have been many dynamic and world-famous album covers. Consider the Beatles’ album “Yesterday…and Today” (1966), also called the “butcher block album” because the Beatles were pictured on the front cover wearing white butcher coats surrounded by bloody meat and cut up dolls. The album was quickly pulled by Capitol Records after the company received numerous complaints from reviewers and DJ’s. The company recalled the issue and ordered a new cover but did not want to waste the several hundred thousand that had already been printed. Capitol then hired part-time helpers to remove that photo from the cover and paste on the new photo for the cover. But, it seems that there were many lazy employees and to save time, they just pasted the new cover on top of the old cover and the one that was supposed to be removed. The result is three different versions of that particular album and a collector’s dream, the different versions of the album are worth several thousand dollars (prices vary-check a record price guide to ascertain exactly what album you may have to get the exact price).

Album cover art has also spawned numerous web sites in which to view famous covers and designs, readers’ favorites and top ten lists. One such site, www.superseventies.com offers a comprehensive look at some of the most famous covers from the 1970′s including the Sex Pistols “Never Mind The Bollocks,” the Eagles “Hotel California,” Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side Of The Moon” and the Rolling Stones’ “Sticky Fingers” among others. Additionally, www.superseventies.com offers their reader’s favorite seventies album covers (more than 300) with detailed descriptions and reviews of each specific release. This is a great way to spend a rainy day, as you discover some of the best album cover art of the 70′s.

Album cover design is an art form and allows the musicians greater control over the content and another important avenue in which to express themselves. In my humble opinion (and I share this opinion with countless others), with the advent of the CD, the music buying public lost a national treasure, album cover art. It is part of pop culture and recorded music in general. Sure, Cd’s offer you a “stripped down” version of the original cover art, but it certainly pales in comparison to the real thing. I am sure Mr. Steinweiss would totally agree with me.

I have Windows Vista. My user account controls are turned off (because if it is on, a pop-up appears declaring that I don’t have permission to access iTunes). If anyone has a solution for this problem. Please post an answer A.S.A.P. Much appreciated!

I was wondering if there is a way you can upload a photo as album artwork on an album that’s not on iTunes. I have my own songs, as well as local bands on my iTunes that I would like a picture to pop up. Any ideas on how I can do this?

am using itunes to sync over to my new iPhone. All of my music has album art in iTunes on my PC, but when it all go over to my phone, some albums erratically are not showing up. I checked one album that was at hand on my computer and I contaminate had the actual album art saved on my PC it wasn’t looked up on iTunes. Any idea. Please help. 

Album Art Problems on iPhone
Decide which songs you would like to insert artwork to. Try probing for the folder in iTunes. Click once on a song to construct sure the album has no artwork. A brilliant source is Wikipedia. Wikipedia has an article on almost every album, and they embrace a picture of said albums. Click on the artwork for a better image and pull the image to your desktop or right click and copy the image. If you cannot find you’re the artwork on Wikipedia try blame an image search with a search engine such as Google Images. 

Album Art Problems on iPhone
You need to go to File and Get Info (or press apple I on a Mac, ctrl I on a PC). A window is imaginary to pop up label multiple thing Information. After that Drag or paste the picture into the pack labeled Artwork. Below Album form sure all the songs have the alike album name by type the correct album and checking the box.

Album Art Problems on iPhone
You need to choose ”Get Album Artwork” from the pull down menu. Then you can see that art message be supposed to come up, illumination that songs with missing album artwork will be sent to iTunes. It agrees to the on time and your artwork will create downloading. If here are no prompt, it means you have disable that alert message, but the artwork is at rest being added. 

Album Art Problems on iPhone
Check the following steps:
# First Open iTunes.
# after that select an album in the browser. If you don’t see a catalog of albums, click the “eye” icon in the lower right corner of the iTunes window.
# With the album at rest selected, Click “File,” “Get Info.” The you see a warning message arrive up—click “Yes”. You’ll observe the “Item Information” window.
# Outside of iTunes, find the image file you desire to use as album art.
# pull that file onto the “Artwork” box in the iTunes information window.
# Finally click “OK.” 

Album Art Problems on iPhone
You need to create your artwork 300 by 300 pixels. This is dissimilar from what is recommended for a typical RSS image, so be alert. You wish for to make sure that your image will seem good quality as a small thumbnail because so as to be how most people will observe it. After that save your artwork as a JPEG. This is the favored image format for iTunes. You can too use PNG format. 

Album Art Problems on iPhone
Put in an iTunes artwork to anyone episodes in iTunes. To do this, right click on the podcast in your library and choose the “Get Info” option. Here you can locate a place where you can take in an artwork with the exact file. Browse your computer for the picture and add it to the file.

Album cover art software allows you to explore this pop phenomenon

In the last article, we discussed some of the elements of album cover art and I would like to continue the discussion with some more details and an album cover finder that is a must for any fan of album cover art.

As I stated previously, many famous artists have been commissioned to design and produce album covers. For example, the Rolling Stones and pop artist Andy Warhol are famous for the cover art on the Stones’ album “Sticky Fingers.” As the story goes, at a party in 1969, Andy Warhol casually mentioned to Mick Jagger that it would be amusing to have a real zipper on an album cover. A year later, Jagger proposed the idea for “Sticky Fingers.” But, there was a flaw in the shipping process, the zipper would press onto the album stacked on top of it, causing damage to the vinyl record. The solution? The zipper had to be pulled down before the album was shipped, then it would only dent the album covers. However, they never figured out how to keep the zipper from scratching the other album covers. Additionally, some department stores refused to display the album, feeling it was risque and not family oriented because of the model’s snug jeans and the zipper display. But this album is historic because it broke new ground and also saw the debut of the now famous Stones logo: a caricature of Jagger’s lips and tongue.

If you are a Janis Joplin fan, then you would probably know that the famed cartoonist Robert Crumb designed the cover for Joplin’s album “Cheap Thrills.” This revered, yet misunderstood artist, drew the cover as a favor to Joplin, who he befriended in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood where they both resided. He was paid $600 for his work by Columbia Records, which later sold the artwork. Crumb was asked to do a cover for the Rolling Stones, but refused because he did not like their music. Crumb is also the artist for the “Keep On Truckin’” poster and “Fritz The Cat,” and has more than seventy covers to his credit.

The Internet is full of sites related to album cover art and is just too numerous to list. There are sites devoted to fan favorites, the weird and unusual, particular decades and so on. Many users have turned to ebay to find lost art treasures from their childhood. But I want to share a website and album cover artwork finder that is not only convenient, but a must have for any art lover.

I recently spoke with Richard Nicol, the program designer and owner of “Album Cover Finder.” (http://www.albumcoverfinder.com) The program has been available for more than two years and is a godsend for anyone interested in album cover art.
”Album Cover Finder” allows the user to not only find specific searches for interesting album cover art, but also allows the user to download selected songs from the release. I asked Richard about his fascination with album cover art.

”I’ve always been interested and loved album cover art and wanted to create a database where the users could not only look at album cover art, but experience it as well. The program allows the user to browse through the cover art of a particular band and also lets the user to download particular songs through iTunes as well. The main feature is convenience, you can utilize iTunes and not only get more of an experience for the music, but the great artwork involved with the music and artists.”

But “Album Cover Finder” is more than just iTunes and album cover art. The program allows users to look at different art work from different countries as well. Some of the art work involved in a US release may be different from that of a UK release or German release, only adding to the experience. The program also allows users to review artist biographies, read reviews of a particular release and add the artwork to their iTunes library and an iPod. “Album Cover Finder” also allows users to find additional cover art from a particular artist or band, copy the artwork to a clipboard and has artist videos and applicable tour information. “Album Cover Finder” is a fully functional way to search for album artwork and includes free updates for registered users and is available at http://www.albumcoverfinder.com.

Now, I have only had the program about a week, but I have to admit spending literally many, many hours looking at historic artwork and listening to the songs associated with the acts. This software gets a hardy “thumbs-up” and is a “must have,” affordable program for album cover art connoisseurs and anyone with a fascination with art and music.

Needless to say, there can be a lot more written about album cover art and the impact it has had upon music and pop culture and cannot be summarized in a couple of articles. There are countless books, (I actually own one that talks about and illustrates naked vinyl and the images used to try and sell albums!) that detail album covers and the impact upon pop culture and music.

Additionally, there are so many web sites and blogs associated with album cover art, they are to numerous to list. Why there are even web sites devoted to preserving this treasured art and frame it for display.

Furthermore, did you know that June 1, 2007 marked the 40th anniversary of the release of the Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band?” Not only is the release one of the most influential albums of all time musically, the cover art itself is iconic as well.

I spoke with Gary Freiberg, owner and operator of http://www.rockartpictureshow.com about “Sgt. Pepper” who related to me that the album “broke new ground and challenged the industry.” Gary and I talked about album cover art and the influences it has had on our culture. He also told me of a recent poll conducted by http://www.vinylrecordday.org that voted the “Sgt. Pepper” album cover the favorite album cover of all time. Gary is world renowned for his work in the album cover art industry with his patented record album frame and his work has been cited and used by the Smithsonian, Home & Garden TV, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and thousands of satisfied Internet customers. And if you interested in getting your great album art framed, you may visit http://www.rockartpictureshow.com and tell Gary you heard about him from an article posted at http://www.isnare.com

I may be the only person on Earth who dislikes the Album Artwork on folder thumbnails and in my mp3 players. I’ve done a thorough search for all imbedded album images and deleted all of them. I have the Zune software, iTunes, & WM11 all set up so that they DO NOT search/add missing artwork but unfortunately it still pops up on a few albums and imbeds itself onto my Zune. I can’t find these files to delete them and I’m guessing they’re somewhere in the registry. Can someone help? – Again… I want no album images on my Zune and want to delete these images.

I know you can hit ‘get album artwork’ to get the album covers, but not all of the albums popped up, so is there a way to manually add album artwork to itunes?

I have a Classic 80GB Ipod and have had it for a couple months now no problem. I just got a brand new computer and installed the same iTunes from my last as well as all the songs, When I go to add album artwork it tells me I can’t (by that I mean the little circle with a line through it pops up when I try to add anything to iTunes. Can someone help please. Thanks