Side one only has to be good enough to get you out of your chair. What comes after has to justify the trip. Seven albums where the flip is the whole point.

A basement in Sacramento, one sampler, and the album that broke a world record without a single original note.

A blurred bird on a sleeve, an architect who put a record on twenty-five years ago, and a harmonium played by someone who'd never seen one.

RÜFÜS DU SOL left the Australian summer for Berlin's underground and came back with their best record.

There's a code hidden on one of the most famous album covers ever made. Here's how Peter Saville built it, and how to read it.

Ethan Miller talks records, instinct and the strange weather inside Orchutt Shelley Miller.

Vince Giarrusso reflects on Dream It Down, a turbulent period and a record that refused to fit the moment.