The cover art for the collaborative project between Lou Reed and Metallica. Not entirely sure of what to expect from this record, but definitely looking forward to it as long as it’s nothing like when Jimmy Page and Puff Dadddy collaborated.

New album artwork for Dum Dum Girls‘ forthcoming release Only In Dreams and the stylistically different sounding single “Coming Down” from the album which finds Dee Dee writing a straight up ballad, which she does damn well.

One of my all time favorite Hot Water Music will be coming out with a post reunion 7″, The Fire, The Steel, The Tread / Adds Up To Nothing EP before playing some US shows this fall including Riot Fest East in Philadelphia and the Fest in Gainesville. The artwork looks to be designed by long time collaborator Scott Sinclair.

Mastodon switches it up with a new cover artist, AJ Fosik for their forthcoming record and it looks amazing. The Hunter is due out in October.

Here’s the cover for Out of Love the debut album from Indie Rock supergroup Mister Heavenly which features members of Islands, Man Man and occasionally Michael Cera

According to a recent interview in Filter, The Black Lips are aiming for some mainstream success with their latest record Arabia Mountain and we wish them the best of luck because they deserve it. Though we are afraid to hear the “punk track” they are currently producing for Ke$ha, we highly anticipate hearing Arabia Mountain because the first songs released via video have been killer.

I think calling the Arctic Monkeys’ new album art for Suck It & See minimalist might be an understatement. While the album art may be sparse we can expect big riffs on the upcoming album due to production by Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age. The album will see US release via Domino on June 7th.

Check out the album artwork for the Town Comp and listen to a track from “Animal Man” on mp3.

Record Store Day exclusive split release from Coliseum and Superchunk (who crafted two of our favorite records last year) featuring their covers of the Misfits which both surfaced last year around Halloween. Coliseum takes on “Bullet” and Superchunk covers “Horror Business”. This is one of our top pieces of vinyl we will be hunting for on RSD 2011.

Art Brut – Brilliant! Tragic! – Artwork by Jamie McKelvie

You can read a brief interview with Jaime about the artwork over at Comic’s Alliance. We look forward to hearing Eddie Argos wax poetic on songs like “Axel Rose” and “Sexy Sometimes”.

Death Cab’s new album Codes and Keys, the reportedly less guitar driven follow up to Narrow Stairs now has album artwork.

New LP from Sonic Youth frontman coming on May 24th, his first album produced by Beck Hansen.

The debut full length by throwback emo-indie rockers By Surprise with album artwork designed by Brian Meitz. Look for this on a variety of different vinyl covers via Top Shelf records.

Check out “Realometer” below, it sounds like all the good parts from the golden era of labels like Jade Tree and Deep Elm.

Manchester Orchestra seems to be putting their hat in the ring for massive radio airplay with their new track “Simple Math” which finds the band adding a string section to give a more a dynamic and epic sound.

You can also watch a visual interpretation of the lyrics below.

Radiohead – The King of Limbs | Pre-order

Radiohead will soon release what they have dubbed the world’s first newspaper album presumably because it features over 625 pieces of artwork. Read on for all the packaging details.