If standard album covers are analogous to listening to recorded music in mono, then gatefold album covers are stereo. Introduced in the mid-50s on jazz and big-band releases, gatefolds zoomed in ...

Here is where the hate mail will start: Rock in this city pretty much sucked through the ’60s and ’70s. In the 25 years that followed the fertile mid-'50s, Chicago had far less influence compared to ...