It seems that 2016 is turning out to be a bad year for a lot of music celebrity icons.

But my guess is that this is going to help increase the sales for RollingStone magazine.

The February 11th, 2016 issue is a tribute cover to David Bowie.  The May 5, 2016 issue is a tribute to Merle Haggard. And the May 16, 2016 issue is for Prince.

Beautiful covers.

The Summer 2016 issue of Dirt Trax is scheduled to hit newsstands on June 27, 2016.

Art Director Andrew Knor has created the first cover in Dirt Trax’s history that features a dark blue background, as opposed to the usual outdoor backgrounds that come with shots from the field.

The colored background method is a technique that Cosmopolitan made an iconic part of the their brand.  Recently I posted an example of Modern Dog using this technique, which appears to have worked well for them too.