You find them at yard sales or in your parents’ dusty attic: hidden treasures not for the scratched vinyl within, but for their faded cardboard album covers. Scuffed, torn, Scotch-taped, adorned with old price tags and watermarks—the best of these finds combine forgotten groups with WTF imagery. It’s an exercise in weirdness to flip through the art collected in Cover Story Volume Two: Odd, Obscure and Outrageous Album Art, published by Wax Poetics magazine and powerHouse Books. One example: the compilation album Music to Massage Your Mate By, which features a creepy dude giving a shoulder rub to a redhead. Talk about a mood killer. Stare into his eyes, and you’ll never want a massage again. Among the locals featured in Cover Story are Aja West and Cheeba, siblings who’ll jointly DJ a set at tonight’s book-launch party. And of course there’s plenty more to do and see at the Georgetown Art Attack, including portraits by Deborah Scott at the Georgetown Arts and Cultural Center, Super-8 movies, the Georgetown Trailer Park Mall, and photos by Robin Crookall plus music by the Twilight Art Collective at the Stables. BRIAN MILLER

Sat., Aug. 14, 6-9 p.m., 2010