As these digital liner notes evolve, I suspect they will wind up merging with World Wide Web sites of the particular musical performers. These days, rock stars are just as likely to have home pages as ...

I wanted to hear “Song to Jutta,” so I bought a copy of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s first album. I was surprised to find that the liner notes were written by my friend Ann Moses. I called Ann. “Did ...

Joni Mitchell was onto something. You don't miss liner notes until you don't have them. I admit: Many liner notes leave me cold, for two reasons. First, they're way too detailed, especially in jazz.

Andy Mister, “I’M HAPPY AND I’M SINGING”, 2010, Graphite on Paper, 69 x 45 inches (via MoMA PS1). “I’M HAPPY AND I’M SINGING” (2010), a large photorealist drawing by the artist and poet Andy Mister, ...

Lorde summer is finally here, and it’s full of angst, resentment, contemplation and growth. At age 16, a starry-eyed Lorde entered the music industry with back-to-back hits, reveling in teenage ...

All About Jazz is collaborating with musicians and record labels to publish album liner notes, past and present. For musicians and record labels, it's creative and effective way to promote a new, ...

Content Warning: This story mentions explicit sexual content, pedophilia, child abuse and violence. Ethel Cain, the stage name of singer Hayden Silas Anhedönia, released the experimental, drone-music ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. For a critic, there’s maybe nothing so central but also confounding as the question of taste — why ...