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 ...

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.

Remember liner notes? They used to come with every record, tape, and CD, and detailed every composer, musician, and engineer who worked on an album (what, you think Beyonce does everything herself?).

Inspired by the liner notes that accompany vinyl records, which started as places for advertising and became “potent places for experimentation and critique,” Daphne Brooks places her own book between ...

The people said that 2016 is back, and Louis Tomlinson gave them what they wanted with an album that echoes his 2010s boy band origins while maturing his solo portfolio. Released on Friday, “How Did I ...