On the progressive-rock scene, the artist Roger Dean (Yes, Gentle Giant) and the design firm Hipgnosis ... Intelligent, witty liner notes were an important element. There has been a Grammy ...

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?).

The inclusion of liner notes in albums is a crucial part of the ceremony of choice. Reading the notes puts you in the right frame of mind. It confirms your choice and prepares the experience of ...

With “Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound,” Daphne A. Brooks blurs and eventually explodes this binary. She argues that “taste-making” has often ...

The post goes on to argue that Gilmour "does not dispute the veracity" of the liner notes, which place Waters at the center of the project's conception, songwriting and cover-art design ...

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, ...

In Liner Notes, James Brubaker has assembled a two-sided collection of stories that feature both fact and fiction. These music-inspired narratives remind us that ‘songs are time’ and when we lay the ...

As part of this collaboration, we bring you the third edition of Liner Notes, our segment where we talk to Louisiana bands and dissect one of their original songs. In this episode, we are joined ...

In the liner notes of Renaissance, due out Friday, the singer thanks her uncle Jonny, who died of complications related to AIDS early in her career. “A big thank you to my uncle Jonny,” she ...