The context for pop music has shifted to the Web. “It’s the pictures that got small,” Norma Desmond famously quipped in Sunset Boulevard, when faced with the inconvenient truth that Hollywood had ...

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.

For decades, liner notes meant everything to music fans. As you listened to a new record or CD, you really got to know the artist through printed lyrics, photos and shout-outs to other artists they ...

Seeing the Chicago stop of Harry Styles’ “Love On Tour” in 2022 was a formative experience for me. The welcoming community felt like friends pulling you into their circle, even though I watched from ...

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Best laptop cooling pads Best flip ...

Ben found this CD, Soul Asylum's "Grave Dancers Union," from 1992, in WBUR behind the studio. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) Five days had passed and the new album I wanted to hear still wasn’t on Spotify. Fine.

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MUNA isn’t going soft. After the dreamy song “Silk Chiffon (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)” blew up off their 2022 self-titled album, the band seems determined to let the world know it’s not going to leave ...