This is where the weekly thinking happens.
Every Wednesday, this section will take current events — music, politics, cultural racket — and treat them the way liner notes used to treat records. These are short essays meant to discard the hype and ask what’s actually being said beneath the press release, the news cycle, or the outrage of the week.
We’ll dive into the context, not just the content. We’ll look at the who’s who of new music and the what’s what of major breaking news. Liner Notes is your home for original criticism that treats music as something more than easy listening.
New essays drop every Wednesday.