The Internet Archive says its Great 78 project is preserving history, but major labels call it a "massive, unauthorized, digital record store of recordings." By Bill Donahue Universal Music, Sony ...

The so-called vinyl revival notwithstanding, old music formats do in fact die. Some of the earliest recorded music, for instance, was pressed on 78rpm records made of an extremely brittle material ...

August 12, 1877: the day Edison invented the phonograph. Flash forward about 140 years, and hipsters around the country are celebrating Vinyl Record Day. What better way to commemorate than create a ...

The Great 78 Project aimed to preserve brittle old records for the sake of history, but the labels called it "wholesale theft of generations of music." By Bill Donahue Universal Music Group, Sony ...

The scratching sound an album makes just before the song starts to play is something vinyl enthusiasts look forward to. A medium from another era is still very much alive, and there are multiple ...

The Boston Public Library has thousands of vinyl records — about 200,000, to be exact. Until recently, the records from the BPL’s Sound Archives Collections were sitting in the library basement, ...

21 June 1948: A symphony lasting 45 minutes was played on two sides of a 12-inch long playing record, spinning at 33⅓ revolutions per minute New York, 20 June A symphony lasting 45 minutes was played ...

TBC Concept continues to support initiatives that breathe new life into Georgia’s cultural heritage—ensuring its preservation ...

The equation facing the music business is now well understood: Sales of CDs and digital music downloads are in what looks like a death spiral, while streaming music services are adding subscribers and ...

NORTH ADAMS — Ever wonder what it would be like to own 30,000 vinyl records? Wesley Nelson and Andrea Belair actually do. This is the couple that bought the entire inventory of Hal March's recently ...