"We survived… but it wiped out the library," Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle told Ars, also noting, "the world became ...

At the Hot Club of New York, patrons revisit the music’s past by spinning shellac 78 RPM discs of recordings made in the ...

With almost all the music you'd ever want to listen to available online digitally, the obsessive hunt for scratchy, fragile 78 RPM records may seem anachronistic. But author Amanda Petrusich says that ...

What would you do if you bought an old record from a thrift store on a whim, only to later learn it had been made by a group associated with the Ku Klux Klan? That’s the situation a Lansing man ...

The 78 rpm disc is the precursor to the modern vinyl record. (The 78 rpm disc is the precursor to the modern vinyl record. ) In recent years, there has been a spurt of interest in vinyl records. This ...

IN this digital-music era, it’s getting difficult to find people who own regular turntables, let alone those that play 78s. Even more difficult is finding people who crank up their 78 players for a ...

Our series on how technology affects art continues with a report on how those old 78 RPM records set the stage for music today's recordings. When the compact disc was being developed nearly 30 years ...

Nonfiction: Vintage Records Do Not Sell At Any Price by Amanda Petrusich, (Scribner) The characters in “Do Not Sell At Any Price” are in a state of constant amazement — at the arcane world of rare 78 ...

A 20-something Alabama man may be sitting on a goldmine with thousands of 78 RPM records he inherited from his grandfather. Or. maybe not. Now it’s time for the thrill of the search and research. A 78 ...

In America in 1900, the two leading manufacturers of flat records were Columbia, which used 80 rpm as its speed, and Victor, which used 76 rpm. Since one company's records were playable on the other's ...

There are some things we don’t really question: the sun coming up in the east; American politics will continue to be dysfunctional; and the Toronto Maple Leafs will once again break hearts next spring ...