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

Reader Gary Kampel motivated me to take on a project I’d been meaning to get to for years. That motivation took this form: My older sister shipped me a box of old double-sided 78 RPM shellac records ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Back in the mid-90s most local music stores heeded the consensus that vinyl was dead and stopped carrying it—not an unreasonable decision, particularly considering that the major labels had abandoned ...

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 ...

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 ...