It was 70 years ago this month that the 45 RPM record was introduced, accidentally helping to give birth to rock’n’roll
For the first fifty years of the recorded music industry, everyone had to make do with scratchy, fragile 78 RPM
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A Handy Guide to Which Music Storage Format Sounds Best–and Why
I’m currently working on a children’s book for Kids Can Press which traces the evolution of the gadgets we’ve used
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Happy 67th Birthday, 7-Inch Single!
In the years after WWII, the recording industry knew that after almost fifty years, it was time to move beyond
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A Good Question: Why Are Songs on the Radio About the Same Length?
When much of my day involved setting up playlists and rotations for a radio station in complicated music schedulers, we
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