Albums Archives - A Journal of Musical Things

What form will music take after COVID-19: Albums, EPs, playlists, or mixtapes?

There will be plenty of unexpected and unintended consequences from the coronavirus pandemic. There will be few areas of our

[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Once upon a time, there was a complicated decades-long ritual involved

Deezer, the France-based streaming music service, is always studying how people listen top music. They just completed a survey on

Did you listen to any albums over the weekend. By that I mean listening to an album from track one

Back in the days of vinyl albums, people tended to listen to records all the way through. We’d start with

For more than 50 years, the entire recorded music industry has been based on selling us albums. Although Columbia introduced

Much has been written about the traditional long-playing album’s death, a casualty of the rise of streaming music services. Single

There’s concern in some quarters that the idea of releasing an album is passé, that the format has been superseded

As the currency of the realm, the album caught a cold the original Napster made it possible to just grab

Sequencing an album is hard. You want to make sure that the first song ropes in the listener enough to

When Columbia Records introduced the 12-inch 33 1/3 RPM long-playing microgroove record in June of 1948, it set in motion