Here are three famous firsts when it comes to recording music. We’ll start in 1877 when Thomas Edison was testing his new talking machine. He recorded himself reciting “Mary Had a Little Lamb”
Read MoreEverywhere you go, someone else is determining the kind of music you should hear: record labels, marketing companies, focus groups, streaming algorithms, radio stations—but it’s a lot better than it used to be.
Read MoreOn December 24, 1877, Thomas Edison filed a patent for an invention he referred to as a “talking machine.” For the first time ever, audio could be captured, played back, stored, shared, and
Read MoreFormat wars are nothing new: Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD. AAC vs. WMA vs. MP3. But 100 years ago, the competing formats were the rotating disc vs. the rotating cylinder. In the end, the disc
Read MoreThe concept of recorded music is now about 130 years old. Thomas Edison was the guy who came up with the idea of recording soundwaves back in 1877. He figured out a way
Read MoreWhen Thomas Edison figured out how to store audio, his format of choice for his photograph was the wax cylinder. They hung around until around World War I before Emile Berliner’s rotating discs
Read MoreLong before there was a Record Store Day, a spot on the calendar was reserved for old-school vinyl. The first Vinyl Record Day was held in 2002, back in an era when the
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