For many, a 12-inch platter of vinyl, spinning 33 1/3 revolutions per minute, exemplifies how they first listened to music. But long before rock and roll, soul, and other popular music styles were ...

It's funny how certain things in life go full circle. Take something as banal as, say, windows. The first windows were little more than simple square or rectangular holes cut into the sides of early ...

Last year was a pretty bleak one for the music industry. Overall album sales dropped by 8.4 percent, to 289.41 million, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and CD sales were down 14 percent. For the first ...

Nothing like a year of turmoil to leave people yearning for familiar comforts. And while vacation travel is off limits for most these days, some folks have found themselves stuck far from home—or, ...