Dan Coulter was 12 years old when he bought his first jukebox. The Bloomington kid wasn’t very good in academics but he liked ...

With a long and storied history of pioneering audio recording, we explore America's musical history and identify the earliest known recording of a US song.

Bootleg recordings and music piracy have been an issue a lot longer than most people realize. It can be all traced back to a ...

introducing improvements like wax cylinders. Edison himself later returned to the field, refining the phonograph with innovations such as mass production techniques and longer-playing Amberol ...

The exterior of the former Wax Trax! Records building at 2449 N. Lincoln Ave. Credit: Patrick Filbin/Block Club Chicago LINCOLN PARK — For more than two decades, a two-story building in Lincoln Park ...

But those sounds can be salvaged — for instance, the library has managed to save one of the few recordings of Florence Nightingale, which is preserved from an 1890 wax cylinder. The British Library is ...

If you thought you’d never have a chance to release your hit single on the wax cylinder think again ... a lousy attempt to build a phonograph to play back the recording. The video shows their ...