Our series on how technology affects art continues with a report on how those old 78 RPM records set the stage for music today's recordings. When the compact disc was being developed nearly 30 years ...

Midway through her thoughtful, entertaining history of obsessed music collectors and their quest for rare early 78 rpm records, writer Amanda Petrusich has a revelation. Focusing on one particular ...

Reader Gary Kampel motivated me to take on a project I’d been meaning to get to for years. That motivation took this form: My older sister shipped me a box of old double-sided 78 RPM shellac records ...

Amanda Petrusich is a contributing writer for Pitchfork. Her work has also appeared at NPR Music. With almost all the music you'd ever want to listen to available online digitally, the obsessive hunt ...

A 20-something Alabama man may be sitting on a goldmine with thousands of 78 RPM records he inherited from his grandfather. Or. maybe not. Now it’s time for the thrill of the search and research. A 78 ...

Nonfiction: Vintage Records Do Not Sell At Any Price by Amanda Petrusich, (Scribner) The characters in “Do Not Sell At Any Price” are in a state of constant amazement — at the arcane world of rare 78 ...

Tom Waits' recent collaboration with New Orleans institution the Preservation Hall Jazz Band on the benefit LP Preservation was originally inspired by an old 78 rpm recording of Danny Barker's 1947 ...

Amanda Petrusich's fascination with 78 RPM records and the obsessives who collect them led her to the bottom of the Milwaukee River. Credit: Bret Stetka In spring 2011, New York music journalist ...

If Seattle can support HISSSSSSS, a monthly DJ night devoted to cassettes, it can probably sustain one dedicated to 78-rpm shellac. It helps if the person behind the decks is Jeffery Taylor, co-owner ...

In America in 1900, the two leading manufacturers of flat records were Columbia, which used 80 rpm as its speed, and Victor, which used 76 rpm. Since one company's records were playable on the other's ...

Records and machines to play them on have been around for over 100 years. Mass-produced recorded music for the home began in the early 1900s with Thomas Edison's cylinder players. After a few short ...

With almost all the music you'd ever want to listen to available online digitally, the obsessive hunt for scratchy, fragile 78 RPM records may seem anachronistic. But author Amanda Petrusich says that ...