From Edison to Taylor Swift, the brain is a living phonograph—recording and replaying the grooves of memory, culture, and ...

An earlier term in the U.S. for an analog audio disc (a "vinyl record"). In other countries, the term was "gramophone record." See LP and turntable. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other ...

If you think of records as platters, you are of a certain age. If you don’t remember records at all, you are even younger. But there was a time when audio records were not flat — they were drums, ...

Thomas Edison seated beside a phonograph in 1921. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (The original image is no longer available, please contact KCRW if you need ...

On any given day, try to avoid recorded sound and, well, good luck. Music, voice messages, the news, alerts at the Metro station — it all makes silence elusive. But less than 150 years ago, there was ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Photograph of Thomas Alva Edison's ...

As music fans around the country celebrate Record Store Day, which started in 2008, Albert Menashe shares a look at his records and record players going back over 100 years. Albert Menashe sits in one ...