John Levin had no idea what he’d stumbled upon at first. About 10 years ago, the collector paid about $100 for a box of wax cylinders at an auction in Pennsylvania coal country. Those cylinders — the ...

Music journalist Jonathan Scott explores the early history of recorded sound: from the first-known recordings in the 1800s to the most significant vinyl records of the 1940s. Here's a story that's ...

If you haven't watched Questlove's Sly and the Family Stone documentary (which is mostly about Sly, to be fair), give it a watch. It doesn't reinvent the wheel by any means, but in terms of ...