The 25 best country and Americana albums of 2025, including Eric Church, Carter Faith, Tyler Childers, Mavis Staples, Ringo ...

Compact discs, or CDs, were revolutionary when they first emerged as a new medium for listening to music in the 1980s. Part of their success is alluded to in the name itself: the slim, compact size of ...

Vinyl albums outsold CDs last year for the first time since 1987, according to the Recording Industry Association of America's year-end report released Thursday. It marked the 16th consecutive year of ...

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Most of us store our favorite music on a digital playlist, but March marks an anniversary for those of us who remember when music came on something physical. Forty years ago, in March 1983, Billy Joel ...

CDs aren’t exactly cutting-edge in 2025. Since the peak years around the turn of the millennium, sales have plummeted because streaming services like Spotify have taken over. But there are still times ...

Summer 2025 has been nothing if not the tipping point of the slow-burning streaming reckoning. More and more artists have pulled their music from Spotify (Hotline TNT, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard ...

A new documentary from Paramount+, How Music Got Free, tells the inside story of how albums shed their exoskeletons and became something more ethereal and less profitable. Produced by LeBron James and ...

The compact disc gave us our first taste of digital music – and we liked it. Upon its arrival in the U.S. in March 1983, the sleek 4.7-inch plastic and aluminum disc – about the size of a drink ...

It’s been a while since I was asked about burning music CDs, but this week a reader asked how best to make music CDs from his music library. It’s been a few years since I wrote about this topic. The ...

Discover the best things to eat, drink, and do in Houston with our expertly curated city guides. Explore the Houston City Guide In the fall of 2008, a month after Hurricane Ike made landfall in Texas, ...