When Philips and Sony introduced the compact disc in 1982, it marked the beginning of a transition for radio from analog vinyl to digital CDs as the primary playback medium. The display screen for the ...

Last week I left the office one afternoon on an important mission: I had to visit a whole bunch of bars in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. My interest wasn't beer (alas), but music: I'd just read about ...

In an era of iPods, Internet radio, DJs and high-tech sound systems, the venerable jukebox is still an object of fascination. It's hard not to grin when Elvis Presley's "Jailhouse Rock" crackles from ...