There will come a day when some fresh-faced young person in a lab coat will try to coax an old Spoon record out of my ancient, gnarled hands. Let me tell you something -- there's going to be a tussle.

CDs may not be the first thing to come to mind when you think of the Library of Congress, but it houses more than 500,000. The extensive collection includes everything from music to maps and labs ...

We get a lot of mail at NPR Music, and amid the value-packed coupon booklets we'll never open is a slew of smart questions about how music fits into our lives — and, this week, what to do about an ...

The death of the humble CD has been greatly exaggerated in recent years. Soon the silver disc will celebrate its 40 th anniversary and despite a gentle decline in sales, mostly thanks to streaming ...

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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. You’ve gone through the adventure of building a ...