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Christoph Dallach's book explores how Nazism, a postwar German identity crisis and anti-authoritarian youth movements spurred some of the most daring experiments of 1970s music. ''We had to start from [...]

Sony Music Publishing has acquired his ''complete collection'' in the latest blockbuster transaction in the music publishing business. Paul Simon has sold his entire songwriting catalog -- including classics like [...]

Nina Simone's ''Mississippi Goddam,'' Ritchie Valens's ''La Bamba'' and the original 1968 Broadway cast album of ''Hair'' are among the 25 recordings that were placed on the Library of Congress' [...]

Alan Lomax made it his lifelong mission to archive and share traditional music from around the world. He spent decades in the field, recording heralded artists like Muddy Waters and [...]

John Coltrane's ''A Love Supreme'' and Billy Joel's ''Piano Man'' are part of the incoming class added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress this year. The [...]

BEAVERTON, Ore. -- In the beginning, Kevin Lewandowski just wanted a way to keep track of his techno records. Now, 15 years later, the free website he set up for [...]

Even after eight years of contemplating Kurt Cobain for an authorized documentary, the writer and director Brett Morgen had trouble closing the vault. Following the premiere this year of ''Kurt [...]

Record collectors dream of finding caches of rare discs -- collections with music that cannot be found elsewhere, perhaps because the number of known copies is tiny, and which therefore [...]

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, at Lincoln Center, has acquired the personal archives of George Avakian, a record executive and producer who, during his years at [...]

It is a given among regulars at Colony Records that a customer need only whistle, hum, or ''la, la, la'' a few bars of a tune for an employee to [...]

Bob Murphy's account of Nolan Ryan's first strikeout in his debut with the Mets in 1966 is among more than 6,000 radio and television broadcast recordings of memorable games and [...]

There isn't just one recording angel, or even a select few; there are thousands, maybe millions. Each rediscovery of old sound recordings comes to us through a different human filter: [...]

Jack Bradley was only 15 when he first heard Louis Armstrong on a 78-r.p.m. record in his family's living room, an ordinary introduction to a man who would end up […]

The first trans-Atlantic broadcast, on March 14, 1925; Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia's reading of the comics in 1945; and Michael Jackson's 1982 best-seller 'Thriller' were among 25 recordings added […]

RECLINING in an armchair surrounded by a bank of audio equipment, Leon Kagarise surveys a collection of garage sale bargains he has accumulated over most of his 63 years. Scattered […]