Good news obsolete technology fans, the first cylinder music release in nearly a century is out today, although even its creator acknowledges that 99.9% of those who buy it won’t be able to play it.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wax cylinder collector John Levin with some of his holdings. (Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times) Not long ago, Silver Lake-based ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts acquired a machine that transfers recordings from the fragile format. Then a batch of cylinders ...

Before audio playlists, before cassette tapes and even before records, there were wax cylinders — the earliest, mass-produced way people could both listen to commercial music and record themselves. In ...

For Henry Jenkins, co-director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Comparative Media Studies Program, who is emerging as a well-known public intellectual on topics of media and society, the ...

The New York Public Library recently received a machine that will read cracked and scratched wax cylinders — which include some of the earliest... Mystery recordings will now be heard for the first ...