On Feb. 25, 1925, Art Gillham’s session made history. The technology changed who was heard in recordings, how artists approach their music and how we hear it. By Ludovic Hunter-Tilney See more of our ...

In November 1902, a woman entered a makeshift recording studio located in a hotel in Calcutta, adorned in black gauze drapes embellished with genuine gold lace. Frederick William Gaisberg, the ...

Music journalist Jonathan Scott explores the early history of recorded sound: from the first-known recordings in the 1800s to the most significant vinyl records of the 1940s. Here's a story that's ...