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Seriously Vintage Vinyl
It’s like the stuff of science fiction: An audio historian at Indiana University has figured out a way for us to hear the world’s oldest gramophone recording – even though the disc and the player have...
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The Ghetto Brothers' Elusive Record Resurfaces, Four Decades Later
In the late 1960s, the Ghetto Brothers gang formed in the South Bronx. The primarily Puerto Rican and African-American club eventually grew to include several thousand members in the borough alone, and...
View ArticleHop On A Vintage MTA Train Or Bus This Month
If you're waiting on the M train platform any Sunday this month, you might be transported back to the 1930s. That's because the M.T.A. is once again running its vintage steel subway cars along the M...
View ArticleSo long, Stag
Longtime New York Public Radio engineer Jim Stagnito, a.k.a. Stag, bid the station farewell last week.You can read Stag's hurricane Sandy report here. Knowing the Archives’ fondness for obscure...
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Styli over substance
The recently published National Recording Preservation Plan from the Library of Congress includes a recommendation to "encourage scientific and technical research leading to the development of new...
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Photos: The Early Days of WNYC
Al Tropea started at WNYC as an engineer before moving on to work at City Hall, recording various events for 37 years. Over the course of that time, he took incredible photos of WNYC in its hey-day....
View ArticleWhy Is Pop Culture So Obsessed With the Past?
How come many of the latest pop songs sound as if they could have been released decades ago? Music journalist Simon Reynolds tells Steve Paulson that our obsession with our immediate past could get in...
View ArticleWhy Is Pop Culture So Obsessed With The Past?
How come many of the latest pop songs sound as if they could have been released decades ago? Music journalist Simon Reynolds tells Steve Paulson that our obsession with our immediate past could get in...
View ArticleMint Theater's Vintage Off Broadway Comedy
Mint Theater artistic director Jonathan Bank discusses the new production of Harold Chapin's "The New Morality," along with star Brenda Meaney. The play takes us aboard a houseboat on a fashionable...
View ArticleJakarta Vinyl
2015 marked the tenth straight year of growth for vinyl record sales in the U.S. New pressing plants are coming online, and existing ones are running around the clock to try and keep up with demand.In...
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