The question of which sound was the first ever to be recorded seems to have a pretty straightforward answer. It was captured in Paris by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in the late 1850s, nearly two ...

Mamie Smith set the tone for a new century of sound in global music. The Cincinnati native was the first singer to record the blues. It’s the foundational American music form upon which jazz, country, ...

In the summer of 1958, The Beatles were called The Quarry Men. The band consisted of John Lennon, Paul, George Harrison, drummer Colin Hanton, and Paul’s school friend, piano player John “Duff” Lowe.

Taylor Swift revealed the reason why she chose to re-record her sophomore album, Fearless, first instead of her self-titled debut record. On Thursday (Feb. 11), Swift announced that she will be ...

The first audio advertisement for a soda. A vaudeville act about sneezes. A home "exercise tape" from the 1920s, featuring a man giving calisthenics instructions accompanied by an orchestra. One of ...

This week’s question was suggested by commenter Astor Clement, but is also one we have done before—albeit ages ago: What’s the first piece of recorded music that you ever bought for yourself? In the ...

Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the first recorded Christmas celebration, the death of "Amazing ...

Like virtually every other industry, the recording business has been transformed by advances in digital technologies. Some argue that cutting-edge digital “effects” and electronic “sweeting” can make ...

For the first time on record, a research team from Leipzig, Germany, has observed lethal chimpanzee attacks on gorillas in the wild. The attacks, which resulted in gorilla fatalities, were documented ...

A southern US state has recorded its first death from the flu for the 2025 to 2026 winter virus season. Health officials in North Carolina confirmed that an adult in the western part of the state had ...