In 1999, Chinese media reported that a great portion of the single largest trove of master recordings from China’s jazz age – 80,000 gold- or silver-plated masters under the care of the Shanghai ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shellac records were brittle and prone to water and alcohol damage though, so PVC plastic records were developed to last longer.

Last night (March 20), the trio – consisting of Steve Albini, Bob Weston and Todd Trainer – took to social media to announce the record. The album will mark Shellac’s sixth overall, and first since ...

Forget the Platonic ideal, Shellac have always aspired to the sardonic ideal. On a ditty cheekily titled “Chick New Wave” — off To All Trains, the noise-rock group’s sixth and final album following ...

STEVE Albini should need no introduction to regular readers of this column, but here’s a few ‘trigger words’ related to this esteemed musician / recording engineer to help coax those still feeling the ...

"Most 78s are not worth the shellac they're made of." Nationwide's Christopher Rainbow reports from the home of Brian Rust, who has a collection of about 13,000 78rpm gramophone records, most of which ...