Here's the deal: In an effort to stop piracy of digital music, the recording industry is trying all sorts of technical gimmicks. Many home CD recorders (stand-alone devices that hook up to stereo ...

Two years after releasing their breakthrough disc Made in the Dark, British electro-pop group Hot Chip are set to return with One Life Stand ... s a lot of bad dance music that sounds soulless ...

Back in the 1980s, Peter Giles knew that the fledgling music format, the compact disc, came with some compromises. CDs were smaller than vinyl record albums. That meant the end of the 12-inch ...

It’s currently one of the cheapest ways to acquire music. I fear that such bargains will not last. Charity-shop CDs are thinning out already: there are only so many old CD collections to be donated, ...