No skips. No pops. "Perfect sound forever." It sounded so good at the time, the hype and the fidelity. It still does -- well, at least the latter. Go to the shelf, dig through the pile of jewel cases ...

30 years ago today, a game-changing pair of products were announced: Billy Joel’s 52nd Street on Compact Disc, and the Sony CDP-101, the first device to be able to play it. And the age of the CD was ...

I’m getting ready to move from Minneapolis to Boston and, upon cleaning out my house, found a treasure trove of old CDs that I’d shoved under the stairs along with my 3DO and Sega Saturn systems that ...

Cryptic messages and abstract statements are littered throughout the music of Happy Birthday, but it hasn't made the band's sun-baked pop-rock any less infectious. On its self-titled debut, Happy ...

Evidently, Finn has no qualms about being idiosyncratic, wonky or imperfect. His introduction by means of the title-track is warped, almost atonal, as he asks, ‘Happy birthday / What do you want?’ ...