For a minute there, nothing seemed to signify the future more than a compact disc: A world of music somehow scientifically packed onto a razor-thin circle that refracted an impossibly beautiful ...

Twenty-two years ago, a pair of Eastside techies (no, not those guys) had a vision. From that point forward, they said, music would be delivered exclusively on a mirror-surfaced new format called the ...

Fred Champion stands steadfast against the times. “I don't have an iPod,” Champion said. “I like records and CDs.” But the times seem to have caught up with CD Alley, the independent record store ...

I was a frequent Tower Records shopper until that chain collapsed, and it’s only been gone since 2006. I went to the Virgin Megastores in San Francisco and New York pretty often, too, and they closed ...