June 21, 1948: The First LP Is Released
1948: Columbia Records puts the needle down on history’s first successful microgroove plastic, 12-inch, 33-1/3 LPs in New York, sparking a music-industry standard so strong that the digital age has yet to kill it. Columbia engineer Peter Carl Goldmark set out with his staff in 1939 to evolve the 78-rpm record forward to 33-1/3 rpm,…
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Scott Thill - Wired
When the Ninja Turtles played Radio City Music Hall, your childhood died
In 1990, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles kicked off the “Coming Out of Their Shells” hair metal tour, a corporate cash grab so abysmal and confounding that it made children everywhere doubt that friendly genetic abominations lived in Manhattan’s sewage. Between lunch boxes, cereal, fruit pies, action figures, video games, comic books, TV shows and…
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C.J. Silva
