A small record label is reissuing what it calls the first country record. The music was first released in 1891 on a wax cylinder. And the singer on the album was a Black man from New Orleans.

labels rush into an old-fashioned bidding war. While social media certainly disrupted the music business, it didn’t uproot the traditional record label model. There have been numerous other game ...

Not if you ask Saregama. Arguably, India’s oldest record label, Saregama zagged and went the opposite way with its focus on hardware with the launch of Carvaan in 2017, a physical music player ...