There's a picture of me somewhere in my parents' basement. It's Christmas morning. I'm about eleven years old and I'm holding two K-Tel records, beaming like I just received the greatest gifts ever.

WASHINGTON – Searching for songs you loved, but don’t have on your playlist is one of the joys of the Internet, especially music streaming services, including Spotify and Rdio. Long before the ability ...

If you grew up in the 1970s or 1980s, you probably owned at least one (if not many) K-Tel records. K-Tel were synonymous with compilations, releasing albums that contained everything from polka hits ...

Where were you when you found out K-tel Records declared bankruptcy and shut down its U.S. music distribution subsidiary? Unless you worked for K-tel or a similar industry cranny, chances are you're ...

Now that ”It was 20 years ago today” refers to the 1970s, Pravda Records is preparing an album tribute to K-Tel Records that will feature local bands covering those amazing, dynamic hits of yesteryear ...

Philip Kives, in word and deed as much as anyone, reminded millions of us that life is full of unimagined possibilities yet ultimately also finite. In other words, wait, there’s more. And quantities ...

With the loss already this year of so many big musical names, I don’t want one to get lost amid the closing numbers. Headliners include Prince, Merle Haggard, Paul Kantner, David Bowie and Glenn Frey.

A few years back, I had lunch with Phil Kives, the legendary founder of the schlock-hawking company K-Tel, who passed away in late April, at age eighty-seven. Kives was in Toronto visiting his ...