The three-piece genre-fluid band Dial Tone rehearses in the basement of guitarist Cole Pivec’s house in the Linden Hills neighborhood of southwest Minneapolis. It is a setting natural to any college ...

One late night many decades ago, I chanced upon a technical description of the Touch-Tone system. The book I was reading had an explanation of how each key on a telephone sends a combination of two ...

When was the last time you heard a dial tone? If you’re young enough, you might not even know what a dial tone is. You might not understand that we used to hear a droning buzz whenever we picked up ...