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 ...

It’s pretty interesting stuff, even when it’s not used to inadvertently prank call someone in the middle of the night. The Touch-Tone system that I was exploring that night was AT&T’s ...

The type of dial tone sound created by electronic voicemail systems to let users know that a message is waiting to be retrieved. The quick-sounding alert is heard when the receiver is picked up or ...

In a college house near the East Bank campus of the University of Minnesota, there is a spacious walk-in closet where the band Dial Tone recorded their self-titled debut album. Dial Tone consists of ...

The dialing technology in an analog telephone. Each digit has a physical button that transmits a different audio tone when depressed. Known as the dual-tone multifrequency (DTMF) system ...

Press the Flash button and you'll receive an interrupted dial tone Dial the extension number of the person with whom you wish to consult When the conversation is completed, the called extension hangs ...