In an age of algorithms and streaming music, record stores offer an alternative. At Folk Arts Rare Records, founder Lou ...

Pentridge Prison’s radio station played donated albums for its inmates. Twenty-six years after the site’s sale, a local shop ...

MIGHT BE GATHERING DUST. THERE COMES A TIME IN THE LIFE OF THE COLLECTOR WHEN ONE’S PRIDE AND JOY YIRGA BECOMES A BIT OF A PROBLEM. AS YOU CAN TELL, THEY’RE EVERYWHERE YOU TURN. LIKE MANY IN AN AGING ...

My dopamine menu might change seasonally, but the one aspect that will always remain a constant is a lounging listening session with a comfort album of my choice whistling through my home. Famously ...

Scott Dudelson, 45, peers out over the shelves of Santa Monica vinyl shop Record Surplus. First opening its doors in 1985, it’s been his home away from home since childhood. While other kids were ...

Let’s get organized! Vinyl record sales spiked after the pandemic started and managed to top CD sales for the first time in decades. A few years later, and despite slowing sales, vinyl records are ...

I began collecting vinyl in the 1980s, back when it wasn't so much a conscious act of 'collecting', but as a music-loving kid was simply my preferred format to buy LPs and singles on. Having survived ...