The man holds up a 78 rpm record bearing the blue-and-white logo of Chess Records, an iconic label for any fan of the blues. He places it on a vintage Califone turntable, and we hear Howlin' Wolf's ...

Diggers Factory founder Alexis Castiel takes us behind the scenes of his crowdfunding styled vinyl pre-order and production service designed to keep artists from wasting money on vinyl production. In ...

There are a growing number of women vinyl collectors who are both coming together as a community and expanding their degree of influence. Meet the ladies of vinyl on Instagram. As a female vinyl ...

Jeff Riggins carefully removes "The Blues Brothers Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" from its sleeve before placing the vinyl record atop a turntable. The opening piano of "Think" featuring Aretha ...

Scott Dudelson, an avid vinyl collector who lost over 8,000 records in the Palisades fire when his home burned down, at Record Surplus in Santa Monica. (Christina House/Los Angeles Times) Scott ...

There are few more dedicated collectors than NFT aficionados. But there’s one group that may have them beat: vinyl collectors. One in every three albums sold in the U.S. last year was on vinyl — up ...

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 ...

On NASA’s space probe, Voyager 1, there is a golden vinyl record that contains bits and pieces of information about the human life. It is etched with sounds of Nature, greetings in over 50 languages, ...

The day that everyone in the vinyl-manufacturing world has been worried about for years finally arrived. Earlier this month, Apollo Masters Corp., one of the two places in the world that produce the ...