Demand for vinyl albums is growing, and the pressure on manufacturers to keep up is growing with it. Engineers with the tools and experience necessary to put music on wax are increasingly harder to ...
Even Steve Jobs listened to vinyl. The late Apple CEO, whose iTunes Store revolutionized the music business for the online era, "listened to vinyl" at home, Neil Young said in 2012. Young, who's now ...
Developed in the late '70s by hip-hop DJs Grand Wizard Theodore, Kool Herc et al, scratching is undoubtedly the most iconic use of a pair of turntables. The basic premise is to create a rhythmic sound ...
Bill Radke: You’re probably heard vinyl records are back in style. The research company Nielsen says 2009 sales were the highest they’ve been in almost 20 years. But a crucial element of the vinyl ...
Vinyl sales continue their double-digit annual growth while CD sales are experiencing a slowdown The trend is not a rejection of the convenience of digital music but ...