There are plenty of reasons to consider collecting and playing LPs of your favorite music. Saving money isn’t one of them.

It's funny how certain things in life go full circle. Take something as banal as, say, windows. The first windows were little more than simple square or rectangular holes cut into the sides of early ...

Tacoma band The Kimball Superstars, led by Tacoma’s resident record-store cowboy, created the album with vinyl in mind.

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

Nobody seriously saw this coming. Back in the early 2000s, if you had told a music executive that vinyl records would one day outsell CDs again, you would have been laughed out of the room. The format ...

Travelling overseas for LPs, waiting a year for spare parts for turntable upgrades — record listeners have kept their passion alive through waves and crests The only way to consume music at one time, ...

Last year, consumers bought more new vinyl records than CDs. It’s the first time that’s happened since 1987, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. The LP industry is booming, but ...

More and more turntables were spinning in 2013 as vinyl LPs continued a steep upward climb. New numbers from Nielsen SoundScan show old-fashioned records surging in popularity, no doubt being bought ...

A few months ago I schlepped over to Manhattan’s far West Side to catch bird-obsessed electronic duo Ratatat at Terminal 5. Between dodging unexpected hordes of tweens and watching seizure-inducing ...

The 'Long Play' (LP) records that originally stored around 25 minutes of music on one side and that could be turned over and played, gave way to CDs, then to the MP3 and iTunes. "Nowadays, you've got ...