Black gold? You're probably thinking about oil. But maybe up in your attic there is another kind of black gold - vinyl, in the form of your old LP records. And they may be worth a lot - provided that ...

For many, a 12-inch platter of vinyl, spinning 33 1/3 revolutions per minute, exemplifies how they first listened to music. But long before rock and roll, soul, and other popular music styles were ...

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

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 ...

Last year was a pretty bleak one for the music industry. Overall album sales dropped by 8.4 percent, to 289.41 million, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and CD sales were down 14 percent. For the first ...

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 ...

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, ...

At a press conference in New York's Waldorf Astoria hotel in June 1948 (most likely on the 21st, though there is some dispute over the exact date), Columbia Records introduced its long-playing vinyl ...

Happy birthday to the first vinyl LP! Today marks 70 years to the day since Columbia Records first introduced the 12" 33 1⁄3 RPM microgroove long playing record with a copy of Mendelssohn's Concerto ...

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