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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Something strange is happening in attics, basements, and garage sales across the country. Those dusty record collections your parents tucked away decades ago might not just be nostalgic relics anymore ...

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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn.--When people think of the Beatles coming to America, they usually conjure up images of The Ed Sullivan Show and screaming teenage girls chasing the Fab Four on the streets of New York ...

The very first vinyl record was pressed in 1948 by Columbia Records: Mendelssohn’s Concerto in E Minor by violinist Nathan Milstein. It was, of course, a standard black disc. Imagine spinning that ...

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 ...