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 ...

One of the first victims of the digital revolution was music on vinyl. The LP — the format that brought the world Sinatra, Stokowski and the Sex Pistols — declined in just a few years from the premier ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Liz Dunster, known to friends as Vinyl Mama, moves through Erika Records’ 65,000-square-foot vinyl pressing plant in Buena Park, she’s usually trailed by Elvis, her little Yorkshire terrier. On a ...

Make your records relevant again with the Ion Audio LP 2 GO, a compact and very portable system for playing and ripping vinyl. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a ...