It was a fortuitous typo for the Fred Meyer retail chain. This spring, an employee intending to order a special CD-DVD edition of R.E.M.'s latest release "Accelerate" inadvertently entered the "LP" ...

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 ...

Something strange is happening in attics, basements, and garage sales across the country. Those dusty record collections your ...

To oldsters, and not-quite-oldsters, it's like seeing an old friend you had thought to be long dead. Vinyl LPs, in all their shrink-wrapped newness, in cardboard sleeves bearing artwork visible ...

Vinyl records themselves are often more expensive than digital downloads. Caveat: If you’re intending to purchase a turntable so you can listen to your old Crosby, Stills & Nash LPs, you might want to ...

Music lovers who swear by vinyl LPs always want to add another disc to the stack and Record Store Day on April 12 is a day to get some coveted special releases. Vinyl remains a special format for many ...

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 black-and-white paper-crane-shaped sign has come down for good at Origami Vinyl. The Echo Park record store abruptly closed this month after seven years of pushing against the streaming revolution ...

The black-and-white paper crane-shaped sign is, for now, still up at Origami Vinyl. But the beloved Echo Park record store abruptly closed on Saturday after seven years of slinging LPs, hosting live ...