Monday, Aug. 12 is National Vinyl Record Day for those who celebrate. The day actually has its inspiration from California. According to the National Day Calendar, a man named Gary Freiberg of Los ...

Jonathan Schroeder, the William A. Kern Professor of Communications, published the third book in a trilogy on the cultural history of vinyl records. Designed for Success: Better Living and ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2017, something curious happened: Sony started manufacturing vinyl records again after ceasing all production in 1989. The RIAA's (Recording Industry Association of America) 2022 year-end revenue ...

More than 2 million vinyl records were sold in the United States in the week ending Dec. 21, the third-largest week for vinyls since 1991, Billboard reported, largely propelled by Taylor Swift, who ...