YOU CAN SAY vinyl is back; you can say vinyl never left. What's certain is that record collectors and bands alike continue to have an undying, perhaps unconditional love for the format. Having one's ...

Demand for vinyl albums is growing, and the pressure on manufacturers to keep up is growing with it. Engineers with the tools and experience necessary to put music on wax are increasingly harder to ...

The scariest day of Pete Lyman’s life was the morning the movers came for his 1978 Scully LS-76 vinyl-cutting lathe. It’s one of two rare machines at Lyman’s company, Infrasonic Sound, which cut the ...

Vinyl has made a mainstream comeback in recent years, but in the dance music realm it never really went away. Whether as a format for releasing your tracks, a part of your DJ setup, or a ready source ...

We often talk about the lost magic of owning a physical thing, whether that’s books, CDs, or the wondrous black slab of plastic that is the vinyl record. Holding that object in your hand, flicking ...

To appreciate the booming popularity of vinyl records, you can look at sales charts showing massive annual sales growth for the past 10 years. Or you could peek inside the Welcome to 1979 facility in ...

Guenter Loibl has every right to be tired. The slick-haired, 48-year-old entrepreneur and music distributor has bounced back and forth between Los Angeles and his home in Tulln, Austria over the past ...