Jonathan Scott’s Into the Groove tells the story of the vinyl record, from humans’ first inclination to try to record sound up to the resurgence of the LP in the 2000s. His tale begins with Galileo ...

The vinyl record has been around in its current format since Columbia Records launched the first 12-inch LP in 1948 (although the basic idea is much older, as we shall see). I have been buying music ...

Vinyl has always been able to convey more than just music. Artists, engineers, and pressing plants have long left little ...

Back in the mid-1980s, as surely as video had killed the radio star a few years earlier, it seemed inevitable that CDs would relegate vinyl records to the landfill of history. I was not an early ...

Let’s be frank. If you’re a karaoke fiend, you can use your phone’s free recording app to capture your magic when belting out Purple Rain. The recording is available immediately. But if you believe in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS – Yes, it’s for the record. And ...

Columnist John Moore enjoys reading the information on his album covers — something digital music lacks. One of the neatest feelings of youth was saving up enough money to buy that next record you ...

“My background is not in vinyl,” Mike Esposito told me when I called to talk about his record shop last month. “I owned furniture stores, and collecting vinyl was a hobby. I started out really just ...

This enjoyable if somewhat arcane chronicle by music journalist Scott (The Vinyl Frontier) examines the history of recorded sound. He traces the development of recordings from the first tin-foil ...