Vinylism

Chris Blackwell didn't exactly have a master-plan when he founded Island Records with £1,000 in 1959. Thirty years on, he sold the company to PolyGram for $300 million. In the intervening years, Island had grown from a fledgling operation, licensing its potential hits to bigger companies, to a stand-alone independent in tune with the underground and slowly seeping into the mainstream.

Vinyl Destination

Setting the Record Straight: Jan (Stafford Clark-Price) presses his point. The Czech-born playwright asks us to empathize with the rock-crazed Cambridge grad student even as he gives the mentor the first (and often the last) word in most of the play’s arguments.

LOS ANGELES Neil Schield knows the grim state of the music business as well as anyone; last year, he was laid off from a company at the vanguard of digital music distribution.

This isn't your shopping mall's record store: Wicked Discs in Oakland is known for its varied selection of alternative music a rare finds that you won't likely see at an FYE.

Are you an audiophile who can't live without the rich sound you can only find on vinyl? Kevin Wierzbicki takes a listen to cool new vinyl releases from Van Morrison- King Tubby & Friends- Chris Darrow- Michael Hurtt and His Haunted Hearts

As I watch my Fugazi record spin and listen to the sounds come through the speakers, I can't help but smile. Even the hisses and pops of the vinyl sound just right. I look at my collection, and I am almost tempted to pull a Rob Gordon from "High Fidelity" and rearrange them based on my life events. CDs never sound this good. My iTunes collection will never mean so much.

Vinyl has been on the verge of a big-time comeback for ages now (and for some of us, it never ceased to be the format of choice anyway), so we're pretty happy to see that even the land of zany iPhone / iPod apps is no longer immune to its charms. The spinning vinyl app by Theodore Watson makes use of the iPod touch's accelerometer to control the speed that the "record" is played at. The video ...

Vinyl has been on the verge of a big-time comeback for ages now (and for some of us, it never ceased to be the format of choice anyway), so we're pretty happy to see that even the land of zany iPhone / iPod apps is no longer immune to its charms. The spinning vinyl app by Theodore Watson makes use of the iPod touch's accelerometer to control the speed that the "record" is played at. The video ...

The sale of vinyl records is on the rise. But why would anyone want to buy something that can't be easily popped into your car stereo, or placed in your computer to burn to your iPod? Well, apparently, people don't care about those things, or they're finding ways to transfer their vinyl collection to a digital format, and the numbers are there to prove it. According to Nielsen SoundScan, vinyl ...