Vinylism

In an interview with Billboard, Rosanne Cash talks about her relationship with her father and reflects on her transition from a country hitmaker to a more introspective singer-songwriter.

About the time most wine tasting rooms were closing up for the day, the party at Mercury was just getting started. Wine and conversation flowed, glasses clinked, iPhone cameras blinked. A woman from behind the bar sauntered over to an old turntable and put on... Wine - Wine tasting - IPhone - Food - Recreation

A consensus seems to be growing that Los Angeles is in the midst of a renaissance for independent music.

It's always bittersweet when summer turns to fall. There are still a few official weeks left of summer, but Labor Day weekend is the symbolic cutoff point. The countdown begins.

A Thai court ruled that most of the 76 industrial projects halted last year because of pollution and licensing concerns can be restarted, a decision that may resolve uncertainties about the nation’s investment regulations.

Dio Should've Done This: Have Your Ashes Pressed to Vinyl (Really). Death to Vinyl will covert human or animal ashes into playable vinyl. Someone grab a shovel—we've got to dig up every seminal music-maker of all time. U.K. music company Death to Vinyl Records is offering a highly unusual postmortem service...

Triangle - August 25, 2010 – Through the brutal economic climate of the past three years, most businesses have found it tough to grow and prosper – but Fibrenew, the world-wide leader in leather and plastic restoration, has grown by leaps and bounds.

Ben Folds says that an "instinct to collaborate and make music with people who aren't necessarily musicians" led to "Lonely Avenue," an teaming with Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and author Nick Hornby that's due out Sept. 28 on Nonesuch.

Mathis' renditions of spirituals appear on a new collection, 'Black Sabbath: The Secret Musical History of Black-Jewish Relations,' which features legendary black singers covering Jewish songs. At a time when the relationship between African Americans and American Jews seems largely irrelevant to the national conversation, the Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation is directing its gaze back ...

Tips for independent bands to get their songs played on KCRW, one of the most influential stations when it comes to shaping Southern California's taste in music.