From the Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" in 1966 to Taylor Swift's "Life of a Showgirl" today, vinyl records are a mainstay in music ...

It's an inessential novelty purchase for adult collectors and hobbyists, but it would make a cool gift for a musically ...

A 12-inch vinyl record can hold about 44 minutes of music. But manufacturing one can take multiple days — a complex but delicate process involving sapphires, rubies and silver. Music fans may love the ...

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 ...

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 ...