There are plenty of reasons to consider collecting and playing LPs of your favorite music. Saving money isn’t one of them.

I began collecting vinyl in the 1980s, back when it wasn't so much a conscious act of 'collecting', but as a music-loving kid was simply my preferred format to buy LPs and singles on. Having survived ...

Hip-hop has always been about ownership. Not just of stories, but of sound. For collectors, that ownership lives in crates ...

Back in the 20th century, vinyl record collecting was the standard for audiophiles and casual music listeners alike. It was the only massively-available format for music in the United States, after ...

Tips and advice for storing, cataloging and sorting a very large vinyl record collection. I arrived two nights ago, and am still heavily jetlagged. Woke up at 2:00 a.m. yesterday morning and today, ...

The ’70s, low-rise jeans and vinyl records –– today’s young adults seem to be traveling back in time, reviving the trends that define past decades. The resurrection of analog in a digital age reflects ...

Amidst all the recent talk of a “vinyl resurgence” and the renewed admiration for physical media in music, one niche seems to miss its fair share of the attention. Countless reissues, think pieces and ...

In our Record Store Day 2024 issue of the BrooklynVegan Digital Magazine, we talked to many different musicians about how record collecting and independent record stores shaped who they are today. One ...

CAMBRIDGE — His furniture is now gone, as are his prized neckties and most everything else possessed by the eminent music critic Richard Dyer, who died last September at 82. One particularly notable ...