YOU CAN SAY vinyl is back; you can say vinyl never left. What's certain is that record collectors and bands alike continue to have an undying, perhaps unconditional love for the format. Having one's ...

Demand for vinyl albums is growing, and the pressure on manufacturers to keep up is growing with it. Engineers with the tools and experience necessary to put music on wax are increasingly harder to ...

One of the first victims of the digital revolution was music on vinyl. The LP — the format that brought the world Sinatra, Stokowski and the Sex Pistols — declined in just a few years from the premier ...

Gonna set my sound system again soon and pondering about buying the LP version of an album instead of the CD version. My main concern is the loudness war phenomenon that makes many of the recent crop ...

Even Steve Jobs listened to vinyl. The late Apple CEO, whose iTunes Store revolutionized the music business for the online era, "listened to vinyl" at home, Neil Young said in 2012. Young, who's now ...

Says Ron McMaster, who retires on July 12, of making records: "The fact that it’s still strong blows my mind." There’s a theory dubbed “nominative determinism,” a fancy name to describe people who ...

You’re about to buy an album on iTunes when you see that there’s a remastered version just below it. Surely something that’s “remastered” must be better ...