When Minneapolis drummer and music fanatic Michael Reiter went to the merch stand to buy a CD by Los Angeles buzz band Wand after a local gig last week, he was out of luck. The band had only vinyl ...

The Velvet Underground will release a new vinyl box set made up entirely of performances from their 1969 residency in San Francisco. Though the band never achieved massive commercial success, it ...

Revitalization of vinyl records begs the question — is it still worth it to transfer an LP on CD? While CD sales have been dropping for years, the LP has experienced a surprise Renaissance. One of the ...

PHILADELPHIA — The vinyl resurgence has been keeping independent record stores alive for years, and it hit a milestone in 2020: Music fans spent more money on LPs than CDs last year for the first time ...

Never doubt the power of nostalgia. On the heels of a recent resurgence in vinyl sales, music lovers are starting to turn their attentions to yet another classic form of music: the cassette tape.

Cassette tapes brought Veronika Cloutier to Pittsburgh. Vinyl LPs have kept her here. Before moving to Pittsburgh from North Carolina in 2021, the former vocalist and guitarist for the band Attack Cat ...

AUSTIN, Texas — On the second day of this year’s South by Southwest Music Conference and Festival, Philadelphia-based Free Energy, like other buzzed-about acts, played the Levi’s Fader Fort, a ...

The great post-modern American author William S. Burroughs is one of the great weirdos and experimenters of his time, and that extended beyond his writing. The author of Naked Lunch also made a number ...

Shrishty is a decade-old journalist covering a variety of beats between politics to pop culture, but movies are her first love, which led her to study Film and TV Development at UCLAx. She lives and ...

Pressing altered versions of classic projects into boutique collector’s items sends a fuzzy message in a significant year, Nadine Smith writes. This year has been filled with countless tributes to rap ...

What to do with your old vinyl records and cassettes? I know they are tucked away in closets, basements and garages, but there’s still reason to bring them out and enjoy them, what with the resurgence ...