Jesse England has an evocative way of describing record players: He considers them "altars" for music. "There's no contemporary media environment that I know of in the past 50 years that requires that ...

A student argues that physical media, like Vinyl, DVDs, and print books, have had a justified resurgence with younger ...

One of the co-owners of the Other Music record store once speculated that digital/vinyl combination releases will represent a big part of music sales in the future, because they combine the ...

Ask a record-collecting audiophile why vinyl is back and you may hear a common refrain: “Of course vinyl’s back! It’s a more accurate reproduction of the original! It just sounds better than digital!” ...

Tiny Vinyl has its roots in a different kind of vinyl collectible altogether. Neil Kohler (who co-founded the company with former concert promoter Jesse ...

Avery Hurt is a freelance science journalist who frequently writes for Discover Magazine, covering scientific studies on topics like neuroscience, insects, and microbes. View Full Profile. One thing ...

This week, music producer T Bone Burnett (Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Counting Crows, O Brother, Where Are Thou?) announced a new analog disc medium for music he's developed called "Ionic ...