Black gold? You're probably thinking about oil. But maybe up in your attic there is another kind of black gold - vinyl, in the form of your old LP records. And they may be worth a lot - provided that ...

Vinyl records themselves are often more expensive than digital downloads. Caveat: If you’re intending to purchase a turntable so you can listen to your old Crosby, Stills & Nash LPs, you might want to ...

For many, a 12-inch platter of vinyl, spinning 33 1/3 revolutions per minute, exemplifies how they first listened to music. But long before rock and roll, soul, and other popular music styles were ...

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 ...

Nobody seriously saw this coming. Back in the early 2000s, if you had told a music executive that vinyl records would one day outsell CDs again, you would have been laughed out of the room. The format ...

In one sense, Tuesday’s release of the complete mono catalog of the Beatles on vinyl LPs is the most technologically ambitious attempt yet to take what is arguably the most significant body of ...

Listen, I try to stay humble. But last July I tweeted at Disney's Twitter handle "release the Hercules soundtrack, you cowards," and guess what, fellow humans of the internet? They did just that, and ...

Last year was a pretty bleak one for the music industry. Overall album sales dropped by 8.4 percent, to 289.41 million, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and CD sales were down 14 percent. For the first ...

Guadalupe Herrera stacks albums onto a spindle to cool at Erika Records in Buena Park. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) When Liz Dunster, known to friends as Vinyl Mama, moves through Erika ...

More and more turntables were spinning in 2013 as vinyl LPs continued a steep upward climb. New numbers from Nielsen SoundScan show old-fashioned records surging in popularity, no doubt being bought ...

A few months ago I schlepped over to Manhattan’s far West Side to catch bird-obsessed electronic duo Ratatat at Terminal 5. Between dodging unexpected hordes of tweens and watching seizure-inducing ...