vinyl

I was excited to hear that Duluth has a proper record store again with the opening of River City Records & Books in the Lincoln Park neighborhood.

The new business has an eclectic variety of merchandise.

Not that long ago, before everything was digitally stored in the cloud and available in real time, we used paper, film and retro devices and it wasn't all that bad.

Round Here Records is hosting another pop-up event and there is a beer discount if you go.

Blaze destroyed a key Southern California manufacturing plant on Thursday.

The live album, recorded during Bowie's final tour more than 10 years ago, will be reissued on 180-gram, translucent blue vinyl in June.

It's been over 25 years since the major record labels stopped servicing consumer vinyl, but the format is alive and well in 2014 - with increased sales and perhaps one of the largest publicity stunts ever.  Concert promoters are using a 407-foot record replica to promote an upcoming Eagles' concert at the Forum in Inglewood, California.

Who says vinyl is dead?  Not Amazon - the mass internet merchandiser.  They recently announced a new service that allows audiophiles to get the best of both worlds.

As a life-long audiophile that got his start when music was still serviced on vinyl records, I have often lamented that the digital age has done away with the album as a work of art.  I'm not talking about the cover art (don't get me started on the inferior packaging that CD's come in) - I'm talking about the set of songs that are put together to equal an album.