The market for vinyl records is growing by leaps and bounds — 35% per year for the last five years, despite a continued decline in total recorded music sales revenue. Due to vinyl’s niche status and ...

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 ...

Replay: The resurgence in sales in vinyl continues, but we think we can prove that, for all its collectability and comfort factor, vinyl isn't actually better than digital. We've spent a lot of time ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. In an alternate universe, movie buffs have Citizen Kane on vinyl. In that ...

Producer T Bone Burnett has announced a new analogue disc, dubbed 'Ionic Originals', which transcends the technology of CDs and vinyl found today. Using both lacquer and aluminium, Burnett claims that ...

Whereas CDs can last anywhere from 20 to 100 years, vinyl should last up to 100 under the right conditions. Vinyl is more delicate and requires special care. Choose vinyl if you want a cool artifact ...

Chip Viering, president of Optical Media Manufacturing, has intentionally hitched his wagon to a falling star. Or rather, several of them. Over the last decade, streaming sites and compressed ...

Music Players: CDs, Vinyl, Cassettes ...

Sam is a journalist based in Vancouver, BC. She graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in English literature with a minor in Creative Writing, cutting her teeth through her ...

Recently there's been a resurgence in sales of vinyl records. We don't really know why. And we think we can prove that vinyl isn't better than digital. Here's how. We've spent a lot of time talking ...