The San Fernando Valley and Los Angeles area have some stellar vinyl record stores for music lovers who champion physical media. Vinyl record collecting and its popularity have been steadily ...

Vinyl has never truly gone away. Even as streaming reshaped how we listen to music, records have remained a constant—offering the ritual of sliding an album out of its sleeve, dropping the needle, and ...

CHICAGO — If you’re looking for a way to support your local economy, go visit an independently owned record store near you. Saturday, April 12, is Record Store Day, a global event that celebrates the ...

For many collectors of those spinning plastic discs of joy known as vinyl records, Record Store Day is better than Christmas. Every April (and Black Friday), music lovers emerge from their winter ...

The 2000 John Cusack movie "High Fidelity" solidified the idea of the independent record store: Staffed by snobby music nerds, where like-minded (mostly male) clientele sifted quietly through curated ...

Music lovers who swear by vinyl LPs always want to add another disc to the stack and Record Store Day on April 12 is a day to get some coveted special releases. Vinyl remains a special format for many ...

Record Store Day has helped that, for sure, but it’s the atmosphere that these stores have fostered and the communities they’ve brought together that is what really makes them special. Not the ...