How labels use metrics, research, formulas and instinct to decide which albums get a vinyl release. By Steve Knopper For the past year, hallowed jazz label Blue Note Records has reissued dozens of ...

Vinyl was once the standard for music listening, giving way to cassettes, CDs and digital files over the years, but the past decade-plus has seen a resurgence in the musical format. That said, Jack ...

Punk's not dead. Partly because Ian Thompson, founder of D.C. punk label Cricket Cemetery, is making it revelant again. Founded in Arlington in 2010, Cricket Cemetery was created to release Thompson's ...

Want a shot at scoring some records from Back on Black? Read the interview and then check out the contest below! This year marks Back on Black's 10th anniversary. How did you decide to start this ...

Jack White, the guitar virtuoso and former frontman for the White Stripes, owns and operates Third Man Records, which is both a music label and a vinyl record pressing plant. Given his extensive ...

Hub City Vinyl debuts its first record label release with a live show featuring Phillips Saylor Wisor on March 12 in ...

Mainstream music’s take-up of the format has led to soaring demand. But beware a trend that drives out indie labels and drives up prices At first, it looked like it might be a momentary revolt against ...

The UNC-Chapel Hill campus isn’t exactly bustling late on a Sunday morning. It’s a few minutes after noon, and, out of sight, one assumes students are either sleeping off Saturday night or parked on ...

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 ...

Independent labels say their acts have missed out on chart positions because of Utopia’s distribution problems and now there are concerns about Sony and Universal backing the company Vinyl sales ...

Independent record labels have expressed worries after a large vinyl distribution company, Utopia Music, has started to involve major labels in its finances. READ MORE: What’s causing the vinyl delay?