It’s the most wonderful time of the year: the New York State Record Fair has returned to Ithaca! The fair comes around once a semester, stopping at our humble college town on its way through the state ...

The demise of four-wall record stores has been painful to many of certain generations, myself included. Leafing through the stacks or crate digging as its popularly referred to these days is the way ...

For more than 25 years, DJ Soul Sister has hosted the Saturday night “Soul Power” show on community radio station WWOZ 90.7 FM, spinning rare groove funk, R&B, soul and disco culled from her vast ...

I first heard his name in relation to another name, a man of even another name still: comedian Lenny Bruce, born Leonard Alfred Schneider in 1925. It’s a famous story, damn near apocryphal – ...

VinylCon!, the fast-growing record fair that’s been popping up in cities across the country, returns to L.A. on March 21 and 22 with a two-day celebration of record collecting at the California Market ...

At the end of last year, holiday rental company Airbnb added a whole new arm to their services. Where in the past, the Airbnb site or app was used to book accommodation and nothing more, now they’re ...

In the late 1990s when most people had already replaced their record collections with CDs, I started collecting vinyl. It was a practical hobby, I told myself, because I was learning to DJ in clubs ...