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A 12-inch vinyl record can hold about 44 minutes of music. But manufacturing one can take multiple days — a complex but delicate process involving sapphires, rubies and silver. Music fans may love the ...

Nobody seriously saw this coming. Back in the early 2000s, if you had told a music executive that vinyl records would one day outsell CDs again, you would have been laughed out of the room. The format ...

Southern California, home to the stars, sun-drenched memories, and some of the finest record shops on the West Coast of the ...

Vinyl records have endured every format that threatened to replace them. CDs would make them obsolete in the eighties, digital downloading did it in the early 2000s, and streaming ought to have done ...