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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Founded in Long Beach, Licorice Pizza grew into a chain of 34 stores before the name went away. The revived business includes a vinyl pressing operation, Licorice Pizza Records. As a teen growing up ...

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 ...

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 ...