• Glow In The Dark, Peach Scented And Filled With Kesha’s Blood: 11 Weird Novelty Vinyl Records

    With Record Store Day and garage sale weather just around the corner, 'tis the season for crate diggers (and everyone else who owns a turntable) to rejoice that the so-called vinyl boom lives on, and with it comes an abundance of creative limited edition pressings of favorite, obscure and otherwise coveted albums. From albums pressed with Kesha's blood to LPs that glow in the dark or come peach scented, here are 11 of the weirdest vinyl records ever.

  • Vinyl Records Get Their Own Stock Market, Thanks to Discogs and RBMA

    Discogs and Red Bull Music Academy (RBMA) have teamed up for Vinyl Marketwatch, a new site that tracks vinyl record prices. Described on the new project's website as "an collaborative ongoing experiment" between the two companies, the Vinyl Marketwatch is like a tongue-in-cheek stock exchange for vinyl aficionados.

  • Discogs Leads Vinyl Boom, Exceeds 43 Million in Sales for 2015

    Discogs, the online vinyl and CD marketplace, celebrates its 15th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, the site has shared some propriety information regarding its role within the US vinyl boom with Billboard: so far in 2015 the site has exceeded $43.5 million in sales. To translate that figure into terms we audiophiles prefer, that's 2.5 million records, half a million CDs and 50,000 cassette tapes. Furthermore, as Resident Advisor reports, the figures reflect an industry-wide increase in vinyl sales, with the stats in the US at their highest in 25 years.
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