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Rare Sex Pistols Vinyl for Sale for $16,000

It seems strange that a piece of vinyl by veteran punks The Sex Pistols would be fetching off-the-charts prices, but as Dangerous Minds points out, that seems to be the case. According to editors at Record Collector magazine, a rare pressing of one of the band’s most iconic songs “God Save the Queen” has gone on sale for £10,000, or roughly $16,000.   read more

20 Record Stores Weigh In on Vinyl's Return

In celebration of Black Friday’s Record Store Day event, we asked record stores across the United States what they thought about the return of the waxy, black format.  read more

Are Vinyl Sales Really Much Stronger Than Reported?

This week, the New York Times did a profile on Vince Slusarz, the corporate attorney-turned record presser who owns Cleveland’s Gotta Groove Records. But one of the most interesting parts of the story was buried in a single quote toward the middle of the article.  read more

HBO To Develop '70s Rock Show With Mick Jagger Producing

A script written by Boardwalk Empire's Terence Winter about the 70s rock scene is going through talks with HBO. Where it gets interesting is that Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorseses and Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, who will act as co-executive producers on the project. While the pairing might seem a bit random at first, let's not forget that Martin Scorseses directed the Rolling Stones documentary Shine The Light back in 2009.   read more

Dinosaur Jr. Announces West Coast Bug Tour, Vinyl Preorder

A press release for Dinosaur Jr. announced today that the band will perform the band’s 1988 album, Bug, in its entirety on a six-date west coast tour. The dates start in Costa Mesa, Calif. and end in Seattle, Wash. Pierced Arrows will open the shows, and Henry Rollins will be along for the ride to interview the band before each performance.   read more

Neutral Milk Hotel to Release Massive Vinyl-Only Box Set

Rolling Stone reported today that Neutral Milk Hotel’s Jeff Mangum will be releasing a vinyl-only box set that compiles the group’s entire catalog, along with 15 previously unreleased tracks. The massive box set includes two 12” albums (On Avery Island and In the Aeroplane Over the Sea), two 10” records (The Everything Is EP and Ferris Wheel on Fire EP, with both albums including bonus tracks), two 7" records (Little Birds and You've Passed/Where You'll Find Me Now), and one 7” picture disc. The box set also includes a couple of posters.   read more

Panda Bear Announces Tomboy Box Set, More Tour Dates

Animal Collective member Noah Lennox, commonly known as Panda Bear, released _Tomboy_ earlier this year to a healthy level of critical acclaim. Now he's rolling out the deluxe vinyl edition of his sophomore effort.  read more

Mercury Records To Stop Releasing Vinyl Singles

Mercury Records will no longer release CD and vinyl versions of singles and plans to rely almost completely on digital downloads....  read more

Behold, a Vinyl Search Engine!

Mashable stumbled across a search engine for finding records. Find You Some Vinyl was created by engineer Lucas Hrabovsky as a tool for finding and purchasing vinyl....  read more

Jack White Gets Weird With Third Man Green Series

After the news of The White Stripes recently-announced breakup, we were left wondering where Mr. White might journey next. The answer is probably not what you might expect....  read more