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A curated hub for the people, places, and culture that shape the world of vinyl. This section brings together record stores, collector tools, blogs, communities, and general resources that sit outside the manufacturing pipeline.

Audio Excursion

Safe & Sound Texas Audio Excursion is a long‑running (with 800+ videos), vinyl‑focused audiophile YouTube channel created by David P. Bianco, focused on vinyl culture, hi‑fi audio, industry insight, and community based listening. It blends personal history, audiophile education, interviews, and coverage of record making processes, including pressing plant, vinyl cutting and record plating video […]

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Trans Music Archive

Started in March 2025, the Trans Music Archive is a nonprofit vinyl-only ‘record label’ building a physical, vinyl-based archive of music made by trans artists, while also producing new vinyl releases, reissuing lost work, and running community programs that materially support trans musicians. Their mission is to record the history of trans music and safeguard […]

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Waxly App

Waxly is a new vinyl marketplace and community app to buy and sell records, and track and manage your collection. Positioned as a modern alternative to Discogs Marketplace, with swipe‑based digging and a curated, visually rich feed of records for sale. It is built around a mobile‑native browsing experience, where users swipe through genre‑based feeds […]

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Groovv App

Groovv is a Melbourne‑built Apple iOS-based vinyl‑collection app that layers a highly visual, collector‑centric interface on top of Discogs data, offering barcode and cover-scanning, Crate Flick browsing, grading tools, analytics, and public‑share pages. Analytics features genre/decade heatmaps, pressing‑country breakdowns, and value estimates based on Discogs marketplace data. The app focuses on collection management rather than […]

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Vizcogs

Vizcogs is a modern, data rich record collection app that connects to your Discogs library and turns it into interactive visualisations, valuation tools, and discovery features. It’s built for desktop, aimed at collectors who want deep insight into their vinyl, CD, and cassette collections. Vizcogs positions itself as a Discogs visualiser, value tracker, and crate‑digging […]

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Women In Vinyl

Women in Vinyl is a nonprofit organisation dedicated to empowering women, female-identifying, non-binary, LGBTQ+, BIPOC, and other marginalised individuals in the vinyl industry. Founded by Jenn D’Eugenio, it started as a blog and has grown into a community, resource hub, podcast, book and educational platform. The organisation provides scholarships, mentorships, job boards, business development support, […]

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Lathe Cut Camp

Michael Dixon’s Lathe Cut Camps in Tucson, Arizona, are small, hands‑on, three‑day workshops where participants learn the full process of DIY vinyl record cutting—especially on vintage mono lathes like the classic, industry-standard for DIY record cutters, the Presto 6N—and cut their own records to take home. Intentionally small, and ideal for beginners, the camp blends […]

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Women In Vinyl Podcast

The Women in Vinyl Podcast co-hosts, founder Jenn D’Eugenio and contributor Robyn Raymond, share interviews with record labels, pressing plants, cutting engineers, record stores and more to share a look behind the scenes with those working in the vinyl record industry. Including tech talk discussions, questions about vinyl you may not know but are too afraid to ask, […]

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Reddit Vinyl Subreddit

The r/vinyl subreddit is a community of 2M+ members dedicated to all things vinyl records. It serves as a hub for discussions about record collections, equipment setups, troubleshooting, and general vinyl-related topics. Members share their hauls, soundtrack collections, and engage in discussions about pressing quality, genres, and more. It’s a high‑traffic, enthusiast‑driven space with clear […]

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WeAreSmelly.com

Support Your Local Record Store, aka wearesmelly, is a comprehensive guide by record collector and music sales rep Amanda Schutzman that helps people support, road trip, and discover independent record stores across the US. They’re sorted alphabetically by state, and there’s also a ton of US record store city guides. Amanda currently works at All Media Supply (AMS), […]

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Tracks & Tales

Tracks & Tales is a global, editorially driven guide to listening culture, mapping listening bars, hi‑fi cafés, vinyl bars, and sound‑focused venues worldwide. It positions itself as a “Michelin Guide for listening,” built around founder Rafi Mercer’s field notes, venue dossiers, and essays. Each venue write‑up focuses on acoustics, curation, design, and the experience of […]

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Record Store Directory

Discogs has created a comprehensive directory featuring independent record stores globally. The directory provides detailed information about each store, including owner insights, maps, genres and formats they carry, photos, hours of operation, and links to their Discogs shop. The directory also features city guides, stories about the impact of brick-and-mortar shops on vinyl culture, and […]

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Making Vinyl Magazine

Making Vinyl Magazine is a free 64-page printed publication produced for the global vinyl record industry — and it’s exclusively print. It evolved from the Making Vinyl conference guide into a full-fledged magazine, and each issue covers the topics that matter most to the industry. Trends and market insights, sustainability and materials innovation, pressing plants, […]

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Passion For Vinyl

Passion for Vinyl is a three‑part book series of interview‑driven stories about people whose lives revolve around records and record culture. The books are written and curated by Robert Haagsma, and produced by Record Industry pressing plant. Each volume collects interviews, photos, and essays about collecting, playing, making, and selling records. Across the series, you […]

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Analog Planet

Analog Planet is a leading online magazine dedicated to vinyl records, turntables, and high‑end analogue audio gear. It blends equipment reviews, album reviews, show reports, and industry news with a strong focus on the culture of analogue listening and collecting. Their YouTube channel (with over 450 videos) features videos related to vinyl playback and includes […]

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For The Record

The research report, ‘For The Record’, commissioned by the Victorian Music Development Office (VMDO), provides a comprehensive analysis of the vinyl record ecosystem in Victoria, Australia, in 2025. It details the economic value chain, illustrating how physical sales offer artists significantly higher returns than streaming while supporting local manufacturing and retail infrastructure. The report highlights […]

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Groovy Times

Groovy Times is an ‘occasional’ online magazine dedicated to vinyl culture and vinyl records, for vinyl obsessives. Groovy Times focuses on vinyl facts, micro‑scenes, and collector-friendly stories rather than news or reviews. It’s essentially a curated, editorialised vinyl culture feed—short, punchy, and visually driven. Recent features include lathe-cut vinyl and a dive into obscure, failed […]

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Lathe Trolls Forum

The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls, created by Steve Espinola, is one of the most important online hubs for vinyl-cutting knowledge—part technical archive, part underground clubhouse for cutters, engineers, DIY experimenters, and pressing-plant personnel. It’s a long-running (20-year) forum dedicated to the craft of record cutting, engineering, and experimentation. It’s active, deeply niche, and widely […]

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