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Eight years after the series finale, the incredible soundtrack featuring R.L. Burnside, Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan will be released on vinyl.

Our weather here in southwest Montana had a brother feeling the blues a bit this morning. A good friend, or perhaps good karma, intervened at just the right time when showing up to see me at work with vinyl gifts of grandeur. My day has turned right around with the prospect of new music spinning over dinner later tonight at the Ledoux household.

Nielsen SoundScan has tallied the sales numbers for the year so far, and while the overall picture isn't terribly encouraging, there are signs that gains in the digital sector may make up for the softening CD market.

Music has undergone many format changes over the years, but rarely does on old form ever come back to prominence. That’s exactly what has happened in recent years, however, with a new generation of music lovers latching onto vinyl records and the warm sound they provide. For ZZ Top‘s Billy Gibbons, that fascination never left.

What were you doing on the night of Aug. 14th, 1997? If somehow you happened to be at the Gold Dollar club in Detroit, Mich. catching a little-known local band opening for Rocket 455 and ‘68 Comeback, you witnessed a historic event: the White Stripes‘ first-ever full live concert. And if you didn’t catch it, now is your chance to check it out, as Third Man Records is releasing a soundboard recordi

Once the digitalness of the world takes over completely, it's my prediction that the only hard copy forms of music you will be purchasing from the store will be vinyl records. I can already see the music sections just being kiosks to plug your mp3 players into and download songs you decide to purchase. I've gotten myself ready with a brand new record player and a map of all the places you can buy records in Bozeman.

The year is starting off just right for Van Halen fans who have anxiously been awaiting any word on the forthcoming new album that has kept the Internet buzzing with rumors for the past several weeks. And things just got even better for VH vinyl aficionados, who were briefly left disappointed a few weeks back when David Lee Roth told fans, “Ohh, I don’t know if we’re going with vinyl…” when asked