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Where to Find Records: Shops, Antique Stores, and Selling Your Own
Crate digging beyond the algorithm — local shops, antique malls, estate sales, and the underground artists pressing and selling their own vinyl at pop-ups.
Caroline Rose started a label in May and is releasing her own album on it in October
SUCK Records' first full-length is hers. The artist-owned imprint is having a moment — here is what one actually costs you.
The 1982 acid house record that predates acid house is back in print
Light in the Attic's remastered reissue of Charanjit Singh's "Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat" is finally in listeners' hands — and on August 11 it got the national radio treatment it never got in 1982.
The August 2026 underground roundup: five records the labels announced themselves
Backwoodz, Stones Throw, Ghostly and Sub Pop all put real information on their own sites this month. Here is what the press pages actually say — release dates, pressings, and where to pre-order direct.
Where to start with Madlib on vinyl: a buyer's guide to the Stones Throw catalog
Beat Konducta, Madvillainy Demos, Quasimoto, Jaylib and NxWorries — which Madlib records are actually in print at the label, what each one is, and the order that makes sense.
Madlib's Beat Konducta series is finally boxed up — what is actually inside
Stones Throw is collecting all six Beat Konducta volumes on vinyl for the first time. Here is the volume-by-volume breakdown, the new colored pressings, and why this run still teaches more about sampling than most tutorials.
How to buy billy woods on vinyl without overpaying
Backwoodz sells most of its catalog direct, presses in small runs and sells out fast. A practical guide to getting the records at retail instead of resale.