Roaring Trade: Rough Trade post 20% jump in Christmas sales as independent record shops thrive

The 78 Project to release first vinyl volume of direct-to-disc recordings

Martin Creed accompanies major UK retrospective with new album, Mind Trap, on The Vinyl Factory

Massive Attack, Roxy Music and Lorde to release singles for Secret 7″ project in collaboration with The Vinyl Factory

Vinyl sales up 33% in 2013; Random Access Memories the year’s top seller

Art Vinyl reveal the best cover artwork of 2013

Behold, the “world’s largest vinyl record”

Dinos Chapman to play Berlin’s CTM art and music festival in January

Domestica release stunning private press new wave and post-punk rarities on vinyl for the first time

Have a butcher’s…Pop-up record shop sells vinyl by the pound

Water Of Life: Art, writing and sound collected in beautiful 7″ set charting Edinburgh’s waterways

Photos: Unpacking Pet Shop Boys’ limited edition Electric box