Robert Levine

1 week ago | billboard.com | Robert Levine

All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors. However, Billboard may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. How was your Record Store Day? This year I spent about an hour and a half and $150 picking up some great vinyl at two stores in Berlin, where I live.

1 week ago | themoderatevoice.com | Robert Levine

Under President Trump’s astute guidance, the federal government is working to destroy support for scientific research in all fields, ceding control of innovation and scientific advances to China. The People’s Republic of China produces significant multiples of STEM scientists than the U.S. and we are in the process of deporting foreign scientists and making our nation hostile to immigrants with scientific backgrounds. Actually, all immigrants.

2 weeks ago | billboard.com | Robert Levine

All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors. However, Billboard may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. The vinyl revival symbolized by Record Store Day has been great for vinyl — but it hasn’t done much for audio. When LPs were the most popular way to listen to music, serious fans played them on record players hooked up to stereos.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Robert Levine

4 hours agoA decade or so ago, if you had told me there would be a market for stylus cleaning kits, I would have laughed. Fast forward 10 years and vinyl has seen the biggest comeback since Frank Sinatra came out of retirement for the third time. Goldring is a globally recognized name in the world of analog …

2 weeks ago | billboard.com | Griselda Flores |Chris Eggertsen |Bill Donahue |Robert Levine

At last month’s Billboard Women in Music ceremony in Los Angeles, Breakthrough honoree Ángela Aguilar took a moment to express her solidarity with the Latin immigrant community, dedicating her award to women who cross the border to the United States “with nothing but hope in their hearts, only to find themselves living in uncertainty and fear,” she said in a poignant speech that prompted a standing ovation.