Wired has a really interesting story up about Cliff Bolling, a man who has made it his life mission to track down, record, and upload supposedly “lost” vinyl gems onto the Internet. He has a wide variety of music ranging from blues to classic Japanese and Greek music once thought lost, now available for anyone.  You can check out the story here.

CNN.com is reporting, interestingly, that at various music retailers, big and small, that vinyl sales are increasing while CD sales continue to fall. It’s interesting to note that an essentially non-practical medium like vinyl might re-find an audience outside of a mostly-specialty niche, like punk rock.

With the proliferation of digital media in this day and age (with around 45 million CDs sold in the US last year versus just 1 million vinyl records), we’re still a long way off from vinyl making that kind of comeback. But as the article notes, there’s a definite draw to vinyl that rivals and to some, even beats out, CDs.