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In August 1908, a white mob attacked Springfield, Illinois’s Black community, destroying homes and businesses and lynching two Black men. National outrage over the violence helped spur the movement that created the NAACP the following year.
MORE →Reflects the personal views, recollections, and perspective of the author, Mike Davis.
This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
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 Screenshot of Discogs home page on February 12, 2025 | |
Website type | Music |
|---|---|
| Available in | English, German, Spanish, Portuguese (BR), French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian |
| Headquarters | |
| Owners | Zink Media, LLC[3] |
| Creator | Kevin Lewandowski |
| Industry | Internet |
| Services | Database, online shopping |
| Revenue | Advertising, marketplace fees |
| Employees | 110[4] |
| Website | www |
| Commercial | Partially |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | November 2000 |
Discogs (/dɪˈskɒɡz/ disk-OGZ; short for "discographies") is an online database and marketplace for audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. Database contents are user-generated, and described in The New York Times as "Wikipedia-like", and users can purchase vinyl records, CDs, cassette tapes, and other music formats from online sellers.[5] Its specialty and innovation is to distinguish the specific releases of music (for example, over 400 different versions of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack).
While the site was originally created with the goal of becoming the largest online database of electronic music,[6] it now includes releases in all genres and on all formats.[5] By 2015, it had a new goal: that of "cataloging every single piece of physical music ever created."[7] As of 2026, its database contains over 19 million user-submitted release listings.[8]
Discogs was started in 2000 by Kevin Lewandowski who worked as a programmer at Intel.[9][5] It was originally started from a computer in Lewandowski's closet and was limited to electronic music. By 2015, Discogs had 37 employees, 3 million users, and a monthly traffic of 20 million visits.[5]
In 2005, Discogs launched a marketplace where users can buy and sell albums.[10] The Discogs Marketplace is modeled similar to Amazon and eBay, where sellers offer items for sale and a fee is charged on the sold item.[11] Its release listings are filterable by the country they ship from, format, currency, genre, style, format description, media condition, year released, seller name, and whether the buyer is invited to "make an offer."
In July 2007, a new subscription-based system for sellers was introduced on the site, called Market Price History. It gave premium users access to the past price items that were sold for up to 12 months ago by previous sellers who had sold exactly the same release (though 60 days of information was free). At the same time, the US$12 per year charge for advanced subscriptions was abolished, as it was felt that the extra features should be made available to all subscribers, now that a different revenue stream had been found from sellers and purchasers. Later that year, all paid access features were discarded and full use of the site became free of charge, allowing all users to view the full 12-month Market Price History of each item.[6]
In addition to the database and marketplace, Discogs operates an online editorial platform, Discogs Digs, which publishes interviews and record-collection profiles under series such as "Vinylogue" and has featured DJs and collectors including Thurston Moore, Colleen "Cosmo" Murphy, DJ Marky and Argentine selector and music curator Soledad Rodríguez Zubieta (SRZ).[12][13][14][15]
[...] Zink Media, LLC (d/b/a Discogs), 4145 SW Watson Avenue, Suite 350, Beaverton, Oregon, USA 97005.
The domains discogs.com (including subdomains) and nearmint.io, related applications, and any of Our associated services, including Application Program Interfaces ("APIs"), (collectively, the "Service"), owned and operated by Zink Media, LLC (d/b/a Discogs) [...]
It took about six months working nights and weekends on Discogs, and I launched it in November 2000.
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Discogs ( disk-OGZ; short for "discographies") is an online database and marketplace for audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. Database contents are user-generated, and described in The New York Times as "Wikipedia-like", and users can purchase vinyl records, CDs, cassette tapes, and other music formats from online sellers. Its specialty and innovation is to distinguish the specific releases of music (for example, over 400 different versions of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack). While the site was originally created with the goal of becoming the largest online database of electronic music, it now includes releases in all genres and on all formats. By 2015, it had a new goal: that of "cataloging every single piece of physical music ever created." As of 2026, its database contains over 19 million user-submitted release listings.
Where We Stand is the second studio album by American rock band Yellowcard. It was released in 1999 (and re-released in 2004 and 2005). It was released by Takeover Records, a label created by one of the band's guitarists, Ben Harper. This is the last release to feature vocalist Ben Dobson, whose position would later be taken over by guitarist/vocalist Ryan Key. The songs "Sue" and "Uphill Both Ways" were re-recorded, originally appearing on Yellowcard's first album, Midget Tossing. The reissue was reissued by kung Fu Records in 2004-2005 (as previously said). It included rare, never before seen footage of the band playing and came as a enhanced CD. It was produced to capitalize off the fame of Ocean avenue. It is a common CD, often found on sites like Discogs, Ebay, and other platforms.
About to Choke is a 1996 album by Vic Chesnutt, an American singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who was known for his raw, expressive vocals. It was his fifth album overall and his first for a major label. It was released by Capitol Records, and was reissued, in 2010, by Plain Recordings. In 2019, Discogs included About to Choke on its list of the 35 Saddest Albums of All Time.
Andromeda were an English psychedelic rock group, that formed in 1966. However, soon after formation, the band changed lineup, and led by John Du Cann a new line-up recorded their eponymous album in 1969, with backing vocals by Eddie Dyche. The group split upon Du Cann's departure to join Atomic Rooster in 1970. Du Cann, Hawksworth, and Collins also comprised the one-off studio band The Five Day Week Straw People. Hawksworth later briefly joined Killing Floor and was a member of Fuzzy Duck. In September 2017, a copy of their first album sold for over £1,000 (US$1,200) on Discogs.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
MORE →Mae Jemison, aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.