Larry Jaffee, the author of
Record Store Day: The Most Improbable Comeback of the 21st Century, is a New York-based journalist whose writing has been appeared in
The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Billboard, among numerous other publications. Music has been Jaffee’s passion since being a teenager in the 1970s, meeting three Sex Pistols but only two Beatles. Some of Jaffee’s three decades writing about music has been assembled at
https://rocksbackpages.com/Library/Writer/larry-jaffee and
https://www.larryjaffee.com/music-industry-observer. Jaffee co-founded in 2017 Making Vinyl (
https://makingvinyl.com), a B2B conference devoted to the global rebirth of record manufacturing. When not listening to music on vinyl or crate-digging, Jaffee teaches writing and journalism at local colleges.