Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Mayor Robert Garcia is presented a proclamation to brothers Kelvin and Cletus Anderson for their contributions to the city of Long Beach. Cletus opened VIP ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The idea for a museum came to VIP Records owner Kelvin Anderson Sr. when a boy at the store asked his father what a vinyl record ...

Long Beach’s World Famous VIP Records and Tapes received a sign from the fashion gods just in time for ComplexCon. Recently, the apparel giants over at adidas Originals reached out to the legendary ...

World Famous VIP Records, an iconic fixture of Long Beach and music history, will host a free community block party this weekend to celebrate Juneteenth. Juneteenth commemorates the date — June 19, ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- The Anderson family is mourning the loss of Cletus Anderson, the founder of the iconic music chain VIP Records, which was established in 1967. "He was, I would say a big ...

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[Update Friday, April 21, 2017: After this story was published, L.A. Weekly was notified by VIP Records branding president Shirin Senegal that due to the positive response from the city, the sign is ...

Two high-profile indie record stores -- Criminal in Atlanta VIP in Long Beach, California -- recently announced that they're likely to close before the end of the year. But the Atlanta community is ra ...

LONG BEACH — For more than three decades, Long Beach’s World Famous VIP Records has been a very important place for very important people. But after 32 years and nine months VIP is closing its doors, ...

The idea for a museum came to VIP Records owner Kelvin Anderson Sr. when a boy at the store asked his father what a vinyl record was. (William Liang / For The Times) In the early 1990s, Kelvin ...