- Music, Gossip Wolf, Jun 5, 2013
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Gossip Wolf: The Owl makes silver apples for its Silver Apples show
Plus: The CFA's second annual media mixer and Nnamdi Ogbonnaya's schizo new pop album
- Music, Music Feature, Apr 17, 2013
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Record Store Day 411
The stores, in-stores, discounts, and goodies
- Music, Three Beats, Nov 21, 2012
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Three Beats: Chance the Rapper pushes Acid Rap at Metro
Plus: Disappears play Rainbo for a bartender shot in the face, and Dusty Groove returns to the reissue biz with Real Gone
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 6, 2012
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Kickstarter, more Kickstarter, singing twins, and more on the B Side
Crowdfunding, metal tours, hip-hop against violence, and more
- Music, Three Beats, Sep 4, 2012
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Three Beats: Local nonprofit the Lost Childhoods uses hip-hop against youth violence
Plus: Dusty Groove clears out its basement with a 50-cent sidewalk sale, and Storm Thorgerson of Hipgnosis opens his show at Public Works
- Music, Three Beats, May 21, 2012
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Three Beats: A live Empty Bottle compilation gets a proper release party
Plus: Corbett vs. Dempsey sprouts a full-grown reissue label, and a Yakuza documentarian turns to Kickstarter after a decade of work
- Music, Music Feature, Apr 18, 2012
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And of course the stores (and in-stores)
Record Store Day sales, promotions, giveaways, and in-store performances
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 7, 2012
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The five best covers of "The Tracks of My Tears"
The five best takes on Smokey Robinson & the Miracles' "The Tracks of My Tears"
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 26, 2012
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This week on the B Side
Joe Henry talks to Steve Dawson of Dolly Varden, Kembe X and his crew go from high school dropouts to hashtag hip-hop hustlers, and more
- Music, In Rotation, Jan 26, 2012
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In Rotation: Dusty Groove owner Rick Wojcik on early Rod Stewart
Plus: Reader music critic Peter Margasak on grand dame of tropicalia Gal Costa and Dusty Groove buyer Doug Arnold on Yo Gabba Gabba
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 1, 2011
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Celebrating the good and bad of jazz producer Creed Taylor
A deluge of reissues of titles from Impulse and CTI Records celebrates the 50th and 40th anniversaries, respectively, of two iconic labels founded by jazz producer Creed Taylor.
- Music, Music Sidebar, Apr 14, 2011
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Record Store Day
- Best of Chicago, Goods & Services, Jun 24, 2010
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Best Selection of Italian Horror-Movie Soundtracks
Dusty Groove
- Music, Music Sidebar, Apr 15, 2010
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Record Store Day
Shows and releases on the April 17 celebration, including sets by White Mystery, Azita, Plush, and more
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 25, 2008
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Dusty Groove keeps cranking out the good stuff
Dusty Groove reissues two tasty morsels of Chicago music history.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 26, 2008
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Bill Cosby: weird 'n' funky
Dusty Groove reissues a lost avant-garde funk jam from Bill Cosby.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 12, 2007
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Dusty Groove gets groovier
Dusty Groove becomes a record label.
