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- Music, Music Feature Mar 24, 2020
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How to buy records during a pandemic
If you have the money to help Chicago’s record stores stay in business long enough to reopen, here are your options.
- Music, Music Feature Feb 24, 2020
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A Dusty Groove documentary premieres in Chicago
Danielle Beverly’s Dusty Groove: The Sound of Transition tells intimate stories about our deep connection to music.
- Music, Music Feature Nov 27, 2019
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Gifts to teach hip-hop heads their history
Each of these reissues helps unfold a different chapter in the rich narrative of the Chicago scene.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Jun 4, 2019
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Death-metal crew Warforged drop a kaleidoscopic hurricane of an album
Plus: Jordan Reyes of Ono and American Damage launches another new label, and Temperance Beer Co. hosts a weekend-long record fair.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Apr 23, 2019
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The Maypole Folk Festival builds a big tent
Plus: The Goldstars lead a crowded tribute to R&B icon Andre Williams, Chicago producer Please inaugurates his new label with a Teklife EP, and more.
- Music, Music Feature Nov 14, 2018
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Chicago gets its first vinyl-pressing plant in decades
A look inside Smashed Plastic, whose brand-new technology could bring relief to labels and artists stymied by long waits for records
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 1, 2018
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Today Andersonville has a record store again
Rattleback Records, opened by a retired elementary school principal who lives in Edgewater, sells new and used vinyl, CDs, and cassettes.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 26, 2018
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Jamila Woods and Kevin Coval collaborate with Vinyl for a Cause to benefit Young Chicago Authors
Woods contributed a song inspired by a Coval poem about the blues going electric, and Coval enlisted Tasha for a wintertime answer to Woods's "LSD."
- Arts & Culture, Travel May 30, 2018
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Will the music finally stop at one of the state's oldest record stores?
Recycled Records features 30,000 records for as little as $2 each, but its owners are ready to move on
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 17, 2018
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Record Store Day 2018: here's what Chicago area shops are doing to celebrate
Check out our interactive map and listings detailing the area's festivities, including discounts, giveaways, in-store performances, and more.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Apr 10, 2018
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La Armada return with an overdue album of Dominican-born hardcore
Plus: Awesomely trashy Indiana punks the Fritz celebrate their debut full-length, and CHIRP holds its 16th annual record fair.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Feb 13, 2018
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Chicago shoegaze saviors Panda Riot bring their album Infinity Maps to vinyl
Plus: Dark Matter pairs its monthly limited coffee blend with a cassette of instrumental hip-hop, and psychedelic postpunks Cafe Racer celebrate the new Famous Dust.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Jan 23, 2018
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The Growing Concerns Poetry Collective celebrate their debut again—this time on vinyl
Plus: The Art Leaders of Color Network and the Comfort Station seek curators for their P.O.W.E.R. Project, and power-pop four-piece Gal Gun drop their first full-length.
- Music, In Rotation Dec 12, 2017
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Nikki Hartel of Audiotree on a new way to fill out your Eurythmics collection
Plus: Mike Gebel of the Empty Bottle on Gyda Valtysdottir’s 2,000-year repertoire, Luca Cimarusti of the Reader on the best solo album from the Grateful Dead family, and more
- Music, Music Feature Apr 19, 2017
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Record stores for Record Store Day heretics
It’s always a good time to skip the lines and get acquainted with the great neighborhood shops that don’t partake in the annual retail circus.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Aug 30, 2016
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Concert photographer Bobby Talamine thanks donors for their help replacing stolen gear
Plus: Chicago label Scrapes teams up with proto-industrial duo Hogg, and off-center pop auteurs Oshwa release their second album.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Jul 11, 2016
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Funk Trunk Records shutters its brick-and-mortar shop
Plus: Kickstarted local vinyl-storage company Flipbin hits the market, shoegazers Lazy Legs release a new cassette, and more.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 17, 2016
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Shady Rest Vintage & Vinyl joins Pilsen's booming record-store strip
Two longtime record collectors open Shady Rest in Pilsen, the neighborhood's third new vinyl shop in a year.
- Music, Gossip Wolf May 17, 2016
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Women in Music host a benefit for victims of domestic abuse
Plus: Shake Rattle & Read closes this weekend, and Jessica Hopper talks to Bob Mehr about his new Replacements book.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Feb 24, 2016
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Dance party Bump & Grindcore gets nasty in memory of Amy Winehouse
Plus: Local postpunks Daylight Robbery release a long-in-the-works LP, and Florida emo heroes You Blew It! play Emporium.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 24, 2016
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HBO's Vinyl is a broken record
Martin Scorsese's new drama takes a muddled look at rock 'n' roll in the 1970s.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 12, 2015
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Local art-rockers Ono reissue more of their long-lost catalog
Priority Male and Galactic Archive team up once again for a reissue.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 5, 2014
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Reader's Agenda Sun 10/5: Taste Talk's All-Star Cookout, CHIRP Record Crawl, and Slaughter & the Dogs
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, October 5
- Music, Music Feature Dec 31, 2013
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Unlicensed to ill
Bootleg rap and R&B vinyl is thriving, even though most of the music is easy to buy or free to download.
- Music, In Rotation Dec 16, 2013
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In Rotation: The Reader's Tal Rosenberg on the only house musician in the Harper's Letters section
Plus: DJs and producers Ross Kelly and Samantha Roberts on the exact same collection of Patrick Cowley gay-porn disco
