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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, Gossip Wolf Jan 14, 2020
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Longtime Reckless Records buyer Jim Magas quits to spend more time with his music
Plus: Emo four-piece Kittyhawk play their first show in more than three years, and Clear drops a posthumous 12-inch by the late Dan Jugle’s duo Juzer.
- Music, Music Feature Apr 9, 2019
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Record Store Day 2019: how and where to celebrate
Details about discounts, giveaways, in-store performances, and more at three dozen shops—with an interactive map and alphabetized listings
- Music, Gossip Wolf Jan 16, 2018
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Reality TV star and tattoo artist Phor showcases his rap skills at 1st Ward
Plus: Tape label Love Lion pays tribute to the Chicago underground, and new band CB Radio Gorgeous combine several flavors of nervy punk.
- Music, In Rotation Aug 8, 2017
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Singer-songwriter Micha on an old song for Puerto Rico’s new struggle
Plus: Izzy Olive of Half Gringa on the Weather Station’s growing pains, the Reader’s Leor Galil on Midwife’s mercurial dream-pop, 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 Jan 31, 2017
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Matt Jencik of Implodes makes his solo debut with an album of gorgeous drone
Plus: Instrumental hip-hop producer Radius drops three records in a busy month, and the Love Lion label releases a cassette of vintage gospel to benefit Black Lives Matter.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 15, 2016
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Rauner won't sign automatic voter registration bill until 'corrections' are made, and other Chicago news
Also, a group of pastors is suing the state over the gay conversion therapy ban.
- Best of Chicago, Goods & Services Jun 23, 2016
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Best record store
- Music, Gossip Wolf May 11, 2016
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Rabble Rabble celebrate a new record at the third Good Vybes Fest
Plus: Nic Collins screens the deeply weird webseries Year of the Snake at Beauty Bar, Twin Peaks sign LPs bundled with coloring books at Reckless, and more.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Apr 19, 2016
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A red-letter day for disgusting local hardcore
Plus: Dame Darcy and Lisa “Suckdog” Carver bring a strange new show to Bridgeport, and Harmonica Dunn president Donnie Biggins buys the Tonic Room.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 4, 2016
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The new VICE Guide to Chicago is basic as hell
VICE's rundown of Chicago restaurants, bars, and shops is a DON'T.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 2, 2015
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Stomatopod celebrate the release of their debut LP with two shows in town this weekend
The local trio play tonight at Hideout and Sunday at Reckless.
- Best of Chicago, Goods & Services 2015 Readers' Poll Jun 24, 2015
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- Blogs, Bleader Jan 28, 2015
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A look inside Shuga Records, a new Wicker Park record store
Shuga is set to open its doors next month, and CEO Adam Rosen gave the Reader a tour of the new digs.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Oct 1, 2014
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Gossip Wolf: Metal's most prolific bassist exposed
Plus: A HoZac reissue of David "Have a Marijuana" Peel's King of Punk, and more
- Best of Chicago, Goods & Services Jun 25, 2014
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Best record store
Reckless Records
- Music, In Rotation Jun 2, 2014
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In Rotation: Gigan guitarist Eric Hersemann on an album so angry it's almost silly
Plus: Reckless Records buyer Dave Hofer on a love letter to death metal, the Reader's Luca Cimarusti on a fancy-pants jukebox app, and more
- Music, In Rotation May 19, 2014
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In Rotation: Dave Mata of Impala Sound Champions on two decades of Danny Akalepse beats
Plus: Jeremiah Meece of The-Drum on SPF666 and his Club Chemtrails party, the Reader's Tal Rosenberg on the Feelies upstaging R.E.M., and more
- Music, Music Feature Apr 16, 2014
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How do record stores get such great used vinyl?
When record stores aren't buying used vinyl directly from the public, they might find a carload of goodies at the Chicagoland Record Collectors Show.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Feb 19, 2014
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Gossip Wolf: More Pitchfork lineup predictions!
Plus: A new album in installments from Redgrave, an "outdoor" rock-scene art show, and more
- Music, Gossip Wolf Feb 12, 2014
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Gossip Wolf: A White Mystery album announcement? Spring must be coming.
Plus: Verbal Kent drops a new LP, Tony Trimm helps open a menswear shop, and more.
- 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, Gossip Wolf Nov 27, 2013
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Gossip Wolf: Alex Barnett emits another vaguely creepy drone
Plus: Black Friday music to get you off the couch, a cassette of contemporary-classical collaborations, and more.
- Music, In Rotation Nov 18, 2013
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In Rotation: Matt Clark of White/Light on Nile Rodgers's winterized boats
Plus: Reader writer Leor Galil on East of the Rock, Mark Greenberg of the Mayfair Workshop on Lucius's locked-in harmonies, and more
