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Music, Music Feature Apr 9, 2019
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
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Record Store Day, Record Store Day 2019, Wild Prairie Vintage & Vinyl, Vintage Vinyl, Val's Halla Records, TechNoir & Raffe's Record Riot, Squeezebox Books & Music, Sputnik Books & Records, Shuga Records, Shady Rest Vintage & Vinyl, Rolling Stones, Record Breakers, Reckless Records, Rattleback Records, Purple Llama Coffee & Records, Pinwheel Records, The Old School Records, Numero Group, No Requests, Laurie's Planet of Sound, Hyde Park Records, Groovin' High, Gramaphone Records, Electric Jungle, Dusty Groove, Dorian's, Dave's Records, Cafe Mustache, Bucket o' Blood Books and Records, Bric-a-Brac Records, Bob's Blues & Jazz Mart, Bloodshot Records, Beverly Records, Audio Archaeology, 606 Records, Wax Trax

Blogs, Bleader Oct 20, 2014
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Foo Fighters take a trek through Chicago's musical history on HBO's Sonic Highways, with mixed results

The alternative-rock titans come to Chicago in the first episode of their HBO series, named after their forthcoming record.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Arts, Television, Music, Small Screen, Foo Fighters, Sonic Highways, Dave Grohl, Something From Nothing, Cheap Trick, Steve Albini, Electrical Audio, In Utero, Nirvana, Nate Mendel, Sunny Day Real Estate, HBO, Wax Trax, Rick Nielsen, Tracey Bradford, Cubby Bear, Naked Raygun, Muddy Waters, blues, Great Migration, Kanye West, Gene Krupa, Etta James, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 15, 2014
Reader's Agenda Sun 6/15: Chicago Blues Festival, Sketchbook 14: 2049, and a Wax Trax Pop-Up Shop

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, June 15
- By Kerry Cardoza
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Chicago Blues Festival, Aaron Neville, Chicago Delta Blues Band, Dr. John, Grant Park, Collaboraction, Sketchbook 14: 2049, Wax Trax, Metro, Cocksure

Best of Chicago, Music & Nightlife Jun 20, 2012
Critics' Picks
Best Night to Feel Like an 80s Art School Student

Hot on the Heels at Danny's
- By Miles Raymer
- Tags: Music & Nightlife, Best of Chicago 2012, Wax Trax, Beau Wanzer, electronic music, dance music, Hot on the Heels, Danny's, Danny's Tavern, Critics' Picks

Blogs, Bleader Feb 17, 2011
Early Warnings Roundup

This week's Early Warnings include Amon Amarth, Beach Fossils, Florence + the Machine, Queens of the Stone Age, the English Beat, Front 242, Peter Murphy, the Twilight Singers, and John Vanderslice.
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Crickets, Music, Early Warnings, Florence + the Machine, Amon Amarth, Queens of the Stone Age, Smith Westerns, Twilight Singers, Wax Trax, Front 242, English Beat

Music, Gossip Wolf Apr 1, 2010
Touch and Go, the Book

Also: Wax Trax the book, Dismemberment Plan's first 12-inch, new music from Psalm One, Tim Kinsella eats food, and more
- By Jessica Hopper and J.R. Nelson
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Rhymesayers, Psalm One, Earmint, Fluffy, Woman at Work Vol. 1, Better Than My Last, DJ Jay Illa, Return of the Backpacks 2, Canibus, Melatonin Magik, Lux, Disappears, Clava, Graeme Gibson, the Ex, Electrical Audio, Steve Albini, G.W. Sok, Arnold de Boer, Empty Bottle, Beauty Bar, Joanna Newsom, Longman & Eagle, Pete Toalson, DeBarge, Celtic Woman, Rosemont Theatre, Dismemberment Plan, Barsuk, Emergency & I, Josh Modell, Kyle Ryan, Wax Trax, Chewing on Glass, Shaun Flynn, Wzt Hearts, Cex, Full on Void, Joan of Arc, Tim Kinsella, Bazillion Points, Ian Christe, Touch and Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Fanzine 1979-1983, Touch and Go, Tesco Vee, Dave Stimson

Music, Music Feature Mar 18, 2010
The Man Behind the Metal

If it's heavy and it was recorded in Chicago, there's a good chance Sanford Parker was at the mixing board.
- By Cosmo Lee
- Tags: Music Feature, Empty Bottle, Bottom Lounge, Subterranean, Logan Square Auditorium, Metal Shaker, Seventh Rule, Hawthorne Street, Hewhocorrupts Inc., Battle Kommand, Emperor Cabinets, Kuma's Corner, Metal Haven, Cianide, Macabre, Nachtmystium, Yakuza, Lair of the Minotaur, Indian, Sweet Cobra, Raise the Red Lantern, Oceano, Born of Osiris, Sanford Parker, Buried at Sea, Minsk, Pelican, Hydra Head, Volume Recording, Yob, Zoroaster, Unearthly Trance, Wax Trax, industrial music, Neurosis, High Confessions, Steve Shelley, Chris Connelly, Ministry, Dave Witte, Twilight, Decomposing Baby, 7000 Dying Rats, Will Lindsay, Wolves in the Throne Room, Sweet Cobra, Buzzov-en, Cianide, Cardiac Arrest, Charles Bronson, Los Crudos, Kungfu Rick, Isis, Mastodon, High on Fire, Nunslaughter, Bruce Lamont, Tortoise, Shellac, Flying Luttenbachers, Steve Albini, Electrical Audio, Billy Anderson

Blogs, Bleader Jan 13, 2010
RIP: Dannie Flesher, Donald Goerke

Obits for a Wax Trax co-founder and SpaghettiOs creator.
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Music, Food & Drink, Dannie Flesher, Donald Goerke, Jay Reatard, Wax Trax, Ralph Miller, SpaghettiOs, Kurt Eberling, Chunky Soup, Campbell's

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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

Video
Foo Fighters take a trek through Chicago's musical history on HBO's Sonic Highways, with mixed results

The alternative-rock titans come to Chicago in the first episode of their HBO series, named after their forthcoming record.

Reader's Agenda Sun 6/15: Chicago Blues Festival, Sketchbook 14: 2049, and a Wax Trax Pop-Up Shop

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, June 15

Critics' Picks
Best Night to Feel Like an 80s Art School Student

Hot on the Heels at Danny's

Early Warnings Roundup

This week's Early Warnings include Amon Amarth, Beach Fossils, Florence + the Machine, Queens of the Stone Age, the English Beat, Front 242, Peter Murphy, the Twilight Singers, and John Vanderslice.

Touch and Go, the Book

Also: Wax Trax the book, Dismemberment Plan's first 12-inch, new music from Psalm One, Tim Kinsella eats food, and more

The Man Behind the Metal

If it's heavy and it was recorded in Chicago, there's a good chance Sanford Parker was at the mixing board.

RIP: Dannie Flesher, Donald Goerke

Obits for a Wax Trax co-founder and SpaghettiOs creator.

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Details about discounts, giveaways, in-store performances, and more at three dozen shops—with an interactive map and alphabetized listings

The alternative-rock titans come to Chicago in the first episode of their HBO series, named after their forthcoming record.

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, June 15

Hot on the Heels at Danny's

This week's Early Warnings include Amon Amarth, Beach Fossils, Florence + the Machine, Queens of the Stone Age, the English Beat, Front 242, Peter Murphy, the Twilight Singers, and John Vanderslice.

Also: Wax Trax the book, Dismemberment Plan's first 12-inch, new music from Psalm One, Tim Kinsella eats food, and more

If it's heavy and it was recorded in Chicago, there's a good chance Sanford Parker was at the mixing board.

Obits for a Wax Trax co-founder and SpaghettiOs creator.

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