Record Stores

Shuga Records opening Wicker Park location this fall

North Lawndale-based record store Shuga Records are slated to open a Wicker Park location this fall at 1272 N. Milwaukee Ave. (near the intersection of Milwaukee & Ashland)…

Permanent Records moving to South Slope

As you may remember, Greenpoint’s Permanent Records lost their lease and have to be out of their current Franklin St. locale by the the end of September…

Permanent Records lost their lease, moving to new location

New York Real Estate takes another one: Greenpoint, Brooklyn’s 11-year-old independent shop Permanent Records. From their facebook:There’s no easy way to say it…

Rough Trade opening a 4th store; Gramercy Arms, Naomi Shelton, French Style Furs & more playing the NYC one

The Guardian reports that Rough Trade will open a new shop in Nottingham, the “independent music chain will establish its fourth store, following last autumn’s opening in New York…

Kim's Video & Music closing its 1st Ave location

Just as the glow of Record Store Day is wearing off comes sad news (via EV Grieve) from EV mainstay Kim’s Video & Music:As great as #RSD2014 was (thank you all…

Their / They're / There, Meat Wave, Minor Characters & more played Saki on Record Store Day 2014 (pics)

The seventh annual worldwide Record Store Day went down this Saturday (4/19). There was quite a bit happening in Chicago to celebrate independent stores, including the BV Chicago-presented in-store marathon at Saki Records in Logan Square…

a guide to Record Store Day 2014 in Chicago

Record Store Day 2014 takes place this Saturday, April 19 and there are a ton of special events happening at independent shops throughout Chicago…

What's going on Friday? (Disclosure, Warpaint, Dan Deacon, Bleeding Rainbow, Aretha Franklin, Drenge, MNDR & more)

Disclosure at Central Park in August (more by Robert Altman) Warpaint @ MHOW, Oct. 2013 (more by Adela LaConte) Browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows…

Reckless Records plan to move Wicker Park shop (not far)

Reckless Records’ Wicker Park shop (more by Milos Markicevic) According to DNA Info, Reckless Records CEO Charles Taylor purchased a two-story building at 1379 North Milwaukee Avenue for $1,580,000 on December 30, 2013…

Wayne Coyne visiting Permanent Records on in-store tour, selling early Flaming Lips recordings with chocolate skulls

The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne will be embarking on a Midwest “record store tour” this weekend, armed with 12″ vinyl repressings of their 1984 self-titled EP, 7″ versions of the outfit’s second cassette demo (recorded in 1983), …
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