Now that we're just a month a way from the much celebrated/maligned vinyl holiday, I think its pertinent to take another, more in-depth look into the list and dig our some unique releases that previously alluded me!

It's early February so that means it's time to stop living in the moment and look ahead to that third Saturday in April that half the vinyl record community holds deep in their heart or outward disdains: Record Store Day.

“You know, they’re dad rock now,” my brother joked to me as we walked down Clark Street on Saturday, November 15 th . The air was brisk but I still had a little bit of sweat dripping down my face after spending the last few hours crammed shoulder to shoulder inside the Metro for Minus the Bear’s first of two sold out shows that weekend. I felt old – my nephew was turning 13 later in the week – and a little cold, but light, the way you feel after spending a long night reminis

All that aside, you probably have a little bit of party monster in you still, and here from the banks of Lake Michigan in beautiful and not actually a warzone Chicago comes a Halloween playlist put together with care by several of our staff members.