Ukrainian Village’s beloved Permanent Records will close in September, and its full-time employees—including Moniker Records founder Robert Manis—will move to LA to work at its west-coast shops.
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Permanent Records manager Dave McCune on celebrating the shop’s tenth anniversary
Dave McCune, manager of Chicago’s Permanent Records, reflects on the store’s history: “I got to watch the evolution of the shop from both sides of the counter.”
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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.
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In Rotation: Jim Dempsey of Corbett vs. Dempsey on Nardwuar the Human Serviette
Current musical obsessions of Julie Shapiro of Third Coast and Jim Dempsey of Corbett vs. Dempsey
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Soundtrack Week: a mix from Permanent Records
The label that shares a name with the record store, Permanent Records contributes to Soundtrack Week
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Label founders speak for themselves: the rest
Even more label founders speak for themselves
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Permanent resurrects Clone Records’ dead stock
An interview with Permanent Records co-owner Lance Barresi about the recent Clone Records warehouse find
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Still alive at five
Permanent Records may not be permanent yet, but Lance Barresi and Liz Tooley are celebrating an anniversary that nobody would’ve guessed they’d see
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In Rotation: Permanent Records’ Lance Barresi digs the scenes in Australia and Chile
Plus: Kevin Warwick on Rip Off Records’ great comp, and Moniker’s Robert Cole Manis plugs crowdsourced review mag Dusted