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Home » tapes

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Posted inBlogs

Texas label Astral Spirits weds the cassette resurgence to the ‘new wave of heavy free jazz’

by Bill Meyer September 19, 2017August 18, 2021

On Thursday at Constellation, Astral Spirits celebrates tape releases by Billington/Shippy/Wyche and Matt Lux’s Communication Arts Quartet.

Posted inMusic

Record stores for Record Store Day heretics

by Leor Galil and Kevin Warwick April 19, 2017August 18, 2021

Record Store Day is a great time to get acquainted with the neighborhood shops that don’t partake in the annual retail circus.

Posted inBlogs

Chicago tape label Pretty All Right celebrates ten years at the Empty Bottle

by Leor Galil March 18, 2016August 18, 2021

Pretty All Right label founder Tom Owens, aka electronic musician Potions, headlines Sunday’s ten-year anniversary show, which is preceded by a tape fair.

Posted inBlogs

Toronto slacker-rocker Marvelous Mark releases a new video for the catchy-as-hell ‘I Don’t Mind’

by Luca Cimarusti March 20, 2015August 18, 2021

An outstanding track from his latest release for Burger Records.

Posted inBlogs

The Impossible Colors Club brings back the ritual of waiting for tapes in the mail

by Sasha Geffen October 17, 2014August 18, 2021

Adele Nichoals’s new subscription service ships split cassingles to Chicago music fans every month.

Posted inBlogs

Exclusive releases and seven bands at the first annual Cassette Store Day

by Luca Cimarusti September 5, 2013August 19, 2021

Avondale’s Bric-a-Brac Records is the only record store in the state celebrating the first annual Cassette Store Day.

Doug Shorts outside the Humboldt Park apartment of Cherries Records founders Andrew Brearley and Sheila Hernando
Posted inMusic

The long game of soul singer Doug Shorts

by Leor Galil June 26, 2013August 19, 2021

Doug Shorts has been a doorman, a karate instructor, even an extra in an Adam Sandler movie—and now he might finally make it as a soul singer.

Posted inBlogs

In 20 years they’ll be doing this with CD-Rs

by Miles Raymer February 9, 2009August 19, 2021

Blank cassettes as art

Posted inBlogs

Spindles of steel

by Miles Raymer May 6, 2008August 19, 2021

Cuts and scratches and tapes

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