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Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that this Saturday, April 20, is the sixth annual Record Store Day . Like the past six years, record stores around the country are offering exclusive releases, great deals, free goodies and even in-store performances for Saturday's celebration of independently owned record stores. The event is even better if you live in Chicago because there are many great record stores strewn across the city, but it's hard to keep count of which one is doing what. Therefore, once again , we've done the dirty work for you in this [...]

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This Saturday, Saki Records will be hosting their third annual holiday party with a little help from Chicago’s Summer Girlfriends and LA’s Kitchen Hips . Coined “A Very Girl Group Christmas,” the free, all ages party will take place after hours at Logan Square’s Saki Records (3716 W Fullerton). Inspired by the iconic A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector and hosted by “Phil” himself, drinks will be provided by Goose Island. Kicking off at 7:00 PM, Summer Girlfriends and Kitchen Hips will be playing special arrangements of [...]

Saki Records is bringing us another amazing in-store performance this week with Chicago’s own Gothic Americana duo, The Handsome Family . Playing a selection of their favorite tragic ballads from the last four centuries, the husband and wife collaboration has been writing country and bluegrass music with gothic fiction themes for the last twenty years. After the Saki in-store on Thursday, The Handsome Family will be playing their catalog classics as well as previewing tracks off of their upcoming LP at the Mayne Stage on Friday, 9/14. Over [...]

• The Handsome Family - The Handsome Family "Linger, Let Me Linger"

Well, it looks like Chicago survived another year of Lollapalooza. A little worse for the wear after massive storms, park evacuations, and rain delays on Saturday, but you better believe that we’re still standing strong. (I’m sure that Jack White’s unbelievable headline set on Sunday didn’t hurt any either). If you’re in the city today, and somehow still looking for live music, there’s some pretty killer things happening to help you get your fix. Specifically, an in-store performance from Oregon based electro-pop artist Melanie Valera AKA Tender Forever at Saki Records . Touring [...]

Monday Afternoon Quick Fix runs every Monday afternoon to showcase the best of Chicago music news, views and stories from around the interwebs and blogosphere that we might have missed. • The Chicago Reader's Peter Margasak muses on whether pop-up record stores, such as those by Numero Group and Hot Jams, held on Record Store Day have an adverse effect on permanent brick and mortar shops. Additionally, Saki Records' Patrick Monaghan explains why Numero's pop-up, held at the Empty Bottle this year, is unfair competition on a day that is [...]

Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that this Saturday, April 21, is the fourth annual Record Store Day . Like the past three years, record stores around the country are offering exclusive releases, great deals, free goodies and even in-store performances for Saturday's celebration of independently owned record stores. The event is even better if you live in Chicago because there are many great record stores strewn across the city, but it's hard to keep count of which one is doing what. Therefore, once again , we've done the dirty work for you in this [...]

Gonna try to get back in the swing of posting concert photos on this blog again. Starting... now.

Cross Record “Take Five” focuses on Chicago’s ever-growing music scene by giving you insight to the city’s best local acts via the best source possible: the artists themselves. Here is the latest installment featuring Cross Record . Is there a talent worth envying more than one that is natural? Given that people will stop at nothing short of God as an explanation for it, I argue not. It's this sort of inexplicable prodigy that is part of what makes Cross Record, the moniker by which [...]

Photo by Kirstie Shanley Hey Chicago! Just because summer is winding down doesn't mean there's a shortage of awesome shows to attend! This weekend we highlight The 1900s at Lincoln Hall , the Velcro Lewis Group at Saki , Down-Fi at the Double Door and more! Let's get to it, shall we? FRIDAY [...]