The first international Cassette Store Day is Sat 9/7, and though this Wolf thinks the idea is kinda silly (ever been to a “cassette store”?), the warm, fuzzy sound of tapes is still worth celebrating. If you feel the same way, you should check out a couple cool local CSD events. A party at Logan Square’s Bric-a-Brac Records from noon till 8 PM includes vendors Mac Blackout (selling custom-painted boom boxes), Already Dead Tapes, Notes & Bolts, Teen River, Nihilist Records, and Plustapes (selling a brand-new release called Weeping Willow from Little Howlin’ Wolf‘s Shadow Drifter project); bands with recent cassette releases play throughout the day, among them Todays Hits, the Sueves, the Funs, and the Cairo Gang. That night the Owl debuts a cassette vending machine for its in-house label, Parliament Tapes—for $5 a pop the machine will sell recordings of live sets at the Owl, a compilation Ian Svenonius made for his Supernatural Strategies book, a mix by Impala Sound Champions, and more.
