Author: Kevin Kinskey

Win a 3 Day Pass to Levitation Chicago!!!

1) Buy records. 2) Get Tickets. 3)???? 4) Profit

Get ready to freak out this March. Levitation Chicago recently announced the line-up for the 2016 psych festival at Thalia Hall and it is packed to the gills with killer acts. We here at Shuga can’t even decide what day to pick. Luckily, you might not have to pick one day over any other. Starting today, you can enter a chance to win a free 3-day pass to the festival by purchasing a record of any of the bands performing! AND THERE’S NO LIMIT TO YOUR NUMBER OF ENTRIES!!! Get.Stoked.

Here is a list of the releases that we have at the moment. Swing by soon, snag some noisy psych, turn it up, and cross your fingers.

  • Lightning Bolt – Fantasy Empire
  • Chelsea Wolfe – Abyss
  • Chelsea Wolfe – Apokalypsis
  • Chelsea Wolfe – The Grime and the Glow
  • Oneohtrix Point Never – Garden of Delete
  • Oneohtrix Point Never – R Plus Seven
  • Oneohtrix Point Never / Rene Hell – Split LP
  • Ryley Walker – All Kinds of You
  • Ryley Walker – Primrose Green
  • Blanck Mass – Dumb Flesh
  • Circuit des Yeux – In Plain Speech
  • Natural Information Society & Bitchin’ Bajas – Automaginary
  • Bitchin Bajas – s/t

UPDATE: This offer is no longer available. See you at the fest!

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New Vinyl: 01/12/16

Hinds, Death Cab, Sunn O))), DNTEL and loads of new 45s available this week at Shuga Records Chicago
Hinds – Leave Me Alone, Death Cab For Cutie – Transatlanticism, Sunn O))) – KANNON, DNTEL – Life Is Full Of Possibilities
  • Alabama Shakes – Be Mine / You Ain’t Alone (Live at Third Man 7”)
  • Aphex Twin – Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments Pt. 2
  • Aphex Twin – MARCHROMT30a
  • The Band – s/t
  • Beat Spacek – I Wanna Know 12” feat. Remix by Animal Collective
  • Bjork – Declare Independence (Deluxe Box Set w/ CD, DVD + 2×12”)
  • Bjork – Homogenic
  • Bjork – Earth Intruders (Deluxe Box Set w/ CD, DVD + 2×12”)
  • Bjork – Vulnicura Strings
  • Bjork – Wanderlust (Deluxe Box Set w/ CD, DVD + 2×12”)
  • James Blake – CMKYK EP
  • James Blake – Klavierwerke EP
  • James Blake – Love What Happened Here
  • Body Count – Manslaughter (red splatter vinyl)
  • Brother Ali – Mourning In America
  • James Brown – Please Please Please
  • Campsite – 2 Fotographic
  • Johnny Cash – Johnny 99
  • Johnny Cash – Ride This Train
  • Cristobal and the Sea – Sugar Now
  • Death Cab For Cutie – Transatlanticism
  • Death Cab For Cutie – Something
  • Descendents – Everything Sucks
  • Dillinger Escape Plan – Calculating Infinity
  • DNTEL – After Parties I
  • DNTEL – After Parties II
  • DNTEL – Anywhere Anyone
  • Drive By Truckers – Live at Third Man 01-30-2011
  • Empire of the Sun – Walking on a Dream
  • Foals – Antidotes
  • Foals – Holy Fire
  • Foals – Total Life Forever
  • Marvin Gaye – Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide / Never Let You Go (Third Man Tamla 7” reissue series)
  • Glyders – Every Boy & Girl / Better Days­ (Chicago Psych/Rock 7”)
  • Hawkwind – PXR5 (grey vinyl)
  • Hawkwind – The Chronicle of the Black Sword (blue vinyl)
  • Jimi Hendrix – Axis: Bold as Love
  • Jimi Hendrix – Blues
  • Jimi Hendrix – In The West
  • Jimi Hendrix – People, Hell and Angels
  • Jimi Hendrix – Rainbow Bridge Soundtrack
  • Jimi Hendrix – The Cry of Love
  • Hinds – Leave Me Alone
  • Icona Pop – THIS IS… ICONA POP
  • Iron Maiden – Live After Death
  • Jeff The Brotherhood – Live at Third Man 10-01-2010
  • Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – I Learned The Hard Way
  • Joy Division – Peel Sessions
  • Kings of Leon – Aha Shake
  • Talib Kweli – Quality
  • Talib Kweli – Reflection Eternal
  • Lady Gaga – Paparazzi: The Remixes
  • Lady Gaga – Poker Face: The Remixes
  • Lenzi – 1-3 Superpack!
  • Chico Leverett – I’ll Never Love Again / Solid Sender (Third Man Tamla 7” reissue series)
  • Machine Gun Kelly – General Admission
  • John Mayer – Heavier Things
  • John Mayer – Paradise Valley
  • Megadeth – Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying
  • Metric – Synthetica
  • The Miracles – Depend On Me / Way Over There (Third Man Tamla 7” reissue series)
  • Misfits – Collection
  • Misfits – Collection II
  • Misfits – Die Die My Darling
  • Misfits – Earth A.D.
  • Misfits – Evilive
  • Misfits – Legacy of Brutality
  • Misfits – Static Age
  • Misfits – Walk Among Us
  • Nick and the Jaguars – Ich-I-Bon #1 / Cool and Crazy (Third Man Tamla 7” reissue series)
  • One Direction – Made in the A.M.
  • Orchestra of Spheres – Vibration Animal Sex Brain Music
  • Elvis Presley – My Happiness / That’s When Your Heartaches Begin (7”)
  • Prince – 1999
  • Prince – Dirty Mind
  • Raconteurs – Live at Third Man 04-17-2010
  • Rush – Grace Under Pressure
  • RX Bandits – Mandala
  • The Satintones – Motor City / Going to the Hop (Third Man Tamla 7” reissue series)
  • She & Him – Volume 3
  • She & Him – Volume One
  • Slayer – Haunting the Chapel
  • Elliott Smith – Needle in the Hay (7”)
  • Soundtrack / Star Wars: The Ultimate Collection
  • Barrett Strong – Let’s Rock / Do The Very Best You Can (Third Man Tamla 7” reissue series)
  • Barrett Strong – Money (Tha’s What I Want) / Oh I Apologize (Third Man Tamla 7” reissue series)
  • Sun Ra – Planets of Life or Death
  • Sunn O))) – KANNON (Black vinyl edition)
  • Supremes – Buttered Popcorn / Who’s Loving You (Third Man Tamla 7” reissue series)
  • The Swinging Tigers – Snake Walk (Third Man Tamla 7” reissue series)
  • This Town Needs Guns – Animals
  • Thundercat – The Golden Age of Apocalypse
  • Tigrics – Thin Drum
  • TV On The Radio – Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
  • TV On The Radio – Mercy / Million Miles
  • TV On The Radio – Nine Types of Light
  • TV On The Radio – Seeds
  • Uncle Acid – Mind Crawler / Get On Home (7”)
  • Uncle Acid – Runaway Girls / Devil’s Work
  • Villagers – Becoming A Jackal
  • Villagers – Darling Arithmetic
  • The Vitamin String Quartet – Performs Sigur Ros (RSD 2013)
  • Yak – No (7”)
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Machine
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones
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New Vinyl: 1/4/16

Tons of jazz reissues, metal, and local punk in Shuga Records Chicago this week
The Nico Missile – s/t, Baroness – Yellow & Green, Flaming Lips – Heady Nuggs, Deafheaven – New Bermuda
  • Baroness – Blue (2-LP gold vinyl)
  • Baroness – Live at Maida Vale BBC 2012 (clear gold vinyl)
  • Baroness – Red (2-LP hot pink vinyl)
  • Baroness – Yellow & Green (2-LP clear yellow and green vinyl)
  • Birds in Row – Personal War
  • Bjork – Innocence
  • Bolt Thrower – …For Victory
  • Bolt Thrower – Honor Valour Pride
  • Bolt Thrower – In Battle there is No Law (colored vinyl)
  • Brother O’ Brother – Show Pony (limited to 100 blue splatter vinyl, 35 “random color screen print” cover and hand numbered / Chicago garage-blues rock)
  • Brendan Canning – Something for all of us…
  • James Brown – Live at the Apollo 1963
  • Carach Angren – This is No Fairy Tale
  • Carach Angren – Where the Corpses Sink Forever (limited to 500 clear red vinyl)
  • Cult Leader – Lightless Walk
  • Miles Davis – The Birth of the Cool
  • Miles Davis with Gil Evans – Porgy and Bess
  • Deafheaven – New Bermuda (2-LP clear blue vinyl)
  • Kenny Dorham – Quiet Kenny
  • Drudkh – Blood in Our Wells
  • Drudkh – Estrangement
  • Drudkh – The Swan Road
  • The Bill Evans Trio – Moon Beams
  • Father John Misty – I Love You Honeybear (white and pink cassette)
  • Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – Ella and Louis
  • Flaming Lips – Heady Nuggs: 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic 1994-1997 (5-LP box set individually numbered)
  • Grateful Dead – Live at the Fillmore East 2-11-69
  • Al Green – Gets Next to You
  • Al Green – Greatest Hits
  • Hawkwind – This is Hawkwind Do Not Panic (2-LP colored vinyl)
  • Billie Holiday – Rare West Coast Recordings
  • Hot Chip – In Our Heads
  • Hot Chip – One Life Stand
  • Ironweed – Your World of Tomorrow (limited to green and white swirl vinyl)
  • Jefferson Airplane – Surrealistic Pillow
  • Jefferson Airplane – Takes Off
  • Lightnin’ Hopkins – Lightnin’ in New York (1961)
  • Lightnin’ Hopkins – Trip on the Blues
  • Low – Drums and Guns
  • Massive Attack – Remixes Vol. 1
  • Massive Attack – Remixes Vol. 2
  • Jessica Lea Mayfield – Tell Me
  • Charles Mingus – Blues & Roots
  • Charles Mingus – Mingus at the Bohemia
  • Charles Mingus – Mingus Dynasty
  • Charles Mingus – Pithecanthropus
  • Charles Mingus – The Jazz Experiments of Charlie Mingus
  • Charles Mingus – Tijuana Moods
  • The Nico Missile – s/t (7” limited to 200 / Cleveland Punk!)
  • The Nico Missile – The Big Red Button
  • Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts I-IV (4-LP)
  • Nine Inch Nails – The Slip
  • Peter Bjorn and John – Seaside Rock
  • R.E.M. – 1991 MTV Unplugged
  • R.E.M. – 2001 MTV Unplugged
  • R.E.M. – Accelerate
  • R.E.M. – Green
  • Royal Headache – High
  • Rush – Vapor Trails (Remixed)
  • Nina Simone – Nina at Newport
  • Sonny Boy Williamson – Down and Out Blues
  • Soundgarden – Screaming Life w/ Fopp EP
  • Soundtrack – The Hateful Eight
  • Soundtrack / John Carpenter – The Fog (2-LP green and white vinyl)
  • Teen Suicide – DC Snuff Film / Waste Yrself (red cassette)
  • The Villagers – Where Have You Been All My Life?
  • Various – Purity Control (X-Files themed 7” comp / Chicago lo-fi)
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New Vinyl: 12/22/15

Band of Horses, J. Cole, Joanna Newsom, and Grimes among others available at Shuga Records
Band of Horses – Everything All the Time, J. Cole – 2014 Forest Hills Drive, Joanna Newsom – The Milk-Eyed Mender, Grimes – Art Angels

This week we got loads of indie standards in just in time for all your last minute holiday gifts. Swing by soon and knock off one more thing on your to-do list.

  • Adele – 25
  • Alt-J – This is All Yours
  • Arcade Fire – Funeral
  • Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
  • The Arcs – Yours Dreamily
  • Band of Horses – Everything All the Time
  • Ben Folds Five – Whatever and Ever Amen
  • Bright Eyes – A Christmas Album
  • Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning
  • Mariah Carey – All I Want for Christmas is You (limited edition picture disc)
  • Caribou – Our Love
  • Gary Clark Jr. – Live
  • Danger Doom – The Mouse and the Mask
  • Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence
  • Eyedea & Abilities – E&A
  • FKA Twigs – M3LL155X
  • Föllakzoid – III (clear vinyl)
  • Foxygen – No Destruction / Where’s The Money? (7”)
  • Gorillaz – s/t
  • Grimes – Art Angels
  • Inventions – Blanket Waves
  • Inventions – Maze of Woods
  • Inventions – s/t
  • Iron & Wine – Our Endless Numbered Days
  • J. Cole – 2014 Forest Hills Drive
  • Jennylee – Right On!
  • LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver
  • Led Zeppelin – I
  • Led Zeppelin – II
  • Low – Drums and Guns
  • Minus the Bear – Menos El Oso (clear, green, or “Baby Poop” vinyl)
  • Morcheeba – Big Calm
  • The Mountain Goats – Transcendental Youth
  • Muse – Absolution
  • Muse – Black Holes and Revelations
  • Muse – Origin of Symmetry
  • Muse – Showbiz
  • Negative Scanner – s/t
  • Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
  • Neutral Milk Hotel – On Avery Island
  • Joanna Newsom – The Milk-Eyed Mender
  • The Orwells – Disgraceland
  • The Orwells – Righteous One
  • R.E.M. – Chronic Town
  • Radiohead – Kid A
  • Radiohead – OK Computer
  • Radiohead – The Bends
  • Rush – Caress of Steel
  • Rush – Moving Pictures
  • Rush – Permanent Waves
  • Rush – Signals
  • Sisyphus – s/t
  • Sleater-Kinney – No Cities to Love **
  • Soundgarden – King Animal
  • Soundtrack – The Goonies
  • Soundtrack / Vince Guraldi Trio – Peanuts Greatest Hits
  • Taylor Swift – Speak Now
  • Toro Y Moi – Causers of This
  • Toro Y Moi – Underneath the Pine
  • Twenty One Pilots – Blurryface
  • Tycho – Awake
  • Tycho – Drive
  • Tycho – Past is Prologue
  • Washed Out – Life of Leisure
  • Wilco – A Ghost is Born
  • Wilco – Yankee Foxtrot Hotel
  • Brian Wilson – Briamn Wilson (Extended Version)
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New Music Friday/Tuesday & New Vinyl: 12/18/15

New Vinyl available at Shuga Records Chicago
Yoko & The Oh No’s – s/t, Sheer Agony – Masterpiece, Imagine Dragons – Smoke + Mirrors, Tom Waits – Alice

New Music Friday: 12/18/15

  • Baroness – Purple (marble purple vinyl)
  • The Black Crowes – Amorica
  • Cage The Elephant – Tell Me I’m Pretty
  • Ellie Goulding – Delirium (2-LP white vinyl w/ poster)
  • Manic Street Preachers – The Holy Bible
  • New Order – Tutti Frutti (yellow vinyl)
  • Pantera – 1990-2000: The Complete Studio Albums (5-LP colored vinyl + bonus 7”)
  • Phish – The Siket Disc
  • Saintseneca – Such Things
  • Sheer Agony – Masterpiece
  • Son Little – s/t
  • Bryson Tiller – Trapsoul
  • Vince Staples – Summertime ’06 (Limited Ed. 2-LP w/ hologram cover & colored vinyl)
  • Yoko & The Oh No’s – s/t

Vinyl Tuesday: 12/22/15

  • Clutch – Psychic Warfare
  • Joan Jett – The First Sessions (limited black/white vinyl, numbered)

New Vinyl: available now

  • Atmosphere – Sad Clown Bad Winter (Sad Clown Bad Dub #9)
  • Gorillaz – s/t
  • The Doors – A. Woman
  • The Doors – Morrison Hotel
  • The Doors – Strange Days
  • The Doors – The Soft Parade
  • The Doors – Waiting for the Sun
  • Vince Guraldi Trio – Charlie Brown’s Holiday Hits
  • Imagine Dragons – Smoke + Mirrors (Deluxe 2-LP clear vinyl + 8 bonus trucks)
  • Ray LaMontagne & The Pariah Dogs – Live Fall 2010
  • Orbital – Orbital (Brown Album)
  • Orbital – Orbital (Green Album)
  • Ramones – Leave Home
  • Ramones – Mania
  • Ramones – Road to Ruin
  • Ramones – s/t
  • Tom Waits – Alice
  • Tom Waits – Blood Money
  • Tom Waits – Real Gone
  • Wavves – V (standard black vinyl edition)
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