You Dig? | Issue #04
Issue 04 | December 2024 | Curation by Kevin Foakes | Artwork by Hannah Brown | | | This month’s superb cover art comes from Leicester-based artist Hannah Brown of Kvist Studio. Kevin Foakes is behind the desk for this month’s Dust & Grooves Curates, hitting the levels with everything he’s been savouring this month–from a mixtape that honours the memory of J Saul Kane to his top five records on rotation.
You Dig? | Issue #03
Issue 03 | November 2024 | Curation and Artwork by Mafalda | | | This month’s lyrically-inspired watercolor cover art comes from London-based artist, DJ and sun-chaser, Mafalda Daniel. You may have spotted her in Dust & Grooves V2 with the cool Mac Miller slipmats... You can find her on Instagram @mafaldafromthesun, and behind the turntables for her monthly radio show on NTS.
You Dig? | Issue #02
Issue 02 | October 2024 | Curation by Yale Evelev | Artwork by Zoë Baxter | | | Moving onto Dust & Grooves Curates, the real meat of You Dig?, and we’ve got a treat for you in this issue. Yale Evelev, co-owner of Luaka Bop, shares a bunch of super-cool recs from his personal shelves (which he once ironically called “the largest collection of records that nobody’s interested in”).
You Dig? | Issue #01
Issue 01 | September 2024 | Curation by Richard Headland | Collage by Morgan Jesse Lappin | | | Check out this month’s Editorial Notes from our intern Fiona, and continue to the bulk of the issue: Dust & Grooves Curates, with hand-picked recommendations from one of our guest editors. This month, the recs come from me – Rich Headland, resident editor of You Dig?, and founder of Record Shop Stories – but next month we hand over the torch.
Pre-sale launch of Dust & Grooves Vol. 2 and Portables
It’s September 1, Labor Day Weekend! The moment we’ve all been waiting for is finally here! Grab your copy of Dust & Grooves Volume 2 and Portables before they catch on!
Editorial Notes | July 2024
Do not disturb sign on. Seriously on. Greetings from the Dust & Grooves HQ. We were in full marathon mode in the past three months, powering through the various editorial stages of our Dust & Grooves Volume 2 and Portables books.
Announcing Dust & Grooves Vol 2 and Portables books
Dust & Grooves and Record Store Day are thrilled to announce the much anticipated book Dust & Grooves Vol.2: Further Adventures In Record Collecting as the Official Book of Record Store Day 2024 and reveal its cover and title.
Editorial Notes | February 2024
Greetings from the Dust & Grooves HQ, be it in our humble space in Brooklyn or in a car, on the road, running around picking up the last bits of photography and interviews for Volume 2. It’s been a busy month for sure and it’s going to get busier. Lot’s of logistics, text and photo editing, all in favor of having Volume 2 book ready for print in April and launch it in October 2024.
Editorial Notes | January 2024
Greetings from the Dust & Grooves HQ. The holiday season is over, and the world is again divided! Those still slumbering, gaining winter fat while tuning in to Kenny G, and those with ants in their pants, high on producing and filled with exciting possibilities. Here, for lack of time and a hard deadline kicking […]
The Vinyl Nomad | Chapter 07-08: London
Took the early Eurostar train from Amsterdam to London. I’ve grown to love long train rides—they give me time to think, update my journal, and focus on essential computer work for the Vinyl Nomad tour.
