Melissa Dueñas
Melissa Dueñas made her first mixtape in elementary school, staying up late to record her favorite songs on a San Diego “Oldies” station. When she played the tape on a Walkman for her dad at a local park, a jolt of pride went through her as she watched him enjoy her mix. It was a spark that lit a long-burning fire. In the intervening years, she lived in a punk house, did a brief stint in a band, founded the long-running San Diego dance night Sleepwalking, moved to the Bay Area and got h
Me to You: King Britt
This week’s Me to You is an absolute hall of famer, Questlove. When he’s not drumming for The Roots, bandleading for The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, or in his role as professor at New York University, Questlove can spare time, even if just a little, for an interview, which is exactly what he did with Jamison Harvey back in 2014. Catch the interview in its entirety here.
Alex Paterson
Captain’s Log,Star date: 05/10/2022These are the voyages of the starship Dust & Grooves.Our mission: to seek out strange new worlds of speech and sound with Alex Paterson of the Orb. Alex Paterson formed the Orb in 1988 with Jimmy Cauty, releasing several singles on the Wau Mr Modo label before parting ways, as Cauty continued […]
Me to You: Questlove
This week’s Me to You is an absolute hall of famer, Questlove. When he’s not drumming for The Roots, bandleading for The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, or in his role as professor at New York University, Questlove can spare time, even if just a little, for an interview, which is exactly what he did with Jamison Harvey back in 2014. Catch the interview in its entirety here.
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.
Editorial Notes – September 2024
Fiona here, welcome back to another update from the Dust & Grooves editorial desk as we head into September. We’ve just had the pre-sale launch of Dust & Grooves Volume 2: Further Adventures… and Portables, and it’s been crazy!
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!
Andre Torres
For crate diggers and record collectors of the early 21st century, no magazine was more important and influential than Wax Poetics. Dedicated to covering a wide swath of groove-oriented music that touched upon everything from contemporary hip-hop, jazz and funk to old-school Latin, soul and disco, the magazine connected the dots between past and present with one deep dive after another into records both massively influential and impossibly obscure, as well as the folks who made them and the arti
Me to You: Kevin Foakes
This week, we’re heading back to 2014, when Eilon interviewed Kevin Foakes (Strictly Kev / DJ Food) for Dust & Grooves Volume 1. Their lengthy conversation included the birth of Foakes’ love for hip-hop, and how starting in graphic design led the path to a world of vinyl. I particularly enjoyed this Me to You, as the parallels between Foakes’ taste and my own were strikingly clear and exciting. This made it very tricky to write only a few highlights from his tracklist and my playlist, but
Me to You: Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy
Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy is the woman behind Classic Album Sundays, a self-proclaimed "audio diva," a mom, and a lover of cosmic-disco.