Shuga Records Shuga Records Shuga Records is a Chicago-based record store and record label specializing in new and vintage rock, punk, indie, hip-hop, EDM, Shoegaze, Psychedelic, Noise, Metal, Neo Soul, collectible, and obscure vinyl records, cassettes and CDs. The first retail location of Shuga Records opened in 2004 in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. In 2007 Shuga Records moved its retail location to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where it operated until 2012. Shuga Records currently operates its retail store and mail-based shipping business in the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago. The Chicago location opened for business in February 2015. Shuga Records maintains an extensive warehouse and
The Cassettes The Cassettes The Cassettes (also known as "The Cassettes Musical Explorers Society") are a Washington, DC based "Mystic Country"/Steampunk band formed in 1999. The Cassettes were originally formed as an outgrowth of front-man Shelby Cinca’s four-track recordings: odd pop nuggets that diverged from the teeth-gritting angst of his previous project, Frodus. The son of Romanian refugees who fled from the Iron Curtain in search of the America of Jazz Era music and films, Cinca was indelibly influenced by both his pianist father, who played in clubs off the coast of the Black Sea in the 1960s, and his mother, an