Skeleton Dust is proud to present a special evening of all things noise on Saturday, December 14th at 7pm, featuring a screening of “Between Sets”, a new short documentary about noise and the people who make it, courtesy of Modern Tapes.

Additionally, come witness live sets from:

Closing. (Modern Tapes, NYC)

Fever Spell (Cincy, Modern Tapes release show)

Black Corolla (Cincy, debut live performance)

Saturday December 14th 2024
2101 E. 5th St. Dayton OH
7pm $10

We are so excited to be a part of the neighborhood-wide celebration of small shops on November 30th from 11am-5pm.

Spend any amount at Pink Moon Goods and receive a free gift: a furoshiki (reusable gift wrap), a glaze handkerchief, a roll of label Washi tape, or a specimen jar filled with bread seed poppy seeds harvested in Dayton. Spend more than $50 at Skeleton Dust Records and receive a free turntable slipmat.

We have invited some special friends to be at the cutest corner in Dayton to make the day unique and filled with excitement.

Guest vendors include:

@thatveganjoint serving the yummiest vegan food

@waste_free_dyt will be sponsoring a complimentary wrapping station. Up to 2 packages wrapped using reusable or recycled wrapping. Waste-Free Dayton is a non-profit that works so hard to keep our city clean and sustainable. They love getting donations and have a change jar so bring all that change you aren’t using and send it along to a good cause.

@Caymankart folk paintings that are funky and expressive

@ohclayco small batch pottery handcrafted in Dayton that is magical and inspired

@jesstheheartbaker with the yummiest classic treats made with heart

Jessica Dubis local handcrafted delicate and lovely jewelry

There is also a neighborhood-wide giveaway happening this day. Get a passport at any of the participating businesses and leave at your favorite place after you get initialed by three businesses while shopping, eating, drinking, or playing in Dayton’s most unique neighborhood, the Historic Inner East.

Pink Moon Goods is offering a chance to win a basket full of ethically-made goodies and Skeleton Dust Records is offering a $20 gift card.

Thanks for all of your support throughout the year and at the holidays. It means so much to us!

Excited to be a vendor at the upcoming Record Store Pop-Up on Sunday, November 24th from 12-3pm at Wandering Griffin Brewery!

We’ll be set up alongside our buddies Resignation Records offering hundreds of excellent new & used records of all sorts. We’ll also have a turntable on hand for anyone that wants to play their purchases through the brewery’s PA! Additionally, buy a beer and a record and be entered into a raffle to win a prize from Toxic Beauty Records.

Sunday November 24th from 12-3pm
Wandering Griffin Brewery & Restaurant
3725 Presidential Drive Beavercreek OH 45324

We are excited to host Dayton artist Chip Williamson in featuring two of his series, "Jazz Album Covers" and "Undersea Explorations".

Live music by DJs Generik and Borgushmorgue & J(Redacted).

Thursday November 14th 2024 6-8 PM

2101 E. 5th St. Dayton OH 45403

We are excited to host the first ever live event in our new space for a very special evening of noise, electronic, and experimental music featuring a diverse and high quality roster of acts:

Knifedoutofexistence (UK)

Secret Boyfriend

Duo Denum (Al Margolis and Tom Law duo)

Hatmansaxplayer

Thursday October 17th 2024
2101 E. 5th St. Dayton OH
7pm $10

Join us to celebrate with these two local businesses on September 21st from 12-5pm.

Guest vendors include:

-Eat the Rich-

cupcakes and other yummy treats

-Riley Street Merchants-

Gem City jewelry and hand block printed paper and textiles

-Tadmor Greenes-

native plant nursery

-Meadowsweet Ecological Landscapes-

Native plant design and landscaping company

-Emma Jackson-

weaver and natural dye artist, naturally dyed goods and live weaving demo

-Community Kitchen-

small batch kombucha

-Free chili hot dogs (with vegan option) and potato salad-

-Live DJs spinning vinyl-

The first 50 customers who make a purchase at Pink Moon Goods will get a free indigo-dyed repurposed cloth napkin!

See you at the corner of 5th and Huffman on Saturday, September 21st from 12-5 pm!

Skeleton Dust Records and Pink Moon Goods are excited to team up for dual art openings with two excellent Dayton artists!

Come out to our shops on Thursday, September 12th from 6-8 pm to check out the works of Elisha Frontz and Charlie Greene, plus hear all-vinyl soundtracks from DJs Kyle Thiele and Erik Stickels.

All future art openings at Skeleton Dust and Pink Moon Goods will coincide this way, making it easy to pop back and forth between our spaces to check out the works of two artists at once since our stores are literally across the street from each other!

Skeleton Dust presents

LEILA BORDREUIL (NYC/France)

APOLOGIST (Philadelphia)

IOVAE (Cincinnati)

EVAN MILLER (Dayton)

Sunday July 21st 2024
133 E. 3rd St. Dayton OH
7pm $10

Flyer by Mark Zorak Warm II

Skeleton Dust is excited to present Orange Milk artist MORGAN GARRETT for a live performance in the shop on Wednesday, June 26th 2024.

Local support from Orange Milk label partners ELITE TERRORISM MODULUS, along with Dayton-based noise artist DEVELOPER.

Wednesday June 26th 2024
Skeleton Dust Records
133 E. 3rd St. Dayton OH
7pm $10

Skeleton Dust presents an evening of live experimental and noise music with:

-Seymour Glass-

Long-running Bay Area-based artist and Bananafish magazine publisher

-Lara Allen-

Ex-member of Caroliner, flautist, and professor of ethnomusicology

-Violent Pleasures-

Toledo dwellers of abandoned toxic waste sites

-Whorace Of Delco-

Dayton wildcard experimentalist

Monday June 24th 2024
133 E. 3rd St. Dayton OH
7pm $10

Skeleton Dust is excited to feature the colorful and stimulating works of local artist Sydney Joslin-Knapp for our June art opening. Live DJing courtesy of J[REDACTED] as well. Come out for a fun night of sights and sounds! Sydney’s work will be hanging in the shop through the months of June and July.

Thursday June 6th 2024
133 E. 3rd St. Dayton OH
6-8 pm

Prove you’re more than just meat and witness American noise legends BLACK LEATHER JESUS live at the shop on Saturday, May 25th 2024!

The dungeon is deep and dark, and along the way you will encounter live performances from DETERGE, SLACKING, MBD, and QVIET as well.

Saturday May 25th 2024

Skeleton Dust Records

133 E. 3rd St. Dayton OH

7pm $10

The cat is officially out of the bag since our Euro friends arrived safely on US soil!

Come check out two European noise heavyweights play live at the shop this coming Tuesday April 9th!

-VINCENT DALLAS- (bloody Belgium)
-GESELING- (Netherlands)

Plus, support from JHK (NYC) and Outdoor Horse Shrine (Cincinnati).

Tuesday April 9th 2022
Skeleton Dust Records
133 E. 3rd St. Dayton OH
7pm $10

Flyer by Joe Wang

Skeleton Dust is proud to present an art opening by Fea Fotos on Thursday, April 4th 2024 from 6-8 pm.

Fea’s vivid photography works will be accompanied by an interactive video & light installation courtesy of Lightclub and an all-vinyl DJ set by Frank Calzada & Jared Bruns!

Fea’s work will be on display at the shop through the months of April & May if you are unable to attend the opening as well.

Thursday April 4th 6-8 pm
Skeleton Dust Records
133 E. 3rd St. Dayton OH
Flyer by Fea Fotos

We are thrilled to be participating in the inaugural Midwest Record Store Crawl this coming Saturday, March 23rd!

A total of 18 record stores are participating in the crawl, all the way from Florence, KY to Troy, OH. Participants can enter to win cash prizes of $500 and $1,000 simply by visiting stores, no purchase is required to enter! The more stores you visit, the more chances you’ll have to win the prizes.

On top of all of that, we will be offering 20% OFF all CDs, tapes, and records in our shop that day!

Check out more info about the event at midwestrecordstorecrawl.com

Huge thanks to Three Feather Records for putting this awesome event together!

We are excited to bring back the Dayton Record Fair to Eudora Brewing Company on Sunday, February 11th 2024!

Come browse thousands of new & used records, CDs, tapes, and music memorabilia for sale from some of the best vendors in the midwest.

Eudora Brewing Company and local record stores Skeleton Dust Records, Omega Music, Blind Rage Records, Catacomb Records, and Resignation Records are teaming up to co-sponsor the event and we'll be giving out $20 gift cards to six lucky winners that attend the fair!

This event is totally FREE and open to all ages. Come ready to eat & drink as Eudora will be offering a full food menu from their kitchen, as well as their excellent selection of in-house brewed craft beers. Live all-vinyl DJs will be providing your shopping soundtrack for the day as well!

Parking Notice - Please do NOT park in the adjacent CVS parking lot if Eudora's lot is full during the event. Eudora guests are welcome to park at Five Rivers Church at 1450 E Dorothy Ln. unless stated otherwise. Please respect this lot and exercise caution while walking.

Featured vendors:

Skeleton Dust Records
Omega Music
Blind Rage Records
Catacomb Records
Resignation Records
Jorin Edgerly
Stanley's Records
Ron House/Moses Carryout
Three Feather Records
Pamela Spetter Schwartz/Mused
Night Animal Records/Streetlight Printing
Ron's Records
Jon Lorenz
Rod Sounik
Carl Bueter/Top Jams
Ray Engle
Erik Stickels/BPM

Sunday February 11th 2024 12-5 PM
Eudora Brewing Company
3022 Wilmington Pike Dayton OH 45429
Free admission

Flyer design by Roger Owsley

Skeleton Dust presents an art opening by local collage artist Scott Ross on Thursday, February 1st from 6-8 pm. DJ Steve Niezgoda will be providing an all-vinyl soundtrack for the evening’s festivities as well.

If you’re unable to make it to the opening, Scott’s work will be on display in the shop throughout the months of February and March.

Thursday February 1st 2024 6-8 pm

133 E. 3rd St.

Dayton OH 45402

We’re excited to present a collaboration art show for the first time in Skeleton Dust history featuring the works of Dayton artists Sami Walker-Baskin and Rachel DB! Sami and Rachel have a great deal of collected experience in various disciplines, so this special event is not to be missed. Their work will be on display in the shop through January 31st, 2024.

DJ Mountain Mint from local native plant nursery Tadmor Greenes will be providing an all-vinyl soundtrack for the evening as well.

Thursday December 14th 2023 6-8 PM

133 E. 3rd St. Dayton OH 45402

It’s time for that end-of-the-year live noise steamroller and we couldn’t be more happy to have BLACK LEATHER JESUS, DETERGE, SLACKING, and MATERIAL BODY DYSFUNCTION at the helm!

Join us on Saturday, December 9th at 7pm for an evening of some of the best live noise & industrial currently active in the Midwest.

Saturday December 9th 2023
133 E. 3rd St. Dayton OH
7pm $10

We love hosting other local businesses for pop-ups in our shop, and what better opportunity is there to have two great local businesses vend in our shop than on Small Business Saturday!

Join us on Saturday, 11/25 from 12-4 pm as Eat The Rich and Riley Street Merchants offer delicious treats and hand-made jewelry and wares for sale inside our shop! Also, Riley Street Merchants will be running a really cool giveaway featuring items from several other local businesses, so stop by for a chance to win!

It goes without saying that every Daytonian wants to see our city continue to grow and thrive, and spending your dollars locally really helps make that happen.

The shop will be open normal hours from 12-6 pm on this day as well!

Skeleton Dust is excited to present another evening of abstract percussion and distant tones featuring:

Byzantine Generals (Toledo drum duo)
Kelsey Wilson (Atlanta faded ambience)
Evan Miller (Dayton sound examiner)

Thursday 11/2/23 7pm $10
133 E. 3rd St. Dayton OH 45402

Crazy to think we’re coming up on 6 years of being open in just a little over a week! To celebrate and show appreciation to our loyal customers, we’re offering 20% off all items (yes, new and used) in our shop on Saturday, October 14th!

If someone gifts me a clean copy of this Apollonia 6 album with the poster, I’ll sweeten the deal and give you a 40% discount! 🧸

Thanks to everyone for their support and belief in what we do. We wouldn’t be here without you!

Skeleton Dust is excited to present an art opening for Dayton visual artist Virgil Clark at the shop from 6-8 pm on Thursday, October 5th. Live vinyl DJing will be provided by Baxter Hignite as well, so come on out and stimulate your eyes and ears! Clark’s vibrant abstract pieces will be on display through the months of October and November.

Thursday October 5th 2023 6-8 pm

133 E. 3rd St. Dayton OH 45402

Join levitate at press this saturday for a fun evening of tunes, wines, and grilled cheese! more details from press:

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 5-9PM
Swing on by and have some fun with us! We’ll be pouring lots of great wines, serving up grilled cheese on @goodhandsbreadco while @levitate_dyt spins records in the loft. It’s sure to be a real nice time for all!

Skeleton Dust is excited to present an evening of visceral sounds with long-running grind/noise unit Sissy Spacek. Experimental guitarist Bill Nace (Body/Head) will be performing with this incarnation of SS as well. Dayton/Winston-Salem group Heat Signature and Cincinnati-based Outdoor Horse Shrine will be providing local support to round out the bill.

Monday September 18th 2023

Skeleton Dust Records

133 E. 3rd St. Dayton OH 45402

7pm $10

Stop in the shop this Saturday August 26th from 12pm - 4pm as we celebrate the Downtown Black Business Hop!

We are happy to be featuring guest vendor Floss & Flourish, a Black-owned and Dayton-based embroidery artist who will bringing lots of cool hand-made items available for sale.

Come check out new paintings by local artist Cameron Combs! DJ Griffin Girard will be spinning records as well. If you can’t make it, please be sure to stop in and check out Cameron’s works as they hang in the shop throughout the months of August and September.

Thursday August 3rd 2023 6-8 PM

Skeleton Dust Records

133 E. 3rd St. Dayton OH