Kirby, Jon

Jon Kirby is a record collector and music writer based in Chicago, Illinois. A graduate of the University of North Carolina's Journalism School, he served as an editor for Brooklyn-based music magazine Wax Poetics, and has contributed in-depth articles for the Oxford American and the Fader. He is currently an A&R at Chicago's famed archival label the Numero Group, where he researches and compiles albums illuminating lesser-known talents from music history's deepest recesses. His last two years have been spent conceiving Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound, which details the rise of