Today we are bringing you a stream of a brand new Springfield project we don’t know too much about called “Thought’s Castle.” The project released four songs under the title Everyone’s Graveyard on their bandcamp last month. You can stream those songs below or head over to Thought’s Castle’s bandcamp to download the tracks at your own price. Thought’s Castle features at least one member of War Magic. We aren’t sure if there will be any live performances. A 27 minute long track by Thought’s Castle was also released at the very end of last year.

Good evening, it’s midnight on Tuesday night so we figured we’d share with you this new release by local solo ambient artist Timothy Donavan Russell that will take us all into outer space. This is Timothy’s nineteenth release listed on his bandcamp (there are probably countless others through his musical career). This one is thirteen tracks under the title The Sound of Cosmology. According to the description on Timothy’s bandcamp this is “samples of spoken words of scientists set to music. Featuring: Brian Cox, Fay Dowker, Brain Greene, Stephen Hawking, Lawrence Krauss, Hiranya Peiris, Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson.” You can stream The Sound of Cosmology on the player embedded below.

This release goes along with an upcoming art show at The Pharmacy Gallery at 711 South 5th Street here in town. The art show is called “Cosmos” and features the works of Timothy and other artists and goes the weekend of March 9th and 10th. More info on that can be found right here.

Catching up more on original Springfield music that has been released in the past few months that we have not yet gotten the chance to tell you about – Springfield rock group Sam West & The Nightshift have released their debut EP at the end of last year called The Medicine That Swallowed The Patient. The release is five songs, all of which are streaming on the player embedded below.

Sam West & The Nightshift played a few shows going along with the release of the EP at Bar None earlier this winter. The band does not have any other local shows lined up currently.

Around the end of the year last year we got pretty behind on all of the new releases coming on in Springfield music. (Sorry!) We want to make sure we try to catch back up now, first making sure you all know that Springfield hip hop artist Animals With Human Names dropped a brand new album at the very end of last year called The Basement Tape. You can stream all ten tracks of The Basement Tape on the player below. You can also pick up a copy on cassette over at Dumb Records. Head over to the Animals With Human Names bandcamp page to download the album at your own price.

Animals With Human Names does not have any *official* shows lined up as of just yet, but you can be sure to be on the lookout for something this March at Black Sheep.

Here’s another release from a local pop punk band – Starter Jackets – which came out last month. It’s a debut 7″ from the band called Preferred Stock, and is out on It’s Alive Records. Starter Jackets features members of Hospital Job, Attic Salt, and numerous other Springfield groups. You can stream that four song release on the player embedded below. Also head over to the It’s Alive bandcamp to pay to download the release.

Starter Jackets do not have any shows lined up in Springfield as of right now as far as we can tell.

It’s been about a month and we are behind on telling you about new Springfield music – but did you know that Springfield’s own Attic Salt have released their debut self-titled album? You can stream all ten tracks of it on the player below. The album is released by Dodgeball Records based out of Chicago. You can also pay to download the album on the band’s bandcamp page.

Attic Salt will be playing the holiday show at Bar None on Saturday, December 23rd along with Boon and NIL8.

Tonight we bring you a stream of the brand new Kate Laine CD called Recurring Dream. How nice! This is seven tracks recently recorded at Southtown Sound right behind Black Sheep and Dumb Records. It is available on CD now at Dumb Records as well, in the shop’s local section. Stream the release on the player below. You can also purchase the mp3 versions of the songs on Kate’s bandcamp page.

Kate will next be performing at Black Sheep in ten days for the show on November 22nd, which we announced on our site earlier today.

It’s great to once again have some Halloween music and sounds coming from local musicians once again for this season! Some of you may remember The Suction Cups releasing their Lost Tapes around this time last year. This year we are gifted with yet another release from solo ambient musician, Timothy Donovan Russell in time for the holidays. This is Slower Than Your Heartbeat – 12 tracks of horror music and special sound effects. Go ahead and blast that music for all of your neighbors to hear! Stream the release below. From the bandcamp page:

Horror music composed and recorded in dim red light. It’s alive but has no shadow. Beyond there are empty cages and pools of clear water in a cave where bats are waking, flying through walls, and crushing the ghosts flat against the spider world. At the dead end you wait for the demon.

This is one of nine releases that Timothy has put out this year alone. We are trying to keep track of Timothy’s releases and everything else to come out this year in our fine city on our local music archive page. We will be hosting another year-end poll this year as well!