Is it too late to squeeze in any more local releases for 2019? There are still five days left in this year? Okay. Here is a brand new electronic release coming at you from what appears to be a brand new local project called “Vector.” The group features the duo of Vincent (Sebastian) and Kolton. This is their first five-track release called Subfusion. You can find it streaming below. Also find it on bandcamp where you can download the release at your own price right here. Nothing for live shows for Vector as far as we can tell.

And bad-a-bing, we are adding this one to the Springfield album archive for this year (2019), putting us at 60 releases that we’ve kept track of this year.

Today we are bringing you yet another local hip hop release that recently got dropped. That is from Renegade – a solo project from one half of the “Co-Pilots” hip hop duo that has been active in town for a number of years now. Renegade’s new album is called Affluential (artwork pictured above). We do not have the albums streaming below (it is not on any platform that allows us to embed), however you can find it out there on Apple Music right here, on Spotify right here, and on Tidal right here.

Yes, this one of course is also being included for this year in our Springfield album archive, and also our big end of the year poll, which we might even be launching tomorrow!!

We are already about a whole month late in reporting in this great great local music release by Emily Hough, 17 year old up and coming artist who was featured on popular TV show The Voice. Emily has released a new 3-track EP called Jewel Tones as a follow up to her Glass EP from earlier this year. You can stream the first track off of that on the player below. You can stream all three tracks on youtube right here, or on CD baby right here.

We have added this one to our Springfield Album Archive list, bringing us to 49 releases we have had featured this year. Keep your eyes and ears posted for upcoming Emily Hough shows at our space before the end of this year.

Today we bring you a rippin’ hot demo tape from Springfield’s newest (or one of the newest) hardcore outfits, Black Box. The demo is called What Happens Inside? and you can find all seven tracks streaming below. Also head over to the newly created Black Box bandcamp page to download the demo at your own price.

Black Box will be playing a big tape release show on Sunday, December 15th at our space. Find a facebook event here. We haven’t officially made an announcement for that show, but likely will tomorrow!

It’s been a minute since we’ve been back on track with some new Springfield music that’s been coming out. Today we are bringing you a brand new full album from Springfield recording project “Tin Ghosts.” “Tin Ghost, originally formed by Mark Schwartz in 2008, has been resurrected after a 10 year hiatus. Tin Ghost blends haunting melodies, acoustic elements, and modern songcraft into music that sounds both old and new.” Tin Ghost just came out with an album (the third to be released on bandcamp in the past few years), called Into The Arms of the Great Unknown, and you can find it streaming in its entirety on the player embedded below. Also head over to the Tin Ghosts bandcamp page where you can purchase the download of the album as well as check out previous releases by the project.

You bet we are adding this one to our Springfield album archive page. This brings us to 47 releases featured so far this year, and 473 total.

Here we are coming to you today once again with yet some more brand new local music!! This time it’s a full album from hip hop act “Satisfy“, going to be performing at Dumb Records for the first time this upcoming Saturday, November 9th. Satisfy’s new album is called Take A Deep Dive Into What I Go Through, and we have some of it streaming on the youtube player embedded below. Find links to what other platforms the album is streaming on through Satisfy’s website right here.

You bet that we’ve got this album now listed on our Springfield album archive page! We are coming up on the end of another year, so we will be getting ready for a year end poll not before long. The show at Dumb Records on Saturday night starts at 7:00 pm and also features Mac Xavier, Spiff The Kid, and more acts. Satisfy and those acts are also playing this Friday night (November 8th) at The Incubator downtown.

This Sunday morning we are bringing you some new Springfield hip hop! Here is a brand new release by artist “Renegade” aka “Ren” who is one half of the local hip hop duo “The Co-Pilots“. Ren just released an EP of solo material entitled Flowers EP, which you can find streaming on the player below. The EP was released last month and features six brand new tracks. The EP was also reviewed in the October issue of Activator Magazine.

We are not sure of any live shows Ren or The Co-Pilots have lined up at this point. Yes, we are adding this one to our Springfield album archive page which brings us to 45 releases catalogued and featured on our site so far for this year.

Psychadelic Rock group The Dixie Narcos based out of Jacksonville Illinois are back with yet ANOTHER album! Amazing!! This is their second album to be released this year, and it is called Tinder Folk, and you can find it streaming on the player below. It’s a whole thirteen tracks. Check out their Spotify page where you can also hear it all. Or find the album right here on bandcamp. According to Spotify this is the band’s seventh full length album (we could be wrong on that), and even according to their facebook it looks like they are working on yet another album.

The Dixie Narcos also released the album Soda Pop earlier this year. They played one show inside of our show space earlier this summer and as far as we know it’s the only show the band played this year?? A band that has released more full length albums than shows they’ve performed live?? We are adding this one to our Springfield album archive page, bringing us to 43 releases featured on our site so far this year.

Today we bring you a stream of a brand new album by Springfield recording project “Forest Saints.” The album is called The Book Of Descents & Ascensions and you can find it streaming on the player below. Yes, this one is a whopping 19 tracks and a just under 60 minutes of “1970’s inspired keyboard-driven prog.” Also head on over to the Forest Saints bandcamp page to purchase the download of the album and support the artist. Also on the Forest Saints page you can check out the many other albums the project has released over the years.

We are adding this one to our Springfield album archive page, bringing us to 42 releases featured on our site total so far this year. Mark Schwartz of Forest Saints also regularly puts out music under a few other project names including Tin Ghost and Demons On Wheels.

Good morning and happy Sunday. Happy September 1st! This morning we bring you some brand new material here, it’s a brand new album from Springfield solo artist Tony Colantino. The album is called Extradimensional and it’s a few places online although unfortunately none of the usual places that we can embed players on our site. Let’s take a look at where it’s at…

CD Baby right here.
Spotify right here.
Amazon right here.
Looks like it was on Soundcloud but now it’s gone, dang it!!!

When I started the songs that would become Extradimensional in late 2017, I was relatively fresh out of a project with a similar concept. It was an instrumental space-rock record titled Space Drone, comprised of short songs featuring only multi-tracked electric guitar. Extradimensional took this concept and expanded it by lengthening the songs, adding keys, drum machines, and effects beyond the guitar-pedals-amp set-up. With these additional elements came a heightened sense of cinematic grandeur and sonic expanses. Desolation, uncharted territories, and harsh realms meet mental anguish, longing, and transcendence over the course of nine songs in 52 minutes.

That’s a quote from Tony. Tony doesn’t have any live performances lined up. We are adding this one to our Springfield album archive page of course, bringing us to 41 releases featured this year and 467 total.