Even though the lock-down continues, hip hop in the 217 does not as we keep having new singles and music videos rolling in! This time once again local rapper Meezy Killafield has teamed up with Twenty One Seven Studios for a new song and video for “I Don’t Know Freestyle.” You can check that one out on the player embedded below.

Meezy Killafield released his album The Killafield Kronicles earlier last year. Check out a long list of other local music videos shot over the years on our vids/pics page.

More new local music from our beloved solo acts coming at ya in these tough times! Today we bring you a brand new demo track from Kate Laine. The track is called “Sway” and you can find it streaming on the player below. Also head on over to Kate’s bandcamp page where you can pay-what-you-want for the download and check out more of her music. Kate released her last full album Recurring Dream in 2017 and two songs under her full band, Kate The Band last year.

Here we are again catching up on some more local music that has came out in the past month or so that we may have missed, while we are on lock-down. Today we bring you a hot new track from local hip hop artist “Dizzy VIBEZ” called “Nina.” This track features AJ Bee and you can find it streaming below.

Check out more of Dizzy Vibez’ music out on Soundcloud right here.

Enough about talking about how everything is cancelled, on with the new local music! Springfield / Taylorville surf rock group Sonic Maximizer have released a brand new track off of their upcoming album The Heavy Surf Sounds of Sonic Maximizer. The track is called Barco De Montana and you can find it streaming on the Youtube player below.

Sonic Maximizer’s album release show was scheduled to happen on Saturday, April 4th at Buzz Bomb Brewing Company here in downtown Springfield. With the future being so uncertain, Sonic Maximizer has stated – “our album release party is still tentative, but regardless our album will come out on 4/4/2020 and is available to all online”.

Springfield emo rock group Bottom Bracket have debuted a second new track from their upcoming album, I Don’t Care Enough To Stay yesterday on internet website “The Alternative.” Check out that brand new track, called “Doggie Heaven” online right here. From The Alternative:

Their debut album, I Don’t Care Enough to Stay (out 3/27 via Rat King Records), grapples with the tough decisions a punk must face as they transition into adulthood, approaching it through their own experiences of watching the scene they invested so much into slowly fade away. Today we’re premiering “Doggie Heaven,” following the album’s twinkly lead single “Failures,” which details guitarist Mario Cannamela’s childhood dog passing away and what it’s like to deal with death that closely for the first time. Opening with intricate finger-tapping and off-kilter rhythms, the track’s combustible arrangement sounds like it could explode at any minute, taking the restless energy of emo and math rock and stuffing them into the familiar structure of pop-punk seamlessly.

The band debuted the song and music video for “Failures” earlier this year with the announcement of the new album, which comes out on March 27th through Rat King Records. The big album release show is happening here at Dumb Records on March 28th along with Looming, Nectar, Marble Teeth, and Belle.

Today we bring you a new hit single from Jacksonville, Illinois-based hip hop artist Arzellus “Zell” Wilson. That song is his new “country” infused hit called “Marlboro Man” and you can find that streaming on the soundcloud player below. This was recorded by Shawn Push Freligh here in town.

Check out more of Zell’s music right here on his soundcloud page.

Today we bring you a new hit single which came out for Valentine’s Day a couple of days ago by local hip hop artist JunioR Pasáre. You can check out the single, called “Shoot” on Apple Music online right here… we’ve also tried embedding it below. JunioR, who is part of the Zippir Collective, released a full length album We Gone Win last year, and also a collab release with Ty Witty called The Half Full EP last year.

Oh goodness gracious, on this very black metal Thursday snowy morning we bring you… a brand new six minute and forty second long track from solo death / black metal metal project Gargantuan. Check that out on the player below, or head over to the Gargantuan bandcamp page where you can download the track at your own price. From the bandcamp description:

This track is a continuation of the chronicles foretold in “Upon the Golgothan Plains”, in which the Forces Ov Hell – freshly battered and distraught over the crushing of Satan and the decimation of their ranks – reevaluate their purpose in life and tremble in fear under the deep silhouette of a new and ancient entity.

Gargantuan released a debut track “Wardogs Ov The Wild Hunt” last August. The next show the project has lined up is happening here at Dumb Records on April 3rd.