Cool!!! This is just a post to let you all know that today a grand opening ribbon cutting ceremony was held for a new ice skating rink right on the Old State Capitol lawn (pictured above)!! The ceremony was held at 11:00 am earlier today, and the rink is open tonight (Saturday) until 7:00 pm.
This is the “LRS Ice Rink” being organized by Sangamon CEO. The rink will be open to the public Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings starting now through the holiday season. This goes along with Downtown Springfield’s “holiday walks” this year which take place on Wednesdays and Saturdays. You can find out more info as well as skate rental and season pass rates on the LRS Ice Rink website right here.
Good morning and it’s another new week at our record store! (Kind of the middle of the week now). Sorry we missed our favorite day of the month yesterday, Tornado Drill Tuesday, in giving you this hot list of new titles in our store. But here we are today – with a long list of both new and used LPs that have been recently hitting the shelves – not including re-stocks and not including the CDs, cassettes, or 7″s that have been coming in. Our store is still open every day from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm. Okay now, here’s the list!
New LPs Bad Religion – Stranger Than Fixion Bad Religion – The Process Of Belief Christopher Young – Pet Sematary (Original Soundtrack) Colin Stetson – Color Out Of Space (Original Soundtrack) Funkadelic – Toys Gary Allan – Ruthless Gorillaz – The Now Now Joe Renzetti – Child’s Play Original Soundtrack John Coltrane – A Love Supreme In Seattle Jonathan Richman – SA Johnathan Snipes – Starry Eyes Keith Emerson – Inferno (Original Soundtrack) Khruangbin – Mordechai Remixes Minus The Bear – Omni Mouse Rat – The Awesome Album My Morning Jacket – My Morning Jacket Nirvana – Rome As You Are: Live At The Castle Theater Pino Donaggio – Tourist Trap (Original Soundtrack) Pino Donaggio – Don’t Look Now (Original Soundtrack) Richard Einhorn – Shock Waves (Original Soundtrack) Starship – Greatest Hits Relaunched Stephen Lawrence – Alice, Sweet Alice (Original Soundtrack) The Stooges – My Girl Hates My Heroine Various – Stone Crush: Memphis Modern Soul 1977-1987 Wojciech Kilar – Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Used LPs Alabama – Pride Of Dixie Al Martino – The Best of Al Martino Andy Williams – Hawaiian Wedding Song The Animals – The Best Of The Animals The Animals – Animal Tracks Arthur Fiedler / Boston Pops – Pops Goes Christmas Barclay James Harvest – Gone To Earth The Beat Farmers – Tales Of The New West Bobby G. Rice – With Love Boogie Boys – Romeo Knight Bread – Lost Without Your Love Brenda Lee – L.A. Sessions Burt Bacharach – Reach Out The Beach Boys – Deluxe Set Billy Larkin – Uptown Country Bruno Noffmann – Glass Harmonica Buffalo Springfield – Again Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band – Nine Tonight Canned Heat – Vintage Chet Faker – Hotel Surrender Climax Blues Band – Rich Man Crazy Horse – At Crooked Lake The David Grisman Quinet – The David Grisman Quintet Denny Hilton – You’re My Favorite Thing Dr. Hook – Bankrupt Edith Piaf – The Best Of Edith Frank Sinatra – Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Freddie Hart – The Pleasure’s Been All Mine Gino Vannelli – Storm At Sunup Gene Cotton – Rain On George Shearing – New Look! George Thorogood & The Destroyers – s/t Gene Cotton – Save The Dancer Grandma’s Boys – Tonight Gray Matter – Food For Thought Hal Holbrook – Mark Twain Tonight! Jerry Clower – More Good ‘Uns Jimmy Swaggart – You Don’t Need To Understand Joe Walsh – You Can’t Argue With A Sick Mind Johnny Paycheck – Take This Job And Shove It Journey – Greatest Hits K-Tel Records – Neon Nights The Kiki Dee Band – I’ve Got The Music In Me Liberace – 40th Anniversary Collection The Longines Symphonette Society – Silver Bells Los Indios Tabajaras – Two Guitars Loudon Wainwright III – Loudon Wainwright III Lou Rawls – Merry Christmas! Ho! Ho! Ho! Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – The Good Earth Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – Solar Fire Maynard Ferguson – M.F. Horn Mel Tillis – Heart Healer Michael Franks – Sleeping Gypsy Mickey Newbury – The Sailor Monty Python – Monty Python’s Previous Record The Mystic Moods – Awakening Mystic Moods Orchestra – Love Token Neil Diamond – Greatest Hits Phil Spector – Phil Spector’s Christmas Album The Pointer Sisters – Pointer Sisters’ Greatest Hits Robert Fripp – The League Of Gentlemen Robert Hunter – Tales Of The Great Rum Runners Santa Esmeralda 2 – The House Of The Rising Sun Shelly Berman – A Personal Appearance Steve Goodman – Jessie’s Jig & Other Favorites Steve Winwood – Winwood Supertramp – Superstar Concert Series The Temptations – Gettin’ Ready Thijs Van Leer – Introspection 2 Tomita – Snowflakes Are Dancing Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey – Last Moments of Greatness Tonio K. – Life In The Foodchain Unknown Artist – Crying Time Various – Music From Disney’s Fantasia Various – Super Hits Vol. 3 Various – A Christmas Gift Various – Christmas Greetings Volume 3 Various – Pumping Vinyl Weather Report – Weather Report Wendy Bagwell And The Sunliters – Talk About The Good Times Whitesnake – Slide It In 101 Strings – Symphony For Lovers The 5th Dimension – The Greatest Hits On Earth
12” Singles Chubb Rock – Yabadabadoo E.Z.B. & D.J. Los – Power Of The Bass Mixmasters – Tony G. Is So Good Mobb Deep – Put Em In Their Place Sunz Of Man – No Love Without Hate Whistle – I Am
This is just a post to let you know that we are closing just a couple of hours early tonight for Halloween! Happy Halloween! We will be open here downtown from 10:00am-5:00pm! We’ll be back at it with our usual hours of 10am-7pm tomorrow. Boo!
Here’s another show announcement for you all! This one is happening here just the very day after Black Friday – on Saturday, November 27th! It features a number of acts who haven’t played in Springfield in years.
“Superfun Yeah Yeah Rocketship” is a fun dancey type project from the St. Louis area, which has been going on for a very long time now. Literally the last time they played here was in 2012 at Black Sheep. Look, it was even one of our first “show tonight” website posts. You can stream a brand new song from S.Y.Y.R. on the player embedded below. Also on the bill is St. Louis area post-punk band Trauma Harness, who used to frequently play The Black Sheep as well. We also got “NITE FRVR” (I think pronounced “night forever”) which is another project featuring Pat Cadaver, of Bellville Illinois You’re Not Kablamo fame). Opening things up is the one Springfield act on the bill and that is hip hop project Animals With Human Names.
Woohoo! All of that kicks off at 7:00 pm and admission is $6. Check out a facebook event for that show right here. Also check out our shows page for a look at what all is coming up that has been announced at our space.
Good morning! It looks as if once again we have a good crop of fresh new and used vinyls coming in this week. As per usual, our store is open every day from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm downtown, and this list is of new titles that have recently hit the shelves, not including restocks, and not including 7″s, cassettes, or CDs that we have recently put out. Wow. Okay let’s just jump right into it:
New LPs Alexone – Alexaloneword Angel Olson – Aisles Bad Religion – The Empire Strikes First Erykah Badu – Worldwide Underground Capone-N-Norega – The War Report Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie – Bird & Diz Christina Aguilera – Stripped Coldplay – Music Of The Spheres Cornell Campbell – Boxing Finneas – Optimist Frankie And The Witch Fingers – Sidewalk Grizzly Bear – Horn Of Plenty Gus Dapperton – Orca The Jam – In The City Gojira – Magma Kingfish – 662 Motorhead – What’s Words Worth? Recorded Live The Residents – The Ghost Of Hope Ritchie Valens – Ritchie Valens Sam Cooke – The Best of Sam Cooke Sufjan Stevens – America Tears For Fears – The Hurting Tears For Fears – The Seeds Of Love Wire – 10:20 Various – I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute To The Velvet Underground
Used LPs Al Di Meola – Scenario Alan Price – O Lucky Man! Soundtrack Andy Williams – Dear Heart Art Tatum – Masterpieces Arthur Godfrey – All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth The Bachelors – Marie B.B. King – Live & Well The Beach Boys – Beach Boys Concert The Beach Boys – Wild Honey Bob Harrington – Bob’s Marriage Repair Kit Bob Harrington – Youth In America The Browns – I Heard The Bluebirds Sing Casey Kelly – For Sale Charlie Byrd – Direct To Disc Recording Chime Records – All Star Gospel Favorites Chris De Burg – Into The Light Coleman Hawkins – Body And Soul Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse – Dark Night Of The Soul Dave Brubeck – Two Generations of Brubeck David Rogers – I’m Gonna Love You Dean Martin – Sittin’ On Top Of The WOrld Dennis Day – America’s Favorite Irish Tenor Dizzy Gillespie / Charlie Parker – Takin’ Off Ed Bruce – I Write It Down Elvis Presley – A Canadian Tribute Eydie Gorme – With All My Heart Frankie Laine – Greatest Hits Glenn Yarbrough – We Survived The Madness Glenn Yarbrough – Baby The Rain Must Fall George Benson / Joe Farrell – Benson & Farrell Gerry Niewood – Gerry Niewood And Timepiece Gospel Singing Policemen – Testimony Greg Kihn – Greg Kihn Hank Thompson – Sings The Hits Of Nat “King” Cole Hank Snow – The Singing Ranger Ill Repute – Big Rusty Balls James Levine – Plays Scott Joplin Jan Howard – Sincerely, Jan Howard Jay Ferguson – Thunder Island Jerry Jeff Walker – It’s A Good Night For Singing Jerry Jeff Walker – Ridin’ High Jerry Jeff Walker – Driftin Way Of Life Jerry Lee Lewis – By Request Jimmy Dean – I.O.U. Jo Ann Castle – 22 Great Ragtime Hits John Abercrombie / Ralph Towner – Sargasso Sea John David Souther – Black Rose J.T. Adams & The Men of Texas – It’s No Secret Leo Kottke – Chewing Pine Leo Kottke – 6- & 12- String Guitar Loretta Lynn – Greatest Hits Vol. II Margo Smith – Song Bird Mario Lanza – A Kiss And Other Love Songs Melachrino – Love Story MC5 – High Time Monty Python – Matching Tie And Handkerchief Paul Mauriat And His Orchestra – L.O.V.E. Peek-A-Boo Records – Bicycle Rodeo Pete Fountain – Mood Indigo Peter Nero – I’ll Never Fall In Love Again Ray Charles – Invites You To Listen The Recoys – Rekoys Rick Derringer – All American Boy Rick Wakeman – Journey To The Centre Of The Earth Robbie Dupree – Street Corner Heroes Robbie Nevil – Robbie Nevil Robert Shaw – Joy To The World Rod Stewart – Sing It Again Rod Ross – Ross Roxy Music – Greatest Hits Sandy Posey – The Best Of Sandy Posey Shirley Bassey – And I Love Stan Musial – Stan The Man’s Hit Record Sweet Obsession – Sweet Obsession The Three Twins – The Three Twins Tom Waits – Closing Time Tom Waits – Foreign Affairs Various – The Super Hits Vol. 2 Vic Damone – Closer Than A Kiss Various – Posh Hits Vol. 1 Various – Taking It To The Limit The Village Stompers – Washington Square The Vogues – Five O’ Clock World The Walkmen – You & Me Walt Disney – Songs From Oliver Warren Smith & Masami Nakagawa – Kaiko / Saiun Wayne King – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas Wishbone Ash – Pilgrimage
Wow, what’s this? It’s already time to announce shows for the year 2022?? Yikes! Slow down already! Supposedly the new year is just about two months away now, so we are announcing this on for Saturday, January 1st, 2022!
This one features Dead/Awake – a Rockford, Illinois based deathcore metal band who is here to “bring the doom”!!! Sounds heavy. You can check out some of their music on the player embedded below! Then we have a group from Pontiac, Illinois called “Necro Signatures” who describes themselves as a six member deathcore band. Then of course we’ve got heavy hitting local support from hardcore group Prevention. Opening things up for now is Barosa from Decatur and Central Illinois – possibly be on the lookout for a fifth band to be added at some point!
This show is a 7:00 pm, $10 show. You can find a facebook event for this one right here! Also check out our shows page where we have a list of what is announced and coming up at our space!
Tonight! Happy rainy Sunday. We’ve got another show going on tonight – don’t worry, it’s only four bands this time.
For this show we have four bands. At the top of the bill is “Snuffed” – a hardcore band from Chicago we have been told is “nasty.” Stream the music on the player below to hear just now nasty they really are. Also on this show is Peoria veteran hardcore rockers in Bull Cult! Some of them over there helped open up a new venue in Peoria called the Hot Box. There is also a NEW band from Jacksonville on this bill playing some metal music called “War And Rumor.” Then there is also a NEW band from right here in Springfield playing hardcore music called “Hemlock”!
This show will start at 7:00 pm and admission this time around is $7. We are still requiring masks and checking vaccination cards for shows in October. Find a facebook event for this one right here. Also check out our shows page for a list of other upcoming shows at our space.
Tonight! We’ve got a show. It’s a Wednesday weeknight but we’ve got a six band hardcore show lined up, so we’ve got a long night ahead of us.
This one features heavy hitting Louisville, Kentucky hardcore band “Constraint.” You can stream their latest album Nerf Planet embedded on the player below. Looks like Constraint is going to be touring with Discourage coming all the way from California (and also playing hardcore music)! Ope, looks like we have another Louisville band and that is “Gates To Hell.” There’s even a band from Canada on here called Flash Back??? We have bands coming in every direction for this show! Of course we also have Prevention on the bill – and one update to the show since it was originally announced at that is opening things up looks like we have Direct Measure from the St. Louis area! Or wait… is it Penalty Box opening things up after all? Which band is it?
This show will start at 7:00 pm and admission is $10. Check out a facebook event for this show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a list of everything we have announced and lined up.
Happy Tuesday! Here we go with another record dump. You may have noticed that we got a van, so we’ve been picking up some big record collections big time. Well guess what. We always have been doing that. And we have always been putting stacks upon stacks of records every day. Always have been, always will be. We just do it in style now with our green van. That’s right. So this week we once again have a long list of new and used LPs, and this doesn’t even include all of the CDs and cassettes that we have been putting out, or re-stocks of anything. Our store is open every day from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm. That’s right.
New LPs The Allman Brothers Band – Fillmore East February 1970 Bad Brains – The San Francisco Broadcast Between The Buried And Me – Colors Buddy Guy – Stone Crazy Blues Chubby & The Gang – The Mutt’s Nuts Deacon – Serpentwithfeet Descendents – Berkeley Square Broadcast 1985 Elvis Presley – Shake Rattle & Roll Frank Zappa – Live Montreal 1971 Gov’t Mule – Sco. Mule Greggory Isaacs – Soon Forward Hans Zimmer – No Time To Die Original Soundtrack Herbie Hancock – Live In Boston, 1973 Ian Sweet – Show Me How You Disappear James Fox / Mick Jagger – Performance O.S.T. Jay Som – Turn Into John Carpenter – Lost Themes John Carpenter – Halloween Kills John Williams – Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Johnny Clarke – Jah Jah We Pray Joy Division – Warsaw Lee Perry – Skanking With The Upsetter: Rare Dubs Lou Reed – New York Miles Davis – A Tribute To Jack Johnson Millie Jackson – Live And Outrageous Philip Smart – Meets The Aggrovators At King Tubby’s P!NK – All I Know So Far P.O.D. – Satellite Scientist – Scientist At The Controls Of Dub Squirrel Flower – Planet (i) Stan Getz – Stan Getz In Stockholm The Traveling Wilburys – Volume One Widespread Panic – Widespread Panic Wu-Tang Clan – The Essential Various – School Of Rock: Music From The Motion Picture Various – Punk Rock Christmas 100 Gecs – 1000 Gecs
Used LPs Amy Winehouse – Live And Remixed The Anita Kerr Singers – Velvet Voices And Bold Brass Barbara McNair – More Today Than Yesterday The Beach Boys – The Beach Boys’ Christmas Album Billy Crockett – Surprises In Disguises Billy Swan – At His Best Bob Wills – Remembering… The Greatest Hits Of Bob Wills The Boomtown Rats – A Tonic For The Troops Bruce Forman And George Cables – Dymanics The Buckinghams – Time And Charges The Byrds – The Best Of The Byrds: Greatest Hits, Volume 2 Chet Atkins – Hometown Guitar Creedence Clearwater Revival – Pendulum Eydie Gorme – Don’t Go To Strangers Elvis Presley – Greatest Hits Volume One Bruce Forman – River Journey Count Basie – Basic Basie Danny Kay – Grimm’s Fairy Tales David Pack – Anywhere You Go… Diana Trask – Believe Me Now Or Believe Me Later Dionne Warwick – Valley Of The Dolls Doc Holliday – Doc Holliday Dr. Hook – Dr. Hook Live Duke Jupiter – White Knuckle Ride Dukes Of Dixieland – Breakin’ It Up On Broadway! Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush – Live Gene Watson – Love In The Hot Afternoon Gentle Giant – The Missing Piece George Beverly Shea – Christmas With George Beverly Shea George Harrison – Somewhere In England Glen Sherley – Glen Sherley Hank Snow – The Hank Snow Album Harry Belafonte – My Lord What A Mornin’ Harry Chapin – Dance Band On The Titanic Hope Of The States – The Lost Riots The Ides Of March – Common Bond The Impressions – Greatest Hits Jimmy Nelson – Instant Ventriloquism John Stewart – Blondes Kendrew Lascelles – Earth Fungus And The Stuff Of Stars Lawrence Welk – Merry Christmas From Lawrence Welk Lenny Dee – Here’s Lenny Dee Lesley Gore – The Golden Hits Of Lesley Gore Les Paul & Mary Ford – Brazil Lester Young – Memorial Album Vol. 1 Lou Rawls – Close Up Lou Rawls Louis Moreau Gottschalk – Piano Music Mahogany Rush – Child Of The Novelty Mario Lanza – Christmas Hymns And Carols Maynard Ferguson – The Best of Maynard Ferguson Mel Brooks – The Producers Merle Haggard – Big City Mickey Newbury – Harlequin Melodies Mike Berry – Rock’s In My Head Milt Jackson / Coleman Hawkins – Bean Bags Miles Davis – Facets Phil Keaggy – Underground Poison – Look What The Cat Dragged In Ray Charles – Modern Sounds In Country And Western Vol. 2 Ray McKinley – The Authentic Sound of Glen Miller Ricky Nelson – Ricky Nelson Skate Korpse – Skate Korpse SNFU – And No One Else Wanted To Play The Springer Brothers – Dueling Banjos Ted Heath And His Music – Big Band Kern Ted Heath And His Music – Swing Session The Righteous Brothers – Sayin’ Somethin’ Them – Them T.H. And The Wreckage – Born To Rock Tihati – Tihati’s South Seas Spectacular Tiger Amry – Tiger Army Tony Bennett – Who Can I Turn To Tony Sandler & Ralph Young – Side By Side Trickster – Back To Zero The Turtles – The Turtles Greatest Hits Typhoon – Sympathetic Magic UFO – Making Contact Walt Disney – The Story Of The Littlest Outlaw Walt Disney – The Prince And The Pauper Various – The Greatest Hits From England
Good morning! Happy Monday. We are here to announce another show. We might be slightly behind on getting some show announcements up. This one we are announcing today is happening on Saturday, November 13th! Mark your calendars, and get your fall jackets ready. For this show we have Attic Salt from right here in Springfield – the power pop-punk group who released your favorite album, Get Wise last year in 2020. We also have Tina Sparkle coming from Peoria, Illinois – their first time ever playing Springfield as far as we know! This group has been around the area for a long time, and you can stream their newest album Southern Hospitality on the player below. Also on the gig we got Starter Jackets – making their big return on this side of the pandemic. Opening things up is a newer project from Decatur, Illinois called Oatmilk! Let’s go ahead and give them all one big round of applause.
This show will start at 7:00 pm and admission is $7. Check out a facebook event for the show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page where we have a list of what we’ve got announced and coming up!
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