Happy Phase 4 everyone. To celebrate Phase 4, long-running local hip hop artist Cornbread has blessed us with a brand new “Quarantine E.P.” You can stream this five-track EP on the player below or head on over to Cornbread’s soundcloud page for more. Thank you Cornbread.
We have added this one on to our Springfield album archive page! This brings us to 26 local releases we have kept track of so far this year and 521 total.
Yes, it is true. Yesterday Illinois officially moved into “phase 4” of our our re-opening plan, the fourth out of five stages of re-opening, with the next phase not coming until there is a vaccine or reliable treatment for COVID-19. We’ve been getting some questions as far as what this phase means for us or if this means we can start having shows yet. We’ll just address some of those questions and give a little update here.
In addition to all of this, parking downtown continues to be free throughout the month of July! You don’t need to put any money in those meters!
When do you think shows should return? Join the discussion on our forum.
What do you know! While we weren’t looking it looks like Springfield solo musician Kenyon DeShasier released a brand new album! That album is called My Dream Girl and you can find it streaming on that player embedded below. Also head on over to Kenyon’s youtube page where you can find it streaming as well as the good amount of other albums Kenyon has released.
This puts us at 25 releases that we have kept track of so far this year on our local Springfield album archive page, and 520 total.
Hey-o, it’s another week at our record store here downtown, and we’ve got some new arrivals this week when it comes to new and used LPs, CDs, and even some cassettes this week. Our store is still open from 12-6pm every single day, and we will probably increase our ours in July – just hang tight to find out what those new hours are going to be and maybe some info on an arcade later on. No, we still aren’t planning for any shows to happen any time soon, even though it is looking like Illinois will be moving to phase 4 at some point within the week. Okay, here’s what’s new:
New LPs
Anna Burch – If You’re Dreaming
The B-52’s – Cosmic Thing
Best Coast – Crazy For You
Dead Milkmen – Welcome To The End Of The World
Deerhoof – The Man, The King, The Girl
Gregory Isaacs – The Lonely Lover
KISS – KISS
Lady Gaga – Chromatica
Lamont Butler – It’s Time For A Change
Mogwai – Every Country’s Sun
Muzz – Muzz
The Zombies – Odyssey & Oracle
Used LPs
Christopher Perkening – Romanza
Coleman Hawkins – Hawkins! Alive! At The Village Gate
David McCallum – Music A Part of Me
The Doobie Brothers – Toulouse Street
Drake – Take Care
Ike & Tina Turner – River Deep / Mountain High
Jean-Luc Ponty – Aurora
Jean-Luc Ponty – Fables
Jerry Vale – Everybody Loves Somebody
Johnny Tillotson – Sings Our World
Martha Reeves – Martha Reeves
Nancy Sinatra – Nancy In London
Peter, Paul And Mary – Peter, Paul & Mary
Rhinoceros – Satin Chickens
The Righteous Brothers – Soul And Inspiration
The Searchers – The Searchers
Starbuck – Moonlight Feels Right
The Supremes – Right On
Various – Cruisin’ 1963
Various – Sing Along With The Oldies
12” Singles
Mase – Lookin’ At Me
Mellow Man Ace – If You Were Mine
Southbound Players – Attitude Of A Player
Talib Kweli – Down For The Count
Three 6 Mafia – Late Nite Tip / Hit ‘Em
The Wee Papa Girl Rappers – Heat It Up
New CDs
A*Teens – Pop ’Til You Drop!
Al Martino – Greatest Hits
Amanda – Everybody Doesn’t
Beck – Mutations
Barbra Streisand – Guilty
Barbra Streisand – Songbird
Big Head Todd And The Monsters – Riviera
Boney James – Ride
Charlie Hunter Trio – Bing, Bing, Bing!
Coleman Hawkins – Supreme
Collin Raye – I Think About You
Dan Fogelberg – Exiles
Dave Holland Quintet – Prime Directive
Dave Weckl Band – Transition
Frank Sinatra – No One Cares
George Strait – Blue Clear Sky
India.Arie – Acoustic Soul
Jazzanova – In Between
Jewel – Pieces Of You
John Denver – Windsong
Jim Hall-Ron Carter Duo – Alone Together
Kim Richey – Bitter Sweet
K.T. Oslin – Live Close By, Visit Often
Lorrie Morgan – To Get To You
Mint Condition – Life’s Aquarium
Molly Hatchet – Beatin’ The Odds
RATT – Ratt & Roll 8191
Ray Stevens – Live!
Ted Nugent – Great Gonzos!
Triumph – Classics
The White Stripes – The White Stripes
Various – Hi-Fidelity House: Imprint 3
Zebrahead – Playmate Of The Year
ZZ Top – ZZ Top Sixpack
Used Cassettes
Black Uhuru – Red
Drive Like Jehu – Yank Crime
Robert Palmer – Riptide
Metallica – Black Album
Prong – Beg To Differ
Sheena Easton – You Could Have Been With Me
SNFU – Something Green And Leafy This Way
Soundgarden – Louder Than Love
Various – Famous Duets
Over the past month or so, there has been a new original video / interview series coming out of Springfield on youtube called “On The Move With Reco Hill” and we are lovin’ it. This new series is a collaboration between Reco Hill and Elijah Settles. Elijah has been doing the videography and Reco Hill hosts the interview segments. Above is a photo of Reco interviewing Ken Pacha. We’ve embedded the video for that one below, we’ve also embedded a video segment of Reco interviewing the active Black People Party of America during a week of protests in Springfield. Most of the interviews are relating to local music.
Be sure to check out the full channel for On The Move With Reco Hill right here, be sure to like and subscribe!
Happy Monday everyone! Kicking off the week with another brand new track from local hip hop artist Vinal Luciano. This song is called “Reason” and you can find it streaming on the player below (just a song this time). This is another single that comes from Vinal’s upcoming album, Growing Pains 2.
Vinal released another song and video for “Stand Tall” last month. His EP Growing Pains came out in 2018.
Happy Father’s Day everyone. Here is yet another local release that has recently came out yet again from Mark Schwartz. This one is called Suite Aidan, and is five tracks that you can find streaming on the player embedded below. Also head on over to Mark’s bandcamp page to purchase the download of the release.
This is Mark’s fifth solo release of the whole entire pandemic. Mark also has recording projects under the names Demons on Wheels, Forest Saints, and Tin Ghost. We are also adding this release on to this year in our Springfield album archive.
Today we bring you a brand new song from local hip hop artist Keyng aka Nykeyla Henderson, who has been making a big splash with her involvement with the Black People Party of America and their involvement in the community lately. Keyng has released a new song a week or so ago called “Vent” and you can find that streaming on the player embedded below. Check out her youtube page right here for some more music.
We are trying to keep up with all of the new music and music videos coming out of this city right now, but it is hard. Today we bring you a new song and video from long running local hip hop artist Dirty Da Don. The song and video is for “Everythang Business / Wake Up” and you can find it embedded on the player below.
Dirty Da Don released his last album / mixtape Project Legendary 5 Built 4 This at the beginning of this year. You can also find a long list of other music videos on our vids/pics page.
It’s another week at our record store, and we are inching closer and closer to more of a normal world every week. Our store is still open from 12pm – 6pm every day right now, and we probably will be upping our hours in July. We do have a giant green elephant parked out in front right now as well. This week there are some new LPs, used LPs, 12″ singles, and new CDs hitting the shelves. You can still order music from us online on discogs, and other merchandise from us on storenvy. Okay now let’s dive into it.
New LPs
Ariana Grande – Dangerous Woman
Between The Buried And Me – Between The Burried And Me
Big Star – The Best of Big Star
The Get Up Kids – Kicker
Of Montreal – Ur Fun
Owen – New Leaves
Post Animal – Forward Motion Godyssey
Squirrel Flower – I Was Born Swimming
Used LPs
The Alan Parsons Project – Vulture Culture
The Beach Boys – Beach Boys’ Party!
The Beatles – The Early Beatles
Bobby Rydell – Wild (Wood) Days
Borodin – Guarneri Quartet
Carlene Carter – Two Sides To Every Woman
David Bowie – Let’s Dance
Don Williams – The Best of Don Williams Volume II
Don Janse – Little Drummer Boy
Elvis – As Recorded At Madison Square Garden
Elton John – Victim Of Love
Frank Zappa And The Mothers of Invention – Leatherette
Jacki Sorensen – Aerobic Dancing
Jan & Dean – Anthology Album
Jesse Colin Young – Love On The Wing
Joanie Greggains – Aerobic Shape-Up II
Johnny Tillotson – Here I Am
Loretta Lynn – They Don’t Make ‘Em Like My Daddy
Loretta Lynn – Just A Woman
Lynn Anderson – What She Does Best
Merle Haggard – Kern River
The Modern Jazz Quartet – Patterns
Perry Como – Dream Along With Me
Peter Hurford – Romantic Organ Music
Rare Earth – Ecology
Rockin’ Jimmy – By The Light Of The Moon
The Rolling Stones – Tattoo You
Thin Lizzy – Black Rose
Waylon Jennings – Waylon’s Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
Wayne Newton – Song of the Year
12” Singles
Chubb Rock – Ya Bad Chubbs
Gheto Boys – Gangsta (Put Me Down)
The Vicious Rumor Club – Rumor Rap
Three 6 Mafia – Ridin Spinners
New CDs
Barbra Streisand – Wet
Beck – One Foot In The Grave
Bob James – Ivory Coast
Dokken – Breaking The Chains
Dokken – Dysfunctional
Dr. Dre Presents – The Aftermath
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians – Shooting Rubberbands
Hilary James And Bob James – Flesh And Blood
Izit – The Whole Affair
Joe Henderson – Lush Life
Mariah Carey – Merry Christmas
Molly Hatchet – Molly Hatchet
Paula Abdul – FOrever Your Girl
Perfect Stranger – You Have The Right To Remain Silent
Perfect Stranger – The Hits
Reba McEntire – Room To Breathe
Reba McEntire – Read My Mind
Ted Nugent – Intensities In 10 Cities
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