Holiday Greetings one and all! We've extended our hours for the holiday shopping season. We'll list them here. If you're visiting via our website, thanks for following up. Yeah, we know with some mobile devices the black background, literally, blacks out everything.

12/17 Thursday 11-8
12/18 Friday 11-8
12/19 Saturday 11-8 (Watismu plays a live in-store show at 6pm! Don't miss it)
12/20 Sunday 12-4
12/21 Monday 12-6
12/22 Tuesday 11-8
12/23 Wednesday 11-8
12/24 Christmas Eve 10-5
CLOSED CHRISTMAS DAY! Merry Christmas everyone!
12/26 Saturday 11-8
12/27 Sunday 12-4
12/28 Monday 12-6
12/29 Tuesday 11-7
12/30 Wednesday 11-7
12/31 Thursday NYE 11-7
1/1/16 New Year's Day 11-5

We're more than willing and able to stay later if business warrants. If we have a crowd, or even one person, we'll hang with you til your shopping is complete! If you are running around and can be here minutes before closing, give us a heads-up, in nearly every case we can stay later.

Don't forget, gift certificates make a great gift too. We have them in $10 and $20 increments. Buy as many as you need. As always, thanks for your continued patronage of Rediscover Records.

Plenty of Record Store Titles still available, as mentioned in our previous post! Check it

Record Store Day Leftovers

Greetings! Thank you all who greeted us at 8am when we opened on Black Friday Record Store Day and/or shopped at some point during BFRSD to pick up some vinyl goodness! Also, big thanks to The Shakes and Rumbles and Oceans and Oceans for playing in-store shows. Thanks to those to came to the shows as well!

Hey! If you slept in on BFRSD or missed out on a title, we have a significant amount records leftover. Here is our list. For the time being, free pins with purchase of any item in Rediscover Records.

Act fast! Some of these titles are down to just one or two each!

Beck

Buzzcocks

Jesus & Mary Chain

Otis Redding

Deerhoof

Gang of Four

Jerry Lee Lewis -Sun Records

Neil Finn/Paul Kelly (1)

Dressy Bessy

Cardigans

David Bowie

Janis Joplin

International Submarine Band (w/Gram Parsons)

Link Wray

Sons of Anarchy

Easy E - Christmas

Get Up Kids

Roscoe Holcomb

John Lee Hooker

BB King

Kinks

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Wes Montgomery

True Detective Soundtrack

Love & Mercy soundtrack (B. Wilson biopic)

Frank Zappa

Here is our Record Store Day list for Black Friday, November 27th, 2015. We'll open promptly at 8am (probably a few minutes before) and please enter in a civil manner (like everyone does every year). RSD records will be in the 3-tiered rack where the new vinyl normally is. They'll be alphabetical and one of us may be there helping you find titles. You may purchase multiple records but just one title of each. With limited supplies of each title, we just ask you get one title of each.. One other suggestion, read this list before you get here, please have a good what you are looking for so we can expedite the initial rush of customers in a relatively fast and smooth manner. Thank you all so much and best of luck.

We'll have complimentary fresh coffee, fresh fruit, and pastries. It'll be like a continental breakfast at a Hotel, but at a record store! Live MUSIC at 4pm with Shakes & Rumbles and then at 6pm Ocean and Oceans will perform!

The Arcs vs. the Inventors

B-52’s - Live 1979

Beck - Dreams 12” single

Behemoth - Pandemonic Incantations

Big Star - Jesus Christ

Bloodshot - 6 Pack To Go

David Bowie - Earthling

Jeff Buckley/Sly & the Family Stone - Everyday People

Buzzcocks - Another Music in a Different Kitchen

Cardigans - Long Gone Before…

Johnny Cash - Live Denmark 1971

The Clash - The Clash (blue/white vinyl)

Coheed & Cambria - Orig. Demos

Color of Noise - Official Soundtrack (OST)

Damnation A.D.

Deerhoof - Fever

Dressy Bessy/Lady Liberty

Easy E - Merry Mutha ------ Christmas

Neil Finn/Paul Kelly - Goin’ Your Way

Gang of Four - Songs of the...

Get Up Kids - Red Letter Day

Green Day - American Idiot

Ben Harper - Fight For Your…(500 random copies are signed by Ben!)

Jimi Hendrix - Burning Desire

High Fidelity - OST

Roscoe Holcomb - San Diego 1972

John Lee Hooker - Two Sides

Houndmouth - Picture Disc 7”

Howlin’ Wolf - London Howlin

International Submarine Band - Safe at Home

Jesus & Mary Chain - Barbed Wire Kisses

Judas Priest - Painkiller (shape of an circular saw!)

BB King - Thrill Is Gone

Kinks - Dedicated 7”

Kinks - Kwyet 7”

Jerry Lee Lewis - Sun Records Debut

Love & Mercy - OST

Nick Lowe/Los Straitjackets

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama

McCartney/Jackson - Say Say Say

Megadeth - Threat Is Real

Mekons/Robbie Fulks - Jura

MGMT - Time to Pretend

Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Live

Wes Montgomery - One Night

Nine Inch Nails - Halo I- IV

NRBQ/Terry Adams - Monk

Outkast - Stankonia

Les Paul - Christmas Cheer

Pharcyde - Runnin’

Elvis Presley - If I Can Dream 7”

Queen - Bohemian

Otis Redding - Shake 7”

Run-DMC - Singles Collection

Sons of Anarchy - Songs of Anarchy

Spoon - TV Set

Stormtroopers of Death/Deftones - Milk

True Detective - OST

Vitamin String Ouartet perform Modest Mouse “Moon..Antarctica

Link Wray - Rumble 7”

Frank Zappa - Feeding The Monkies...

Zombies - BBC Radio Sessions

We are bursting with excitement and pride to announce that we have moved to our own storefront! YES! We have moved just around the corner from where we were to 9 S. Spring St in Elgin, Illinois. We're still in downtown Elgin, we're still just a few minute walk from both the Metra Elgin stop and the Pace Bus station. Plenty of street parking and parking deck parking. Oh, and still a pretty great record selection to choose from on any given day. Our first official day at the new location was on March 18th, 2014.

Yeah, the arrow pretty much tells you where we are. We'll have our sign on the facade by March 17th. Our first official day at the new location will be March 18th, 2014

If you have trouble remembering the address, just think Beatles "White Album". Number 9 Number 9 Number 9, Number 9 S. Spring Street!

A very simple map of where we were, and where we are at 9 S. Spring Street. Nice!

We built a couple more bins for the new space. Here is a photoset of one of the bins we built.
Think Spring. Think Spring Street!

Rediscover Records Record Store Day List 2012

Here is our modest Record Store Day list. As with the nature of Limited Releases, we did not get everything we ordered. We hope you find something here you like. We will open promptly at 9am. Please enter in an orderly fashion (Remember, "Love & tolerance of others is our code"), we will expedite the line and the check-outs as quickly as possible. Certain items we ordered or received just (1) copy.

We will also have complimentary fresh fruit, pastries and coffee. Plenty of *FREE* Record Store Day Promotional items will be given away with your purchase, but be advised, supplies are limited. Also, with the nature of limited pressings on certain records, the number we ordered, and the number of items we actually received, we're going to run out of certain things. We can only hope you find things to your liking as you spend time at Rediscover Records.

We'll also have our special Rediscover Records T-Shirts on special for $10.00.

RECORD STORE DAY LIST 2012

Arcade Fire - Sprawl II

Brendan Benson - What Kind of World

Black Keys - El Camino

Blitzen Trapper - Hey Joe

Bloos Magoos - So I'm Wrong & You're Right

Blue Project - Punchman Farm

David Bowie - Mick Rock Tin

Richard Buckner - Willow/Lost

Breakfast Club Soundtrack -Various

James Brown - Live at the Appollo

Dave Bruback - Fantasy 3-3

Bruno Mars - Grenade Sessions

The Byrds - I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Wand - Diddy Wah Diddy

The Clash - London Calling

Common - Dreamer the Believer

The Cult - For the Animals

The Cure - Entreat Plus

Cursive - Burst & Bloom

Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr - We Almost Lost Detroit

Miles Davis - Forever Miles

Deerhoof/Of Montreal -Stygian Bisection

Lana Del Rey - Born to Die

Dry the River - New Ceremony

Justin Townes Earle - Nothings Gonna Change. . .

Empire Records - Soundtrack

Farrar, Johnson, Parker, Yames - Let's Multiply

Flaming Lips/Mastodon - Spoonful Weighs A Ton

Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies

Florence & the Machine - Shake It Out

Futurebirds - Seney Stoval

Garbage - Blood For Poppies

Lee Hazelwood - The LHI Years

Patterson Hood - After It's Gone

Mastodon / Feist - Feistodon "A Commotion" with "Black Tongue"

MC5/Afrika Bambaataa - Kick Out the Jams

Metallica - Beyond Magic

Misfits - Walk Among Us

The Neanderthals - Teen Dance Time

Of Monsters & Men - Into... 10"

Ozzy Osborne - Believer

Phish - Junta Deluxe Pollock Edition

Iggy Pop - Raw Power

Pussy Galore - Feel Good Abour Your Body EP

Otis Redding/Aretha Franklin - Respect

Paul Revere & the Raiders - Ride Your Pony

Paul Simon - Graceland 25 Anniv. LP

Small Faces - Itchycoo Park

Small Faces - Tin Soldier

Regina Spektor - Sings Two Bulat Okudzhava

Bruce Springsteen - Rocky Ground with The Promise (Live)

Starf***** - Heaven's Use

Stax Box Set - 1968-1974 "Never To Be Forgotten: The Flip Side of Stax"

Peter Tosh - Legalize It

Pete Townsend - Quadrophenia Demos

Uncle Tupelo - No Depression

Uncle Tupelo - Still Feel Gone

Uncle Tupleo - March 16-20

M Ward - Primitive Girl

Mike Watt - Sweet Honey Pie

White Stripes - Hand Springs

Widespread Panic - Live Wood

Record Store Day 2012

Record Store Day is fast approaching! As of now, it is less than one week away! What's on your list? We will be posting our list to this blog, our Facebook page, and of course, our website as soon as we know our full Record Store Day inventory. We don't even know what we will have until we have it in our grubby little mitts. We're excited, are you excited?

See you on Record Store Day!

On Saturday April 14th we posted several quotes about independent record stores that were culled from the Record Store Day quotes page to our Rediscover-Record Facebook Page. Ahem, like this page if you have not already, please. Here are a few of them.

‎"One of my most vivid record store memories was being in Belmont Records in Springfield, Massachusetts when the first shipment of Bruce Springsteen's "Darkness on the Edge of Town" arrived. I helped the manager, John Dougan, unpack the boxes. We pulled out the first two copies, looked at the great cover shot, then flipped it over to the list of songs on the back, imagining their greatness solely by their titles: "Badlands", "Candy's Room", "Racing In The Streets", "Prove It All Night", "Promised Land"... How could they not be great songs with titles like these?! We put the album on the store's turntable, blasted it, and we were right - it was incredible. I must confess that I use iTunes and buy CD's online when I'm not near a record store, but I'll never have a moment like that sitting at my computer." -Mike Scully (writer for "The Simpsons")

“The idea of, ‘The journey is the destination’ is put into action by browsing in an indie record store. Besides, a human being is a much better guide than a ‘More Like This’ link on the internet.”

--Patton Oswalt

“It’s important to keep indie record stores alive because their unique environments introduce music lovers to things in a very personal way.” --Norah Jones

I don't know what I would do without indie record stores. Having grown up in a town without them, I can tell you that it's no fun to shop for indie records at chain box stores. Independent record stores like Sonic Boom in Seattle, Rockin Rudys in Missoula and 2nd Avenue in Portland were holy golden shrines to me growing up. Actually, they still are.

--Colin Meloy (The Decemberists)

"Yes, yes, I know. It's easier to download music, and probably cheaper. But what's playing on your favourite download store when you walk into it? Nothing, that's what. Who are you going to meet in there? Nobody. Where are the notice boards offering flatshares and vacant slots in bands destined for superstardom? Who's going to tell you to stop listening to that and start listening to this? Go ahead and save yourself a couple of quid. The saving will cost you a career, a set of cool friends, musical taste and, eventually, your soul. Record stores can't save your life. But they can give you a better one.. " --Nick Hornby

"C'mon and take your best shot

Let me see what you got

Bring on your wrecking ball"

-Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen's new release, "Wrecking Ball" (Columbia Records) has been hailed in many circles as one of the better new releases of 2012. The song "Wrecking Ball" is about the demolition of Giants_Stadium in the Meadowlands of New Jersey, or as one might say, "somewhere in the swamps Jersey".

As with most of the gentrification of these United States, the City of Elgin is no stranger to the destruction of the wrecking ball. Take a look at any older picture of downtown Elgin and you will see the landscape of this urban city dramatically different than what you see today.

The most significant building in Elgin to suffer the wrath of the wrecking ball was the Elgin National Watch Factory. The Elgin National Watch Factory (on National Street) was in operation from 1867 to the early 1960's. It was the premier watch manufacturer in the world. Over 1 million watches were produced at the factory. Over half of the pocket watches produced in the United States were manufactured at the Watch Factory. To tie some music into this, the Robert_Johnson recording "Walkin Blues" mentions an Elgin Watch, "She's got Elgin movements from her head down to her toes." We can count foreign competition, like the themes of some Springsteen songs, as the main culprit for the Watch Factory's demise.

The photo above is an actual Elgin pocket watch (placed on the Springsteen album cover "Wrecking Ball") from around 1948. It is a "Railroad" watch. Railroad watches had to be calibrated to such precise times that trains and their conductors could run their train schedules around these watches.

Here is the Elgin Watch Factory in it's hey day. Today, if you are familiar with the Elgin Grand Victoria Casino, the GVC is just to the left of this picture on Grove St.

The wrecking ball came to the watch factory beginning in the summer of 1966. These photos here are from the E.C. Alft's book, "Old Elgin: A Pictorial History". The Watch Factory clock tower had a face and hands that rivaled the size of London's "Big Ben". Its almost criminal the powers that be of Elgin didn't at least have the foresight to at least preserve the Tower. They did not.

"All of our victories and glories have turned to parking lots" -Bruce Springsteen "Wrecking Ball"

The Watch Factory land, more or less, stood vacant until a shopping center was built in the mid-1980's. Much of the soil under the factory had to be eradicated because of radium. In fact, the layout of the parking lot is in such a way to encapsulate whatever radium that may have remained. Today a Butera Grocery store and several other strip mall type stores occupy the Watch Factory grounds.

To see a fantastic exhibit on the Elgin Watch Factory visit the Elgin Historical Society at 360 Park St. in Elgin. In it is an actual hour hand from the Tower.

Find Bruce Springsteen's new record "Wrecking Ball" at Rediscover Records. Here is Springsteen performing "Wrecking Ball"