Thanks for listening!

Thanks to those who tuned into our Rediscover Records Radio Hour on Saturday Night on WRMN 1410am in Elgin. Despite some glitches, errors, or rookie mistakes we think it went pretty well. Special thanks to WRMN, our sponsors, Brandon Couture, and David Ham for helping to spin the records and make me sound at least, somewhat professional. As of this writing, this was a one-time shot on the radio. However, all indicators point to more Rediscover Records Radio Hour's in the future. Stay tuned! All the records we played are available for purchase at Rediscover Records. Please support the artists, buy your music.

Visit our "News" link on our website to see the playlist. We think we covered at least some musical ground in our maiden voyage. We hope to have more broadcasts in the future. Look to this page, our website, our Twitter Page, or our Facebook Page for more information.

Here is the link, by the way, to our playlist, scroll down a bit to see it all. We played the Reverend, Al Green, and we also played local faves, The Reverends, and had a special introduction by Brandon Couture, guitarist in the band. Check out the playlist!

Rediscover Records Radio Hour Playlist

Here is one song that we played dedicated to the "In the Neighborhood Deli". It's Tom Waits and "In the Neighborhood" off his 1983 record "Swordfishtrombones"

WRMN Radio Show Tonight!

Remember to tune into WRMN 1410 A.M. on your radio dial *tonight* from 7 to 8pm to listen to the first ever Rediscover Records Radio Hour. Please don't let the Radio Shopping banners on WRMN's site scare you. This'll be a music show! While we love the Radio Shopping Show and we have spots running on it, we're gonna push those radio shopping show shopping carts way out past the cart corrals and way out into the middle of the parking lot. Instead......we'll be spinning records, talkin' music, and having a great time. Please join us, won't you? Also, in on the action will be Brandon Couture of the legendary local band, The Reverends.

We'd be remiss in not thanking the people who helped sponsor us and make this radio dream a reality. Please consider clicking these links for more information for each business. Thanks again, we are very grateful!

Elgin Antiques & Uniques

The Two Doors Down Shop

Kirktpatrick, Jones, Herzog Insurance Agency

Ravenheart Cafe

Elgin Jewelers

Elgin Books

Elgin Boca Jump

They'll be no genre left unturned, no genre left unsoiled, well, as least we'll play as much music as we can in a one hour time slot. Hopefully, this will grow into a much larger project.

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Rediscover Records....Living the Dream since June.

WRMN Radio Show

We'll have more details to follow in the coming days, but we are excited to announce we will be appearing live on a one hour radio show on WRMN 1410 here in Elgin!!

Look for more information soon! It'll be on the a.m. dial in the p.m. of your evening. Look for the best of new releases and also since we'll be on AM radio, look for some of those great A.M. hits of the 60's and 70's that you may remember from your transistor radios! We may need to bring one of these 45 inserts (pictured left) for all the great singles we'll be playing!

Always look to our live website for the best in new vinyl, info, and other record related news!

http://www.rediscoverrecords.com/

Keep 'em spinnin!

New & Sealed Records

We just got in a shipment of new & sealed records this week. Come down to our World Headquarters at 207 E. Chicago Street to see them. Here are just a few of out titles that you can find in the store. Just as a reminder, all of our new records come in a 2 mil. plastic sleeve. We also offer the sleeves for sale in a package of 100. Look to our website for other record related products like cleaners and 45 inserts. www.rediscoverrecords.com/

We have:

Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs

Morrissey - Years of Refusal

Nada - Lucky

A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory

Midlake - Courage of Others

Misfits - Collection

Eels - End Times (with a bonus 7" single)

Weezer- Red Album

Gentlemen Jesse and his Men - Introducing

Phosphoresent - Here's to Taking It Easy

Califone - All My Friends Are

My Morning Jacket - At Dawn

Man or Astroman? Is It...Man or Astroman

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

Sleater-Kinney - The Hot Rock

Neko Case - The Tigers Have Spoken

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Japandroids - Post-Nothing

Handsome Family - Honey Moon

The Stooges - Fun House

Also, just call us Bloodshot Records West. We are, afterall, on Chicago St., which is Irving Park Road, a.k.a. Route 19. So just down the street from Bloodshot's World Headquarters 3039 Irving Park Road is Rediscover Records on that very same Route 19.

We have on the Bloodshot Label.

Whitey Morgan and the 78's - s/t

Justin Townes Earle - Harlem River Blues and Midnight At the Movies

Jon Langford - Old Devils

Gore Gore Girls - Get the Gore

Bottle Rockets - Lean Forward

Scotland Yard Gospel Choir - And the Horse You Rode In On

Graham Parker - Imaginary Television

Deadstring Bros. - Sao Paulo

Andre Williams - That's All I Need

Detroit Cobras - Life Love Leaving

Ha Ha Tonka - Novel Sounds. . .

Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker

All the Bloodshot Records are available on our website at: Rediscover Records. The other records will be listed soon. Bookmark our site, visit it often. Thanks for reading.

Did Google Bring You Here?

Hey, welcome to the Rediscover Records blog. Here you'll here stories, updates, photos, and perhaps some reviews. If you came here looking for a website, we have a live website now.

It's at: www.rediscoverrecords.com/

Bookmark us, visit us often, look to the "Vinyl" link just to the left of the homepage to buy records or at least get a glimpse of what is in our inventory at the store. We will add records frequently so visit the site often. We may not have the biggest square footage in the land, but we do try to make use of space the best we can. There is all kinds of information about the store and things to do in downtown Elgin.

R.I.P. Patricia Keeney

With much sadness and heavy hearts, Downtown Elgin has lost one of their own, Patricia Keeney of Keeney's Sporting Goods and PK's Antiques passed away on Monday December 27th, 2010. Those who are associated with downtown Elgin are very proud of our downtown. Pat may have been the most proud of downtown Elgin.

Read more here from the Elgin Courier News: Elgin Businesswoman Pat Keeney Dies at 62

While most will talk of Keeney's as a place where you could buy a gym suit for U-46, some costume or vintage jewelry, great vintage clothing or hats (witness how stunning the women looked in a recent fund raiser for Pat at Villa Verone a few weeks ago), a place to buy fishing lures, or even a tux. I say that because I bought a tux at Keeney's with tails(!!!) a couple of months ago. What I am here to talk about is her records.

Pat had records. Pat had a lot of records! LP's, 45's, 78's in those old "albums", and many different styles of records. The best thing about them? They were helter skelter all over the store! No rhyme or reason to anything. In boxes by the embroidery machine, against clothes racks, up and down the stairway, and in the PK's basement. If you liked the thrill of the hunt as a record buyer, Keeney's and PK's Antiques was for you! So there I was, coming down fast, to PK's Antiques where most of the records were. "The light switch is on the ceiling", she'd say, as you went downstairs. Of course, I had to ask her 3 or 4 times where the switch was. She was patient with me and just tell me again but at the same time I could sense that if she had to come and turn it on for me, I'd get this feisty glare.

To paraphrase Robert DiNiro's character in "This Boy's Life", she knew a thing or two about a thing or two a bout records. At first I thought I might find few records at discounted flea market prices. No such luck. She knew her music. She knew what was what. I told her as much and she just shrugged it off, but I could sense....compliment taken. Some of the things I got there over the past few years was a MONO copy of The Byrds "Turn, Turn, Turn", a Roy Orbison's "Greatest Hits" on the Monument label, no less, and a wonderful Chet Atkins record that was still in the cellophane from the 1960's. Recently she had the rare Lynyrd Skynyrd album "Street Survivors" with the flames!

As a new record store in downtown Elgin, I was thrilled when she came walking into my store not long after we opened this past June. We chatted, she looked around, said something about how my records were all organized, and then she left. It's not like I was looking for approval (well maybe I was a little) but I was so grateful she came in, and gave me the unspoken "Record Store Blessing". Like I said, I was thrilled. So when people came to me looking for something and I didn't have it, I'd send them to Pat. If someone was in her store looking for a record and didn't have it, she'd send them to me. It was awesome. She was awesome.

If you haven't visited our snappy new website, what in the wide world of sports is wrong with you? It's at simply: www.rediscoverrecords.com. We have information about Rediscover Records, the Two Doors Down Shop, in which Rediscover Records is located, things to do around Elgin, things to buy in the store, and PayPal links to buy records and gear online. Wonderful.

One of the newest arrivals in which we are most proud is our new T-Shirt styles! They are white writing on the classic rock n roll black shirt. Here they are in their full glory. The shirt pictured in the upper left-hand corner is our "Mom Sez" shirt. Mom Sez, Rediscover Records! You were always told to listen to your mother, well, that continues to this day.

Our other new entry into our canon of great T-Shirts is the brand new logo, soon to be a classic logo, Rediscover Records. This is pictured to the right.

Both of these new styles of shirts are available at our website. Here is a link to both of them under our "Cool Stuff" banner. www.rediscoverrecords.com/cool_stuff. Included in this link are pay pal links to buy now. Yeah, why not buy now? Of course, we love foot traffic and "face-to-face" time. We have them in Small, Medium, Large, and XL, and 2XL. They are 50% Cotton and 50% Polyester and they are pre-shrunk so you won't have to worry about them shrinking to fit your "Ken & Barbie" dolls. They are $14.99 each plus a modest charge for shipping and handling. Since we love foot traffic so much, not only do you save on the shipping by buying in store, there may be a little surprise for you as well. Stop in to see!

Great shirts, get 'em while you can. Wear 'em out to concerts that you attend. If you say someone else wearing one, make sure you give 'em a wave and a hello.