The Buzz: All’s Well In Dumb Town

dumb-rexChampaign/Urbana weekly newspaper and online magazine The Buzz have an article all about the recently announced Dumb Records coming to our very own South Town. The Buzz interviewed Brian Galecki and also Nathan Landolt of Error Records about the upcoming record store. From the article:

The long-term relationship between the Champaign-Urbana and Springfield music scenes will become even stronger in 2014.

Error Records owner Nathan Landolt will be teaming up with the owners of The Black Sheep Cafe in Springfield to open his second record store in a year.

The store, Dumb Records, is set to open sometime in the early part of 2014 and will be located at 1107 S. Grand Ave. in Springfield.

The idea came about when Brian Galecki, who helps run The Black Sheep Cafe with owner Kevin Bradford and Cory VanMeter, approached Landolt about opening the store after a former art space closed next door to The Black Sheep Cafe.

“The opportunity came up sort of unexpectedly, and we just took the opportunity and ran with it,” Galecki said. “I’ve always felt that Black Sheep needed some type of distro for local bands’ releases and bands that have come through and played our space. Now we aren’t just doing that; we’re opening an entire record store.”

While Landolt will still spend most of his time managing Error Records in Champaign, the owners from The Black Sheep Cafe will operate Dumb Records.

You can find the entire article about Dumb Records right here. If you missed our big Dumb Records announcement last month, you can find it right here. You can expect some more news on Dumb Records coming up very shortly. A date for a grand opening is being worked on right now.

Leave a comment