Our local newspaper, The State Journal Register, has done a short article on Record Store Day events happening in Springfield this Saturday. This includes our big first ever Record Store Day at Dumb Records and Black Sheep, and also Record Store Day happening at Recycled Records downtown. From the article:

Since 2007, Independent Record Store Day has emphasized the importance of record stores — particularly as more people purchase music as digital downloads. On Record Store Day, a number of notable recording artists will release new music available only at participating record stores, and available only on vinyl discs (for those too young to remember, those are the large black discs that require a turntable to play).

Among the artists participating by releasing music on vinyl are David Bowie, fun., the Flaming Lips, Bruce Springsteen, Sharon Jones, MGMT and Green Day. The artists available at each store will vary, and only a few copies of each recording will be available.

You can find the full article by picking up a copy of today’s SJR and looking in the A&E section, or you can find it online right here. Don’t forget that at Dumb Records and Black Sheep this Saturday we will be having events all day long including THREE shows- one inside Black Sheep at 1:00 pm, one inside Dumb at 3:00 pm and one final show inside Black Sheep at 7:00 pm. Check out all of the bands playing those shows right here. You can also find our very long list of new arrivals we will have in the store right here. Don’t forget that everything in the store will also be 10% off! Recycled Records will also be hosting Record Store Day from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm downtown. Their event will feature a live broadcast by 88.3 WQNA and also baked goods from Cafe Moxo.