This is just a post to let you know that we are closing just a couple of hours early tonight for Halloween! Happy Halloween! We will be open here downtown from 10:00am-5:00pm! We’ll be back at it with our usual hours of 10am-7pm tomorrow. Boo!
Here’s another show announcement for you all! This one is happening here just the very day after Black Friday – on Saturday, November 27th! It features a number of acts who haven’t played in Springfield in years.
“Superfun Yeah Yeah Rocketship” is a fun dancey type project from the St. Louis area, which has been going on for a very long time now. Literally the last time they played here was in 2012 at Black Sheep. Look, it was even one of our first “show tonight” website posts. You can stream a brand new song from S.Y.Y.R. on the player embedded below. Also on the bill is St. Louis area post-punk band Trauma Harness, who used to frequently play The Black Sheep as well. We also got “NITE FRVR” (I think pronounced “night forever”) which is another project featuring Pat Cadaver, of Bellville Illinois You’re Not Kablamo fame). Opening things up is the one Springfield act on the bill and that is hip hop project Animals With Human Names.
Woohoo! All of that kicks off at 7:00 pm and admission is $6. Check out a facebook event for that show right here. Also check out our shows page for a look at what all is coming up that has been announced at our space.
Good morning! It looks as if once again we have a good crop of fresh new and used vinyls coming in this week. As per usual, our store is open every day from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm downtown, and this list is of new titles that have recently hit the shelves, not including restocks, and not including 7″s, cassettes, or CDs that we have recently put out. Wow. Okay let’s just jump right into it:
New LPs
Alexone – Alexaloneword
Angel Olson – Aisles
Bad Religion – The Empire Strikes First
Erykah Badu – Worldwide Underground
Capone-N-Norega – The War Report
Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie – Bird & Diz
Christina Aguilera – Stripped
Coldplay – Music Of The Spheres
Cornell Campbell – Boxing
Finneas – Optimist
Frankie And The Witch Fingers – Sidewalk
Grizzly Bear – Horn Of Plenty
Gus Dapperton – Orca
The Jam – In The City
Gojira – Magma
Kingfish – 662
Motorhead – What’s Words Worth? Recorded Live
The Residents – The Ghost Of Hope
Ritchie Valens – Ritchie Valens
Sam Cooke – The Best of Sam Cooke
Sufjan Stevens – America
Tears For Fears – The Hurting
Tears For Fears – The Seeds Of Love
Wire – 10:20
Various – I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute To The Velvet Underground
Used LPs
Al Di Meola – Scenario
Alan Price – O Lucky Man! Soundtrack
Andy Williams – Dear Heart
Art Tatum – Masterpieces
Arthur Godfrey – All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth
The Bachelors – Marie
B.B. King – Live & Well
The Beach Boys – Beach Boys Concert
The Beach Boys – Wild Honey
Bob Harrington – Bob’s Marriage Repair Kit
Bob Harrington – Youth In America
The Browns – I Heard The Bluebirds Sing
Casey Kelly – For Sale
Charlie Byrd – Direct To Disc Recording
Chime Records – All Star Gospel Favorites
Chris De Burg – Into The Light
Coleman Hawkins – Body And Soul
Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse – Dark Night Of The Soul
Dave Brubeck – Two Generations of Brubeck
David Rogers – I’m Gonna Love You
Dean Martin – Sittin’ On Top Of The WOrld
Dennis Day – America’s Favorite Irish Tenor
Dizzy Gillespie / Charlie Parker – Takin’ Off
Ed Bruce – I Write It Down
Elvis Presley – A Canadian Tribute
Eydie Gorme – With All My Heart
Frankie Laine – Greatest Hits
Glenn Yarbrough – We Survived The Madness
Glenn Yarbrough – Baby The Rain Must Fall
George Benson / Joe Farrell – Benson & Farrell
Gerry Niewood – Gerry Niewood And Timepiece
Gospel Singing Policemen – Testimony
Greg Kihn – Greg Kihn
Hank Thompson – Sings The Hits Of Nat “King” Cole
Hank Snow – The Singing Ranger
Ill Repute – Big Rusty Balls
James Levine – Plays Scott Joplin
Jan Howard – Sincerely, Jan Howard
Jay Ferguson – Thunder Island
Jerry Jeff Walker – It’s A Good Night For Singing
Jerry Jeff Walker – Ridin’ High
Jerry Jeff Walker – Driftin Way Of Life
Jerry Lee Lewis – By Request
Jimmy Dean – I.O.U.
Jo Ann Castle – 22 Great Ragtime Hits
John Abercrombie / Ralph Towner – Sargasso Sea
John David Souther – Black Rose
J.T. Adams & The Men of Texas – It’s No Secret
Leo Kottke – Chewing Pine
Leo Kottke – 6- & 12- String Guitar
Loretta Lynn – Greatest Hits Vol. II
Margo Smith – Song Bird
Mario Lanza – A Kiss And Other Love Songs
Melachrino – Love Story
MC5 – High Time
Monty Python – Matching Tie And Handkerchief
Paul Mauriat And His Orchestra – L.O.V.E.
Peek-A-Boo Records – Bicycle Rodeo
Pete Fountain – Mood Indigo
Peter Nero – I’ll Never Fall In Love Again
Ray Charles – Invites You To Listen
The Recoys – Rekoys
Rick Derringer – All American Boy
Rick Wakeman – Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
Robbie Dupree – Street Corner Heroes
Robbie Nevil – Robbie Nevil
Robert Shaw – Joy To The World
Rod Stewart – Sing It Again Rod
Ross – Ross
Roxy Music – Greatest Hits
Sandy Posey – The Best Of Sandy Posey
Shirley Bassey – And I Love
Stan Musial – Stan The Man’s Hit Record
Sweet Obsession – Sweet Obsession
The Three Twins – The Three Twins
Tom Waits – Closing Time
Tom Waits – Foreign Affairs
Various – The Super Hits Vol. 2
Vic Damone – Closer Than A Kiss
Various – Posh Hits Vol. 1
Various – Taking It To The Limit
The Village Stompers – Washington Square
The Vogues – Five O’ Clock World
The Walkmen – You & Me
Walt Disney – Songs From Oliver
Warren Smith & Masami Nakagawa – Kaiko / Saiun
Wayne King – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Wishbone Ash – Pilgrimage
Wow, what’s this? It’s already time to announce shows for the year 2022?? Yikes! Slow down already! Supposedly the new year is just about two months away now, so we are announcing this on for Saturday, January 1st, 2022!
This one features Dead/Awake – a Rockford, Illinois based deathcore metal band who is here to “bring the doom”!!! Sounds heavy. You can check out some of their music on the player embedded below! Then we have a group from Pontiac, Illinois called “Necro Signatures” who describes themselves as a six member deathcore band. Then of course we’ve got heavy hitting local support from hardcore group Prevention. Opening things up for now is Barosa from Decatur and Central Illinois – possibly be on the lookout for a fifth band to be added at some point!
This show is a 7:00 pm, $10 show. You can find a facebook event for this one right here! Also check out our shows page where we have a list of what is announced and coming up at our space!
Tonight! Happy rainy Sunday. We’ve got another show going on tonight – don’t worry, it’s only four bands this time.
For this show we have four bands. At the top of the bill is “Snuffed” – a hardcore band from Chicago we have been told is “nasty.” Stream the music on the player below to hear just now nasty they really are. Also on this show is Peoria veteran hardcore rockers in Bull Cult! Some of them over there helped open up a new venue in Peoria called the Hot Box. There is also a NEW band from Jacksonville on this bill playing some metal music called “War And Rumor.” Then there is also a NEW band from right here in Springfield playing hardcore music called “Hemlock”!
This show will start at 7:00 pm and admission this time around is $7. We are still requiring masks and checking vaccination cards for shows in October. Find a facebook event for this one right here. Also check out our shows page for a list of other upcoming shows at our space.
Tonight! We’ve got a show. It’s a Wednesday weeknight but we’ve got a six band hardcore show lined up, so we’ve got a long night ahead of us.
This one features heavy hitting Louisville, Kentucky hardcore band “Constraint.” You can stream their latest album Nerf Planet embedded on the player below. Looks like Constraint is going to be touring with Discourage coming all the way from California (and also playing hardcore music)! Ope, looks like we have another Louisville band and that is “Gates To Hell.” There’s even a band from Canada on here called Flash Back??? We have bands coming in every direction for this show! Of course we also have Prevention on the bill – and one update to the show since it was originally announced at that is opening things up looks like we have Direct Measure from the St. Louis area! Or wait… is it Penalty Box opening things up after all? Which band is it?
This show will start at 7:00 pm and admission is $10. Check out a facebook event for this show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a list of everything we have announced and lined up.
Happy Tuesday! Here we go with another record dump. You may have noticed that we got a van, so we’ve been picking up some big record collections big time. Well guess what. We always have been doing that. And we have always been putting stacks upon stacks of records every day. Always have been, always will be. We just do it in style now with our green van. That’s right. So this week we once again have a long list of new and used LPs, and this doesn’t even include all of the CDs and cassettes that we have been putting out, or re-stocks of anything. Our store is open every day from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm. That’s right.
New LPs
The Allman Brothers Band – Fillmore East February 1970
Bad Brains – The San Francisco Broadcast
Between The Buried And Me – Colors
Buddy Guy – Stone Crazy Blues
Chubby & The Gang – The Mutt’s Nuts
Deacon – Serpentwithfeet
Descendents – Berkeley Square Broadcast 1985
Elvis Presley – Shake Rattle & Roll
Frank Zappa – Live Montreal 1971
Gov’t Mule – Sco. Mule
Greggory Isaacs – Soon Forward
Hans Zimmer – No Time To Die Original Soundtrack
Herbie Hancock – Live In Boston, 1973
Ian Sweet – Show Me How You Disappear
James Fox / Mick Jagger – Performance O.S.T.
Jay Som – Turn Into
John Carpenter – Lost Themes
John Carpenter – Halloween Kills
John Williams – Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
Johnny Clarke – Jah Jah We Pray
Joy Division – Warsaw
Lee Perry – Skanking With The Upsetter: Rare Dubs
Lou Reed – New York
Miles Davis – A Tribute To Jack Johnson
Millie Jackson – Live And Outrageous
Philip Smart – Meets The Aggrovators At King Tubby’s
P!NK – All I Know So Far
P.O.D. – Satellite
Scientist – Scientist At The Controls Of Dub
Squirrel Flower – Planet (i)
Stan Getz – Stan Getz In Stockholm
The Traveling Wilburys – Volume One
Widespread Panic – Widespread Panic
Wu-Tang Clan – The Essential
Various – School Of Rock: Music From The Motion Picture
Various – Punk Rock Christmas
100 Gecs – 1000 Gecs
Used LPs
Amy Winehouse – Live And Remixed
The Anita Kerr Singers – Velvet Voices And Bold Brass
Barbara McNair – More Today Than Yesterday
The Beach Boys – The Beach Boys’ Christmas Album
Billy Crockett – Surprises In Disguises
Billy Swan – At His Best
Bob Wills – Remembering… The Greatest Hits Of Bob Wills
The Boomtown Rats – A Tonic For The Troops
Bruce Forman And George Cables – Dymanics
The Buckinghams – Time And Charges
The Byrds – The Best Of The Byrds: Greatest Hits, Volume 2
Chet Atkins – Hometown Guitar
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Pendulum
Eydie Gorme – Don’t Go To Strangers
Elvis Presley – Greatest Hits Volume One
Bruce Forman – River Journey
Count Basie – Basic Basie
Danny Kay – Grimm’s Fairy Tales
David Pack – Anywhere You Go…
Diana Trask – Believe Me Now Or Believe Me Later
Dionne Warwick – Valley Of The Dolls
Doc Holliday – Doc Holliday
Dr. Hook – Dr. Hook Live
Duke Jupiter – White Knuckle Ride
Dukes Of Dixieland – Breakin’ It Up On Broadway!
Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush – Live
Gene Watson – Love In The Hot Afternoon
Gentle Giant – The Missing Piece
George Beverly Shea – Christmas With George Beverly Shea
George Harrison – Somewhere In England
Glen Sherley – Glen Sherley
Hank Snow – The Hank Snow Album
Harry Belafonte – My Lord What A Mornin’
Harry Chapin – Dance Band On The Titanic
Hope Of The States – The Lost Riots
The Ides Of March – Common Bond
The Impressions – Greatest Hits
Jimmy Nelson – Instant Ventriloquism
John Stewart – Blondes
Kendrew Lascelles – Earth Fungus And The Stuff Of Stars
Lawrence Welk – Merry Christmas From Lawrence Welk
Lenny Dee – Here’s Lenny Dee
Lesley Gore – The Golden Hits Of Lesley Gore
Les Paul & Mary Ford – Brazil
Lester Young – Memorial Album Vol. 1
Lou Rawls – Close Up Lou Rawls
Louis Moreau Gottschalk – Piano Music
Mahogany Rush – Child Of The Novelty
Mario Lanza – Christmas Hymns And Carols
Maynard Ferguson – The Best of Maynard Ferguson
Mel Brooks – The Producers
Merle Haggard – Big City
Mickey Newbury – Harlequin Melodies
Mike Berry – Rock’s In My Head
Milt Jackson / Coleman Hawkins – Bean Bags
Miles Davis – Facets
Phil Keaggy – Underground
Poison – Look What The Cat Dragged In
Ray Charles – Modern Sounds In Country And Western Vol. 2
Ray McKinley – The Authentic Sound of Glen Miller
Ricky Nelson – Ricky Nelson
Skate Korpse – Skate Korpse
SNFU – And No One Else Wanted To Play
The Springer Brothers – Dueling Banjos
Ted Heath And His Music – Big Band Kern
Ted Heath And His Music – Swing Session
The Righteous Brothers – Sayin’ Somethin’
Them – Them
T.H. And The Wreckage – Born To Rock
Tihati – Tihati’s South Seas Spectacular
Tiger Amry – Tiger Army
Tony Bennett – Who Can I Turn To
Tony Sandler & Ralph Young – Side By Side
Trickster – Back To Zero
The Turtles – The Turtles Greatest Hits
Typhoon – Sympathetic Magic
UFO – Making Contact
Walt Disney – The Story Of The Littlest Outlaw
Walt Disney – The Prince And The Pauper
Various – The Greatest Hits From England
Good morning! Happy Monday. We are here to announce another show. We might be slightly behind on getting some show announcements up. This one we are announcing today is happening on Saturday, November 13th! Mark your calendars, and get your fall jackets ready. For this show we have Attic Salt from right here in Springfield – the power pop-punk group who released your favorite album, Get Wise last year in 2020. We also have Tina Sparkle coming from Peoria, Illinois – their first time ever playing Springfield as far as we know! This group has been around the area for a long time, and you can stream their newest album Southern Hospitality on the player below. Also on the gig we got Starter Jackets – making their big return on this side of the pandemic. Opening things up is a newer project from Decatur, Illinois called Oatmilk! Let’s go ahead and give them all one big round of applause.
This show will start at 7:00 pm and admission is $7. Check out a facebook event for the show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page where we have a list of what we’ve got announced and coming up!
Good morning! Today we are bringing you a brand new demo from a new Springfield project we know nothing about! Gee, we don’t know anything about this at all! It is one big mystery! The project is called “Bad Man” and you can stream the demo “Oh No Bad Man!” on the player embedded below. Is it a full band? A solo project who knows!
We do know that Bad Man is playing its first show in just eight days on Saturday, October 9th here at Dumb Records along with The Antibuddies, Oleander Grey, and Gargantuan. Check out a facebook event for that show here. Also check out our Springfield Album Archive Page where we have been doing a very bad job of keeping up with local releases for this year.
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