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Dumb Records Participating In “Vintage Love Tour” February 9th

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No, we are still not cleared to host events in our new space just yet (and it’s killing us), but however we can still have a store and be involved with a neat and fun group of businesses as part of the “Vintage Love Tour” being set up by Springfield Vintage on Saturday, February 9th! Very lovely! What does the Vintage Love Tour entail? Well, for one this will be a big deal for us because it means we are going to have to have our space and store open from 10am-4pm for the tour. This means we will be open from 10am-8pm that whole day (we really hope the weather is warmer by then). For the Vintage Love Tour we will have a few vendors set up inside our space (the 416 space) selling vintage clothing and other items. We will still have our regular record store up and running too of course.

To go check out the full list of businesses participating and map of the event, go to the Vintage Love Tour facebook page right here. We are excited to now be downtown so we can participate in things like this with other businesses! We are also ready for the weather to get warmer!

Deezy Da Paperboy: “The Midwest Miracle”

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Back to the new Springfield music that has been coming out! In the category of local hip hop – here’s a five-track release that dropped right at the end of last month (so the end of 2018). It’s Deezy Da Paperboy with The Midwest Miracle, which you can find streaming on the player embedded below. The last track “Light The Sky” features vocalist from Lincoln, IL, Alexa Redd.

For a long list of what music has recently come out in Springfield, check out our album archive page.

February 3rd (Sunday) at CFP: Decline, Time & Pressure, Redbait, No Cash Value, Final Order

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It’s cold outside today. We figure while we are still waiting for our space to get approved for events we might as well be doing show announcement posts for other DIY all ages show that are going on and coming up in town, right? There is one coming up this Sunday, February 3rd at the CFP house. Hopefully it will be a little bit warmer out by then. This show features a few touring acts – on the top of the bill is Chicago “straight edge hardcore” group Decline – whose music you can find streaming on the player below. Another hardcore group from St. Louis – Time & Pressure is coming, a band that has played at Black Sheep before. Another St. Louis band coming up for the show is Redbait. Sounds like we’ve got a packed house! Local groups include No Cash Value – who just played a short set at CFP last week. Last but not least is Final Order from right here in the Capital City.

This show starts at the CFP at 7:00 pm. Admission is five dollars to go to the out of town bands and it’s an all ages shows. If you do not know where the CFP is located, maybe you can inquire on the facebook event. Be sure to also check out our Springfield shows page where we try to keep a list of shows coming up in town that are outside of our own space.

WQNA Community Radio Currently Off Air, Needs Help!

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Some of you may have noticed that local radio station WQNA (88.3 fm) is currently off the airwaves and has been since last Thursday, meaning the Black Sheep / Dumb Records radio show also did not air. It seems a number of difficulties have caused this to happen, and the volunteer-ran radio station is going to have to reach out for help of the community to get back on its feet:

“We have suffered what we can best describe as a perfect storm of simultaneous technical disasters.  In addition to losing all of our computers and files to a Cryptovirus, both our main transmitter and our backup transmitter have failed.  The main transmitter is down, because our 300 foot antenna is covered with ice.  Unfortunately, we can’t really do anything about that until it thaws, and that’ll probably be a while.  When we tried to fire up the backup, we discovered that a major part called the Exciter had crapped out, and that we would have to replace it.  If we had a working transmitter, we could at least broadcast the old fashioned way for a while, with CD’s, vinyl, and our own I-pods and laptops, but at the moment, we can’t even do that.”
– Jim Pemberton, Station Manager

Currently it seems that the station which is based out of the Capital Area Career Center needs to be raising money for new computers to replace those affected by a cryptovirus that got to multiple computers in the facility, also to get a working transmitter up and running. In addition to that the station is going to be needing to raise money to cover licensing fees for the next year once the available parts are ready for it to get back up and running.

We are very much crossing our fingers for our show space at the new Dumb Records to get up and running very soon so we can host a benefit show (or more) to help get WQNA back on its feet! There may also be a GoFundMe campaign launched at somepoint soon. We are also considering donating a percentage of Dumb Records store sales to WQNA for a given timeframe if we do not get approved for events in the new space soon. In the meantime, WQNA can take donations in the form of checks made out to “WQNA Activity Fund.” Anyone who wishes to donate can also drop off checks with us at Dumb Records and we will be sure to deliver them to CACC or the station manager. Those checks can also be mailed to 2201 Toronto Rd, Springfield, IL 62712.

We will be sure to keep you all updated on the situation over at WQNA- it is likely that online streaming will be back up and running at some point before normal radio is. The Black Sheep Radio Show has been running as a weekly radio program on WQNA for over six years now, since the start of 2013.

Videos: The Shadows of Knight: “Gloria” and “Shake” at Black Sheep 10-20-18

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This may be pretty old news at this point, but we just now got around to uploading videos taken back in October of legendary 1960’s garage rock group The Shadows of Knight performing some songs at Black Sheep late last year. These songs include their 1965 chart-breaking hit rendition of the song “Gloria”, and also another one “Shake” that got up there on the charts. The mayor was there. “G-L-O-R-I-A”! Find those videos embedded below:

Also check out our videos/pictures page for more videos taken over the years at Black Sheep, which is no more. Hopefully we’ll be making memories in the new space soon!

New Arrivals This Week at Dumb Records

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Things have been really moving along for us at the new shop, which has now been open from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm every day at our new location at 418 E Monroe Street. We have been hard at work building new shelving and getting new inventory in, and we are adding more hours as the store is more complete! We really do hope that the venue portion is going to be squared away and approved for events sometime soon, but those matters are still currently out of our hands. Schools are closed today and tomorrow because it’s so dang cold outside, but we’re going to try still being open at our new store! Let’s take a look at our hours and then get into what’s new. You might notice we are adding another hour this Thursday:

Tuesday (today): 4:00 – 7:00 pm
Wednesday: 4:00 – 7:00 pm
Thursday: 3:00 – 7:00 pm
Friday: 3:00 – 7:00 pm
Saturday: 3:00 – 7:00 pm
Sunday: 3:00 – 7:00 pm
Monday: 3:00 – 7:00 pm

New LPs
Angel Dust – A.D.
Charlie Daniels – Memories, Memoirs & Miles
Corky Laing’s Pompeii – The Secret Sessions
Death Cab For Cutie – Thank You For Today
Dropkick Murphys – Do or Die
Jeff Rosenstock – We Cool?
Metallica – Master of Puppets
Monotonix – Not Yet
Operation Ivy – Energy
Sevdaliza – The Calling
Third Root – Libertad
Tom Waits – Alice
Turnstyle – Time & Space
Venom – At War With Satan
Waves of Fury – Thirst
Wipers – Is This Real?
Youth Of Today – Break Down The Walls

Used LPs
Andrew Jackson Jihad – People Who Can Eat People…
The Anti-Sociales – Las Menos Macabras De Las Vidas
The Beatles – Introducing The Beatles
The Blackbyrds – Unfinished Business
Chet Atkins – A Session With Chet Atkins
The Coltranes – Never Sleep Again / Man With The Hat
Dan Mariska & The Boys Choir – Bummer Songs
Dave Mason – Split Coconut
Doc Severinsen – High, Wide, and Wonderful
The George Shearing Quintet – Touch Me Softly
John Mayall – Empty Rooms
John Mayall – U.S.A. Union
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin
Mason Proffit – Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream
Mason Proffit – Movin’ Towards
Meryl Street / George Winston – The Velveteen Rabbit
Michael Murphey – Swans Against The Sun
The New Christy Minstrels – Today
Soupy Sales – Still Soupy After All These Years
Stephen Bishop – Red Cab To Manhattan
Torae – Daily Conversation
The Vogues – Turn Around, Look At Me

12” Singles
Busta Rhymes / Mariah Carey – I Know What You Want
Busta Rhymes – We Goin’ To Do It TO Ya
Crooked I – Still Tha Row
Eve – Gotta Man
Fabolous – Can’t Deny It
Fabolous – This Is My Party
Nicole – I’m Lookin’
Pete Pablo – Da Anthem / 919
Pete Pablo & Rasheeda – Vibrate
Ruff Ryders – U, Me & Shee
The Theory – Wind It Up

New CDs
Bob Marley – Lively Up Yourself
Bob Marley & The Wailers – Natty Dread
Cass Elliot – Dream A Little Dream
Clutch – Pure Rock Fury
The Cult – The Cult
The Cult – Dreamtime
John Lennon – Live In New York City
John Lennon – Imagine
John Mayer – Heavier Things
John Mayer – Inside Wants Out
Julian Lennon – Help Yourself
Korn – Life Is Peachy
Korn – All Mixed Up
Nat King Cole – Golden Years: 1943-1946
Nat King Cole – The King Swings
Phish – Rift
Prince – Hits 1
Rosemary Clooney – Sentimental Journey
Rosemary Clooney – Still On The Road
Slipknot – Slipknot
Tom Jones – Greatest Performances
Tom Jones – The Ultimate Collection
Various – Now That’s What I Call Music! 5
Various – Peaceville Classic Cuts
Various – Great Voices of Jazz
W.A.S.P. – The Crimson Idol
W.A.S.P. – W.A.S.P.
Wings – Venus And Mars

 

Dumb Records Online Store

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We had mentioned at some point that we were working on launching an online store for Dumb Records merchandise (shirts, sweatshirts, bags, etc). Well, the store is now up! And we can hardly keep all sizes of our shirts, sweatshirts, long sleeves, hoodies, and zip-up jackets stocked!! We are trying, but they are just too hot! Check out our new store which is a storenvy page right here. Yes, all of your orders will ship with stickers and tattoos. If we are out of your size in something, don’t worry, we plan on putting more shirt orders in and keeping things stocked. Thanks to Milestshirts.com.

Don’t forget our store is open right now at 418 E Monroe Street every day from 4:00 to 7:00 pm. We also have a Discogs page set up where we have just about all of our store’s records and CDs.

New Arrivals This Week At Dumb Records

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Here we are over halfway through the week, and we have some new arrivals to list off that have been hitting our (newly built) shelves at the brand new Dumb Records on 418 E Monroe Street downtown. How exciting! Also starting today (Thursday) we are going to be upping the store’s hours to 4:00 – 7:00 pm, meaning we are now open three hours every day! Be sure to stop in and say hi, and check out how we’ve been coming along on our new space. Let’s look at the hours for this week and then some of what’s new!

Thursday: 4:00 – 7:00 pm
Friday: 4:00 – 7:00 pm
Saturday: 4:00 – 7:00 pm
Sunday: 4:00 – 7:00 pm
Monday: 4:00 – 7:00 pm
Tuesday: 4:00 – 7:00 pm
Wednesday: 4:00 – 7:00 pm

New LPs
Against Me! – The Original Cowboy
Agnostic Front – No One Rules
Bill Murray, Jan Vogler And Friends – New Worlds
Code Orange – Forever
The Dap Kings – A Closer Look At The Dap-Kings
Descendents – Cool To Be You
Jeff Rosenstock – Worry
Napalm Death – Scum
Sonic Youth – Goo
Vanilla Poppers – Vanilla Poppers
Warm Bodies – Warm Bodies
Wildhoney – Sleep Through It
Zero Boys – Vicious Circle

Used LPs
Barry Manilow – One Voice
Bob Anderson – Midnight At Malibu
Elvis – A Legendary Performer
Enrique Granados – Twelve Spanish Dances For Piano
Herbie Mann – Our Mann Flute
Herbie Mann – Do The Bossa Nova With Herbie Mann
Jay & The Americans – The Wax Museum
Jesse Colin Young – Together
Jesse Colin Young – The American Dream
Jesse Colin Young – Song For Juli
Lene Lovich – No-Man’s-Land
Loverboy – Lovin’ Every Minute Of It
Manhattans – Greatest Hits
The Manhattan Transfer – Coming Out
Neil Young With Crazy Horse – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Paul Young – The Secret of Association
Percy Faith – Shangri-La!
ZZ Top – Deguello
ZZ Top – El Loco
ZZ Top – Eliminator
ZZ Top – Tres Hombres

12” Singles
Coo Coo Cal – How Does It Feel To Ya
Diddy – Come To Me / Get Off
DJ Honda & PMD – Constant Elevation
Dyme – Diamonds In The Ruff
Fat Cat Kareem – Fugazi / Money Game
Fat Joe / Cuban Link – Why Me
Fat Joe – We Thuggin’
Fat Joe – Opposites Attract (What They Like)
Faith Evans – Limited Edition DJ Vinyl
Kool G Rap – Fast Life / 4, 5, 6
MC Red – Comin’ After You
M.C. Breed – It’s All Good
MC Breed – Playa Hatta
Nick Hakim – Onyx Collective
Outkast – Rosa Parks
Quion – Everyday Bounce / Why?
Ray J – Formal Invite
Smilez & Southstar – Who Wants This?
Snoop Dogg – Life In The Projects
Tash – Nightfall / G’s Iz G’s
T.I. – Live In The Sky / Top Back

New CDs
Aerosmith – Big Ones
Aerosmith – Just Push Play
Bernard Butler – Friends And Lovers
Black Sabbath – The Best of Black Sabbath
Bob Marley – Exodus
Bon Jovi – One Wild Night Live 1985-2001
Bon Jovi – New Jersey
David + David – Boomtown
Dead Kennedys – Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death
Dexter Freebish – A Life of Saturdays
Dingees – Work For The Crucial Conspiracy
Dinosaur Jr. – Fossils
The Doors – The Soft Parade
The Doors – Waiting For The Sun
Dry Kill Logic – The Darker Side of Nonsense
Dust For Life – Dust For Life
The Everly Brothers – Dream
Guns N Roses – Use Your Illusion II
Guns N Roses – Appetite For Destruction
Jack Bruce – Shadows In The Air
Janis Joplin – Love, Janis
Janis Joplin – Greatest Hits
John Lennon – Mind Games
John Lennon / Yoko Ono – Milk And Honey
Julian Lennon – The Secret Value of Daydreaming
KISS – Greatest KISS
Lennon Plastic Ono Band – Shaved Fish
Lenny Kravitz – Let Love Rule
Ozzy Osbourne – The Ultimate Sin
Ozzy Osbourne – Ozzmosis
Paul & Linda McCartney – RAM
Paul McCartney – Flowers In The Dirt
Peter Tosh – The Best of Peter Tosh
Queen – Greatest Hits
Queen – A Kind of Magic
Queens of the Stone Age – R
Nat King Cole – The Greatest Hits
Nat King Cole – Unforgettable
Roma Downey – Healing Angel
Sly & The Family Stone – Anthology
The String Cheese Incident – Carnival ‘99
Third World – Ultimate Collection
Van Halen – OU812
Van Halen – Van Halen
Various – NOW That’s What I Call Music Vol. 4
WAR – Why Can’t We Be Friends
Whitesnake – Greatest Hits
Ziggy Marley And The Melody Makers – Spirit Of Music

Updates: Springfield Shows Page

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Hi, we’d just though we would stop by this afternoon and say “hi”, also we know that a lot of you out there are thirsty for live music shows. Well, our space still isn’t quite ready for those (still waiting on a door to get replaced and a few other people to sign off on stuff), however there are still plenty of shows going on coming up around town in spaces that aren’t the new Dumb Records. This includes houses “The CFP”, The Radon Lounge, also Bar None right across the street from us, HISO Music, Free Press Coffee, and more. We updated our Springfield Shows Page which has upcoming shows listed around town the best we are able to for now. If we are forgetting anything let us know!

The Springfield Shows Page can always be accessed by hovering over the “Shows” tab right up there in our menu bar. The Dumb Records show page will be up and rolling as soon as we are approved to have shows in the new space.

Dumb Records’ “Record of the Night” Receives Best of 2018 Downtown Springfield Nomination

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Wow! We weren’t even downtown yet in 2018, but we are extremely grateful to be receiving a big nomination in the Downtown Springfield Best of 2018 awards! The nomination is under the category of “Best Creative Promotion” and more specifically goes to our Record of the Night series, which has been on-going for the past six years, but we have managed to keep up with the tradition every single day of 2019 as we have been moving and settling into our new home downtown.

Other nominees in the category include the “Adams Family” – the group of businesses one block over from us on Adams Street, and also Obed & Isaac’s Wine Bus Tour.

The Downtown Springfield Awards Ceremony where winners of the categories will be announced is this Wednesday night. Keep up with all of our Record of the Night ridiculousness right here.