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New Arrivals This Week at Dumb Records

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Maybe it’s been a minute again since we’ve came up with a list of new arrivals at Southtown record store Dumb Records (located at 1107 South Grand Ave East). There’s still been a very steady supply of used vinyl rolling into the store, and the store continues to list off new arrivals every day as well on their Discogs page / online store. Let’s take a look at the store’s hours for this upcoming week and then we’ll get into what’s new! Don’t forget there is also an open mic coming up at Dumb Records this upcoming Saturday.

Sunday (today): 10:00 am – 9:00 pm
Monday: noon – 8:00 pm
Tuesday: noon – 8:00 pm
Wednesday: noon – 8:00 pm
Thursday: noon – 8:00 pm
Friday: noon – 8:00 pm
Saturday (open mic): 10:00 am – 11:00 pm
Sunday: (show): 10:00 am – 9:00 pm

Used LPs
Bobby Darin – Bobby Darin
Bobby Darin – This Is Darin
Bobby Darin – Mack The Knife
Bobby Vee – Meets The Ventures
The Buddy Holly Story – Soundtrack
Carole King – Fantasy
Carole King – One To One
The Charlie Daniels Band – Saddle Tramp
The Cryan’ Shames – Sugar & Spice
Dion – Sings His Greatest Hits
Donnie Iris – Back On The Streets
Earl Grant – Beyond The Reef
Earth, Wind & Fire – Head To The Sky
Electric Flag – The Best Of
Electric Light Orchestra – On The Third Day
Electric Light Orchestra – II
Elephant’s Memory – Take It To The Streets
Emerson Lake & Palmer – Works Volume 2
Emerson Lake & Palmer – In Concert
Foghat – Night Shift
Horst Jankowski – More Genius Of Jankowski
Jerome Kern – Show Boat
Jerry Lee Lewis – WHen Two Worlds Collide
Johnny Duncan – Greatest Hits
Kris Kristofferson – Kristofferson
Les Elgart and his Orchestra – For Dancers Only
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – The Roaring Silence
Marianne Faithfull – Greatest Hits
McKenna Mendelson Mainline – Stink
Miles Davis – Basis Miles
Moe Bandy – Following The Feeling
Moe Bandy – It’s A Cheating Situation
The Nashville Brass – Play More Nashville Sounds
National Lampoon Animal House – Soundtrack
Neil Diamond – Shilo
Pink Floyd – Meddle
Pink Floyd – Atom Heart Mother
Porter Wagoner / Dolly Parton – Just The Two of Us
Robert Palmer – Secrets
Rod Stewart – Gasoline Alley
Various – Country Winners ‘73
Various – Classic Rock: 1966
Various – The Greatest Hits From England
Various – Golden Rock N’ Rollers
Various – I Love Music
Various – Super Country
Various – Truckin’ On
Wayne Cochran – Wayne Cochran!
W.C. Fields – His Only Recording
The Youngbloods – The Youngbloods
Zapp – Zapp
Zebra – Zebra

Tonight at Black Sheep: Eyes From Above, Blakk Rose, Nefarious Cloud, Robot Army, Arkham Secrets

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We hope you all have been having a good weekend – now it’s time to close off the weekend with this Sunday night show at Black Sheep! We can’t remember the last time we saw an event billed as a “metal and rap” show at Black Sheep if it’s ever happened at all, so we are excited for this one to be happening tonight featuring a mixture of half metal and half hip hop. This show features Springfield metal group Eyes From Above (pictured above). They have a new EP being released next month as well. On to the hip hop: we have artist Blakk Rose performing (for the first time at Black Sheep?) You can stream one of Blakk Roses’s songs on the player below. Also on the hip hop end of the spectrum is Nefarious Cloud, a familiar artist to the Black Sheep stage. Robot Army from the metal end will be joining us as well. Then looks like opening things up is a newer metal project from Pekin, Illinois called “Arkham Secrets“. Be sure to come out early to check out what they are all about.

This show starts a little bit earlier at 6:00 pm. Admission is $7. Check out a facebook event for the show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page to take a look at what else we’ve got lined up at Black Sheep this fall.

October 14th at Black Sheep: Master Bastard, Mr. Magenta, Bermuda Triad, Star Stuff

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Here’s another show announcement for ya. One week from tomorrow on Sunday, October 14th – the day after our next open mic at Dumb Records there is this show going on at Black Sheep featuring a nice mix of groups from our area. This includes grunge rock group Master Bastard who released their album Mouth Breather earlier this year and you can find streaming on the player below. Also on the bill is an interesting group you will be sure to want to not miss called “Mr. Magenta” from Edwardsville, Illinois playing some jazz / math rock fusion. Then the hip hop trio and performance group Bermuda Triad is up before them to rock our socks off. Then looks like we have a brand new Springfield band on the bill called “Star Stuff” featuring members of Master Bastard.

This show starts at 7:00 pm and is $5. Check out a facebook event for this one right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a good look at what else is coming up at Black Sheep in the near future.

Sunday (October 7th) at Black Sheep: Eyes From Above, Blakk Rose, Nefarious Cloud, Robot Army, Arkham Secrets

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We’ve got a great mixed genre bill lined up this Sunday, October 7th as our only show this weekend! We can’t remember the last time we saw an event billed as a “metal and rap” show at Black Sheep if it’s ever happened at all, so we are excited for this one to be happening on Sunday featuring a mixture of half metal and half hip hop. This show features Springfield metal group Eyes From Above (pictured above). They have a new EP being released next month as well. On to the hip hop: we have artist Blakk Rose performing (for the first time at Black Sheep?) You can stream one of Blakk Roses’s songs on the player below. Also on the hip hop end of the spectrum is Nefarious Cloud, a familiar artist to the Black Sheep stage. Robot Army from the metal end will be joining us as well. Then looks like opening things up is a newer metal project from Pekin, Illinois called “Arkham Secrets“. Be sure to come out early to check out what they are all about.

This show starts a little bit earlier at 6:00 pm. Admission is $7. Check out a facebook event for the show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page to take a look at what else we’ve got lined up at Black Sheep this fall.

Today on Black Sheep Radio: Damon Soper, Jeff Cunningham (Los Injectors)

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It’s Friday, so that means in just a few hours a new episode of The Black Sheep Radio Show will air! Our show is on every Friday from 4:00 to 6:00 pm on 88.3 WQNA fm. Today’s special guests we have lined up are Damon Soper (Nil8, Los Injectors, etc.) and Jeff Cunningham (Los Injectors, and many other Springfield projects). Damon and Jeff’s group Los Injectors are having a CD release party tonight at Bar None downtown. We’ll be chatting with them and playing some tunes from their new CD.

The Black Sheep Radio Show airs today and every Friday from 4:00 to 6:00 pm on 88.3 WQNA fm. You can stream live that same time on wqna.net. Find a facebook event for the Bar None show tonight right here. Check out our radio page for a list of a few downloadable episodes of the early past.

Uncle Sam’s Mutagenic Children: “Right Answers To The Wrong Questions”

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Today we are bringing you a couple of songs off of a release by a new Springfield fast punk band called “Uncle Sam’s Mutagenic Children”. You can stream the songs “Own Boss” and “Scum” from the band’s tape- Right Answers To The Wrong Questions on the player below. The new project features members of Gutterpriest and GUSH. This is only a portion of the tape – you can hear the full thing by picking up a physical copy of the tape at Dumb Records.

Uncle Sam’s Mutagenic Children do have one show lined up at Black Sheep on Saturday, October 27th. We have not officially announced the show yet though! Be on the lookout for that very soon!

October 2018 Issue Of Activator Magazine Available At Dumb Records

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If you can believe it, the month of October is only one day away (October 1st is tomorrow). And with a new month, that means we now have a new issue of free Springfield music magazine Activator rolling in. If you can also believe it, this is the publication’s fifth issue to come out. This one features solo artist Kate Laine on the cover (also pictured holding the magazine inside Dumb Records). The issue includes more interviews with Zach Elston, Twenty One Seven Studios, and hip hop artist Jay Ginerawll. It also includes album reviews, show calendars, a comic by Mike Tirehaus, even a poem by Drew Kodrich, and more.

Pick up a copy of Activator for free inside Dumb Records at any time the store is open (noon-8:00 pm every day). You can get ahold of the magazine through email at activatormagazine@gmail.com for more inquiries.

Dumb Records Open Mic Night on October 13th

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When’s the next Open Mic Night that we are setting up? It’s going to be in just under two weeks – on Saturday, October 13th at Dumb Records. It’s been a minute since we’ve had an open mic inside the store! This one is the usual drill – there are 15 minute slots; to claim them you can either post in the facebook event, email us at blacksheepspringfield@gmail.com, or if you show up to the show early to claim a slot we will be sure to have a few slots on hold for anyone to claim in person. Right now all of the slots from 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm are open!

The open mic starts at 7:00 pm at Dumb Records (1107 South Grand Ave. East). Check out the facebook event right here. Everything inside Dumb Records will also be 25% off, (which is a sale we do for every show now). Check out what else is coming up at Black Sheep on our shows page right here.

 

Tonight at Black Sheep: Brandon Austin Presents: 217 Showcase

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That fall weather is out and today and tonight in Springfield, as you may know, there is a lot going on. We had Bruce Williams on our radio program yesterday to talk about The Healing Arts Festival going on at Rock N’ Roll Hardee’s from 11:00 am to 11:00 pm. There is also a pretty huge show going on over at The Radon Lounge featuring touring artists Ratboys and Knotts, and it is the house venue’s return for this show season. There’s a show going on at Bar None, and even a show at a new Cafe in Edinburg, Illinois!

But we are here to tell you about what we’ve got going on at The Black Sheep tonight (roughly from 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm) – It’s a 217 Showcase show featuring plenty of hip hop and R&B from the area! The lineup tonight is as follows:

Brandon Austin Entertainment
Pytch
Shawn Push Freligh
Vinal Luciano
Meezy Killafield
Alex Whitehurst (YT)
Breed

Special guests:
Bethany Bantner
Kate Reynolds

Pretty cool! You can stream some music from Ptych on the player below. Admission tonight is $10, and things start at 7:00 pm. Check out a facebook event for the show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a good look at what else is coming up at Black Sheep in the coming months.

 

Tomorrow at Rock N’ Roll Hardee’s: Healing Arts Festival

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Tomorrow… at none other than Rock N’ Roll Hardee’s we are all fortunate enough to have the opportunity to heal. That’s right, and we get to come out and enjoy classic acts that we all know and love… like Elvis, and Nighthawk, and The Beatles. All on the Hardee’s stage. There’s quite a wide range of acts going all day starting with Bob Bartel’s Beatles Yellow Submarine before 11:00 am, and then Purple Startdust (Queen/Prince tribute) at 10:00 pm. You can check out the poster above for a full list of acts and set times.

All of this is going on all day at Rock N’ Roll Hardee’s tomorrow (2501 Stevenson Drive), and the event is free. Check out a facebook event for this one right here. We also have Bruce Williams coming in to talk to us about this event on The Black Sheep Radio Show today from 4-6pm!