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Today Downtown: Open Streets 2021

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Oh shoot – today is open streets day here downtown! Who’d of thought! It’s actually going on right now! That’s right – from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm you can do whatever you want in the streets here downtown. You can do backflips, or skateboard in the streets. This year the area that is blocked off is different than previous years. Monroe Street in front of our store is NOT blocked off, instead the area more behind us – between 4th and 5th streets and between Capitol and Edwards is. That is pretty much around the entire “Y-Block” where the Levitt AMP Concert Series was held.

For more info, head on over to the Downtown Open Streets facebook event right here, or downtownspringfield.org!

September 18th at Dumb Records: Grey Slush, The Telephone Junkies, Hushpad

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…And here’s another show announcement! Sorry! This one is happening on Saturday, September 18th at our space around one month from now. At Dumb Records – “the name to remember for performance and value”! For this show we have “Grey Slush” – Grey Slush is an indie rock group from Peoria Illinois! You can stream their debut EP on the player embedded below. For this show we also have the return of The Telephone Junkies! Telephone Junkies put out an album last year and it’s great. Looks like opening things up we have the Lincoln, Illinois-based shoegaze project Hushpad.

This show will start at 7:00 pm and admission is $7. Check out a facebook event for this one right here (be careful, we just made it so it’s hot and fresh out of the oven). Also check our shows page on our site for a list of all three shows we have lined up right now.

And, as things continue to be uncertain with rising cases of COVID-19 in our area – it is safe to say that we will be checking for proof of vaccines at this show and requiring masks as well.

September 13th at Dumb Records: Blind To Life, Split, Prevention

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Here we go… we are announcing another show to be happening inside our space! This one is going to be happening on Monday, September 3rd. It features just three bands, and it’s a short and sweet hardcore show.

This one just features one touring act and that is “Bliind To Life.” They are from Colorado Springs, Colorado and you can stream their newest two-song release on the player embedded below. We also have the band “Split’ coming from St. Louis. This was a very hard band to find on the internet, but we finally found them and their music is online right here. Prevention (from here in Springfield) is playing as well, we are not sure if Prevention is opening, closing the show, or playing right in the middle, so you better be there for all of it!

This show will begin at 7:00 pm and admission this tie around is $7 (bring your cash). Find a facebook event for this one right here. We certainly hope our region and country is in a better place in terms of rising cases of COVID-19 by the time of this show, but we will likely be checking proof of vaccines and requiring masks at this one once again.

Illinois Times: Best of Springfield 2021 Nominee Voting Now Open

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Great news! It’s everyone’s favorite (maybe some of your least favorite) time of the year! It’s time for the annual Best of Springfield polls, put together by The Illinois Times! The time where we all vote for our favorite local businesses, artists, musicians, and people in various categories. The “nominee round” is now active online and goes until August 23rd at midnight. (That would be the night of August 22nd, right?)

GO ONLINE AND VOTE RIGHT HERE.

Finalists will be chosen from the nominee voting and the regular voting among those finalists goes from September 16th through September 27th.

This year as always there is a pretty hefty Music category where you can vote for your favorite musicians, bands, and venues. There is also an “Arts, Culture & Entertainment” section. Dumb Records is in the running for “Best Music Store” under the “Retail” section. Also “Best Place To Go Downtown” under Arts, Culture & Entertainment and “Best Small Music Venue” under Music.

Good luck to everyone out there! Results will be published in the October 28th issue of the Illinois Times.

New Arrivals This Week At Dumb Records

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Good morning! Good afternoon! It’s Tuesday, and we are here once again with another thick (very thick) stack of new and used LPs that have been hitting the shelves at our record store within the past week. This list doesn’t even include re-stocks (amazing), and it’s not even everything. We are open every single day from 10:30am – 7:00pm right here downtown. Please subscribe to us on youtube. Okay, get ready for this long list:

New LPs
A Tribe Called Quest – The Anthology
Andra Day – The United States Vs. Billie Holiday
Amaryllis – Bread, Love And Dreams
Booker T. & The M.G.’s – Green Onions
David Axelrod – Earth Rot
Eddie Harris – Bossa Nova
Grateful Dead – Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses)
Jennifer Hudson – Respect
Jimi Hendrix – Hendrix In The West
The Killers – Pressure Machine
King Tubby – Meets The Upsetter
My Chemical Romance – I Brought You My Bullets
Run D.M.C. – King Of Rock
Silverstein – When Broken Is Easily Fixed
The Stooges – Live At Goose Lake 1970
The Strokes – Angles
Toots And The Maytals – Never Grow Old
Tori Amos – Under The Pink

Used LPs
ABBA – ABBA
Aerosmith – In The Ruts
Alan Price – The House Of The Rising Sun
Alarm – Strength
Ashford & Simpson – Is It Still Good To Ya
Burl Ives – Burl Ives With Guitar
Brute Force – Brute Force
The Byrds – Mr. Tambourine Man
Charles Aznavour – Aznavour ‘83
Chubby Checker – Twist With Chubby Checker
Chubby Checker – Your Twist Party
Chubby Checker – Don’t Knock The Twist
Cole Porter – …And Then I Wrote
Conway Twitty / Loretta Lynn – The Best Of
Cornell Dupree – Teasin’
Crawler – Snake, Rattle And Roll
Crack The Sky – Live Sky
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Chooglin’
Cryan Shames – Synthesis
Dinah Washington / Terry Gibbs – Newport ‘58
Dion – Ruby Baby
The Dukes of Dixieland – Duke’s Place
Elvis – Elvis Love Songs
Elvis Presley – Girls! Girls! Girls!
Elvis Presley – Good Times
Emmylou Harris – Bluebird
Emmylou Harris – Last Date
Etta James – The Best Of Etta James
Ferrante And Teicher – Live For Life
The Four Seasons – The Four Seasons Hits
Frank Sinatra – Sings Rodgers And Hart
Frankie Valli – The Very Best Of
George Benson – In Concert At Carnegie Hall
Gene Pitney – Greatest Hits Of All Time
The Grant Geissman Quintet – Good Stuff
Hank Williams – The Greatest Hits Of Hank Williams
Hermin’s Hermits – The Best Of Volume 2
Janis Joplin – I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues Agin
Jeff Beck And The Yardbirds – I Ain’t Done No Wrong
Jimmie Spheeris – Isle Of View
Jim Reeves – The Country Side Of Jim Reeves
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland
John W. Bubbles – Bubbles (John W. That Is…)
John Renton – Half In, Half Out
Jon Anderson – 3 Ships
Journey – Captured
Juice Newton & Silver Spur – After The Dust Settles
Karen Briggs – Karen
The Knack – Round Trip
Lawrence Welk – Songs Of The Islands
Laurie Anderson – Home Of The Brave
Leontyne Price – A Program Of Song
Lene Lovich – Stateless
Lilita Pop – Lolita Pop
Little River Band – Monsoon
Lone Star – Lone Star
The Lovin’ Spoonful + More – What’s Shakin’
Mario Nascimbene – The Vikings
Marty Robbins – Gold
Mick Greenwood – …To Friends
Mike Oldfield, Sally Oldfield – US-101
Moe Bandy – No Regrets
Moe Bandy – Here I Am Drunk Again
Morris Albert – After We’re Left Each Other
Neil Young – Massey Hall 1971
Pablo Cruise – Reflector
Pearl Bailey – The One And Only Pearl Bailey Sings
Pink Eye – Worldwide Columbine
The Plastic Ono Band – Live Peace In Toronto
The Pretty Things – Real Pretty
Ray Price – The Best Of Ray Price
The Rezillos – Mission Accomplished…
The Robert Stigwood Orchestra – Plays Bee Gees’ Hits
The Rockets – Back Talk
Rod McKuen – In The Beginning
Roy Clark – The Other Side of Roy Clark
Rubettes – Rubettes
The Seeds – Raw & Alive
Sha Na Ha – Sha Na Na
Sippie Wallace – Sippie
Status Quo – Messages From The Status Quo
Steve Goodman – Artistic Hair
Steve Wariner – It’s A Crazy World
Steve Wariner – One Good Night Deserves Another
Tony Bennett – Tony’s Greatest Hits
Traffic – Best of Traffic
Traffic – When The Eagle Flies
Uriah Heep – Return To Fantasy
Various – Country’s Greatest Hits
Various – Solid Gold Programming
Wang Chung – To Live And Die In L.A.
WAR – Greatest Hits
The Who – The Best Of The Who
Woody Woodbury – Looks At Love And Life
Yvonne Elliman – Night Flight
Z.Z. Hill – Bluesmaster
5th Dimension – Individually & Collectively

Tonight at Dumb Records: End It, Shackled, Bitter Truth, Prevention, Barosa

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Saturday night here at Dumb Records seemed to be a successful first show back for us with Bottom Bracket, Attic Salt, and Tilt Warning! We are ready to do this again, this time maybe with heavier bands!

Once again, before we get into the bands for tonight, let’s go over our updated policies regarding attendees and COVID-19:

  • All show attendees will be required to provide proof of at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine or negative COVID test within the last 72 hoursmasks are required at these events for all attendees.
  • Masks are required at these events for all attendees.

Okay, for this show, we’ve got… the band END IT from Baltimore, Maryland on tour. You can check out a short song of theirs streaming on the player below. End It will be on tour with Shackled from Howell, New Jersey. Both of them are heavy hardcore bands. Then coming from a different direction of the country is Bitter Truth from Grand Rapids, Michigan! In the middle of all of this we do have the EP release show for local hardcore band Prevention! You know, the four song EP they released earlier this month. Opening things up is a band called Barosa. They might loosely be based out of Decatur, IL.

All of that begins TONIGHT at 7:00 pm. Admission is $10 for this one. Check out a facebook event for this one right here. Our shows page… doesn’t really have anything else on it right now.

Dumb Records Youtube: Record Store Day Odds & Ends, Orbitor 1 Pinball, + More

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It’s been a while since we’ve been on our weekly youtube kick on the Dumb Records youtube channel. So, we are especially excited right now to tell you that we have compiled a new fun video up on our youtube channel from footage taken over June and July of this year. A lot of this video was taken around the two Record Store Day Drop Dates (getting ready for them, unboxing records, the actual Record Store Days, and the aftermath). All of this condensed into one ten minute long video. We also play Orbitor 1 pinball, and review more Gallina’s food!

Check out the video embedded below, and also be sure to head over to our Youtube page and subscribe to our channel!!

Tonight at Dumb Records: Bottom Bracket, Attic Salt, Tilt Warning

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Oh boy! It feels like forever since we’ve made one of these posts… TONIGHT – it looks like we have a show happening at Dumb Records for the first time in 1.5 years. We have a new stage. We have a new arcade. It’s going to be the first time we’ve gotten to use both of those for a show.

Before we get into the bands for tonight, let’s go over our updated policies regarding attendees and COVID-19:

  • All show attendees will be required to provide proof of at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine or negative COVID test within the last 72 hoursmasks are required at these events for all attendees.
  • Masks are required at these events for all attendees.

*Proof of vaccine can be in the form of either your physical COVID-19 vaccination card or a photo on your phone. Okay? Okay, now that we’ve got that out of the way here’s who’s playing tonight: we’ve got… Bottom Bracket who put out their full length album I Don’t Care Enough To Stay right at the start of the pandemic. We’ve got Attic Salt, who also put out an album, Get Wise right in the middle of the pandemic. AND we’ve got a brand new band called “Tilt Warning” that formed during the pandemic.

All of this starts at Dumb Records at 7:00 pm. Admission is just $5. Find a facebook event here. I think that’s it.

August 2021 Activator Magazine Now Available

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This is a post to let you know that we just got stocked up with the newest issue of Activator Magazine! This one is for August 2021 – and it is packed with some great content.

As you can see on the cover is local artist Cee Jones – who just released a folk album entitled It’s Okay To Fall From Grace. Then on the bottom portion of the cover there you might be able to see the *exclusive* snippet that is an interview with Laura Jane Grace (of the band Against Me!) about her recent solo album Stay Alive and upcoming performance August 28th right here in our alleyway. What else does this issue got? It’s got “best bets” – which is highlights of upcoming local shows. Also plenty of album reviews and a “regional roundup”. There’s an interview with local singer Lazarus Lubisi who has been active at Intricate Flow Fridays, part 2 of the interview with hip hop professor A.D. Carson, a photospread of Downhome music fest – and even our “Dumb Perspective” column which is a bit of a travelogue of small towns in Illinois.

Activator is available for free and can be picked up at Dumb Records and other various local spots around Central Illinois! You should also check out their patreon page online and consider donating!

New Arrivals This Week At Dumb Records

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Whoops! Here we are lettin’ loose with a new arrivals post for the week late in the day on a Thursday! We suppose any time is as good as any to let you know what new and used LPs we’ve got dumping out on to the shelves for the week. This week there is a pretty hefty chunk of new new records going out. This list below doesn’t even include re-stocks either! We are open every day now from 10:30 am – 7:00 pm downtown. I guess there are shows coming up too, so we might have to be open later for those again… Here is a look at some of what’s new in this week:

New LPs
The Aggrovators – Rasta Dub ‘76
Alice In Chains – Live At The Palladium, 1992
Aretha Franklin – Aretha
Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers – Moanin’
Augustus Pablo – Moods of Pablo
Augustus Pablo – Africa Must Be Free
Bad Brains – I And I Survive
Black Sheep – A Wolf In Shep’s Clothing
Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan
Brand New – Science Fiction
Bring Me The Horizon – This Is What The Edge of Your Seat Was Made For
The Clash – The Clash
Cradle of Filth – Cruelty And The Beast
The Cramps – Hot Pearl Radio Broadcast
Doldrey – Invocation of Doom
The Ethiopian – Open The Gate of Zion
The Exploided – Horror Epics
Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
Garth Brooks – 7-Diamond Triple Live
Geld – Perfect Texture
George Guzman – Introducing George Guzman
Graham T. Brown – I Tell It Like It Used To Be
Grant Green – Idle MOments
Ini Kamoze – Sly & Robbie resents Ini Kamoze
Jim Stafford – Not Just Another Pretty Foot
King Tubby – The Roots of Dub
Leadbelly – Easy Rider
Lee Perry – The Black Emperor Vol. 1
Malcria – El Reino De Lo Falso
New York Dolls – Live At Radio Luxembourg 1973
Nick Drake – Pink Moon
Nippon Girls – Japanese Pop, Beat & Bossa Nova
Nina Simone – The Best of Nina Simone
Over Kill – The Electric Age (Deluxe Edition)
Phillis Dillon – One Life To Live
Pixies – Live At The Los Angeles Palladium
Motorhead – Tales of Glory: Live At L’Amour, New York
Ricky Banda – Niwanji Walwa Amwishyo
Shinedown – Amaryllis
Snoop Dogg – Bush
Solomon Ilori – African High Life
Split Decision Band – Split Decision Band
Tyler Childers – Purgatory
Various – Black Man’s Cry: The Inspiration of Fela Kuti
Various – Bombay Disco 2
Various – Get It Together!
Various – Legends Play The Beatles
Various – Take Us Home: Boston Roots Reggae
Void – Sessions 1981-83
Walt Disney – Songs From Cars
Wells Fargo – Watch Out!
Witch – In The Past
Yoruba Singers – Fighting For Survival 

Used LPs
Alabama – Christmas
Animotion – Animotion
Annabella – Fever
Black Oak Arkansas – 10 Yr Overnight Succes
Bobby Darin – Mack The Knife
Boz Scaggs – Other Roads
Carl Smith – Greatest Hits Volume One
Charlie Rich – Arkansas Traveler
Chena – Promises
City Boy – City Boy
Coleman Hawkins – The Hawk Returns
Count Basie Orchestra – The ABC Collection
The Cousins – Music Of The Strip
David Crosby / Graham Nash – The Best Of
David Brinkley – The Kennedy Wit
Dionne Warwick – The Collection
Don Gibson – Oh Lonesome Me
Eagles – Hell Freezes Over
Eurythmics – Revenge
Gary Lewis And The Playboys – Greatest Hits
Gene Watson – No One Will Ever Know
Harry Belafonte – Calypso
Jackie Wilson – Sings The World’s Greatest Melodies
Jackson 5 – A B C
Johnny Paycheck – Slide Off Of Your Satin Sheets
Johnny Rivers – At The Whisky A-Go-Go
Johnny Winter – And/Live
Joni Mitchell – Ladies Of The Canyon
Larry Coryell – European Impressions
Love Unlimited – In Heat
Mama Cass – Bubble Gum, Lemonade &… Something
Maurice Chevalier – The World Of
Michael Weiss Quintet – Presenting Michael Weiss
Mike Nock – Climbing
Minnie Riperton – Perfect Angel
Mister Rogers – A Place Of Our Own
Moe Bandy – She’s Not Really Cheatin’
Moe Bandy – Devoted To Your Memory
Patrick Joyce – Pushin’ Patrick
Paul Winter / Paul Halley – Whales Alive
Powder Blues – Party Line
Ramsey Lewis Trio – Dancing In The Street
Renaissance – Ashes Are Burning
Sandi Patti – The Gift Goes On
Sarcasm – Creeping Life
Skeeter Davis – Blueberry Hill
Sonny And Cher – Baby Don’t Go
Stan Getz – The Sound
Stephen Stills – Live
Steve Howe – The Steve Howe Album
Suncast – In Touch Again
Teresa Brewer / Count Basie – The Songs of Bessie Smith
Trapeze – You Are The Music… We’re Just The Band
Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
Various – Best Of The 60’s
Various – Good Ol’ Gospel Music
Various – Live At CBGB’s
Various – Living Presence Sampler
Various – Stars On Long Play II
Various – Twisin’ Time
Wes Montgomery – Goin’ Out of My Head
Wet Willie – Manorisms
Willie Nelson – Angel Eyes
Wishbone Ash – New England