The first shows that we have lined up at Dumb Records are coming up quick – this Saturday, August 14th, and Monday, August 16th. It’s pretty clear that when these shows were booked on the calendar and the decision was made to move forward with them, cases of COVID-19 in our region and country overall seamed to be in a much better place then they are now. Because COVID-19 is still a very real threat to our community, we are going to be taking needed precautions to make sure the shows we have lined up are as safe as possible.
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.
We are still in uncertain times and we currently do not have any other indoor shows officially announced other than the upcoming two – but we will be likely enforcing this policy until further notice. The alley show with Laura Jane Grace on August 28th is a free event and outdoors – but as of right now it is safe to say we will all be masking up in the alley, and we are asking for those not vaccinated to not come to that event. You can likely expect a post regarding that show and policies for that at some point before the event.
Happy Tornado Drill Tuesday everyone!!! We are back today with another very fresh stack of new and used vinyl to list off as just some of the new arrivals we have been getting into the store over this past week. Our store is open every day from 10:30am – 6:30pm here downtown. Our arcade is open during that same time as well. We are happy to be here serving as your local music record shop since 2014. Give us a good review on Yelp or Google if you want! Okay, here is a list of what’s new:
New LPs Afroman – Crazy Rap Atomic Forest – Disco Roar Baroness – Gold & Grey Billie Eilish – Happier Than Ever Chloe X Balle – Ungodly Hour Currensy – Collection Agency Eric Nervous – Bugs!! Faceless Burial – Grotesque Miscreation Five Finger Death Punch – Decade Of Destruction Vol. 2 Fleetwood Mac – Greatest Hits GAG – Still Laughing Idles – Brutalism J Dilla – Instrumentals From The Diary Of J Dilla James Brown – Sho Is Funky Down Here The Lowest Form – Negative Ecstasy The Marked Men – On The Other Side Method Man – Street Education Mudhoney – Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge Pennywise – Land Of The Free Pentagram – Show ‘Em How Prince – Welcome 2 America Shrinkwrap Killers – Parents + FBI = Cahoots Sigur Ros – Valtari Spiritualized – Pure Phase Tom Waits – Small Change U2 – The Best Of 1990-2000 Witch – Lazy Bones!! Yola – Stand For Myself
Used LPs The Allman Brothers Band – Reach For The Sky Bobby Darin – Clementine Bobby Darin – That’s All Bobby Darin – Darin 1936-1973 B.T.O. – Rock N’ Roll Nights Bud Powell – The Amazing Bud Powell The Byrds – The Byrds Play Dylan Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band – Safe As Milk Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen – Country Casanova Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen – Lost In The Ozone Dave & Sugar – That’s The Way Love Should Be Doug Sahm – Groovers Paradise Emmylou Harris – Quarter Moon In A Ten Cent Shop Europe – Wings of Tomorrow Exile – Kentucky Hearts George Benson – The New Boss Guitar Of George Benson George Benson / Earl Klugh – Collaboration George Howard – A Nice Place To Be Ginni Clemmens – Lopin’ Along Through The Cosmos Grand Funk Railroad – Good Singin’ Good Playin’ Greg Hyslop – Manhattan Date Janie Fricke – Somebody Else’s Jefferson Airplane – Thirty Seconds Over Winterland Jim Croce – Time In A Bottle The Joe Pass Trio – Live At Donte’s Johnny Horton – The Johnny Horton Collection Judas Priest – Sin After Sin The Kendalls – Two Heart Harmony Kim Carnes – Café Racer Leon Patillo – Cornerstone Leon Patillo – Brand New Luther Henderson – Clap Hands! Machito And His Orchestra – Soul Source Mantovani – Music From Films Marvin Gaye – Live At The London Palladium MGM Studio Orchestra – The Wizard of Oz The Muppets – The Muppet Movie Soundtrack Murray The “K” – Live As It Happened Oliver Nelson – Screamin’ The Blues Oscar Peterson – Plays Harry Warren Oscar Peterson – Plays Richard Rodgers Paul Carrack – One Good Reason Paul Simon – Hearts And Bones Pork & The Havana Ducks – Pork & The Havana Ducks Raspberries – Fresh Reg Owen – Under Paris Skies Rusty Warren – Bounces Back Santana – Santana (1971) Slim Boyd – Nashville Express! Stan And Doug – Yust Go Nuts At Christmas The Statesmen Quartet – With Hovie Lister Stevie Wonder – Hotter Than July Streets – 1st T.H.P. Orchestra – Too Hot For Love Varel And Baily – From France With Music Various – Big Bands’ Greatest Hits Various – Country Fever Various – Dinah Washington – A Memorial Various – Hot Ladies Of Rock Various – Hotels, Motels And Road Shows Various – La Bamba (Soundtrack) Various – Lovedolls Superstar Various – Stars Of The Grand Ole Opry Venom – American Assault Vince Guaraldi – Greatest Hits Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes Vixen – Vixen Wang Chung – Mosaic Weather Report – Mr. Gone Willie & The Red Rubber Band – Willie And The Red Rubber Band Wet Willie – Drippin’ Wet Live White Lion – Big Game White Lion – Pride 101 Strings – Themes From Superman
12” Singles Mad Skillz – Ghostwriter UB40 – 808 State One In Ten 9th Wonder – Brooklyn In My Mind
Amazing… just, amazing. You may have heard the big news by now, but if now – on Saturday, August 28th we’ve got one for the books coming up in the alleyway between Dumb Records and Good Heart Tattoo. Laura Jane Grace – singer and guitarist for the punk rock band Against Me! – and also “notable for being one of the first highly visible punk rock musicians to come out as transgender, after she publicly came out in May 2012″ – will be performing.
In addition to LJG we have a few other solo acts performing. Cole Bridges is coming up from St. Louis – a solo musician formerly from Champaign. Jessica Knight of the band Looming will also be playing, as well as Ricki Marvel also from here in Springfield.
The show will start exactly at 7:00 pm and it is free. With conditions of the pandemic still being up in the air, there might be a strong mask suggestion even if the show is outdoors. We don’t have a facebook event for this one yet, sorry. Laura Jane Grace released her solo album Stay Alive last year on Polyvinyl Records. You can stream that on the player below.
Good morning! It’s another week at our record store and we are still trying our darndest to keep those shelves replenished after a successful Record Store Day a little over a week ago now! It doesn’t seem like anybody has stopped buying records after Record Store Day is over! Our store is open here downtown every day from 10:30 am – 6:30 pm, and so is our arcade. We try to have fun over here. Below is a list of just some of what’s new in this week. Check out our discogs page if you want.
New LPs AFI – Bodies Andre & Josi – Amandla Buddy Guy – Stone Crazy! CAN – CAN CH3 – Fear Of Life Cypress Hill – Cypress Hill Dolly Parton – Early Dolly The Gun Club – Fire Of Love Inglorious Basterds Original Soundtrack Iron Maiden – Final Frontier The Jesus And Mary Chain – The Pocket Gods King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Demos Vols. 1 & 2 Little Miss Sunshine – Original Sountrack Mass Arrest – Power Miley Cyrus – Plastic Hearts Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Hey Hey, My My: 1989 Rare Tracks Nirvana – Happy Halloween: Live At The Paramount Overkill – Feel The Fire Paul McCartney – McCartney III Imagined Pig Heart Transplant – For Mass Consumption Rakta – Falha Comum Rashomon – Pathogen X Rodrigo Amarante – Drama Sparks – A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip Steely & Clevie – Frighten Friday Sufjan Stevens – Planetarium Sun Ra – Angels And Demons At Play Taylor Swift – Folklore Tedeschi Trucks Band – Layla Them – Time Out! Time In For Them Tyler Childers – Country Squire Various – Brown Acid: The Eighth Trip Various – Ghetto Hot Again
Used LPs Al Caiola – Soft Guitars Al Di Meola – Casino Alcatrazz – Dangerous Games Alfred Apaka – The Best Of Alvin Lee – Pump Iron! America – Hat Trick Barefoot Jerry – You Can’t Get Off With Your Shoes On The Beatles – Hey Jude Bessie Smith – The Empress Boots Randolph – Hip Boots! Canned Heat – Historical Figures And Ancient Heads Chastity Belt – Time To Go Home Crystal Gayle – The Best of Crystal Gayle Earl Doud – The First Family Rides Again Earth Girls – Wanderlust Dave Gardner – It Don’t Make No Difference Dino – A Christmas Gift Of Love Dixie Dregs – Dregs Of The Earth Elvin Bishop – Let It Flow Fela Anikulapo Kuti – Black President Ferrante & Teicher – Star Wars Frankie Carle – Frankie Carle’s Finest Frank Zappa / Captain Beefheart – Bongo Furry Gene Autry – Back In The Saddle Again Glen Campbell – Christmas With Gloria Loring – Gloria Loring Goose Creek Symphony – Welcome To Goose Creek Grateful Dead – In The Dark Hank Williams – The Spirit of Hank Williams Harry Nilsson – Sandman Head East – Choice of Weapons James Galway – The Four Seasons Joan Armatrading – Me Myself I Joan Baez – The Best Of Joan Baez Joe Cocker – Joe Cocker’s Greatest Hits John Gary – A Heart Filled With Song John Hartford – Aereo-Plain Johnny Paycheck – Greatest Hits, Volume II Lani Hall – Sun Down Lady Larry Coryell – The Lion And The Ram Leon Redbone – On The Track Lionel Hampton With Dexter Gordon – Who’s Who In Jazz Lou Reed – Sally Can’t Dance Luciano Pavarotti – The Great Pavarotti Luka Bloom – Riverside Mac Davis – Til I Made It With You Melissa Manchester – Home To Myself Majorie Meinert – Hi-Fi And Mighty Mantovani – Music From The Films Norma Jean – Norma Jean Paul Butterfield’s Better Days Perverts Again – Our Big Party Red Rider – Breaking Curfew Redd Foxx – The Best of Redd Foxx REO Speed Wagon – This Time We Mean It The Residents – Residue Of The Residents Robert Hunter – Tiger Rose Robert Plant – Pictures At Eleven Sonic Avenues – Disconnector Spyro Gyra – City Kids Tangerine Dream – Exit Tommy Tutone – Tommy Tutone Triumph – Just A Game Urban Verbs – Urban Verbs Van Cliburn – My Favorite Chopin Various – The Motown Sound Vol. 5 Various – Typical Girls Vern Gosdin – Never My Love Waylon Jennings – Are You Ready For The Country The Who – Tommy The Who – The Kids Are Alright
12” Singles Blaxk Widow – Crazy Taxes Do Or Die – Already Know Joe Thomas – Plato’s Retreat The Liks – Best U Can Modern English – Life’s Rich Tapestry
We are now halfway through July and what do you know it looks like we have plenty of copies of the new Activator Magazine stocked on our front counter! This is a very busy month for Activator with the release of the full-color and very nicely done Black Artists Matter issue that we still have plenty of copies of as well.
One the cover of this month’s issue is Decatur Illinois native A.D. Carson also known as “The Professor of Hip Hop.” There is a pretty lengthy interview with him, as well as the usual album reviews for bands in our area and more, also the live music show calendar is making a bit of a return with Activator’s “Best Best” – their top picks for live music this month. There’s a show write-up for the Intricate Flow Fridays Juneteenth Show, an interview with Springfield rock group Enamel, an interview with Splendid Flunkys, Dexter Anodyne, a photospread of bands playing in a tunnel, the Levitt AMP Music Series, and the “Dumb Perspective” column is back where Brian Galecki gives a history of ska bands in Springfield.
Wow! You can pick up all of that in this latest issue of Activator for free here at Dumb Records and various other local spots around Central Illinois. Be sure to check out the Activator Patreon Page online as well to become a monthly donor for exclusive content!
It’s Thursday! That means it’s another Levitt show out on the y-block just through the alley-way from us. This is show number 7 in the 10-part weekly free music series going on here downtown on the y-block (on 4th and Capitol) thanks to our city getting a grant through the Levitt Foundation.
Tonight is the reggae night of the series! The headlining act is Gizzae – which are a group which formed out of the ashes of Ziggy Marley’s backing band “Dallol” in the 1990’s! Neato! They are based out of the Chicago area and they have been a band for 35 years at this point. Opening things up is Loud Clouds from our area.
All of that sounds like a pretty fun time to us! That kicks off out on the lawn at 6:00 pm. Check out the schedule for the remaining shows in the Levitt series on the Levitt website right here.
We’ve now already announced one show happening in August (August 16th)… and here is another one, happening on Saturday, August 14th here at Dumb Records downtown. Those two shows will be our first shows back in this new era – and also our first time having full bands perform on our stage that was built close to a year and a half ago.
This one is just a nice and sweet three band lineup. We have Springfield emo / indie act Bottom Bracket at the top of the bill. The band released their album I Don’t Care Enough To Stay last year, which you can stream on the player below. Another band that released a killer album last year – Attic Salt is also playing. Opening things up is a brand new band called “Tilt Warning” – playing their first show! How fitting!
Oh yeah, and our arcade IS going to be open for these shows we have lined up – all games are set to free play along with show admission. This one starts at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. Check out our shows page to look at what we’ve got officially lined up right now!
It’s another Tuesday here at Dumb Records and we are dumping out more records than ever… you’d think that Record Store Day is already here or something! As you may know, Record Store Day (the second of two “drop dates”) is happening on this Saturday. We will be open at 8:00 am to 8:00 pm on that day, but all of the other days right now we are open 10:30 am – 6:30 pm. Our arcade is open that same time. Of course on Saturday we’ll be dropping hundreds of exclusive releases that will be out for Record Store Day, but we also have plenty of other goodies in this week. This list is just some of that!
New LPs Almost Famous – Music From The Motion Picture Bastard Squad – The Alexian Sessions Bastard Squad – Bastard Luck Ben Folds Five – The Sound of the Life Of The Mind Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band – Live At The Cawtown Ballroom 1974 Chevelle – Wonder What’s Next Clipping – Wriggle Danny Elfman – Edward Scissorhands Original Soundtrack D.O.A. – Talk-Action=0 Donnie & Joe Emerson – Dreamin’ Wild D.R.I. – Crossover Fleetwood Mac – Recorded For BBC, 1967 Grave Digger – The Grave Digger Guns N’ Roses – River Plate Stadium 1993 The Heartbreakers – Yonkers Demo 1976 Hüsker Dü – Live At Camden Palace 1985 Iron Bars – Iron Bars The Jam – This Is The Modern World The Jazz Messengers – At The Cafe Bohemia Johnnie Frierson – Have You Been Good To Yourself King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Live In Asheville ‘19 Kraftwerk – Live In Koeln Sartory Saal 1975 Lee Moses – Time And Place Link Wray Link Wray Lin-Manuel Miranda – In The Heights Soundtrack Maze – II Megadeth – New York’s Alright Mighty Baby – Mighty Baby The Mind – Open Up The Window And Leave Your Boady Morbid Angel – Altars of Madness The Muffs – The Muffs Muse – Origin of Symmetry Nirvana – Live At The Pier 48, 1993 Nirvana – The Tripple J Broadcast Rob Zombie – Halloween II Soundtrack Roky Erickson – The Evil One Sepultura – Caslemaniafest Live At Donington 1994 Shaved Women – Just Death Sonny Rollins – Saxophone Colossus Space Jam – Original Soundtrack Sunn O))) – Kannon Various – Brown Acid: The Fourth Trip Various – Siler Girls & Indian Pipes The Velvet Underground – The Boston Tea Party 1969 Wilco – A.M. Willie Nelson – Spirit
Used LPs Mr. Acker Bilk – Stranger On The Shore Al Stewart – The Early Years The American Breed – Bend Me, Shape Me Barbi Benton – Barbi Benton Black Oak Arkansas – Early Times Bob James – Rameau Boomtown Rats – In The Long Grass Bon Jovi – 7800º Fahrenheight Brook Benton – Bakin’ Love Is Good For You Buck Owens – Dust On Mother’s Bible The Cars – Panorama Celeste Legaspi – Ako At Si Celeste Charlie Barnet – Volume I Charlie Parker / Miles Davis – Bird & Miles The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Jazz: Red Hot And Cool David Carroll – Dancer’s Delight David Sanborn – Hideaway Dinah Washington – I Don’t Hurt Anymore Dokken – Tooth And Nail The Doobie Brothers – Stampede Donna Summer – Greatest Hits Donovan – In Concert Donovan – Donovan P. Leitch Eubie Blake – And His Friends Fleetwood Mac – Vintage Years Four Tops – Anthology Frances Faye – Caught In The Act Frances Faye – Relaxin’ With Frances Faye Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush – What’s Next Fred Burton – Honky Tonk Percussion Gladys Knight & The Pips – 2nd Anniversary Hall & Oates – Live At The Apollo Hot Tuna – Burgers Jimi Hendrix – In Concert John Barry – Midnight Cowboy John Coltrane – Coltrane’s Sound The Kinks – The Live Kinks Lake – Lake The Lettermen – For Christmas This Year Les Brown – The Best of Les Brown Lita Ford – Dancin’ On The Edge Living Guitars – Finger Lickin’ Pickin’ The Living Series – A Salute To The Tijuana Brass Men Without Hats – Folk Of The 80’s (Part III) Nazareth – Snaz Pat Travers Band – Crash And Burn Paul Butterfield – Put It In Your Ear Paul Butterfield – North South Rita Coolidge – Fall Into Spring Ronco Records – Star Trackin’ 76 The Rutles – The Rutles The Shirelles – The Very Best Of Siegel-Schwall – The Best of Siegel-Schwall Stanley Clarke – School Days Sylvia – Snapshot Third World – All The Way Strong Valerie Carter – Just A Stone’s Throw Away Various – The Best of ‘66 Various – Let’s Twist Various – We Wish You The Merriest Various – Stone Love Dancehall Volume 2 The Yardbirds – Remember… The Yardbirds
12” Singles David Sanborn – Tintin Mariah Carey – Someday
We’re only a couple of days in and already just about need to be re-stocked with this issue, but this is a post to let you know that we do have the most recent “Black Artists Matter” issue of Activator Magazine. This is the second year that Activator has compiled this local zine full of art, poetry, interviews, and more featuring black artists in the area. It’s in full color too, they’ve really gone all out this time around.
In addition to this – the July issue of Activator is also on the way! AND Activator hooked us up with printed out “Live Music Calendars” for the month of July! They are amazing! Consider going and signing up to become a donor for their online Patreon page! We’ll be sure to let you know as soon as we have the July issue in stock.
Let’s boogie! It’s a Thursday and it’s latin dance night at the Levitt AMP Music Series here downtown! This is show number 6 in the 10-part weekly free music series going on here downtown on the y-block (on 4th and Capitol) thanks to our city getting a grant through the Levitt Foundation.
Tonight’s headlining act is: Tito Puedo, Jr. – a latin jazz musician and also son of legendary timbale player Tio Puedo. Before Tito goes on at 7:00 pm though – there is going to be a dance lesson on stage by Julio Barrenzuela! And before that at 6:00 pm the opening act is Cuarteto Bendito – a newly formed trio from here in Springfield specializing in Latin Jazz.
All of that sounds like a pretty fun time to us! That kicks off out on the lawn at 6:00 pm. Check out the schedule for the remaining shows in the Levitt series on the Levitt website right here.
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