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Record Store Day Drop #2 10 Days Away, Limited Run Shirts For First 50 People In Line

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Record Store Day (the second of two “drop dates” this summer) is just ten days away on Saturday, July 17th, and we are having some fun with this one. We had mentioned in our original post that the first 50 people in line would get a free exclusive t-shirt. Today we are back with photos of those shirts. There it is pictured above. If you want one you better get in line early for when we open at 8:00 am on that day.

Is there a way for any out-of-towners or people unable to make it to Record Store Day to get these shirts? No, there’s not. These are limited run, exclusive shirts. They are very special.

You can find a facebook event with more info on Record Store Day Drop #2 right here. Also check out the Record Store Day website right here for the full list of all of the exclusive releases coming out for that day right here. In addition to the exclusives we will be holding a 10% sale on our whole store other than exclusive RSD releases, half off dollar records, live music, and free coffee!

New Arrivals This Week At Dumb Records

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It’s another tornado drill Tuesday… and today the tornado drill got to you before we could deliver the list to you here of this week’s records… oh well. This week just like every week we have a fresh stack of new and used LPs, 12″ singles (we also put out CDs and cassettes on to the shelves but we stopped listing those for now). Our store is open every day from 11:00 am to 6:30 pm. Don’t forget Record Store Day 2021 Drop #2 is coming up in just about 10 days on Saturday, July 17th!

New LPs
Angel Olsen – Phases
Aphex Twin – Cheetah
Getting The Fear – Death Is Bigger
Dinosaur Jr. – Give A Glimpse of What Yer Not
Institute – Re-Adjusting The Locks
The Flaming Lips – Greatest Hits Vol. 1
Jess Joy – Patreearchy
John Carpenter – Halloween Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Justin Timberlake – The 20/20 Experience
Kaina – Next To The Sun
Kanye West – Jesus Is King
Kishi Bashi – Emigrant EP
Maserati – Maserati VII
Modest Mouse – No One’s First, And You’re Next
Monster Magnet – A Better Dystopia
The Mothers of Invention – Burnt Weeny Sandwich
Nina Simone My Baby Just Cares For Me
OXY – Along Alo: 1981-1989
Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Pharmakon – Devour
Ramones – It’s Alive
Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Getaway
Sharon Van Etten – I Don’t Want To Let You Down
Stan Getz & The Oscar Peterson Trio
Travis Scott – Birds In The Trap Sing McKnight
Various – Strum & Thrum
Walt Disney – Music From Sleeping Beauty
Walt Disney – Tarzan Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Yoko Ono – Feeling The Space
Yoko Ono – Fly

Used LPs
Al Martino – This Is Love
Barrett Deems And The Hottet – Deemus
Barry White – Can’t Get Enough
Basil Valdez – Basil
Billie Holiday – Lady Day
Bobby Vinton – All-Time Greatest Hits
Carman – The Champion
Cedar Walton Quartet – First Set
Cher – Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves
Chiliwack – Opus X
Claude Thornhill – The Uncollected 1947
David Frizzell & Shelly West – Carryin’ On The Family Names
Don Williams – Country Boy
Donovan – Hurdy Gurdy Man
The Eagles – Hotel California
Electric Light Orchestra – Time
Ella Fitzgerald – Sings The Gershwin Song Book Vol. 2
James Galway – The Magic Flute of James Galway
Ferante & Teicher – You Light Up My Life
Freddy Fender – If You Don’t Love Me
George Strait – If You Ain’t Lovin’ You Ain’t Livin’
George Thorogood & The Destroyers – Live
Glenn Yarbrough – The Lonely Things
Grace Slick – Software
Guy & Ralna – Love Songs
Hannibal Marvin Peterson – Naima
Hank Williams – On Stage Recorded Live
Head East – Gettin’ Lucky
Horrible Things – Everybody Else
Ipi ’N Tombia – The Warrior
Ivan Moravec – Chopin 24 Preludes
James Last – Music From Across The Way
Jefferson Airplane – Volunteers
Jerry White – Honky Tonkin’
Jimmy Dorsey – So Rare
Johnny Mathis – I’ll Search My Heart
Johnny Rodriguez – My Third Album
Julian Bream – The Art of Julian Bream
Lady Flash – Beauties In The Night
Leftover Crack – Constructs Of The State
Leon Patillo – The Sky’s The Limit
Martha Reeves – Gotta Keep Moving
Melissa Manchester – For The Working Girl
Mike Reno And Moxy – Thinking About You
The Mike Theodore Orchestra – Cosmic Wind
Miles Davis – Tutu
Monty Python’s Flying Circus – Another Monty Python Record
Nancy Sinatra – Sugar
Nazareth – Hot Tracks
New Christy Minstrels – Merry Christmas!
The Night Train Revue –
Oldmate – It Is What It Is
Paul Shaffer – Coast To Coast
Patti Labelle & The Bluebelles – The Very Best of Patti Labelle
Pele – Enemies
Perry Como – So Smooth
Q5 – Steel The Light
Rare Earth – Grand Slam
Rare Earth – Willie Remembers…
Rita Coolidge – It’s Only Love
Roy Orbison – Greatest Hits
Sleepy LaBeef – The Rockabilly Giant
Spooky Tooth – You Broke My Heart
Stormie Omartian – Exercise For Life
Susan Raye – Wheel of Fortune
The Three Degrees – Standing Up For Love
Tubes – The Completion Backward Principle
Various – Country Christmas Vol. 2
Various – Fame: Original Soundtrack
Various – The Winter Scene
Wayne Newton – The Little Drummer Boy
Weird TV – Weird TV

12” Singles
Bits & Pieces – Don’t Stop The Music
Brother And Sister – Midnight Desire
Eminem – Like Toy Soldiers
Frank Hooker – Ooh Sugar Wooga
New Jersey Drive – Soundtrack Sampler
Saint Tropez – Fill My Life With Love
Spinners – Long Live Soul Music
Stephanie Mills – What Cha Gonna Do With My Lovin’
Sugga & Spice – Boyz Just Wanna Get Skeezed!
Viola Wills – Up On The Roof
Wu-Tang Clan – Rules / In The Hood
8 Ball And MJG – Get Low
8 Ball – Creeses And Pieces

June Bubbles Arcade Contest Results

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Now that it’s July, that means it’s not June anymore. And now that it’s not June anymore that means our June Bubbles arcade contest is officially over. Great! Here are our final results:

  1. Chris O – 81,900
  2. Nia T – 71,500
  3. Corbin – 68,020
  4. Levi – 64,300
  5. Lanny D – 55,320
  6. Eddie O – 51,080
  7. Zach H – 47,250
  8. Tyler S – 44,270
  9. Kolton – 44,170
  10. Connor S – 41,100
  11. Shelby W. – 40,760

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this contest! We have prizes for all of the top 11 scorers. Almost all of those prizes are ready (whoops we still have to get our bubble gum and big bubble gift basket together)!!

What will are next contest be? We don’t know. The next contest just might be our big downtown Springfield business pinball tournament later this year! We will see!

Sketbort! Pop-Up Shop Today At Dumb Records

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Happy Saturday! It might be a busy one here at Dumb Records today. We are open 10:00 am – 6:30 pm. We just debuted a new pinball machine yesterday and also the Legacy of Giving Music Festival is going on downtown all day. And it’s the Saturday Old State Capitol Farmer’s Market!

But another thing we are doing today is hosting a pop-up shop all day long for Sketbort! Skateboards (a local / Taylorville) small skate company. There will be skateboards and skating gear for sale. Sketbort! is also part of the push behind “Taylorville Needs A Skatepark” – a campaign to get a new skatepark in Taylorville. The pop-up will be going on all day today.

*Once again, we would like to note here that we will be closed tomorrow for the 4th of July!

One Year Anniversary of Dumb Records Arcade Being Open To The Public + New Game Debut

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Good morning and happy 4th of July weekend! We just realized something very special – exactly one year ago on July 2nd, 2020, we opened up our Dumb Records arcade to the world. We haven’t had it open for a full year exactly – since we did have it shut down again for all of December and January this past winter, but this is still one year from when we opened it.

Almost completely coincidentally we are debuting a brand new game today! That game is an original Stern 1982 pinball called “ORBITOR 1.” It is really wacky. Check out a video below. This is one that you are really going to have to just come play in person.

Our arcade is still open along with regular store hours (every day 11:00 am – 6:30 pm). Entry is $5 or free with store purchase of $10 or more. – One more side note: we will be closed this upcoming Sunday for 4th of July!

Legacy Of Giving Music Festival Kicking Off Tonight

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Downtown music festival season is officially here! One of the major downtown music festivals, Legacy of Giving is kicking off tonight right at 5:00 pm. The music tonight goes all the way until midnight, and then tomorrow it’s an all-day festival going from noon until midnight!

Since our original post about the festival earlier last weekend, they have uploaded the full schedule for Friday and Saturday to the Legacy of Giving facebook page. And as you can see on the poster above, there are too many bands playing for us to even list off here. The headlining acts look to be Enamel, The Longmeyer Band, The Station, and This One’s Pink. There are probably about 50 bands listed on that poster playing throughout the weekend. Update – there are actually 60 bands playing 5 different stages for 10 different charities! The festival also features food trucks, a kids area, a vendor fair, a disc golf tournament, and much much more.

The festival also features a disc golf tournament, many different vendors, kids areas, and much more. You can find more information on the festival at logmusicfest.org.

Record Store Day 2021 Drop #2 Saturday, July 17th

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Saturday, July 17th will be the second of two Record Store Day 2021 “Drop Dates” happening this summer. The first one in June was an overwhelming success for us, and we are excited for this next one coming up – we will have even more in store this time than just the exclusive releases!

Of course, we will have all of the exclusive releases being released by Record Store Day. There are close to 200 of them coming out for this specific date, and you can check out the full list at recordstoreday.com. Note: some of the releases originally planned for the first drop date last month got pushed back to this one coming up. And as usual, we can not place any holds on these items. They are first come, first serve.

One thing we are doing differently with handling our store right when we open at 8:00 am: to avoid a chaotic stampede, we will be letting in people 12 occupants at a time to our store at the start of the day. There will likely be a line when we open at 8:00 am, so come early if you want to guarantee a good spot!

In addition to all of that we have a few other goodies for you. We will have free coffee provided by Redbud City Coffee Roasters. There will also be some sales! We will be running a 10% off sale on everything in the store that is not RSD releases, and also 50% off dollar records. AND for the first time in over a year, we have live music in our store! Performances will be Idle Oath at 5:00 pm and Jessica Knight at 6:00 pm.

Hopefully we’ll see you there! The store is open that day from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm. Check out a facebook event right here!

Forest Saints: “Orenda Dimension”

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With all of his different recording projects, Mark Schwartz (End Times Trio, Forest Saints, Demons on Wheels, Tin Ghost, etc) is putting out albums at a faster rate than we can post about them! Today we bring you a brand new album by his psychedelic recording project Forest Saints. It’s a fifteen-track release entited Orenda Dimension and you can find it streaming on the player below. This would be the follow up to Forest Saints’ Pensive Innocents from late last year, and also is the 13th release from that project alone going off of what’s listed on the bandcamp page. You can also head on over to the Forest Saints bandcamp to stream all of that projects releases as well as purchase the downloads of all of the albums.

Mark was also a part of the project “Splendid Flunkys” along with Scott Faingold, which also put out an album at the start of June. We’ve got both of these releases on our Springfield album archive page now for 2021.

Levitt AMP Springfield Music Series Tonight: The New Orleans Jazz Ramblers and Kevin Hart Trio

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How about kicking off the month of July with a free concert, buncha fireworks, and a whole lotta JAZZ? Whoop! That sounds like a nice time, and that’s what’s going on tonight for the next Levitt AMP Springfield Music Series free concert happening tonight out on the y-block. This is concert number 5 in the 10 part series that goes until August 5th, so we are pretty much halfway there!

The headlining act tonight is The New Orleans Jazz Ramblers. “Famous in the Crescent City for their musicianship and performance history, the New Orleans Jazz Ramblers are “the real deal.” Then the opening act right at 6:00 pm is The Kevin Hart Trio – a group from right here in Central, Illinois.

The concert tonight kicks off at 6:00 pm, goes until 8:30 pm, and there will be a firework display to see on Capitol Avenue and from the y-block directly afterwards. Continue checking the Levitt Amp Springfield site for the concert schedule for the following weeks!