Okay, more local music! Do y’all like to rock? Well we are pretty sure Robot Army from Taylorville does, and they are here with a brand new 2021 EP featuring 5 new tracks of their metal / punk / rock music. As far as we can tell, this release is streaming on spotify online right here and also on youtube music right here! Oh, and even another site right here! None of those we could find to embed into our website post though, sorry.
We do not have physical copies of this EP in the store at Dumb Records (sorry if the picture is misleading)! We are adding this one to our list of 2021 local releases on our Springfield album archive page!
Happy Tuesday! We have been dumping out records (new and used) onto the shelves at Dumb Records at a dangerous rate. So dangerous lately in fact, that we need help obtaining new collections of new records. Do you know of anybody looking to sell their collection?? Send them our way, because we are always buying used collections of records!! This week we’ve got a lot of stuff. These are all records (no CDs this time, sorry). Our store is open currently every day from 11:30 am to 5:30 pm downtown, and we open early at 10:00 am on Saturdays. Here is that list of what’s new:
New LPs Aretha Franklin – Songs of Faith Bad Example – Bad Music Beastie Boys – The In Sound From Way Out The Beatles – Help! Boygenius – Boygenius Charles Bradley – Black Velvet The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Time Outtakes Fleetwood Mac – Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac Foo Fighters – Concrete And Gold The Grateful Dead – Grateful Dead Jimmy Eat World – Inverted Jimmy Eat World – Stay On My Side Tonight John Coltrane – Blue Train John Lee Hooker – John Lee Hooker Kishi Bashi – Omoiyari Lady Gaga – Joanne Local Drags – Keep Me Glued Metallica – 5.98 EP Moses Sumney – Aromanticism Morrissey – This Is Morrisey Motorhead + Lemmy – Live To Win My Brightest Diamond – This Is My Hand New Order – Technique Nine Inch Nails – Add Violence No Doubt – No Doubt Radioactivity – Radioactivity Radiohead – Hail To The Thief Rob Zombie – The Lunar Injection… Roosevelt – Polydans Pink Floyd – Obscured By Clouds Santana – Soul Sacrifice Spelljammer – Abyssal Trip Turnover – Magnolia Twentyone Pilots – Blurryface Wire – Chairs Missing
Used LPs Amy Grant – In Concert Volume II Andy Williams – Happy Heart The Atkins String Company – The Night Atlanta Burned Benny Goodman – Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert Vol. 1 Billy Campbell – Make The World Go Away Bobby Enriquez – Live In Tokyo Bobby Gordon – The Lamp Is Low Bobby Sherman – With Love, Bobby Bobby Vee – The New Sound From England Bruce Springsteen – Darkness on the Edge of Town Bruce Springsteen – Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. Cheap Trick – Next Position Please Cheap Trick – Standing On The Edge Cheap Trick – One On One Count Basie – Sixteen Men Swinging The Cryin’ Shames – A Scratch In The Sky David Bowie – Never Let Me Down Dick Curless – Tombstone Every Mile Dionne Warwick – No Night So Long Duke Ellington – The Best Of Fleetwood Mac – Behind The Mask Focus – Moving Waves Gary Morris – Why Lady Why The Gator – Amateur Cartography George Jones And Tammy Wynette – Golden Ring Hank Williams – Hank Williams Herb Alpert – Beyond Horst Jankowski – More Genius of Jankowski The J. Geils Band – Freeze Frame Jerry Jeff Walker – A Man Must Carry On Jethro Tull – Under Wraps Jethro Tull – Stormwatch Jethro Tull – Crest of a Knave Kansas – Song For America Kathy Troccoli – Stubborn Love Kim Carnes – Barking At Airplanes The Kinks – Come Dancing With The Kinks Leon Russell – Hank Wilson’s Back Vol. 1 Lou Rawls – When You Hear Lou, You’ve Heard It All The Manhattan Transfer – Pastiche Mason Proffitt – Come And Gone Martin Denny – Exotica Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels – Greatest Hits The Music Improvisation Company – The Music Improvisation Company Neil Diamond – His 12 Greatest Hits Null – Sleepwalking Days The Partridge Family – The Partridge Family Album The Partridge Family – Sound Magazine Peter Finger – Acoustic Rock Guitar Rainbow – Bent Out Of Shape Ray Conniff – Jean Roger Miller – Roger Miller Same Cooke – Also Starring Charlie Francis Stan Kenton – The Comprehensive Kenton Tom T. Hall – I Wrote A Song About It The Trammps – Disco Inferno Various – Country Christmas Favorites Various – A Mowtown Christmas Various – Roots 5th Anniversary Album Xavier Cugat – Latin For Lovers
12” Singles Cher – Hell On Wheels Ghostface Killah – Never Be The Same Again N.O.R.E. – Live My Life Outerlimitz – Packaged In Plastic Ramming Speed – When You Walk In The Room Tumchee – Live In Stereo
In case you were not already aware by see in the cover of this month’s Activator Magazine (found all over town) – local singer / songwriter Arlin Peebles has a brand new 5-song EP out. And it’s real nice. Arlin’s newest release is called Someone Else’s Dream and it was recorded down in Carbondale during this pandemic. You can stream some of that on the youtube player embedded below. Also head over to Arlin’s bandcamp page to find more of his music. From Arlin’s blog:
My new EP “Someone Else’s Dream” is entering its final phase and I hope to have it released by the end of the year. It’s been over a year in the making with lots of help from my friend Kevin Ohlau. It was a really fun process to make this record. I recorded the guitar and vocal parts at home and then took my mobile recording rig down to Carbondale to have Kevin fill in the cracks. He added piano, bass, organ, sax, backing vocals, drums and whatever else we could find laying around his studio. It really pays to have your best friend be a talented multi-instrumentalist. We did this all in January and February before the virus hit and I’ve been mixing and mastering at home ever since. There were a couple tracks that weren’t quite finished so I sent the files down to Kevin and he’s recording them as I type.
We are adding this one as the sixth release we have kept track of so far for 2021 on our Springfield album archive page.
Dumb Records co-owner Brian Galecki was / is one of many members of the music and arts community in Springfield featured in an article that came out within this past week in the Illinois Times called “Performing In A Pandemic.” Rachel Otwell put the piece together touching base with a lot of music art spaces in town and what they have been doing while “normal life” or normal live shows are still somewhat on hold. You can find the entire article online right here, or by picking up a copy of The Illinois Times at various locations around town for free. Also featured in the article is The Hoogland Center For The Arts, The Legacy Theatre, Springfield Dance, Springfield Ballet Company, UIS, CAMP, DSI, the Springfield Area Arts Council, and more.
“Downtown Springfield Inc. (DSI) is planning for an outdoor concert series this year. It will be free to attend. In 2019, DSI secured its first Levitt AMP grant to host outdoor concerts on the Y block. It again got the grant for 2020, but the series was canceled. DSI recently learned it is guaranteed a Levitt AMP grant for 2021 as well as 2022.
DSI director Lisa Clemmons Stott said the plan is to create pod seating arrangements, where families and groups of up to six people sit together, but wear masks when not in their own socially distanced area. It’s too soon to announce a lineup, Clemmons Stott said. “Right now we’re looking to expand our partnerships and looking to expand the number of sponsors.” She said the 2021 venture will be more expensive to produce than it had been in 2019, with the goal for sound to cover the entire block where people will be spread out.“
Great news everybody, we once again have the new issue of Activator Magazine! It’s March 2021. This issue features local singer/songwriter Arlin Peebles crawling out of a snowy cave.
In addition to the interview with Arlin Peebles – this month continues to feature a column by Dumb Records co-owner Brian Galecki called “Dumb Perspective” exploring some Central Illinois local music history. This time it’s about Golden Voice Recording Co. which existed from 1966-1978 and some other stuff. This issue also features plenty of local and non-local music reviews, an interview with new Springfield band The Lovelorn, an interview with Derrick Streibig, a “soundcheck” section checking up on local musicians, and much much more.
Pick up a copy of Activator Magazine for free at Dumb Records or other locations around town! We have some back issues available as well! Also check out the Activator Patreon page and consider donating!
Guess what!? Today’s a release day for a brand new local album that is being put out on WAX! *(You know we love it when that happens). That’s the second full length album from Springfield / America local band Local Drags! The new album is called Keep Me Glued and you can stream it on the player below! This one is being released by Stardumb Records, and we have plenty of copies in the store – both on “chemical lake blue” and “black” vinyl! Head on over to the Local Drags bandcamp page to purchase the download of the album or check out more of their music.
Local Drags released their first album Shit’s Lookin’up a couple of years ago. (We also have vinyl of that one in store)! They’ve also released some EPs and Tom Petty covers.
Good morning! We’ve still got a lot of catching up to do on local music that has been released this year in Springfield. Here is the first one (?) (we have kept track of anyways) of Mark Schwartz’s projects to release an album this year. That is the experimental folk project “Tin Ghosts” here with a brand new album called Love & War. It’s a whole whopping 23 tracks and you can stream it on the player embedded below. You can purchase the download of this album on the Tin Ghost bandcamp page, as well as check out more music.
Good late afternoon / early evening! Whoops! We are slow getting you our new arrivals list today, but that is because we’ve been so dang busy with all of these records coming in and out of the store all of the time! There are tons of records! We are open every day at 418 E Monroe Street downtown – and now our hours are 11:30 am to 5:30 pm every day. Online is still busier than ever too at shopdumbrecords.com! What else is new… we got more lava lamps… turntables… the arcade is still open. That’s pretty much it. Here is a list of new records, we don’t even care about CDs this week!
New LPs Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire For No Witness Audioslave – Audioslave Benny The Butcher – Burden of Proof Bon Iver – Blood Bank Bonny Light Horseman – Bonny Light Horseman Botany – End The Summertime F(or)ever Fleetwood Mac – Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac The Hold Steady – Open Door Policy James Brown And His Famous Flames – Tour The U.S.A. Kings of Leon – When You See Yourself Metallica – The $5.98 EP Mort Garson – Didn’t You Hear? My Brightest Diamond – This Is My Hand Oliver Tree – Ugly Is Beautiful Skullcrusher – Skullcrusher Son Lux – At War With Walls & Mazes Uncle Tupelo – Anodyne Wire – Chairs Missing
Used LPs ABBA – The Visitors April Wine – First Glance April Wine – The Nature of the Beast Arthur Brown – The Crazy World of Arthur Brown Barbara Mandrell – Moods Barbra Streisand – The Barbra Streisand Album Bill Monroe – The Father of Blue Grass Music The Cult – Love Dave Gardner – Did You Ever? Dionne Warwick – Very Dionne Dukes of Dixieland – The Dixieland Greats Eddy Howard – The Uncollected 1946-1951 Elton John – Tumbleweed Connection Elvis Presley – Sings Flaming Star Eric Clapton – August Erik Satie – The Electronic Spirit of Erik Satie Fleetwood Mac – Tusk Frank Sinatra – Sinatra’s Swingin’ Session! Frank Sinatra – Greatest Hits: The Early Years Frank Sinatra – Sings Days of Wine And Roses Frank Sinatra – L.A. Is My Lady Freddy Fender – Before The Next Teardrop Falls Freddy Weller – The Roadmaster Gap Band V – Jammin’ Glenn Miller Orchestra – Great Songs Of The 60’s The Hollies – Greatest Hits The Kinks – The Kinks Greatest Hits! Kitaro – Oasis Jane Jarvis – To Hoagy With Love Jethro Tull – Heavy Horses Jethro Tull – Songs From The Wood Joe Williams – Nothin’ But The Blues John Coltrane – Countdown John Lennon – Men Love Ave. Johnny Mathis – In Person Johnnie Ray – The Best of Johnnie Ray MFSB – Universal Love Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels – Take A Ride Mott The Hoople – Rock and Roll Queen Paul McCartney – Tug of War Paul Revere And The Raiders’ – Greatest Hits Rainbow – Difficult To Cure Ramsey Lewis – The Movie Album Ringo Starr – Ringo Sam The Sham And The Pharaohs – On Tour Stan Freberg – A Child’s Garden of Freberg Styx – Caught In The Act Stuff – More Stuff Stuff – Stuff The Temptations – Anthology Toby Beau – Toby Beau Toquinho – Acquarello Tomita – Tomita’s Greatest Hits Tuck & Patti – Tears of Joy Warren Baker – 77 Sunset Strip Willie Nelson – Sings Kristofferson Willie Nelson – Without A Song Wings – Venus And Mars Wings – Back To The Egg Wings – Wings Over America Wynton Marsalis – Hot House Flowers The Ventures – The Ventures on Stage Various – Grand Ole Country Hits Various – Joyful Moments Various – Paper Roses Various – Spuds MacKenzie’s Party Faves Various – The Very Best In Country Music
12” Singles Don Blaq – I’ll Explain Don Yute – Row Da Boat Donell Jones – This Luv Down Street Playaz – Game In My Heart Ja Rule – Mesmerize feat. Ashanti Trenseta – Freak Ya Body Trina – No Panties
Whoops! We have a lot of catching up to do as far as what’s been released for local music so far this year, in the year 2021. Here we go trying to catch up a little bit. Here is a new one for solo instrumental ambient / electronic project – Imaginary Colours with a new five track release that came out right at the start of the year called Subnivean. You can check that out streaming on the player below. Also head on over to the Imaginary Colours bandcamp page where you can purchase the download of the release or check out more music!
Here we go again trying to keep a list of what all local releases have came out this year. This puts us at 2 for the year on our Springfield album archive page!
November is over. We extended November through the end of February for our Ghost N’ Goblins Arcade Contest, so now it’s really over. Now that it’s over over, that’s a wrap on our first ever arcade contest (finally)! Here are the high scorers (official):
KOLTON – 164,300 LUIS P – 160,900 ZAXXON – 61,500 JIM W – 52,000 CONNOR S – 24,700 TYLER S – 18,300 TOM R – 16,700 LANNY D – 12,300 GREG – 7,700 SAM R – 4,500
Wow! Congrats to all of these winners out there. Kolton and Luis P come on down to our office to claim your prizes! Kolton gets $100 in downtown gift certificates for places including Prairie Archives, Jerk Shop Go, Whimsey Tea Company, and Custom Cup.
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