Springfield pop punk / indie band Attic Salt have officially released their second full length album, Get Wise, out on Jump Start Records. You can check out the album embedded on the player below, or head on over to the Jump Start bandcamp page where you can purchse the download or order the physical album directly from them.
The album is available on vinyl on black or a very nice looking blue transparent. Believe it or not we thought we were stocked full of these records on Friday the day it was released, and then we ran out right away. The plan is for us to get it re-stocked at some point soon this coming week!
It’s been a long time since we’ve made any “today” or “tonight” at Dumb Records posts. Last month, the first Record Store Day “drop date” was a success and we were able to stick to our own guidelines of masks and limiting the number of people in the store, so we are ready for another one of these today. Today is the second of the three drop dates, which are happening at the end of August, September, and October. For these days we are getting in a number of exclusive Record Store Day releases. We listed out some of them on this post, and you can find some pictured above. Once again we have a more limited amount of these exclusives compared to normal Record Store Days we have participated in in the past.
In addition to those exclusive releases, we plan on putting out some more new and used records onto the shelves for today.
Our store is open today a little bit earlier than normal – we open at 10:00 am and are open until 7:00 pm. Masks are required and we are limiting the number of people in the store to 10.
Happy new local music Friday everyone! It’s just been a lot of pinball lately, not a whole lot going on here in terms of new local music. Let’s get back to it! Recently, local sound artist Timothy Donavan Russell dropped three new releases in the forms of albums and songs up online. We have ALL three embedded on players below!
Storment Drome is on the bottom and is two tracks over 7 minutes long. These are “raw drone synth noise field recording weird.” Steps is in the middle, includes five new tracks. Then at the top Pursuant is one track over 8 minutes – “Studio jam on microKORG and Electro-Faustus Drone Thing Mostly in 18/4 time….”
We are participating in a “VIRTUAL CASH MOB.” What is this? What does this mean? It means we are going to be selling a bunch of stuff exclusively through an online store at this time along with a live video showing you these items. There are going to be some really really good deals, so you are going to have to be logged in watching the live video to act quick! This live video will be shown on the Downtown Springfield Inc. facebook page. We will have the link up to an online shop where each item will be for sale as well. For this you can expect good deals on new and used records, turntables and speakers, exclusive t-shirts and merch items, and more surprises along the way!! Expect the cash mob to go for 30 minutes from 12:00 to 12:30 pm. It will also be hosted by Momentum on Main Street member Kristina Barbee. For other examples of Cash Mobs other downtown businesses have been doing, check out the Downtown Springfield Inc facebook page! We will be posting more hints on our facebook page of items we are going to be selling on the virtual cash mob leading up to the event.
The OTHER big thing that is going to be happening LIVE, IMMEDIATELY after we are done with our cash mob also on the Downtown Springfield Inc. facebook page on the same live video is THE FINAL ROUND OF OUR PINBALL TOURNAMENT. By this time the tournament will be down to TWO competing businesses. The game they will be playing, *live* is going to be Blackout (1980). This is a fast moving game, and the winner of the tournament will be the best two out of three of that game. This will be intense. The winner will get a trophy and a gold key to our our arcade, and a champion t-shirt.
THEN, last but not least the WINNER of our tournament will be pulling back the curtain on a NEW GAME that we WILL HAVE in our ARCADE!!!! LIVE!!!!!
You are probably all sick of hearing about this pinball tournament from us by now. Well, it’s still going on, and will be until October 8th. Things are getting more intense, and now even News Channel 20 has caught on to our madness and has decided to cover the story. We appeared on the nightly news this past Sunday night. The article along with video clip online “Dumb Records Hosts Pinball Tournament” can be found online right here. From the article:
“It’s been a blast, it really had. It’s been a great way to just build community. We already have a great community downtown but it’s been a way to further that community,” said Tyler Smith, with the Public Market.
Brian Galecki, co-owner of Dumb Records says it’s a great way to have fun.
As you can see in the video, Dumb Records owner Brian Galecki’s mask has fallen down past his nose. Dumb Records the corporation acknowledges that this is not the appropriate wear to wear a facemask during this pandemic, and proper precautions are being made to notify owner Brian Galecki making sure this will never happen again.
It’s another week. Yes, that is right we do more than pinball here – we are in fact, a record store that sells records sometimes. And this week we have plenty of good and juicy new and used LPs, CDs, 12″ singles, cassettes, and more hitting the shelves. We are giving you a list that is just a taste of some of it this week. And we are still open from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm here at 418 E Monroe downtown. Check out our online discogs store. Okay, let’s jump into what’s new:
New LPs Bikini Kill – Pussy Whipped Bikini Kill – Revolution Girl Style Now Clear Channel – Hell Converge – Unloved and Weeded Out Escuela Grind – Indoctrination Fireburn – Don’t Stop The Youth Foundation – Turncoat Fugazi – 7 Songs I AM – Hard 2 Kill Joyce Manor – Songs from the Northern Torrace Marilyn Manson – We Are Chaos My Morning Jacket – The Waterfall II Neko Case – Furnace Room Lullaby The Pineapple Thief – Versions of the Truth Tenement – Bruised Music Vol. 2 The War On Drugs – Lost In The Dream Xibalba – Anos En Infierno
Used LPs Alice Cooper – Goes To Hell Billy Cobham – Inner Conflicts Black Sabbath – Vol. 4 Blue Cheer – Outside Inside Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska Diana Ross – Diana Duke Ellington – Ellington Uptown Electric Light Orchestra – Olé ELO Engelbert Humperdinck – His Greatest Hits Gary Moore – After The War George Harrison – Cloud Nine Isaac Hayes – Joy James Taylor – One Man Dog Jimmy Smith – Plays Fats Waller Johnny Griffith – Together, Togetherness The Kingston Trio – Time To Think The Kinks – Arthur Or The Decline And Fall of the British Empire Klymaxx – Klymaxx Lynn Anderson – It Makes You Happy Paul McCartney – Pipes of Peace Paul McCartney – Give My Regards to Broad Street Queen – Hot Space Rod Stewart – Every Picture Tells A Story Sawbuck – Sawbuck Scorpions – The Best of Scorpions Simon & Garfunkel – The Concert in Central Park Stan Getz – The Melodic Stan Getz Stanley Turrentine – Sugar Styx – Best of Styx Tom Waits – The Heart of Saturday Night Tranquility – Tranquility Ultimate Spinach – Ultimate Spinach U2 – Joshua Tree U2 – The Unforgettable Fire Various – The Giants of Jazz The Ventures – Beach Party Vince Guaraldi Trio – Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus William Jackson – Heart Music Wings – London Town Yank Lawson & Bob Haggart – The World’s Greatest Jazzband Yes – Yesterdays
New / Used CDs Ali – Original Soundtrack Alison Krauss – Now That I’ve Found You America – View from on the Ground Anthony Papa – Choo Choo Records Volume 1 Billie Holiday – Love Songs Chris LeDoux – Whacha Gonna Do With A Cowboy Dion – Drip Drop: His Greatest Hits Echo & The Bunnymen – Ocean Rain Everlast – Whitey Ford Sings The Blues Go Go’s – Greatest Hits Go Go’s – Beauty And The Beat Guster – Lost And Gone Forever Hüsker Dü – Land Speed Record Hüsker Dü – Candy Apple Grey Incubus – When Incubus Attacks Vol. 1 Incubus – A Crow Left on the Murder Itzhak Perlman – Greatest Hits Volume 2 Itzhak Perlman – Bits and Pieces Jason Moran – Black Stars Jan & Dean – All-Time Greatest Hits Jeff Carson – Real Life John Michael Montgomery – Brand New Me Keith Sweat – Keep It Comin’ Koko Taylor – Force of Nature Liz Phair – Exile in Guyvile Liz Phair – Whitechocolatespaceegg Mickey Gilley – Hits, Honky Tonks and More Mindy McCready – Mindy McCready P. Diddy – We Invented The Remix Pat Metheny – One Quiet Night Patty Loveless – Up Against My Heart Pat Green – Wave on Wave P.O.D. – The Fundamental Elements of Southtown The Pogues – Rum Sodomy & The Lash The Pogues – If I Should Fall From Grace With God The Psychedelic Furs – Mirror Mirror Puddle of Mudd – Life on Display Ramsey Lewis – Priceless Jazz R.E.M. – Out of Time The Replacements – All Shook Down The Replacements – Pleased To Meet Me Sara Evans – No Place That Far Sir Mix-A-Lot – Mack Daddy The Smiths – Strangeways, Here We Come Steady Flow – Straight Outta “P” Terri Clark – Terri Clark Terri Clark – Just The Same Various – Bad Boys: 10th Anniversary Vince Gill – When I Call Your Name Vince Gill – The Things That Matter WAR – Groves & Messages Yo-Yo Ma – Simply Baroque Yo-Yo Ma – Simply Baroque II
These sure are exciting times downtown. We are now right in the middle of our big downtown Springfield pinball tournament and there continue to be many twists and turns! Saturday was the last day of Round 2. Right at the buzzer, Tyler Smith representing Public Market downtown came through with the highest score for the whole round on No Good Gofers with 18,644,600. News Channel 20 rushed in to interview him right away (pictured above). Here is a complete recap on all of the scores for round 2:
ROUND 2: NO GOOD GOFERS (SEPT 10-19TH)
CUSTOM CUP = 8,588,630 BUZZ BOMB = 6,560,210
SPRINGFIELD VINTAGE = 10,989,410 MAYOR LANGFELDER = 11,826,380
Great job, all of the participating businesses. Things are getting more competitive and more intense as we get further into this tournament. Now we are going into the third round, which features the game “PIN•BOT” and goes until this upcoming Sunday, September 27th. There are nine competitors left including eight local businesses and one mayor. Here are the brackets for the current round:
CUSTOM CUP = _ MAYOR JIM LANGFELDER = _ PRAIRIE ARCHIVES = _
THE PHARMACY = _ ALRINGTON’S = _
PUBLIC MARKET = _ OLD STATE CAPITOL = _
CRAFT BEER BAR = _ REVERIE APPAREL = _
Good luck everybody! Continue following our facebook page for more updates.
Yet another local hip hop project has dropped a brand new album during these times. This is a new one from Offwhyte – a long running talented artist originally from the 217 who has moved out to the west coast and back to Springfield over the years. This is Offwhyte’s brand new album called “Propel Exact.” Check some of that out streaming on the youtube player below. Also check out the album on Apple Music right here, or on Spotify right here.
Yet another local hip hop project has dropped a brand new album during these times. This is a new one from Offwhyte – a long running talented artist originally from the 217 who has moved out to the west coast and back to Springfield over the years. This is Offwhyte’s brand new album called “Propel Exact.” Check some of that out streaming on the youtube player below. Also check out the album on Apple Music right here, or on Spotify right here. From Offwhyte’s facebook page:
Galapagos4 cofounder Offwhyte returns, his alter ego taking center stage this time on Propel Exact. Offwhyte’s most fun album to date, the 14-track project is produced by G4 stalwart Open i and clocks in at a hearty 44 minutes. Themes include infatuation (“Sophie Turner”), being a dinosaur (“Velociraptor”), and his age group (“Generation X”). The all-digital album concludes with bonus track “I Am Not a Virus” produced by Kip Killagain. Featured artists on the album include Brzowski, Infinito 2017, Memphis Reigns and Grill Billyenz.
This is one of three albums that Offwhyte has released in the past four years. We are adding Propel Exact to our Springfield album archive page, brining us to
Whoops, it’s about halfway through the month and we are just now letting you know that we have the new new issue of Activator Magazinefor September 2020! As you can see, this one features the band Attic Salt on the cover. They have a brand new album, Get Wise, coming out this month! They are interviewed in this new issue of Activator.
What else does this issue have? No live show calendars, as we are still in strange and scary times, but plenty of album reviews. There is an interview with Jacksonville-based psych band The Dixie Narcos and about how they have been putting out three albums a year for the past three years. Other interviews with Free Range Youth from Decatur, Voldrega the Black Mage from Champaign, a photo spread of some acts at The Alamo, 10 up 10 down with Boss Maseiano, and an interview with Don Brazel of The Bastard Squad, and much much more!
You can pick up a copy of Activator Magazine here at Dumb Records for free, or at other different local locations around Central Illinois.
Yes, it’s that time of the year again, and you all know it! All of your favorite local businesses, bartenders, radio personalities, artists, and bands are asking you to vote for them for the annual Illinois Times “Best of Springfield” awards. This year, we are lucky enough to be featured in THREE categories (even though the sign in the photo up there has two listed). Those are:
BEST MUSIC SHOP
PLACE TO GO DOWNTOWN
BEST MUSIC VENUE (SMALL)
We didn’t want to push the music venue part too hard because we are still not anywhere near it being safe enough for us to have shows or crowds of people here and probably will be for the rest of the year if not a while longer.
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