It’s been a minute since local music and local bands! Local emo group Bottom Bracket appeared to have done something in the Chicago area recently. The group appeared on Dekalb, Illinois-based radio station WNIJ’s“Sessions from Studio A” which is an ongoing live video and recording series. This was a live video, but also there are now two youtube videos up from the session, each featuring two songs. Some of the songs come from Bottom Bracket’s recent album, I Don’t Care Enough To Stay, and some are brand new. Check out those videos embedded below.
It’s another Tuesday! SO here we are with another great stack of new and used LPs, CDs, and more going out on the shelves here at Dumb Records. Our store is still open everyday from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm here at 418 E Monroe St. downtown. Our arcade is also open those same hours and the great big downtown Springfield pinball tournament is on-going. Our online discogs store can be found right here. Alright, let’s jump into what’s new!
New LPs Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique Bully – Sugaregg Electric Wizard – Wizard Bloody Wizard Deafhaven – New Bermuda Fats Domino – The Best of Fats Domino Iggy Pop – Raw Power Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart Kii – Nightingale Mayhem – Out From The Dark Muddy Waters – The Best of Muddy Waters Slipknot – Slipknot
Used LPs Aerosmith – Permanent Vacation Alabama – 40 Hour Week Bad Company – Burnin’ Sky B.B. King – The Best Of B.B. King The Beatles – Love Songs The Chiffons – Everything You Always Wanted… Chuck Berry – 20 Greatest Hits Crosby / Nash – Live Dave Brubeck Trio / Gerry Mulligan – Blues Roots Dave Rose – A Merry Christmas To You Dionne Warwick – Here I Am Doris Day – Doris Day’s Greatest Hits Genesis – Selling England By The Pound Glenn Miller – Legendary Performer Vol. 2 Glenn Miller – Parade of Hits Harry Golden – Harry Golden Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass – Casino Royale Herb Alpert – The Best of the Brass The Hollies – Romany Jan Garber – The Swinging Sweet Bands Vol. 2 Jethro Tull – Too Old To Rock N’ Roll: Too Young To Die John Schneider – A Memory Like You The Kingston Trio – Stereo Concert Klaatu – Klaatu Leon Russell – And The Shelter People Loreena McKennitt – Elemental Oak Ridge Boys – Room Service Patton – Original Motion Picture Score Pink Floyd – A Nice Pair Sammy Hagar – Rematch The Shirts – Inner Sleeve Skeeter Davis – Best of Skeeter Davis, Volume II Stella Parton – Country Sweet Various – Central Illinois’ Best Rock Various – Flashback! Rock Classics of the 70’s Various – History of Rock N’ Roll Vol. 4 Various – Thank God It’s Friday
12” Singles Astaire – What Have I Got To Lose Aurra – Are You Single Freeez – I.O.U. Klymaxxx – Meeting In The Ladies Room Time Bandits – Live It Up / Juvenile Aquaintance
New / Used CDs Andrew Lloyd Webber – The Music Of Beth Nielsen Chapman – Beth Nielsen Chapman Chuck Mangione – Feels So Good Dion – The Wanderer: His Greatest Hits on Laurie Records Echo & The Bunnymen – What Are You Going To Do With Your Life? Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons – 20 Greatest Hits Frankie Valli – Greatest Hits Girls Against Boys – House of GVSB Guster – Goldfly Herbie Mann – Eastern European Roots Hoodoo Gurus – Magnum Cum Louder Hoodoo Gurus – Mars Needs Guitars! Hugh Masekela – Live At The BBC Hugh Masekela – Time Hubert Laws – The Best of Hubert Laws Hüsker Du – New Day Rising Incubus – Make Yourself Incubus – Enjoy Incubus Keith Sweat – I’ll Give All My Love To You Keith Sweat – Rebirth Leontyne Price – The Essential Mahalia Jackson – How I Got Over Mahalia Jackson – Amazing Grace Marcus Miller – M2 Powerman 5000 – Tonight The Stars Revolt! Powerman 5000 – Mega!! Kung Fu Radio The Presidents of the United States of America – s/t The Queers – Later Days And Better Lays Ramsey Lewis & Nancy Wilson – Meant To Be R.E.M. – Fables of the Reconstruction R.E.M. – In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003 The Replacements – Stink RUN D.M.C. – RUN D.M.C. Scarface – The Fix Simon & Garfunkel – Bookends Snoop Dogg – Bones Super Furry Animals – Rings Around The World Various – The Source Presents Hip Hop Hits Vol. 5 Various – Baby Boy: Music From The Motion Picture Various – The Best of Old Town Doo Wop Vince Gill – The Best of Vince Gill Warren G – The Return of the Regulator 2002 Warren G – Take A Look Over Your Shoulder Yo-Yo Ma – Plays The Music of John Williams
Our first Record Store Day “Drop Date” at the end of last month seamed to go really well, so for the next one coming up on Saturday, September 26th (just less than a couple of weeks away), we are kicking it up one more notch (just a smidgen).
Record Store Day, which is usually a big annual event for us and other record stores around the globe in April, had been pushed back to June this year due to Covid-19, and then again to three separate “drop dates” in August, September, and October to still get exclusive records out to collectors and fans while trying to avoid crowds as much as possible.
For this second drop date on Saturday, September 26th – we are opening our store a tad bit earlier than usual at 10:00 am, and will be open until 7:00 pm. Our arcade will be open during those hours as well, limiting to four people at a time. We are still limiting the total amount of people in our building to ten.
We did order still a very limited amount of RSD exclusive releases this time around, and will also be planning on dropping an amount of new and used vinyl onto the shelves for the first time on that day. Some of the RSD exclusive releases we plan on getting include: George Clinton, Batman & Robin, Death Piggy, Destiny’s Child, The Doors, Fleetwood Mac, Jerry Garcia, Dizzy Gillespie, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Jimi Hendrix, Hootie & The Blowfish, Meat Puppets, Mott The Hoople, Primus, Ramones, Replacements, Residents, Britney Spears, Tegan & Sara, and the Hackers soundtrack. ***Note, we are not guaranteed to get any of those titles, and the ones we get are first-come, first-serve.
We have once again made the local paper it looks like. Yesterday the article, “There’s a fierce battle in downtown Springfield and Dumb Records is the epicenter” went up online over at sj-r.com, and it appears as if this is going to be in print tomorrow for the big Sunday newspaper in the local business section. Thank you to Brenden Moore for writing the article. From the article:
“Running a small business amid a global pandemic is not easy. Many conversations center around how to adapt to the current reality of social distancing and capacity limits and simply surviving in order to reach better times.
This is perhaps most pertinent for business owners running brick-and-mortar stores in downtown Springfield, who have been hurt by the loss of foot traffic as much of the downtown labor force continues to work from home while tourists have stayed away.”
WordPress, why won’t you let us do quote-blocks anymore? Why did you have to take that away? You can check out the full article online right here. You also should be able to find it in tomorrow’s Sunday print issue of the State Journal-Register.
Okay NOW that we’ve gotten the mayor’s emergency order extending round one of our pinball tournament out of the way, we can finally post the results of round one and move on to round two. Round one was a lot of fun, it was great getting over 30 local businesses on board participating, there were a few twists and turns, and a lot of fun was had. Here are the final scores for round one, the names in bold are moving on to the next round. We took the three highest scoring losers to move on to the next round as well to compete in a bracket of their own.
Also pictured above you can see what we have mapped out for round two, which features the game No Good Gofers and runs from today, September 10th through September 19th.
WILLOW & BIRCH = 5,940,070 SPRINGFIELD VINTAGE = 25,537,780
GALLINA’S PIZZA = 4,558,300 CORRINE’S CLOSET = 0
MAYOR LANGFELDER = 33,647,500 RESOURCE ONE = 28,523,470
KRISTI MITCHELL PHOTOGRAPHY = 11,955,060 LA PIAZZA = 8,621,670
Sometimes, we have so much fun and play so much pinball that we forget that we are a record store. We are a record store, and we have a lot of records to go out on the shelves this week! That’s right. Our store is still open every day from 11:00 am – 7:00 pm downtown, we have a big green elephant outside. This week as usual we have new and used LPs, CDs, and more. Alright, here’s what’s new!
New LPs Bauhaus – Mask The Black Keys Brothers Body Count – Carnivore Chris Stapleton – Traveler Collective Soul – Collective Soul Joe Henderson – Page One Molly Tuttle – But I’d Rather Be With You Rex Orange County – Bcos U Will Never B Free Yo La Tengo – Extra Painful
Used LPs Alan Price – Between Today And Yesterday The Beatles – Love Songs Bernie Green – Musically MAD Blue Cheer – Vincebus Eruptum Bobby Bare – Singin’ In The Kitchen David Wilkerson – The Coming Persecution Diana Ross – Anthology Dianne Brooks – Back Stairs Of My Life Floorpunch – Division One Champs Focus – In And Out of Focus Foreigner – Double Vision Harry Belafonte – At Carnegie Hall Jeff Beck – Wired Jefferson Airplane – Flight Log 1966-1976 Jerry Reed – Greatest Hits The Jonah Jones Quartet – Swingin’ Round The World Johnny Kemp – Dancin’ With Myself Johnny Mathis – Romantically Johnny Mathis King Crimson – USA Leo Kottke – Mudlark The Kingston Trio – The Best Of, Vol. II Molly Hatchet – Molly Hatchet Monty Python – Contractual Obligation Album Myleka – Myleka The Oak Ridge Boys – Fancy Free The Oak Ridge Boys – Christmas Patti Austin – It’s Gonna Be Special Perry Como – Como’s Golden Records Peter, Paul & Mary – Late Again Ramones – Pleasant Dreams The Roadside Band – Storms About To Brew Roger Williams – The Solid Gold Steinway The Rolling Stones – Flowers Skeeter Davis – Best of Skeeter Davis, Volume II The Smothers Brothers – Curb Your Tongue, Knave! Spyro Gyra – Catching The Sun Til Tuesday – Voices Cary Various – Superecord. Contemporary Various – Walt Disney Favorites Various – The Young And The Restless The Ventures – The Christmas Album Warren Benson – Percussion Wishbone Ash – Live Dates
12” Singles Funkmaster Flex & Big Kap – We In Here Klymaxxx – Meeting In The Ladies Room Vikki Love – Stop Playing On Me
New / Used CDs Alan Jackson – Here In The Real World Alan Jackson – Greatest Hits Volume II America – Alibi America – Holiday Bill Medley – The Best of Bill Medley Billie Holiday – Priceless Jazz Busta Rhymes – Genesis Dave McKenna / Scott Hamilton – Double Play Diana Krall – Live In Paris Diana Krall – All For You Dynamite Hack – Superfast Frankie Valli And The 4 Seasons – Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 Gerry Mulligan – Watching & Waiting Gerry Mulligan – Mulligan Plays Mulligan Hi-Tek – Hi-Teknology Juvenile & JT The Bigga Figga – Gotta Get It Koko Taylor – Royal Blue Koko Taylor – The Earthshaker Les McCann – Invitation To Openness Les McCann & Eddie Harris – Swiss Movement Little Texas – Big Time Little Texas – Little Texas Mahalia Jackson – Live At Newport 1958 Pat Metheney Group – Speaking Of Now Pat Metheney Trio – 99 > 00 Patty Loveless – Only What I Feel Patty Loveless – Mountain Soul Perfec – Best Kept Secret A Perfect Circle – Thirteenth Step The Psychedelic Furs – The Psychedelic Furs The Psychedelic Furs – Talk Talk Talk Ramsey Lewis – Ivory Pyramid Ramsey Lewis Trio – Appassionata R.E.M. – Document R.E.M. – Dead Letter Office Ruff Ryders – Ryde or Die Vol. III RUN D.M.C. – Raising Hell RUN D.M.C. – Down With The King Shaggy – Hotshot Ultra Mix Simon & Garfunkel – The Very Best Of: Tales From New York Staind – Dysfunction Superchunk – Foolish Superchunk – Indoor Living Various – Bad Boys II: The Soundtrack Various – New Jack City: Music From The Motion Picture Warren G – I Want It All Warren G – Regulate – G Funk Era
Can you believe it, you may have seen this news going viral on the internet last night / this morning, but if not – the unexpected has happened: last night mayor Jim Langfelder showed up to our store with this signed Emergency Order extending round one of our pinball tournament one more day. Then he proceeded to go into the arcade, and set a new high score of over 33 million, currently beating Recourse One here in the first round. Downtown Springfield Inc. caught a video of some of this happening.
We were going to post a big update for the first round today, but now that is pushed back tomorrow. You can expect an updated tournament bracket and clear schedule for the rest of the tournament tomorrow. Follow our facebook page for daily updates on the tournament.
Thank you to our friends once again at Lincoln’s Legends for doing a quick piece on our big Downtown Pinball Tournament and how it came about. The article called “Flipping Out Over Dumb Pinball” has a nice little write-up on the idea of the tournament, and a 18 minute or so long interview or phone conversation where we are kind of goofing off. You can check that all out on the Lincoln’s Legends site right here. From the article:
“The record store is open until 7 pm and Brian mentioned that many business owners will stop on thier way home to check out the store as well as their “competition”. Many even choose to visit during their lunch breaks. The bracket is massive and takes up most of the left wall across from the counter. This close proximity almost forces engagement.“
The final round of our big pinball tournament is TODAY. This means we expect a lot of last minute scores to be rolling in today, and we will also likely post a big update including an updated and revised tournament bracket tomorrow to clearly map out the remaining rounds.
Today we bring you a brand new album from Springfield recording project Demons on Wheels. Demons on Wheels is one of a handful of projects put together by Mark Schwartz as mastermind and multi-instrumentalist, as featured on last month’s cover of Activator Magazine. This new album is called Souvenirs and you can find it streaming on the player below. You can also listen to and purchase more of Mark’s music over on the Demons on Wheels bandcamp page.
Demons on Wheels also released another album, Still Left Standing at the beginning of this year. We’ve also added this one to our Springfield album archive page, bringing us to a total of 44 local releases we have kept track of so far this year.
Here is just another post to let you all know once again that parking downtown is free, and our wonderful Mayor has once again extended that free parking until the end of this month. We have decided to utilize some of this good free parking ourselves and plopped our elephant in front of our store (you aren’t actually supposed to take up spots for more than two hours though).
Parking has been free since we’ve been in a global pandemic. The mayor also came in and played pinball yesterday and set a score of 12,228,250 in our tournament.
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