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The State Journal-Register: “Musicians Adjust To Cancellations”

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An article in the City State section of today’s State Journal-Register touches on how some local musicians have been coping with shows cancelling in the area (and around the globe) due to COVID-19 and the stay-at-home order. Pictured above and in the article is Micah Walk of folk group Deep Hollow, who also gives guitar lessons and manages to do so now through webcam from his home. Steven Spearie also interviewed local solo artist Ben Bedford about how his upcoming tour dates were cancelled and how he is dealing with the cancellations. From the article:

All of that, woosh, gone,” said Bedford of the shows knocked out by the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. “It makes me slightly nauseous to think of the amount of work and the amount of money that disappeared (from that).”

Now Bedford, who has spent nearly 15 years being a full-time musician, is trying a service called Patreon. For a monthly subscription, Bedford will offer patrons exclusive content not available on his website or other social media platforms, like videos, behind the scene glimpses from his life or songs or lyrics in progress.

Check out a link to the article online right here, or pick up the State Journal Register at your local… grocery store.

Find a link to Ben Bedford’s newly created Patreon page online right here!

New Arrivals This Week at Dumb Records

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What a weird week this is going to be… our store is closed the whole entire week. There are no shows for the foreseeable future. We are only selling things online, offering the option of curbside pickup, or delivering orders directly to you. So far all of that has worked out alright for us in these strange, strange times. Any support we can get from anyone is much appreciated. Anyways… we have a stack of some new LPs, used LPs, 12″ singles and new CDs for you this week as always. Let’s take a look at our hours… we mean let’s link to our Discogs and storenvy pages online and then jump into what’s new.

Link to our online Discogs page right here.

Link to our online Storenvy page (t-shirts, gift cards, and more) right here.

New LPs
Bauhaus – In The Flat Field
Behemoth – I Loved You At Your Darkest
Code Orange – Underneath
Converge – The Dusk In Us
The Damned – Fiendish Shadows
Dan Deacon – Mystic Familiar
Death Angel – Humanicide
KMFDM – Paradise
Jay Reatard – Blood Visions
Mgla – Age of Excuse
Pilgrim State – Effective Spiritual Warfare
Spice Girls – Spice World

Used LPs
Alabama – My Home’s In Alabama
Berlin – Pleasure Victim
Carole King – Simple Things
Chet Atkins – Mister Guitar
Chicago’s Earl of Old Town Cafe & Pub – Entertainment Nightly
Clannad – Clannad In Concert
Clannad – Sirius
Cyndi Lauper – True Colors
Dead Kennedys – Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death
Devo – Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
Electro Quarterstaff – Aykroyd
Elton John – Blue Moves
Elton John – A Single Man
Fleetwood Mac – Penguin
Hank Williams, Jr. – Wild Streak
Gene Watson – Reflections
Gordon Lightfoot – Lightfoot
Gordon Lightfoot – The Best Of
Graham Parsons / The Flying Burrito Bros. – Sleepless Nights
Helen Reddy – I Don’t Know How To Loe Him
Jackson Browne – Late For The Sky
Jimmy Clanton – Just A Dream
Kansas – Drastic Measures
Lester Lanin – Twistin’ In High Society
Low Max – Spitzbube
Merle Haggard And The Strangers – A Working Man Can’t Get Nowhere
Michel Legrand – Windmills of Your Mind
Nelson Olmsted – Tales of Terror
Poetry Grenade – Rocket
Ricky Nelson – Ricky
Roger Williams – Songs of the Soaring 60’s
Savoy Brown – Boogie Brothers
The Screaming Paisleys – Exit
Simply Red – Picture Book
Szakcsi – Sa-chi
Tom T. Hall – The Magnificent Music Machine
Tom Scott & The L.A. Express – Tom Cat
Umbrella – Rough Trade Live!
The Yips – Bonfire In A Dixie Cup
The 700 Club – The 700 Club

12” Singles
Earatik Statik – Evil Is Timeless
Funkmaster Flex – Sad and Blue
Ice Cube – $100 Bill Y’all
Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Love Over And Over
Modill – Vacant Rhymes / Nightly
Whistle – Still My Girl / Transformation

New CDs
Al Jarreau – Best of Al Jarreau
Art Blakey – Drums Around The Corner
Art Blakey – Paris Jam Session
Art Tatum – Art Tatum’s Finest Hour
Bay City Rollers – The Definitive Collection
The Bogside Zukes – Home Again
Boiler Room – Can’t Breathe
Boney James – Backbone
Boney James – Sweet Thing
Boss Hog – Whiteout
Bracket – When All Else Fails
The Breeders – Title TK
Cake – Comfort Eagle
Cake – Fashion Nugget
Canibus – “C” True Hollywood Stories
Coleman Hawkins – Body & Soul
Coleman Hawkins – Ken Burns Jazz
Cracker – Gentleman’s Blues
The Cure – Bloodflowers
The Cure – Disintegration
David Baerwald – Here Comes The New Folk Underground
Bavid Byrne – Look Into The Eyeball
D:Fuse – Psychotrance 2000
Dr. Dre – 2001
Elvis Presley – A Hundred Years From Now
Elvis Presley – Sunrise
Enya – Watermark
Fabolous – More Street Dreams
Freddie Hubbard – Priceless Jazz Collection
Freddie Hubbard – Hub-Tones
Fugees – Bootleg Versions
Gang Starr – Moment of Truth
George Howard – The Very Best of George Howard
Gil Scott-Heron – The Mind of Gil Scott-Heron
Heidi Berry – An Anthology
Jodeci – Diary of a Mad Band
Keith Lockart – Encore!
Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock – Always Let Me Go
Ludacris – Back For The First Time
Master P / Eddie Griffin – Foolish Soundtrack
Ma$e – Double Up
New Edition – Home Again
Oscar Peterson Trio – + One Clark Terry
Oscar Peterson – Plays The Duke Ellington Song Book
PM Dawn – Jesus Wept
Randall Bramblett – No More Mr. Lucky
Steve Earle & The Dukes – Exit O
Thelonious Monk – Jazz Profile
Thelonious Monk – Monk’s Greatest Hits
Various – The Blue Note Years: The New Era
Various – Locked on Unlocked
Warren Hill – Truth
Widespread Panic – Ain’t Love Grand
Widespread Panic – Another Joyous Occasion
X – Hey Zeus
X – More Fun In The New World

Timothy Donavan Russell: “Rest”

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Maybe now with the stay-at-home order we should start expecting to see more music coming especially from all of the solo musical projects of Springfield, such as solo ambient artist Timothy Donavan Russell! Today we bring you a new album from Timothy – this one is two longer tracks, under the release name Rest. You can find that streaming on the player embedded below. This time Timothy actually has some others joining him on this release, from the bandcamp notes:

1) echo – ft Ted Russell on guitar as discovered on the old Starry Eye echoplex (for our collective histories and ancestors)

2) beginning – ft Garrick Veenstra on voice (for Galileo the Cat and all sentient beings)

Head on over to Timothy’s bandcamp page to download the album at your own price. This is Timothy’s first release on his bandcamp so far this year – we’ve also added this one to our Springfield album archive page bringing us to 11 releases we have kept track of this year so far.

Satisfy: “My Way” (Music Video)

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How’s everyone doing out there this week? Let’s see if we can get the local music news and updates coming this next couple of weeks as the COVID-19 lockdown continues… here is a hot, brand new music video recently released by Springfield artist Satisfy. That is for the song “My Way” and you can check out the video, filmed by Visual Paradise, on the player below. As you can see, the video was shot in downtown Springfield (probably when it was a safer time to go outside). Satisfy is a part of the DB Entertainment collective.

“My Way” is the second track off of the Satisfy album, Take A Deep Dive Into What I Go Through, which was released last year. This video and many other music videos shot over the years are listed on our vids/pics page.

Hospital Job: “Covers”

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Springfield / Chicago based pop punk band Hospital Job have surprised us all with a release of four new recordings on their bandcamp page under the title Covers. The four songs are different covers of songs originally by Old 97s, Woody Guthrie / Wilco / Billy Bragg, Ryan Adams, and Blaze Foley. Check those out streaming on the player below. These set up covers are also being released for a good cause during these times. From the Hospital Job bandcamp:

Covers of some of my favorite songs. 100% of money collected will go to Direct Relief. I will also match the funds, giving the same amount to Protezione Civile, the Italy national emergency service, so please give if you can.

Head on over to the Hospital Job bandcamp page and pay what you want to go towards the cause.

Hospital Job don’t have any shows lined up… but neither does anybody right now!

Dizzy Vibez: “Nina” Feat. AJ Bee

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Here we are again catching up on some more local music that has came out in the past month or so that we may have missed, while we are on lock-down. Today we bring you a hot new track from local hip hop artist “Dizzy VIBEZ” called “Nina.” This track features AJ Bee and you can find it streaming below.

Check out more of Dizzy Vibez’ music out on Soundcloud right here.

Activator Magazine Presents: Bottom Bracket (Video + Interview)

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This one is a little bit of old news, but while we are all cooped up – we’ve got time to dig back up some of that! Going along with the cover of Activator Magazine‘s March issue being Bottom Bracket with an interview about the band’s new album, I Don’t Care Enough To Stay coming out later this month on Rat King Records – Activator also added to their video series and posted some live footage of the band at their house, The CFP, and an interview as well. You can check out that video below.

Of course now, Bottom Bracket’s release show previously scheduled for March 28th here at Dumb Records with Looming, Nectar, and more has been postponed to a later date to be determined. Activator Magazine has also announced they will not be doing a print issue for April due to COVID-19.

Next Activator Print Issue Postponed Until May, Digital “Stay At Home” Issue Coming

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As all of our local businesses and lives are adapting to the times that we are in, Activator Magazine is also adapting to the times as well and have announced that they will be skipping the month of April for having a physical print copies. From the Activator Magazine facebook page:

So the world is crazy right now. In light of everything going on in relation to COV-19 we’ve decided to not have a print edition of Activator Magazine for April. We’ll move the cover artist for that issue into May. Hopefully we’ll be back with a full regular print issue at that point.

However in its place we are going to release a special digital “Stay and home and listen to music” edition. It’ll have some good content (we’re still figuring out what that’s going to be). We’ll also be working on some Spotify playlists for the Activator community and maybe some fun surprises.

If your reading this and would like to submit anything for this special issue (ie scene reports, poetry, comics, art) shoot me an email at activatormagazine@gmail.com.

Everyone stay safe and healthy and we’ll all get through this crazy time together.

You can continue supporting Activator Magazine online by contributing to their ongoing
Patreon page. Keep an eye on the Activator facebook page as well because there may be things in the works as far as organizing live streaming “shows” happening with Central Illinois bands.

Dumb Records Gift Cards Now Available Online

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As we adapt to the times more and more, we are re-vamping and adding / updating things to our online store. Today we added Dumb Records gift cards – now available in $25 and $50 variants on our storenvy site – however, get in touch with us if you would like a different custom amount. We might even have it set up to where you are paying less than $50 for a $50 gift card.

Find that on our storenvy site right here. Don’t forget to check out any of our 5,200+ items listed on our Discogs page online if you are up for browsing our selection right now instead of waiting until our physical store opens back up.

Sonic Maximizer: “Barco De Montana”

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Enough about talking about how everything is cancelled, on with the new local music! Springfield / Taylorville surf rock group Sonic Maximizer have released a brand new track off of their upcoming album The Heavy Surf Sounds of Sonic Maximizer. The track is called Barco De Montana and you can find it streaming on the Youtube player below.

Sonic Maximizer’s album release show was scheduled to happen on Saturday, April 4th at Buzz Bomb Brewing Company here in downtown Springfield. With the future being so uncertain, Sonic Maximizer has stated – “our album release party is still tentative, but regardless our album will come out on 4/4/2020 and is available to all online”.