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Ty Witty & Junior Pasare: “Half Full” EP

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Yesterday we brought you some new local music from Emily Hough with her Glass EP, apparently today we are going to keep going with the Glass theme. Today we have streaming on the youtube player below a new release by local artists Ty Witty and Junior Pasáre called Half Full. That’s five tracks, and you can stream it on the youtube player below, or also check it out on spotify right here. Ty Witty also released an album For When It Rains on his own earlier this year. Junior Pasáre also released an album, We Gone Win earlier this year.

We have added this release to our Springfield album archive page for this year, bringing us to 35 local releases this year we have featured on our site so far.

Emily Hough: “Glass EP”

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Today we are bringing you some brand new local music from an artist based out of the Petersburg area that we are just recently coming finding out about. That is Emily Hough, a younger up and coming solo artist from the area. And Emily put out an EP of original material earlier this summer, called Glass. You can check some of that out streaming on the youtube player below, or find it on youtube right here. Glass is five songs.

We don’t know of any shows Emily has lined up as of right now that have been announced, but keep your eyes and ears out for Emily playing at our space very soon. We also added this one to our Springfield album archive page.

New Arrivals This Week at Dumb Records

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Good morning! Here we are at the start of Tuesday this time with a list of some new arrivals at our record store, right here downtown at 418 E Monroe Street. It’s gonna be a great day. This week we have a list of used LPs, 12″ Singles, new CDs as always… and a short list of cassettes this time around!?! Wow, we are really movin’ on up here in the big city. For shows this week we just got a show (nice and sweet three bands) playing on Friday night. How nice. Let’s take a look at this week’s schedule and then dive into what’s new.

Tuesday (today): 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Wednesday: 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Thursday: 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Friday (show): 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Saturday: 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Sunday: 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Monday: 10:00 am – 8:00 pm

Used LPs
Al Martino – Country Style
Amon Düül II – Vive La Trance
Andres Segovia – Castles of Spain
Beats!!! – The Merseyside Sound
Bellamy Brothers – Howard & David
Buck Owens And His Buckaroos – Bridge Over Troubled Water
Burl Ives – On The Beach At Waikiki
Burning Spear – Live
Chris Rea – Herzkopfen
Cream – Disraeli Gears
Dionne Warwick – Golden Hits Part One
Dolly Parton – Best of Dolly Parton
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Brain Salad Surgery
Faron Young – Hello Walls: Fan Club Favorites
Fat Boys – Crushin’
George Winston – Piano Solos
The Horace Silver Quintet – Silver’s Blue
The Horace Silver Quintet – Song For My Father
Jerry Vale – Jerry Vale’s Greatest Hits
The Jonah Jones Quartet – Hit Me Again
Jonah Jones – And Now In Person
Johnny Cash – Rock Island Line
Johnny Cash – The Baron
Johnny Wright – Hello Vietnam
Judy Tenuta – Buy This, Pigs!
Lone Justice – Lone Justice
Lou Rawls – Live
Mahogany Rush – Mahogany Rush IV
Marie Osmond – Paper Roses
Marty Robbins – The Drifter
The Mindbenders – The Mindbenders
The Night Pastor And Seven Friends – Music To Lure Pigeons By
Quartette Tres Bien – Bully!
Quartette Tres Bien – Our Thing
Quincy Jones – Body Heat
Ron Furr – All Because Of You
Roy Clark – The Roy Clark Guitar Spectacular
The Three Stooges – Christmas Time With The Three Stooges
Tom Lehrer – An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer
Walt Brown / Bill Collins – The Walt Brown Show
Wanda Jackson – The Best of Wanda Jackson
10 C.C. – How Dare You

12” Singles
Chubb Rock – Just The Two Of Us
Colin England – Come Over, Baby Remix
Da Brat – In Love Wit Chu
G-Mack – Hatah’s / Check’s Out
Hurricane G – Somebody Else
Kool Mo Dee – Death Blow
Jay Z – Hovi Baby / U Don’t Know
L.L. Cool J – Strictly Business
Made Men – Is It You? / Tommy’s Theme
Murder Squad – Knock On Wood
RUN D.M.C. – Ghostbusters / Pause
Spice 1 – Playa Man / The Thug In Me

Used Cassettes
Dean Martin – Greatest Hits
Forest Gump – The Soundtrack
Freddy Fender – The Best Of
John Cale – Words For The Dying
Lou Reed – New Sensations
Mariah Carey – Music Box
Nat King Cole – Greatest Hits
Pat Metheny – Watercolors
Roger Miller – Golden Hits
Siouxsie & The Banshees – Twice Upon A Time – The Singles
Tammy Wynette – Super Hits

New CDs
ACDC – Live
Andy Williams – Born Free / Love, Andy
Andy Williams – Greatest Hits
Archie Shepp / Roswell Rudd – Live In New York
Benny Goodman – This Is Jazz 4
Benny Goodman – Stompin’ At The Savoy
Bobby Darin – The Artist Collection
Bobby Darin – Mack The Knife: The Best of Bobby Darin Vol. 2
Count Basie – Golden Hits
Count Basie – Ken Burns Jazz
Duke Ellington – The Far East Suite Special Mix
Duke Ellington – Robert Parker’s Jazz Classics
The Everly Brothers – All-Time Original Hits
Harry Belafonte – Calypso
Henry Mancini – A Legendary Performer
Jack Jones – Greatest Hits
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced
Karl Jenkins – Adiemus Live
John Coltrane – Jazz Showcase
Johnny Cash – The Essential Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash – My Mother’s Hymn Book
Kitaro – Best of Kitaro Volume 1
Kitaro – Dream
Michael Crawford – A Touch Of Music In The Night
Michael Crawford – Michael Crawford’s Favorite Love Songs
Nnenna Freelon – Maiden Voyage
Peggy Lee – Miss Pegy Lee
Peggy Lee – Fever & Other Hits
Perry Como – Class Will Tell
Perry Como – Close To You
Pink Floyd – The Piper At The Gates of Dawn
Pink Floyd – Delicate Sound of Thunder
Rachelle Ferrell – Live In Montreux 91-97
Ricky Martin – Sound Loaded
Stan Getz – Anniversary
Sinead O’ Connor – I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got
Sonny Clark – My Conception
Soul Ballet – Dial It In
Soul Ballet – Soul Ballet

Music Videos: Wolf Crick Boys: “You & I”

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There are so many local music videos for us to keep up with anymore. Today we are bringing you a brand new video from local country rockers Wolf Crick Boys for their song “You & I”, which comes off of their latest album, War And Peace. You can find the video embedded on the player below… maybe? maybe not. If not there, then go check it out on facebook right here. This one was shot and directed by in town by Catalano Creative.

Check out a lot of music videos shot in Springfield over the years on our vids/pics page right here.

September 22 at CFP: Worlds Greatest Dad, Nectar, Attic Salt

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Looks like September is going to be a good month for back to school Springfield house shows, with The Radon Lounge recently announcing a big one on September 27th, and now this one at The CFP on Sunday, September 22nd. For those of you unfamiliar, CFP is a house venue in town and it stands for “The Club For Pets” so bring your pets. This show features world famous band “World’s Famous Dad” from Georgia. Listen to their newest release, Get Over It on the player below. Also on this show is Nectar from Champaign/Urbana, always a solid Champaign band to go on a Springfield show, right? And of course, Attic Salt* is playing this show too, we hear they all live in that basement anyways.

That one starts at 7:00 pm at that house, and the door charge is $5-7. Don’t know where The CFP is? That’s too bad because we can’t tell you. Find a facebook event for the show right here. Also check out our Springfield shows page for a list of other shows happening in town outside of Dumb Records.

Music Videos: Øttø San: “Origin”

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Today we bring you a brand new music video from local hip hop artist Øttø San, who actually performed a song last night in our space with DreTheGuy. This one is for Øttø San’s song “Origin” and you can find it on youtube right here, and also on the player directly below. This one was shot by local videographer Elijah Settles.

You can also find this one listed along with many other local music videos taken over the years in Springfield on our vids/pics page.

 

Illinois Times Best Of Springfield 2019 Nominee Voting Has Begun

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It’s that time of year again. The Illinois Times have once again launched their nominee voting for their annual Best of Springfield series for 2019. Now is your chance to nominate your favorite local businesses and people for various different categories to make it on to final voting later on in September. Check out the nominee voting right here. This goes on from now until August 19th, and actual voting with finalists in each category takes place from September 12th through September 23rd. Yes, this is a popularity contest, it is true.

What categories do we fall under this time around as Dumb Records? This year is the first go-around for the Best Of’s that we have been at our new location downtown, which may open us up to some new categories. It looks like the big one that we want to shoot for getting at least a finalist for this year would be Best New Business Downtown in the “Goods and Services” category. Looks like we might also fit into categories “Place To Go Downtown,” or also “Small Music Venue” as usual. Oh! And also “Best Open Mic Night,” that could be us! It may be ending soon, but The Dumb Records Radio Show can be a contender for “Best Radio Show.” We are never sure if Best Music Shop means record stores or musical instrument stores, but we’ll take any nominations we get for that category.

For the band and musician categories this year, there seems to be less opportunities to vote for your favorite local bands this time around. There are just categories for “Best Original Band,” “Best Cover Band” and “Best Overall Band And Their Genre,” which is sure to leave many disappointed. (Don’t worry, you are all winners in our book). There is an opportunity to vote for your favorite musicians in categories such as “Best Drummer,” “Best Horn Player,” “Best Keyboardist,” etc.

You can also vote for your favorite local music festival, and your favorite local food spots and restaurants. Other fun downtown categories include “Best Use For The Y-Block” “Use for Public Money” or “Use For The Armory.”

We’ll be sure to let you all know when the finalist voting begins and if we make it onto any finalist categories as Dumb Records.

DJ Reco / Various Artists: “Dope: The Mixtape”

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Here’s another very recent local hip hop release that came out last month that we now know about thanks to Ken No of Hip Hop Humpday and Activator Magazine. It is a compilation of songs of artists – 27 songs in fact – put together by DJ Reco, called Dope: The Mixtape. The cover features a building we are somewhat familiar with. The mixtape is streaming on Datpiff.com and you can check it out right here. Can we embed players from Datpiff??? Let’s see… Yes!!? Does that player right down there work? Awesome!

We are adding this release to our Springfield album archive page, bringing us to 33 releases that we’ve kept track of so far this year and 459 total.

Tonight at Dumb Records: Meezy Killafield, DreTheGuy, 4usten, WeBackSoon, Torch_Nation, A Da Real

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Wow, thanks to all who came out last night making it the biggest show we’ve put on at the new space so far! We are keeping the excitement rolling tonight with another all-local bill, this time it’s our second ever hip hop show! There are six acts performing tonight from the area. At the top of the bill is Meezy Killafield, who has been making a splash as a rapper from our area recently. He released an album – “The Killafield Chronicles” within this past year. Also on this show is DreTheGuy aka “DeAndre”, another hip hop artist who has performed at The Radon Lounge and also recently Rock N’ Roll Hardee’s. He just dropped an album called “Lapis Effect” just a few weeks ago. Then we got 4usten… what’s up with the “A” in this guy’s name being a “4”? Come to the show and find out. For some of his set he will be joined by Brayden Schmohe. Pictured on the flier and also playing from Decatur is the rap duo “WeBackSoon Music Group“. You can also find them streaming on the player below. Also is more of an R&B act called “Torch_Nation“, familiar to a number of the Dumb Records and Black Sheep open mics. Great to finally get him on a show! Opening things up is A Da Real, another young up and coming artist we are pretty sure from Springfield High School. Nice.

Tonight we are saying doors are at 7:00 pm and we are starting things at 7:30 pm. Admission is $5. Check out a facebook event for this one right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a good list at what else is coming up at Dumb Bread in the near future.

August 31st at Dumb Records: Prevention, Brute Force, Blushe

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Oh you thought we were done with our August show announcements? Not so fast. There is one happening on Saturday, August 31st the very last day of the month. It’s a short and sweet one, but also a special one because it will be a music video shoot for one of Prevention‘s songs. Just like this. The song the music video is for is their song “Another World.” We are supposed to tell you to learn the words, practice singing along, and your dance moves before the show at home. Also on this show is Brute Force from the Southern Illinois / St. Louis area. Opening things up is Blushe.

This show starts at 7:00 pm and admission is $5, you just can’t beat that. Check out a facebook event for the show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a good look at what else we’ve got coming up at Bread Dumb Records in the future!