Pay attention, because we are here now to tell you about a pretty sick gig happening on Thursday, November 14th at our space. You’re all invited. This show features Jupiter Styles, which has been making a big splash in the Chicago area and features Sean Neumann (formerly of Single Player, Nectar, Easter, and maybe some other bands that have played at Black Sheep). Stream some of their up and coming big hit album on the player below. Also on this show is the return of Bottom Bracket, back with a brand new lineup or something? We heard a rumor that every single former member of the band has now been replaced with a brand new members from all over the world, we are going to have to see if that is true. Also this is the return of Kate Laine who we have also not seen in a minute! Opening things up is some new group from Alton, Illinois called “Yeah, I’m Sorry.” What kind of a name for a band is that?

This all starts on November 14th at… 7:00 pm and admission is $7. Check out a facebook event right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a look at everything else coming up this fall.

We’ve got another show coming up in November – this one is also one month from now on Saturday, November 9th. It’s a hip hop show featuring a group of artists all of which have never played at our space before. The headlining act here is an artist by the name of Mac Xavier, who was originally based out of Springfield but has since moved to Georgia. You can check out his music streaming on the player below. The poster has three other artists listed from the area. One of those includes “Satisfy.” It also includes…. King Deezy. And… “Unk”?! We can’t find Unk on the internet. Plus it looks like there’s more!

The poster says something about a VIP package but we told the promoters in this case that we are not really sure how that would work or make sense with our record store setup and being open all day before the show. Oh well. General admission for this show is $10, and let’s go ahead and say it starts shortly after 7:00 pm. Check out a facebook event for this one right here. Also check out our show page for a good look at what else is coming up at our space in the near future!

Yes, we are already to the November show announcements. And this one is a hardcore show happening exactly one month from today on Friday, November 8th! It features the return of Outcast from Kentucky (and no, it’s not the Outkast you are thinking of). Outcast played at Black Sheep a year or so back. Check out their music streaming on the player below. Yes, we also have Springfield straight edge youth crew band Prevention on the lineup. Any fans of metal out there or metalcore? Good, because we have the band “Polterguts” from St. Louis as well. Opening things up is the new wild, fast, AND crazy band, Black Box.

This show will start at 7:00 pm and admission is $7. 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 is coming up in the near future at our space.

Some of you might have been wondering if we are taking part in doing a Halloween show this year. YES, this year we present “The Dumb Records Halloween Special” on Thursday, October 31st. Halloween is on a Thursday night this year. We have a full lineup of bands. At the top of the bill is punky punk act Foam Fangers from right here from our city’s very own dumpsters. Ah yes, and we have Holy Pinto! A band featuring at least one member from the United Kingdom. Stream their music on the player below. Also playing is… Blushe! And before that we’ve got the solo project based out of Decatur, Marble Teeth. Spooky! Opening things up is the absolutely terrifying, the completely ghoulish act from here and Peoria, Sadface Killer!

You can find a facebook event for this big Halloween show right here. It starts at 7:00 pm and admission is $8. Check out a facebook event for the show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a look at what’s going on at Dumb Records into the future.

There are a bunch of shows coming up this fall that we have to tell you about. This one is happening in 20 days on Saturday, October 26th and features a slew or solo acoustic acts. Yes. At the top of the bill is the return of Kate Laine! We have not seen Kate in a minute! Stream some of her music on the player below. We also have Petersburg, IL based younger up and coming artist Emily Hough, as was featured on NBC’s “The Voice!” (She’s really really good). Also the return of HECK from Bloomington, Illinois, aka Hannah Songer. Opening things up looks like is Reggie & The Demons, aka our buddy Niko.

This show will start at 7:00 pm and admission is just $5. Check out a facebook event for the show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page to take a look at everything coming up at our space this fall!

Hear-ye, hear-ye. We’ve got a show happening coming up on Thursday, October 17th at our space. It’s another punk show. For this one we have the band Night Witch coming all the way from Tallahassee, Florida. Night Witch features a guy who presses small runs of records and *little fun fact* pressed the Eggman limited flex. He also played at Dumb Records like five years ago and at Black Sheep in another band like 10 years ago. His name is Tyler by the way. Stream some of Night Witch’s music on the player below. Speaking of Eggman, a newer Springfield band features members of Eggman called “Black Box” is playing. Who else is playing? Foam Fangers. Who is opening this show? GRINN.

This show starts at 7:00 and admission is $7. Check out a facebook event for this show right here. Also of course check out our shows page for a look at what else we’ve got coming up this fall.

What’s up! We have a show to announce right here. It’s happening on Sunday, October 20th right here at the space. What do we got? Some type of really fast hardcore band from Madison, Wisconsin called “Mended” at the top of the bill. Stream their music on the player below. Also on this show we’ve got Final Order. Good, fast, local hardcore, you know the drill.  Then what’s this, we have a new hardcore band from Central Illinois called Bull Cult? Is this the band that we are thinking it is? Featuring members of Ghost Key and Black Teeth from long long ago? Or we might be crazy. Another power electronics / noise act called “Col2apse” on the bill. Is that just pronounced “Collapse”? Opening things up is a brand new new Springfield band playing their first show we know nothing about called “Oh Gosh.”

That show starts at 7:00 pm and admission is $7. Check out a facebook event for the show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page where we keep and active list for everything we’ve got coming up.

Today we are excited to announced that we have made a kinda last minute decision to take on an aftershow for Shonen Knife from Japan who will be playing at Rock N’ Roll one week from tomorrow on Monday, September 30th. The aftershow we are saying is going to start roughly around 9:00 pm over at Dumb Records. It will feature national touring duo Slingshot Dakota from Pennsylvania on Topshelf Records. Check out some of their music streaming on the player below. Also opening things up first on this show is The Telephone Junkies from right here in Springfield. This makes a total of four bands performing throughout the night including Shonen Knife and their opener The Hooten Hallers. Surely these are exciting times.

That show starts tentatively at 9:00 pm at Dumb Records (418 E Monroe) and admission for that one is $8. (The main show is still free). Find a facebook event for the aftershow right here, and a facebook event for Shonen Knife right here. Also check out our shows page for a full list of everything we’ve got coming up.

Are you ready to hear about the first show we have going on in October? Hopefully you are, because October is just a couple of weeks around the corner. This show is happening on Monday, October 4th, featuring all acts from the area all performing at our space for the first time. On the top of the bill is “Greenhouse Opera” – the new full band featuring Dexter Anodyne, local musician who we all know and love. Before that is a newer folk duo that has more recently popped up in town called Idle Oath. You can stream their music on the player embedded below. Also is Skyler Duncan… the band… we don’t know too much about but we feel like the same guys that brought us The Studio Show are up to something again. Opening this show up is acoustic solo act Brian Zilm from Carlinville, Illinois.

This one starts at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. Check out a facebook event for the show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a complete list of what we’ve got coming up at our space in the near future.

Howdy, today we are just stopping in to let you all know of a small last minute addition to the lineup of the show happening this Saturday. That is the indie-rock / alternative group “Thompson Springs” based out of Chicago (pictured above). You can stream their music on the player below to find out what they are all about. Yes, that does make a total of six acts on the bill, but as far as we know they are the only full band act. That show is now:

Sonny & Kade
Thompson Springs
Zach Goriszewski
Amy Quin & The Manic Depressives
Emily Hough
Zach Karraker

You can find a facebook event for all of that right here. The show starts at 7:00 pm and admission is still $5.