The records are rolling in strong over at Dumb Records, record store located at 1107 South Grand Ave East here in Southtown. This morning we are giving you just a taste of the piles and piles of great used selection that has been currently hitting the shelves. News on an open mic inside the store at the end of the month coming soon. Let’s take a look at the store’s operating hours for the week and then jump into those new arrivals:

Tuesday (today): noon – 8:00 pm
Wednesday: noon – 8:00 pm
Thursday: noon – 8:00 pm
Friday (show): noon – 9:00 pm
Saturday: 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Sunday: 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Monday: noon – 8:00 pm

Used LPs
Bruce Springsteen – The Wild, The Innocent & The Street Shuffle
Crazy Horse – Loose
Endless Love – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Dead or Alive – Youthquake
Foghat – Stone Blue
Foreigner – Agent Provocateur
Ghostbusters – Original Soundtrack Album
Herb Alpert and the T.J.B. – A Secret Place
Jay Ferguson – Thunder Island
Kraftwerk – Radio-Activity
Kenyon Hopkins – The Strange One – Music From The Sound Track
Maynard Ferguson – Hollywood
Michael Butler – Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical
Neil Young – Hawks & Doves
Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Rust Never Sleeps
Oscar Peterson – Jazz Brasileiro
Out of Africa – Motion Picture Soundtrack
Pete Townshend – White City
Picnic – Music From The Sound Track
Poco – Blue And Gray
REO Speedwagon – Nine Lives
Rick Wakeman – Criminal Record
Robert Palmer – Heavy Nova
Robert Palmer – Pride
Steve Winwood – 20^th Anniversary Edition: A Compleat Collection
Various – Hit 45’s of the 70’s, Vol. II
Various – The World of Private Music
Various – 70’s Gold
Wake Nights – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
The Wiz – The Super Soul Musical “Wonderful Wizard of Oz”
Yes – Tales From Topographic Oceans
Youngblood – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
2001: A Space Odyssey – Volume Two
The 5^th Dimension – Greatest Hits on Earth

What’s up people, here is a show announcement for a show happening in exactly one week on Sunday, February 5th. Actually, it’s the next show happening at Black Sheep! Wowzers! This one features touring act from Madison, Wisconsin called “Dumb Vision.” Check out some of their tunes streaming on the player below. What do you know, we also have the presidential themed rock band “Lincoln’s Tunes” aka Lincoln’s Tomb on board for this one. We also have the grunge-y alternative rock group Stereo Static taking the big stage. Before that there are a couple of noise projects – we have the local noise/industrial project Weeping Iniquity and also a newer noise project from Champaign-Urbana called Can-Ka’ No Rey.

That is five acts all starting at 7:00 pm and for just $5. Check out a facebook event for this one right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a good look at what else is coming up at Black Sheep this year.

It’s been a minute, but just because we may have missed a couple of weeks on new arrivals posts for Dumb Records doesn’t mean the store is not getting in stacks upon stacks of new great vinyl every day. Tonight we bring you the list of what’s new in the store from the past week- mostly a good chunk of used LPs and 7″s for your ears. Let’s take a look at the store’s hours for this week and then dive in to the new arrivals:

Wednesday: noon – 8:00 pm
Thursday: noon – 8:00 pm
Friday (show): noon – 9:00 pm
Saturday (show): noon – 9:00 pm
Sunday: noon – 8:00 pm
Monday: noon – 8:00 pm

New LPs
Code Orange – Forever

Used LPs
ACDC – If You Want Blood
Andy Griffith – Just For Laughs
The Animals – Ark
The Bastard Noise – A Culture of Monsters
The Beach Boys – Surfin’ USA
Cheap Trick – Cheap Trick
Chér – Chér
Chér – Foxy Lady
Cream – Wheels of Fire
David Rose & Orchestra – Strings Alive
Def Leppard – High n Dry
Del Wood – Rousing Ragtime
Despise You – West Side Horizons
Duane Eddy – Twangy Guitar Silky Strings
Elton John – Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player
Ferrante & Teicher – Tonight
Ferrante & Teicher – Salute Nashville
The Foggy River Boys – Reaching Out!
George Stone – 51 Organ Skating Favorites
Iron Lung – Sexless / No Sex
Johnny Cash – The Mighty Johnny Cash
Ken Griffin – The Best of Ken Griffin
Lenny Dee – Down South
Montovani – All Time Romantic Hits
Pappy Lanahan – Honky Tonk In Percussion
Paul McCartney & Wings – Red Rose Speedway
Pete King Orchestra and Chorale – Moon River
The Plastic Ono Band – Live Peace In Toronto 1969
Poco – Deliverin’
Queen – Greatest Hits
Rollins Band – Weight
RUSH – Caress of Steel
Sammi Smith – Help Me Make It Through The Night
Thou – Summit
Tommy Garrett – Six Flags Over Texas
Toto – Hydra
Various – Kings of Swing!
Various – Magic Moments
Weekend Nachos – Punish And Destroy
Weekend Nachos – Worthless

Used 7”s
Bate – Chrimes
Canadian Rifle / American Cheeseburger – Split
Confront – The Curtain of an Intense Attack
Discharge – Never Again
Disfear & Doomriders – There Is Only Death
Failures – Failures
Merkit / Resurrectionists – Split
Regrets – Pope Floats And So Does Shit
Scapegoat – Scapegoat
Sea of Shit / Socially Retarded – Split
Swallowing Shit – Love Is The Act of Being Moved Into Action
Thou / Human Intruder – A Faire Quarrell
Thrive & Decay – The Hammer That I Once Brought Down

Today we bring you a new hit music video for a newer recording project based out of Springfield called “Forest Saints.” Forest Saints is the solo recording project of Mark Schwartz – local artist and photographer and also member of the free form jazz band End Times Trio. Mark recently released a music video for his song “Stock in Misery” which you can find embedded below.

Forest Saints may be a newer project – but in the past year alone Mark has recorded and released four full length albums under the name. You can find all of those on the Forest Saints bandcamp page right here. There is also a new album in the works.

It’s that time of the year again. Well, not really that time of the year yet, but time to start thinking about that time of the year. If your band is interested in our annual Black Sheep Cover Show then it’s time to reach out to us to let us know what you are interested in doing and start getting that set together. This year we are looking at the weekends of May 12th and 13th and the 19th and 20th as potential dates for a Black Sheep Cover Show at Black Sheep and also at Bar None. Check out photos of last year’s cover show at Black Sheep right here. In all previous years the cover show has also been a benefit of some sort, which will likely continue this year. Last year we were able to raise enough money to be able to support a free show at Rock N’ Roll Hardee’s as part of last year’s Dumb Fest.

If you are interested, please email us at blacksheepspringfield@gmail.com (serious inquiries please)! We also prefer already existing original bands coming forward to do cover sets instead of new groups getting together just for this. We will have all of the inquiries down that we hear from in the next few weeks on a list to check back with at the end of March / beginning of April and will determine a lineup based on which of those bands have already started getting sets together.

_{*Note: no bands actually play any covers of any licensed music inside of Black Sheep. F*#% you, ASCAP and BMI.}

We’ve had 2 shows so far this year at Black Sheep and they’ve both been hits. Tonight we are bringing you a video of the second show of the year which took place on Saturday, January 7th about a week ago. This video is of a song from new Springfield punk band Nagasaki’s set (also pictured above). Let’s keep that 2017 slamcam rolling! Check out the video of Nagasaki performing below. Also check out a video of their entire set right here thanks to videographer Gordon Chang.

Check out any of our 100+ videos from Black Sheep over the years on our vids/pics page.