Welcome to your weekly dose of new arrivals at Dumb Records (1107 South Grand E Ave) on a Wednesday night! This week’s a weird one because we have Cassette Store Day coming up at the store on Saturday. We’ll have a number of exclusive cassette releases coming out for Saturday, as well as plenty of other cassettes hitting the shelves. We’ll be doing a separate post for all of those cassettes coming up here sometime in the next few days! By the way, did you know our store has a giant green elephant next to it now? This week we have a chunk of new and used LPs and 7″s hitting the shelves. Restock LPs don’t usually get listed in these posts, but you can see some of those new ones pictured above! Let’s also take a look at the store’s hours for this week:

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

New LPs
Nirvana – Transmission Impossible: Rare US TV & Radio Apperances

Used LPs
Al Hirt – Here In My Heart
Al Hirt – Music To Watch Girls By
Andy Williams – To You Sweetheart, Aloha
Andy Williams – Solitaire
Frankie Carle – A Carle-Load Of Hits
Carol Lynn Townes – Believe In The Beat (single)
The Forester Sisters – The Forester Sisters
George Strait – Strait Country
Glenn Miller – Plays Selections from The Glenn Miller Storie
Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra – Symphony For Glenn
Headpins – Stayin’ All Night (single)
Jackie Gleason – Aphrodisia
John Parr – Love Grammar (single)
Loretta Lynn – Singin’ With Feelin’
Mac Davis – Very Best and More
Mario Lanza – The Best Of
Mearjorie Meinert – Organ Fireworks!
Merle Haggard And The Strangers – Swinging Doors And The Bottle Let Me Down
The Mom and Dads – In The Blue Canadian Rockies
Red Phillips – Honky Tonk Piano
Richard “Groove” Holmes – Soul Message
Si Zenther And His Orchestra – The Stripper And Other Big Band Hits
Stone Bolt – New Sea Changes
Trans-X – Living On Video
Various – Jazz Band Ball
The Viking Pops Orchestra – Stardust
Willi Boskovsky / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra – Tales of Old Vienna

Used 7”s
The Accidents – Dannelly Field Airport
Cletus – More Songs About Other People’s Girl-Friends
Dis- / Panel Door – Split
Fliptops / Gloryholes – Split
Patti La Belle and Michael McDonald – On My Own
Toddler – Hey, We’re The International Sweethearts of Rhythm!

It’s Thursday and it’s getting cold out, time for a show tonight at Black Sheep! You remember Euriah– the band from Champaign/Urbana who played that Looming show at Black Sheep last month? Well they are coming back for this one! We also have their new album available for purchase in Dumb Records if you are into them. This time Euriah will be coming with a project based out of Nashville, Tennessee called “Pocket Science.” You can stream some of Pocket Science’s music on the player below. Then we have a couple of locals on this show- including the acoustic duo from Decator- Spooky Poo. Very cool. Opening things up we have a solo set by Bloo Parks of the band Pryss.

This show will be starting at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. You can find a facebook event for this show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a good look at everything else coming up at Black Sheep this fall.

We have a very special show lined up this evening at Southtown record store Dumb Records. We have a show featuring a brand new band as well as a few musicians who have been around making music in Springfield from as early as the 1970’s. That’s right- Dave and Doug Adams will be joining us tonight in the store formerly of the band Food & Money. Check out a video of their band performing in 1980 right here, also check out some of Dave’s newer stuff here. In addition to them we also have the full band SAP playing tonight. And then opening things up is a new two piece project called The Heptanes playing their first ever show.

The show tonight inside the record store will be kicking off at 7:00 pm. We will be collecting $3 suggested donations. You can 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 fall.

So many show announcements to be had, we just can’t contain them! This one is for a show happening on Thursday, October 6th. It features the Nashville-based ska punk band Stuck Lucky. Stuck Lucky first played at Black Sheep a whole 9 years ago in the fall of 2007 and have been back a couple times since in recent years, including for Dumb Fest 3-D in 2015. Check out their music on the player below. Also on this show is rock band Stereo Static, who just played Black Sheep last night. Then we have the surfy almost-ska band The Suction Cups. Opening things up is a performance by the two-piece acoustic project from Decatur, Spooky Poo.

This show will kick off at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. You can find a faceook event for this one right here. Also check out our shows page to take a look at what else we have coming up at Black Sheep this fall.

We just love our friends over at The Radon Lounge so much, we have to tell you about every show that they are doing. This one is happening on Saturday, October 1st (one week from today). We have a WQNA Benefit show happening that night, but we just felt like we needed to mention this show at The Radon as well because the lineup looks so good. This show features the indie/electronic band “Cubits” from Fairfield, Iowa. Check out one of their songs streaming on the player below. Another touring band- Mailboxes from Tennessee will be making a return to The Radon also for this show. Then is an indie-rock duo from Chicago by the name of “Campdogzz.” Opening things up is the newer Jacksonville-based indie project called Skunkworks, who also just played at Black Sheep last night.

This show is happening at The Radon Lounge (check out their website for more info on the address!), starting at 7:00 pm. Admission is $5. You can find a facebook event for the show right here.

It’s a new week, and our Southtown record store- Dumb Records (1107 South Grand East Ave) is still going plenty strong with some new arrivals this week. This week we have a stack of used records, as well as a few new, and 7″s used and new. Don’t forget there are also two shows happening in the store within the next week – one tomorrow night at 9:00 pm and then another one this Sunday. Also there is a good chance that we will need help moving an elephant at 5:15 next to Dumb Records tomorrow!!! Let’s take a look at the store’s hours for the week and then jump into the new arrivals:

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

New LPs
Pigeons – The Bower
VCR – R.I.P. Sportsboy

Used LPs
Angel – Angel
Bad Company – Desolation Angels
Beach Boys – Super Hits
Blue Öyster Cult – Spectres
Boston – Third Stage
Cheech & Chong – Cheech & Chong’s Wedding Album
Hank Locklin – Born To Ramble
Hank Locklin – Hank Locklin
Hank Locklin – Country And Western Stars
Hank Locklin – This Song Is Just For You
Heart – Little Queen
Humble Pie – Performance Rockin’ The Fillmore
George Jones – Too Wild Too Long
Lynyrd Skynyd – Gimme Back My Bullets
Mel Tillis – New Patches
Redd Foxx – Up Against The Wall
Roy Clark – Roy Clark
Roy Clark – The Everlovin’ Soul of Roy Clark
Stephen Schwartz – Godspell
Uriah Heep – Demons And Wizards
Various – Star Trackin’ 76

New 7”s
BIB – POP

Used 7”s
Citizens Patrol – Dead Children E.P.
Dead Boys – Buried Gems
Kool & The Gang – Fresh
Streetwalkers – Vile Thoughts
Whitney Houston – How Will I Know

Today we bring you a video of Springfield rock n’ roll hardcore group “Livin’ Thing” performing at Black Sheep earlier this summer on July 8th. The video is taken by Texas based world-class videographer Will Mecca and can be seen below. This is also one very rare performance where the band featured a real live 7 foot tall animatronic wolf as a keyboard player. See that wolf in action on the video.

Livin’ Thing currently do not have any shows lined up at Black Sheep, but stay posted. Check out our vids/pics page for a look at more pictures and videos shot inside Black Sheep over the past 11 years.

We got a show here coming up at Dumb Records in just a little bit over a week that we are excited about. The new PA system inside Dumb Records is ready to go and hopefully we will have a elephant right outside the store by then, which will be a perfect setup for this show. For this one we have Springfield music legend Dave Adams flying in from California for the weekend to play a couple of shows and to attend a class reunion. Dave was active in the Springfield music scene from the late 1970’s on through the early 90’s, and performed in an early punk/new wave group called “Food & Money.” Check out a video of Food & Money below, as well as some of Dave’s current solo music which he will be performing at the show. Also on the bill we have Springfield grunge rock band SAP. Then opening things up we have the first ever performance of a brand new group called “The Heptanes” featuring Scott Faingold (Epsom) and Jason Perry (The Seething Coast).

All of this will be kicking off at 7:00 pm that day at Dumb Records (1107 South Grand East Ave.). We will be taking $3 donations for the show. Also everything inside of Dumb Records will be 15% off during the show. Check out a facebook event for this one right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a good look at everything coming up around Southtown this fall.