It’s another exciting week at Springfield record store Dumb Records, and there are a good chunk of new arrivals in this week just in time for Black Friday. You can check out that list below. Don’t forget that this Friday is Black Friday and Dumb Records is having a big sale for all new and used items in the store. More info can be found on that here. The store will also be closed this Thursday for Thanksgiving. Let’s take a look at Dumb Records’s store hours this week:

Tuesday (today): 3:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Wednesday: 3:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Thursday: (closed for Thanksgiving)
Friday (Black Friday): 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Saturday: 10:00 am – 9:00 pm
Sunday: 3:00 pm – 8:00 pm

New LPs
Bad Brains – Bad Brains
Bad Brains – Bad Brains (Picture Disc)
Dinosaur Jr – Green Mind
Haldol – The Death Drive
Flipper – Blow’N Chunks
New York Dolls – Lipstick Killers
Swans – Filth

New Cassettes
Gazeebo – Demo
Haldol – Haldol
The Holidays – Secret Tape
Milchjunge – Demo 2014
Smallpox Champion – Smallpox Champion
The Stasi – The Stasi

 Used Cassettes
Judas Priest – The Best Of Judas Priest
Sweet Tooth – Demo

It’s another week at South Town record store Dumb Records, and the store is gearing up for more record fairs and acoustic shows this fall. This week there are a few new items in including CDs, cassettes, and records. Check out some pretty sweet featured records from the store on the Dumb Records Record of the Night blog. Let’s look over what Dumb Records’s operating hours are for this week:

Tuesday (today): 3:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Thursday (show): 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Friday: 3:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Saturday: 10:00 am – 9:00 pm
Sunday: 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Used LPs
Bob Marley & The Wailers – Rastaman Vibration
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – American Dream
Donald Fagen – The Nightfly
James Taylor – Sweet Baby James
Joan Baez – Blessed Are…
Seals & Crofts – Diamond Girl
Sly & The Family Stone – There’s A Riot Going On

New 7”s
Hideaway/Cota – Split
Jacket Thor – In Our Blisters
Tyler Bisson – Picture Disc 7”

New CDs
Tom Irwin – Carry Me Home
Tom Irwin – Sangamon Songs
Tragwag – Maybe You Can Relate

Used CDs
Eric Clapton – Unplugged
R.E.M. – Automatic For The People
R.E.M. – Around The Sun
Tom Petty – Full Moon Forever

New Cassettes
Hideaway – Acoustic Sessions
Hideaway/Cota – Split
Sputter – Demo

This Halloween (Friday, October 31st) there will be an abundance of things to do in Springfield. Earlier we mentioned that NIL8 will be playing this year’s Hobgoblinspookadelic show at Donnie’s Homespun along with The Timmys, Bad Banshee, and King Worm. We also mentioned that Empire Board Shop will be switching over to Boof City Skate Shop and they will be having their big grand opening on Halloween starting at 6:00 pm. It looks like we also have an event happening at Black Sheep, and that is this big “Terror In The Field” Halloween Bash! The Halloween Bash will be a hip hop show featuring four different acts. Right now those include MPress (who played at our last hip hop show), RJC, MP5, and HISO Music Entertainment. Along with the music there will be costume contests, so be sure to wear a costume if you plan on coming!

This show will kick off at 7:00 pm, and admission is $6, but $5 if you have a costume. Check out our shows page to stay updated on all the events coming up at Black Sheep and Dumb Records.

We are crazy about Wir Können here at blacksheepspringfield.com today. Earlier today we were streaming the band’s newest release God, It’s Getting Bad on our site. Don’t forget to check that out here. This afternoon we are coming to you with a video of the band’s full set from the show at Black Sheep this past Saturday along with Knives, I’m Dead Inside, Sybassian, and Looming. You can check out the video embedded below. Also find a good chunk of photos from the show that night right here on the AJ Francis Photography facebook page.

Check out our vids/pics page to find an archive of all sorts of photos and videos from Black Sheep and other Springfield shows over the years.

We hope all you kids are ready for this final weekend of summer before school starts again next week. It’s going to be a great weekend of shows too- tonight is our second show in a block of four nights in a row with shows. This show features the local dream-wave punk band JAG. See them rock. Then we have a few touring acts. We have Teenage Swoon coming from Texas. Stream some of their music below. Did you know that Teenage Swoon has a release coming up on local Springfield record label Guard Records? On tour with Teenage Swoon and also from Texas is a band called Dahling. Then we have another band from Fargo, North Dakota on a completely separate tour coming through called Baltic To Boardwalk. Topping things off we have a performance by Springfield two-piece, Atlas At His Finest.

The show tonight kicks off at promptly 7:00 pm (there are six bands playing). Bring $5. You can find a facebook event for this one right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a look at what else is coming up at Black Sheep and Dumb Records.

Fall is quickly approaching, and it is time for us to re-boot our roundtable and street team meetings at Black Sheep. A while back we started hosting roundtable meeting to talk about things we can approve upon as a venue. The meetings resulted in a lot of positive changes, including our ceiling getting worked on and a new stage. This Saturday at 2:00 pm inside Dumb Records we will being having another go at our roundtable meetings. We will be talking about Black Sheep and Dumb Records related things and then we will disperse on street team missions. If you are wanting to help us flier and promote for upcoming shows, come out!

Don’t forget that we have an entire get involved page on our site listing off plenty of ways that you can do to help in our community if you are interested.

Here we are today bringing you another brand new page on our site for another brand new Springfield rock group. This one is for the new screamo band called Knives. Knives played their very first show at this year’s Black Sheep Fest and they blew us all away. The band features members of Our Lady, Looming, Asthma, Caterpillar Club, Foxtail, and a few other bands. If you head over to their newly created page (right here) you can read a little more about the band and stream some songs from their recently released EP. Be on the lookout for more Knives shows very soon.

Knives isn’t the only band we have a band page for. You can find the long list of 70-something band pages we have built here on our current bands page. Do you play in a Springfield band that hasn’t yet set up a page with us? We would love to hear from you! Get ahold of us at blacksheepspringfield@gmail.com and we will work with you to set something up.

Lookie lookie Black Sheep Fest is finally upon us and it’ll be happening today! Black Sheep Fest is a celebration of Springfield local music and Black Sheep as an all ages venue since 2005. There are 21 bands playing this year all local to Springfield. Check out the order of the bands that will be playing (starting with the last band first for exciting effect)

OUR LADY – 10:30
SOAP SCUM vs. TABLE DRAMA – 9:40
LOOMING – 9:00
FOXTAIL (reunion) – 8:20
ASTHMA – 7:40pm
WAR MAGIC – 7:10
JAG – 6:40
MOUTHSEX – 6:10
BOON – 5:30
BLIND SOCIAL – 4:50
MEREDOSIA – 4:20
BUILT IN A DAY – 3:50
SWAMP RAT – 3:20
THE OSWALDS – 2:50
KICKSTART – 2:20
AKANAME – 1:50
FULL CHROMA – 1:10
WILT CANDY – 12:50
I’M DEAD INSIDE – 12:30
KNIVES (first show) – 12:10

Some special things to take note of: The Blind Social is the battle of the bands winner so check them out. There will also be a really epic battle set between Soap Scum and Table Drama, so see who the victor is and don’t miss the theatrix. This will also be new hardcore band Knives (featuring the same members of Our Lady as well as Looming) playing at noon and this will be their first show, so don’t miss it!! They’ll be starting the fest off. Also, as you can see- Foxtail is playing a reunion show so this is your one rare chance to see Foxtail live again. There are so many rad things going on at this fest and in Southtown: there will be a donation based junk sale to help benefit the venue as well as people who would rather have other people’s junk rather than their own. Clay’s Popeye’s Barbeque (a few doors down from Dumb Records) will be featuring their new VEGAN options! Go buy their food during the fest, it’s legitimately tasty.

Come out to Black Sheep Fest today, it’ll start at noon for only $5! Don’t forget to stop by Dumb Records too, and overall just keep it real. Here’s some advice for preparing yourself for the fest: in the words of Molli Squires, “just go with it”.