May 1st at Bread Stretchers: Cell, CPU Rave, Grave Switcher, Prevention

Posted on April 17, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

Today we are excited to announce the first show at Bread Stretchers featuring some bands from outside of the country! (Or at least since Bread Stretchers re-opened). They are two groups from Canada. One is called “CELL” and you can find their music streaming on the player below. Hardcore from Montreal, Quebec? Then on tour with them and also from Montreal is “CPU Rave“. Oh, and by the way this show is happening on Wednesday, May 1st. Both of those bands play hardcore punk music. Good thing we have Springfield hardcore punk music band Grave Switcher also on board for this show! And what’s this? Opening things up we have a brand new band called “Prevention” featuring members of No Cash Value, Final Order, and Grave Switcher?

This starts at 7:00 pm on May 1st. In case you didn’t know, Bread Stretchers shows start on the DOT. Admission is just five bucks. Find 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 Bread Stretchers in the near future.

Thank You All Who Came Out To Record Store Day This Weekend!

Posted on April 15, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

Holy smokes as we are still scrambling to get our shop and everything back to normal after such a crazy Record Store Day weekend, we just want to make sure we get in a post to say THANK YOU to all who stopped by our store at any point! We can hardly believe it but we more than doubled our best day ever in the store’s history. You can see our long line pictured above right before we opened our doors Saturday at 8:00 am (there were some waiting as early as before 6:00 am)! Extra thank you to radio stations WYMG and WQNA for broadcasting live and also Foamed Up for providing coffee! We are back to our regular hours of 10:00 am to 8:00 pm here at 418 E Monroe Street now (with another show next door tonight). Check out a couple of other photos of Saturday below.

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Tonight at Bread Stretchers: I Was My Biggest Mistake, Flunkie, Jess Knight, Blushe

Posted on April 15, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

Wow, here we are scrambling to get back on track with things after a very successful Record Store Day weekend and there is another show going on tonight at Bread Stretchers right next to us!! Great, just great! Tonight we have touring acoustic act “I Was My Biggest Mistake” coming from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Check out some of their music playing on the player below. This will be joined by a solid group of local musicians, including solo project Flunkie! Jessica Knight of the band Looming will be performing as well… some sort of karaoke set we hear? What’s all that about? Looks like opening things up (or maybe they are going to go last) we have the second show ever from a brand new Springfield band called Blushe!

This show starts at 7:00 pm and in case you haven’t heard, Bread Stretchers shows start right on time on the DOT! Admission is $5. Check out a facebook event for this one right here. Also be sure to check out our Bread Stretchers shows page for a look at what else is coming up over there.

Record Store Day at Dumb Records Today / Show Tonight at Bread Stretches

Posted on April 13, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

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There is so much going on for us today that it’s going to be impossible to get it all covered in one website post (but we are making sure we do get a post up)! Today of course is national Record Store Day – and this is our fifth or sixth year participating as a store. For this day hundreds of exclusive limited pressings are released to the world. We ordered most of them. Find that whole list on the Record Store Day website here. Our store opens up at 8:00 am and is open 9:00 pm or later. Don’t forget we are located at 418 E Monroe Street downtown now. Foamed Up from the mall will be giving out free coffee. 100.5 WYMG will be broadcasting live. Find a facebook event here.

Then also there is a show happening tonight next door to at “Bread Stretchers” kicking off at 7:00 pm. For this one we are excited for touring band Parkway & Columbia to be coming through. They will be joined by local groups Stick People, Kate The Band, and Heck. Find a facebook event for that one here. Admission for that is $5. WQNA will be broadcasting live from our store around that time and will also be broadcasting the show live on air!

WQNA Broadcasting Live Saturday Afternoon For Record Store Day, also Bread Stretchers Show

Posted on April 10, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

At one point we told you we might be working with a couple of radio stations in town for Record Store Day this upcoming Saturday and yesterday announced that WYMG‘s morning talk show hosts Lynch & Lara will be broadcasting live right at the start of Record Store Day when we open at 8:00 am. Tonight we are filling you in on plans for WQNA – who will be broadcasting over at Recycled Records in the morning, but moving their setup over to our store later on in the afternoon and also doing something that we have never before attempted: broadcasting a whole show live on air! That’s right – WQNA will be broadcasting the show happening next door to us at… “Bread Stretchers” this upcoming Saturday featuring Parkway & Columbia, Stick People, HECK, and Kate The Band. This might be a “test run” of sorts, so if everything goes well it could be something we’ll see in the future! You can listen live at 88.3 FM or online at wqnaradio.org.

Find a facebook event for Record Store Day right here, and a facebook event for the show that night right here. Our store is open from 8:00 am to 9:00 pm for Record Store Day, and show is at 7:00 pm. Don’t miss it!

April 26th at Bread Stretchers: Science Man, Dendrons, Schedule One, Lord Mitchell

Posted on April 10, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

And yet here is another show coming up happening at Bread Stretchers in a little over two weeks for us to tell you about! This one happening on Friday, April 26th. We’ve got two touring acts on the lineup for this one! One coming from upstate New York – “Science Man” which features members of Dumb Fest 6 band Radiation Risks. Also on tour (but not touring together) is a newer group from Chicago called Dendrons. They just have one song up online, which you can find streaming on the player below. We are lucky to have support from the psychedelic noise project “Schedule One” and also the one man band “Lord Mitchell“, both of which will be playing at Bread Stretchers Gourmet Sub Shop for the first time in their entire lives.

This show starts at 7:00 pm and admission this time is $6. 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 Bread Stretchers in the near future.

100.5 WYMG Broadcasting Live From Record Store Day + Dumb Records Sponsoring “Vinyl Fridays”

Posted on April 9, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

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A few of you may have noticed we’ve been on the airwaves outside of our usual 4:00 to 6:00 pm timeslot on 88.3 WQNA… this time getting mentioned (and interviewed) on 100.5 WYMG! Dumb Records has dipped into our first radio sponsorship ad, by sponsoring some Fridays of WYMG’s morning show “Vinyl Friday” feature hosted by Lynch and Laura (who also won “Best Radio Show” in the SJ-R’s reader’s choice awards). A couple weeks ago Brian Galecki was in on the morning show and they spun a few records on air that came straight from our show. And they’ll be doing that same thing this upcoming Friday for those of you listening in the early morning hours! And guess what else, WYMG will be broadcasting LIVE at the very start of Record Store Day from our store this upcoming Saturday! They plan on interviewing some of you in line for the big event, also will be live over our PA system until 10:00 am that morning. We’ll continue sponsoring some of their Vinyl Fridays after that as well.

WQNA also has separate plans for Record Store Day involving our space, which we will likely fill you in on tomorrow!

April 25th at Bread Stretchers: Marbin, Ben Delaurentis

Posted on April 9, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

Today we are excited to announce a pretty big show that’s going to be happening at the new and fake Bread Stretchers Lounge downtown! (Maybe something about it is fake, but this show that is happening is very real). If any of you remember the jazz fushion group Marbin that came through Black Sheep last year and blew us all away, they will be returning! Oh by the way this is happening on Thursday, April 25th coming up in a couple of weeks! Check out their Wikipedia page right here to learn more about the group, which features two brothers from Israel (pictured above) who are now based out of Chicago. This time they will be touring with a solo musician who is opening up the show and that is Ben Delaurentis from Virginia. Check out some of Marbin’s music on the player below.

This one starts at 7:00 pm. Admission is $10 in advance and $15 at the door. You can look into getting advance tickets right here. Find a facebook event here. Also check out our shows page for what else is coming up at Bread Stretchers which is located near 4th and Monroe or 4th and a halfth streets downtown or something like that.

New Arrivals This Week At Dumb Records

Posted on April 9, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

Here we are actually coming to you at the beginning of the week this time with a few of the new arrivals that have been hitting the shelves at our new store on 418 E Monroe Street downtown. Of course we’ve got a big week ahead of us with the biggest day of the year for our store – Record Store Day – is happening this upcoming Saturday. We are gearing up big by making sure we have a steady flow of used records hitting the shelves, and all of those boxes of exclusive releases are set to be arrival in the mail for us later this week. Let’s take a look at our hours for the week and then take a peek at some of 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: 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Saturday (Record Store Day): 8:00 am – 10:00 pm
Sunday: 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Monday (show): 10:00 am – 9:00 pm

Used LPs
Al Hudson – One Way
Ambrose Brazelton – And The Beatles Go On And On
Anita Darian – East Of The Sun
Atlanta Rhythm Section – Champagne Jam
Bee Gees – Rare Precious & Beautiful
B.J. Thomas – Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
Bob Dylan – Empire Burlesque
Bread – Baby I’m-A Want You
Bruce Springsteen – Darkness On The Edge Of Town
The Buckinghams – Greatest Hits
Chilliwack – Wanna Be A Star
City Boy – Heads Are Rolling
City Boy – Young Men Gone West
Chuck Berry – Chuck Berry’s Greatest Hits
Daedelus – Invention And The Quiet Party
Don Williams – Harmony
Don Agrati – Homegrown
Dykehouse – Midrange
The Electric Flag – The Best Of The Electric Flag
Emarosa – Relativity + Self Titled
England Dan & John Ford Coley – Nights Are Forever
Faith Evans – Keep The Faith
Fats Domino – Blueberry Hill
Foreigner – Foreigner
George Duke – Don’t Let Go
Harry James – Harry James In Hi-Fi
Honeymoon Suite – Honeymoon Suite
Howard Jones – One To One
Huey Lewis & The News – Huey Lewis & The News
The J. Geils Band – Showtime!
Jimmy Buffett – A1A
Jo Jo Gunne – Jo Jo Gunne
John Conlee – Friday Night Blues
Jonathan Edwards – Jonathan Edwards
The Jones Girls – At Peace With Woman
Julio Iglesias – A Mexico
Led Zeppelin – Houses Of The Holy
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV
Linda Ronstadt – Living In The USA
Lionel Hapton – Silver Vibes
Loma Prieta – Self Portrait
Mewithoutyou – Pale Horses
My Bloody Valentine – mbv
Nirvana – In Utero (2013 Mix)
Paul Anka – Anka
Paul & Paula – Sing For Young Lovers
Placido Domingo – Perhaps Love
Roger Daltrey – Under A Raging Moon
Rossington Collins Band – This Is The Way
Roy Orbison – The Orbison Way
Stanley Clarke – Modern Man
Talking Heads – The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads
Thelma Houston – Any Way You Like It
Title Fight – Floral Green
Tomita – Pictures At An Exhibition
Turning Point – 1988-1991
Uriah Heep – Demons And Wizards
Various – Volunteer Jam
Wayne Newton – The Long And Winding Road

12” Singles
Alley Life – That’s The Way We Roll
AllFrumTha i – Fill My Cup (To Tha Rim)
Angie Stone – No More Rain (In This Cloud)
Angie Stone – Wish I Didn’t Miss You
Benzino – Boottee / Bang Ta Dis
Choclair – Rubbin’ / Young Gunz
Ciara – Get Up
Grand Puba – Understand This / All Day
Limp Bizkit – N 2 Gether Now
Master P – Thinkin’ Bout U
Mister Tibbs – Sureshots
Ram Squad – Ballers (Up In Here)
Rick Vocals – Ghost
Styles of Beyond – Many Styles / Gollaxowelcome
Timaland & Magoo – All Ya’ll

New CDs
Antonin Dvorak – Symphony No. 9 “From The New World”
Bobby Bland – The Millennium Collection
Bobby Bland – Greatest Hits Vol. One: The Duke Recordings
Broken Spindles – Broken Spindles
Charlie Parker – Bird On 52nd St.
Charlie Parker – The Complete Dial Masters
CJ Mackintosh – Live At Ministry Of Sound
David Padilla – The South Beach Experience
DJ Markski – Progressive Movement
Ella Fitzgerald – Pure Ella
Etta James – Heart Of A Woman
Jane’s Addiction – Jane’s Addiction
Jane’s Addiction – Kettle Whistle
Joshua Redman – Wish
Kool Keith – Spankmaster
Mentallo & The Fixer – Return To Grimpen Ward
Morrissey – Maladjusted
Morrissey – You Are The Quarry
Nina Simone – Anthology
Pan Sonic – Aaltopiiri
Peter Murphy – Wild Birds
Phil Mison – Soundcolors 2
Sonny Rollins – Ken Burns Jazz
Sonny Rollins – The Standard Sonny Rollins
Tab Benoit – Wetlands

April 21st at Bread Stretchers: Gangstalker, Mister, Graveswitcher, Final Order

Posted on April 8, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

Today we have another show happening at Bread Stretchers later this month to tell you about. (In less than two weeks actually) – this one is happening on Easter Sunday believe it or not on Sunday, April 21st. Is it a good idea to have a show on Easter Sunday? We’ll find out. For this one we have Milwaukee, Wisconsin touring act “Gangstalker” on the bill. Stream their seven minute long demo on the player below. They will be on tour with a group called “Mister“. Mister who? We are not sure. Local support on this show will come from local hardcore group Graveswitcher – playing their first Bread Stretcher gig. Opening things up is Final Order also local hardcore.

This show 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 look at what else is coming up at… Bread Stretchers in the near future.