We’ve got a show happening here at Dumb Records tonight! It’s a cold one out there, but our heat is on and working.
For this show we have Attic Salt from right here in Springfield – the power pop-punk group who released your favorite album, Get Wise last year in 2020. We also have Tina Sparkle coming from Peoria, Illinois – their first time ever playing Springfield as far as we know! This group has been around the area for a long time, and you can stream their newest album Southern Hospitality on the player below. Also on the gig we got Starter Jackets – making their big return on this side of the pandemic. Opening things up is a newer project from Decatur, Illinois called Oatmilk! Let’s go ahead and give them all one big round of applause.
This show will start at 7:00 pm and admission is $7. We are continuing to require masks as our show as well as proof of vaccine cards or negative COVID test results within 72 hours. Check out a facebook event for the show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page where we have a list of what we’ve got announced and coming up!
Whoops, we almost forgot to make a post saying that we have the new November issue of Activator Magazine! How fun! We also even have plenty of back issues – from previous months of October and September!
This month’s cover features Springfield veteran synth-pop rocker Ricki Marvel on the cover. Activator interviewed Ricki about an upcoming EP she has been working on, her experience playing the Laura Jane Grace show here in town, and more. Also interviewed in this issue is Champaign IL’s Long Birds, Bad Bad Hats from Minneapolis, local hip hop artist Composition C, Chase Baby from Champaign, and also features a “soundcheck” section checking in with other local musicians. In addition to that there are live music calendars, photo spreads, and music reviews. No “Dumb Perspective” column this issue, sorry.
You can pick up copies of Activator here for free and other local businesses around Central Illinois. Be sure to also check out and consider donating to their Patreon page. Activator is also currently accepting submissions for their art issue (to be released in December) now through November 20th!
Finally we are here with our official announcement for Black Friday Record Store Day 2021!! Black Friday is typically the second busiest shopping day of the year for us, only next to Record Store Day (whenever that was going on as one day in April). We are now just 16 days away from Black Friday, happening on Friday, November 26th.
Okay, here are the important details, so pay attention: • Our store will be opening at 8:00 am sharp, and will be open until 8:00 pm. • Once again, we ordered everything we possibly could as far as Record Store Day official releases go. You can check out the full list on the Record Store Day website. All of these releases are first-come first-serve, and we can not reserve anything in advance. • The first 50 people in line will receive a Free exclusive “Dumb Record” t-shirt along with purchase of any item in the store. • Upon the initial opening rush of the day, we will be permitting 12 people at a time into the store. • We will be running some store-wide sales throughout the day including: – 25% off all used records – 50% off all dollar records – 50% off all used CDs • There will be 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm in-store performances by Tony Colantino and DJ Lowki Lit
That’s about it for now! You can expect a facebook event to go up shortly! Thank you everybody and have a great day!
Well, well, look-ee here. We are back this week with another long list of new and used LPs that we’ve gotten in the store here in the past few days. Once again, this long list does not even include re-stocks for anything, or any of the 7″s, CDs, or cassettes we have been getting in. Our store is open every day from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm every day. We carry all sorts of formats of music and plenty of turntables as well!! We’ll be back with an announcement on details for Black Friday Record Store Day very soon as well! For now here’s a list of what’s new:
New LPs ABBA – Voyage Agression – Greatest Annihilator – Never, Neverland Atmosphere – You Can’t Imagine How Much Fun We’re Having Bad Religion – Against The Grain Bastille – Doom Days The Beatles – Past Masters The Black Keys – El Camino Brian Gascoigne – Phase IV Original Soundtrack Budgie – Nightflight Butthole Surfers – Rememberant Pussyhorse Crazy Doberman – Illusory Expansion Danny Elfman – Darkman Dawes – North Hills Every Time I Die – From Parts Unknown Faith No More – Sol Invictus J. Cole – Revenge Of The Dreamers John Dupres – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II La Luz – La Luz Lee Moses – How Much Longer Must I Wait? Leslie Winer – When I Hit You – You’ll Feel It Luke Stewart – Exposure Quintet Mountain Man – Made The Harbor Mr. Bungle – The Night They Came Home Mutiny – A Night Out With The Boys National Wake – Walk In Africa 1979-81 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – B-Sides & Rarities Norman Feels – Norman Feels Primus – Green Naugahyde Quin Kirchner – The Shadows And The Light R.E.M. – New Adventures In Hi-Fi Real Estate – In Mind The Shaggs – Philosophy Of The World Snail Mail – Valentine The Stooges – Gimme Danger Various – Pacific Breeze 2: Japanese City Pop, AOR 1972-1986 Various – The Suicide Squad Original Soundtrack
Used LPs Al Stewart – Love Chronicles Aldo Nova – Subject… Aldo Nova Alice In Chains – Rainier Fog Alice Cooper – From The Inside Alvin Lee & Mylon LeFevre – On The Road To Freedom Andy Pratt – Shiver In The Night B.B. King – Completely Well Bill LaBounty – This Night Won’t Last Forever Black Market Militia – The Black Market Militia Bruce Cockburn – In The Falling Dark Capitol Records – What’s In-Store For You #2 Carlos Montoya – Spontaneous Flamenco Cher – Cher’s Golden Greats Chick Corea – Children’s Songs Circus Maximus – Circus Maximus Dave Mason – It’s Like You Never Left David Banner – Certified Dottie West – Special Delivery The Earl Scruggs Revue – Live! From Austin City Limits Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP England Dan And John Ford Coley – I Hear The Music Essra Mohawk – Primordial Lovers Frankie Paul Quartet – Frankie Paul Quartet Gil Scott-Heron / Brian Jackson – Winter In America Gordon Lightfoot – The Very Best Of Gordon Lightfoot Grin – Grin Hank Williams – Life To Legend Ian Matthews – Some Days You Eat The Bear Jackson Browne – Saturate Before Using J. Geils Band – Nightmares And Other Tales Jon Mark – Songs For A Friend John Barry – From Russia With Love Original Soundtrack John Kirby – Boss Of The Bass John Manning – White Bear Jules And The Polar Bears – Got No Breeding The King’s College Choir – The Nativity To Candlemas Kuzu – The Glass Delusion Leonard Cohen – Death Of A Ladies’ Man Little Bob Story – Little Boy Story The Lords Of The New Church – Killer Lords Loudon Wainwright III – Unrequited The Lovin’ Spoonful – You’re A Big Boy Now Ludacris – Release Therapy Maynard Ferguson – Carnival Maynard Ferguson – Chameleon Melissa Manchester – Better Days & Happy Endings Mephiskapheles – God Bless Satan Michael Dinner – The Great Pretender Miles Davis – Sketches Of Spain Miles Davis Sextet – Someday My Prince Will Come The Mystic Moods Orchestra – Extensions Neil Larsen – Jungle Fever Nils Lofgren – I Came To Dance The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Ricochet Noel Pointer – Hold On Percy Faith – Forever Young Ray Parker Jr. – Greatest Hits Sham & The Professor – Split Personalities Skatalites – Platinum Ska SisQó – Unleash The Dragon The Smurfs – Smurfing Sing Song The Smufs – Best of Friends The Surrey Strings – Made In France Synergy – Electronic Realizations For Rock Orchestra Tammy Wynette – Stand By Your Man / Bedtime Story Thee Prophets – Playgirl Tommy James & The Shondells – Crimson & Clover Various – A La Carte Various – The Arista Records Winter Sampler Various – The House That Bradley Built Various – Outlaw Country! Various – Russian Folk Instrumental Music Various – Top Hits Of The 50’s Vol. 2 Various – Urban Cowboy Original Soundtrack WMMR – Breakout The Young Rascals – Groovin’ 101 Strings – Around The World With The 101 Strings
Cool!!! This is just a post to let you all know that today a grand opening ribbon cutting ceremony was held for a new ice skating rink right on the Old State Capitol lawn (pictured above)!! The ceremony was held at 11:00 am earlier today, and the rink is open tonight (Saturday) until 7:00 pm.
This is the “LRS Ice Rink” being organized by Sangamon CEO. The rink will be open to the public Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings starting now through the holiday season. This goes along with Downtown Springfield’s “holiday walks” this year which take place on Wednesdays and Saturdays. You can find out more info as well as skate rental and season pass rates on the LRS Ice Rink website right here.
Good morning and it’s another new week at our record store! (Kind of the middle of the week now). Sorry we missed our favorite day of the month yesterday, Tornado Drill Tuesday, in giving you this hot list of new titles in our store. But here we are today – with a long list of both new and used LPs that have been recently hitting the shelves – not including re-stocks and not including the CDs, cassettes, or 7″s that have been coming in. Our store is still open every day from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm. Okay now, here’s the list!
New LPs Bad Religion – Stranger Than Fixion Bad Religion – The Process Of Belief Christopher Young – Pet Sematary (Original Soundtrack) Colin Stetson – Color Out Of Space (Original Soundtrack) Funkadelic – Toys Gary Allan – Ruthless Gorillaz – The Now Now Joe Renzetti – Child’s Play Original Soundtrack John Coltrane – A Love Supreme In Seattle Jonathan Richman – SA Johnathan Snipes – Starry Eyes Keith Emerson – Inferno (Original Soundtrack) Khruangbin – Mordechai Remixes Minus The Bear – Omni Mouse Rat – The Awesome Album My Morning Jacket – My Morning Jacket Nirvana – Rome As You Are: Live At The Castle Theater Pino Donaggio – Tourist Trap (Original Soundtrack) Pino Donaggio – Don’t Look Now (Original Soundtrack) Richard Einhorn – Shock Waves (Original Soundtrack) Starship – Greatest Hits Relaunched Stephen Lawrence – Alice, Sweet Alice (Original Soundtrack) The Stooges – My Girl Hates My Heroine Various – Stone Crush: Memphis Modern Soul 1977-1987 Wojciech Kilar – Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Used LPs Alabama – Pride Of Dixie Al Martino – The Best of Al Martino Andy Williams – Hawaiian Wedding Song The Animals – The Best Of The Animals The Animals – Animal Tracks Arthur Fiedler / Boston Pops – Pops Goes Christmas Barclay James Harvest – Gone To Earth The Beat Farmers – Tales Of The New West Bobby G. Rice – With Love Boogie Boys – Romeo Knight Bread – Lost Without Your Love Brenda Lee – L.A. Sessions Burt Bacharach – Reach Out The Beach Boys – Deluxe Set Billy Larkin – Uptown Country Bruno Noffmann – Glass Harmonica Buffalo Springfield – Again Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band – Nine Tonight Canned Heat – Vintage Chet Faker – Hotel Surrender Climax Blues Band – Rich Man Crazy Horse – At Crooked Lake The David Grisman Quinet – The David Grisman Quintet Denny Hilton – You’re My Favorite Thing Dr. Hook – Bankrupt Edith Piaf – The Best Of Edith Frank Sinatra – Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Freddie Hart – The Pleasure’s Been All Mine Gino Vannelli – Storm At Sunup Gene Cotton – Rain On George Shearing – New Look! George Thorogood & The Destroyers – s/t Gene Cotton – Save The Dancer Grandma’s Boys – Tonight Gray Matter – Food For Thought Hal Holbrook – Mark Twain Tonight! Jerry Clower – More Good ‘Uns Jimmy Swaggart – You Don’t Need To Understand Joe Walsh – You Can’t Argue With A Sick Mind Johnny Paycheck – Take This Job And Shove It Journey – Greatest Hits K-Tel Records – Neon Nights The Kiki Dee Band – I’ve Got The Music In Me Liberace – 40th Anniversary Collection The Longines Symphonette Society – Silver Bells Los Indios Tabajaras – Two Guitars Loudon Wainwright III – Loudon Wainwright III Lou Rawls – Merry Christmas! Ho! Ho! Ho! Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – The Good Earth Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – Solar Fire Maynard Ferguson – M.F. Horn Mel Tillis – Heart Healer Michael Franks – Sleeping Gypsy Mickey Newbury – The Sailor Monty Python – Monty Python’s Previous Record The Mystic Moods – Awakening Mystic Moods Orchestra – Love Token Neil Diamond – Greatest Hits Phil Spector – Phil Spector’s Christmas Album The Pointer Sisters – Pointer Sisters’ Greatest Hits Robert Fripp – The League Of Gentlemen Robert Hunter – Tales Of The Great Rum Runners Santa Esmeralda 2 – The House Of The Rising Sun Shelly Berman – A Personal Appearance Steve Goodman – Jessie’s Jig & Other Favorites Steve Winwood – Winwood Supertramp – Superstar Concert Series The Temptations – Gettin’ Ready Thijs Van Leer – Introspection 2 Tomita – Snowflakes Are Dancing Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey – Last Moments of Greatness Tonio K. – Life In The Foodchain Unknown Artist – Crying Time Various – Music From Disney’s Fantasia Various – Super Hits Vol. 3 Various – A Christmas Gift Various – Christmas Greetings Volume 3 Various – Pumping Vinyl Weather Report – Weather Report Wendy Bagwell And The Sunliters – Talk About The Good Times Whitesnake – Slide It In 101 Strings – Symphony For Lovers The 5th Dimension – The Greatest Hits On Earth
12” Singles Chubb Rock – Yabadabadoo E.Z.B. & D.J. Los – Power Of The Bass Mixmasters – Tony G. Is So Good Mobb Deep – Put Em In Their Place Sunz Of Man – No Love Without Hate Whistle – I Am
This is just a post to let you know that we are closing just a couple of hours early tonight for Halloween! Happy Halloween! We will be open here downtown from 10:00am-5:00pm! We’ll be back at it with our usual hours of 10am-7pm tomorrow. Boo!
Here’s another show announcement for you all! This one is happening here just the very day after Black Friday – on Saturday, November 27th! It features a number of acts who haven’t played in Springfield in years.
“Superfun Yeah Yeah Rocketship” is a fun dancey type project from the St. Louis area, which has been going on for a very long time now. Literally the last time they played here was in 2012 at Black Sheep. Look, it was even one of our first “show tonight” website posts. You can stream a brand new song from S.Y.Y.R. on the player embedded below. Also on the bill is St. Louis area post-punk band Trauma Harness, who used to frequently play The Black Sheep as well. We also got “NITE FRVR” (I think pronounced “night forever”) which is another project featuring Pat Cadaver, of Bellville Illinois You’re Not Kablamo fame). Opening things up is the one Springfield act on the bill and that is hip hop project Animals With Human Names.
Woohoo! All of that kicks off at 7:00 pm and admission is $6. Check out a facebook event for that show right here. Also check out our shows page for a look at what all is coming up that has been announced at our space.
Good morning! It looks as if once again we have a good crop of fresh new and used vinyls coming in this week. As per usual, our store is open every day from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm downtown, and this list is of new titles that have recently hit the shelves, not including restocks, and not including 7″s, cassettes, or CDs that we have recently put out. Wow. Okay let’s just jump right into it:
New LPs Alexone – Alexaloneword Angel Olson – Aisles Bad Religion – The Empire Strikes First Erykah Badu – Worldwide Underground Capone-N-Norega – The War Report Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie – Bird & Diz Christina Aguilera – Stripped Coldplay – Music Of The Spheres Cornell Campbell – Boxing Finneas – Optimist Frankie And The Witch Fingers – Sidewalk Grizzly Bear – Horn Of Plenty Gus Dapperton – Orca The Jam – In The City Gojira – Magma Kingfish – 662 Motorhead – What’s Words Worth? Recorded Live The Residents – The Ghost Of Hope Ritchie Valens – Ritchie Valens Sam Cooke – The Best of Sam Cooke Sufjan Stevens – America Tears For Fears – The Hurting Tears For Fears – The Seeds Of Love Wire – 10:20 Various – I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute To The Velvet Underground
Used LPs Al Di Meola – Scenario Alan Price – O Lucky Man! Soundtrack Andy Williams – Dear Heart Art Tatum – Masterpieces Arthur Godfrey – All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth The Bachelors – Marie B.B. King – Live & Well The Beach Boys – Beach Boys Concert The Beach Boys – Wild Honey Bob Harrington – Bob’s Marriage Repair Kit Bob Harrington – Youth In America The Browns – I Heard The Bluebirds Sing Casey Kelly – For Sale Charlie Byrd – Direct To Disc Recording Chime Records – All Star Gospel Favorites Chris De Burg – Into The Light Coleman Hawkins – Body And Soul Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse – Dark Night Of The Soul Dave Brubeck – Two Generations of Brubeck David Rogers – I’m Gonna Love You Dean Martin – Sittin’ On Top Of The WOrld Dennis Day – America’s Favorite Irish Tenor Dizzy Gillespie / Charlie Parker – Takin’ Off Ed Bruce – I Write It Down Elvis Presley – A Canadian Tribute Eydie Gorme – With All My Heart Frankie Laine – Greatest Hits Glenn Yarbrough – We Survived The Madness Glenn Yarbrough – Baby The Rain Must Fall George Benson / Joe Farrell – Benson & Farrell Gerry Niewood – Gerry Niewood And Timepiece Gospel Singing Policemen – Testimony Greg Kihn – Greg Kihn Hank Thompson – Sings The Hits Of Nat “King” Cole Hank Snow – The Singing Ranger Ill Repute – Big Rusty Balls James Levine – Plays Scott Joplin Jan Howard – Sincerely, Jan Howard Jay Ferguson – Thunder Island Jerry Jeff Walker – It’s A Good Night For Singing Jerry Jeff Walker – Ridin’ High Jerry Jeff Walker – Driftin Way Of Life Jerry Lee Lewis – By Request Jimmy Dean – I.O.U. Jo Ann Castle – 22 Great Ragtime Hits John Abercrombie / Ralph Towner – Sargasso Sea John David Souther – Black Rose J.T. Adams & The Men of Texas – It’s No Secret Leo Kottke – Chewing Pine Leo Kottke – 6- & 12- String Guitar Loretta Lynn – Greatest Hits Vol. II Margo Smith – Song Bird Mario Lanza – A Kiss And Other Love Songs Melachrino – Love Story MC5 – High Time Monty Python – Matching Tie And Handkerchief Paul Mauriat And His Orchestra – L.O.V.E. Peek-A-Boo Records – Bicycle Rodeo Pete Fountain – Mood Indigo Peter Nero – I’ll Never Fall In Love Again Ray Charles – Invites You To Listen The Recoys – Rekoys Rick Derringer – All American Boy Rick Wakeman – Journey To The Centre Of The Earth Robbie Dupree – Street Corner Heroes Robbie Nevil – Robbie Nevil Robert Shaw – Joy To The World Rod Stewart – Sing It Again Rod Ross – Ross Roxy Music – Greatest Hits Sandy Posey – The Best Of Sandy Posey Shirley Bassey – And I Love Stan Musial – Stan The Man’s Hit Record Sweet Obsession – Sweet Obsession The Three Twins – The Three Twins Tom Waits – Closing Time Tom Waits – Foreign Affairs Various – The Super Hits Vol. 2 Vic Damone – Closer Than A Kiss Various – Posh Hits Vol. 1 Various – Taking It To The Limit The Village Stompers – Washington Square The Vogues – Five O’ Clock World The Walkmen – You & Me Walt Disney – Songs From Oliver Warren Smith & Masami Nakagawa – Kaiko / Saiun Wayne King – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas Wishbone Ash – Pilgrimage
Wow, what’s this? It’s already time to announce shows for the year 2022?? Yikes! Slow down already! Supposedly the new year is just about two months away now, so we are announcing this on for Saturday, January 1st, 2022!
This one features Dead/Awake – a Rockford, Illinois based deathcore metal band who is here to “bring the doom”!!! Sounds heavy. You can check out some of their music on the player embedded below! Then we have a group from Pontiac, Illinois called “Necro Signatures” who describes themselves as a six member deathcore band. Then of course we’ve got heavy hitting local support from hardcore group Prevention. Opening things up for now is Barosa from Decatur and Central Illinois – possibly be on the lookout for a fifth band to be added at some point!
This show is a 7:00 pm, $10 show. You can find a facebook event for this one right here! Also check out our shows page where we have a list of what is announced and coming up at our space!
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