For the third time this year, it’s that time of year again. That’s right, we’ve already got another Record Store Day approaching. This one should not come as much of a surprise though because Black Friday Record Store Day happens the day after Thanksgiving every year. And here we are, around two months away from that date, which this year is Friday, November 26th.
This go-round we will likely once again be releasing some type of limited edition Dumb Records t-shirt for the first people in line, exclusive posters, and we will see what else! You can expect a more detailed announcement from us on all of those goodies here in the coming weeks.
Another week has come here at our dumb little record store. We are dealing with some broken AC issues right now… but don’t worry because if we don’t get that figured out today at least the weather is colder. And as one AC unit breaks another is fixed… you may notice our arcade is a little bit cooler than usual! (By just a tad). Our store and arcade is open from 10:00am to 7:00pm every day. Check out our online discogs store here and our online merch store here. Okay, now for some of what’s new in this week:
New LPs Andrew W.K. – God Is Partying Asschapel – Total Destruction 1999-2006 Bl’ast – Blood! Black Francis – Sv n f ng rs Bobby Bland – Here’s The Man!!! Carcass – Torn Arteries Coven – Blood On The Snow Electric Funeral – Total Funeral The Flesh Eaters – I Used To Be Pretty GWAR – Scumdogs xxx Live! John Prine – Bruised Orange John Prine – For Better, Or Worse Like Rats – II Lump – Animal Metallica – (Black Album) Box Set Obliterations – Poison Everything Pelican – Ataraxia / Taraxis Pelican – The Clif The Prodigy – Music For The Jilted Generation Sect – No Cure For Death Shabazz Palaces – Quarzarz Us The Jealous Maenines Sleep – Dopesmoker Sunn O))) – Live In Bergen Cathedral Torch Runner – Endless Nothing Trap Them – Filth Rations Twenty One Pilots – Vessel Vitamin X – Age Of Paranoia YDI – A Place In The Sun
Used LPs The Accelerators – The Accelerators Artimus Pyle Band – A.P.B. Barbara Streisand – Emotion Barney Bigard – Clarinet Gumbo Bob James Three – Guest: Grover Washington, Jr. Canned Heat – Boogie With Canned Heat Cher – Take Me Home The Clique – The Clique Count Basie – Li’l Ol’ Groovemaker …Basie! The Crusaders – Those Southern Knights David Frizzell – David Frizzell Dead Or Alive – Sophisticated Boom Boom Deep Purple – The Best of Deep Purple Dennis DeYoung – Boomchild Eddie Murphy – Comedian Elvis Presley – The Greatest Show On Earth The Fabulous Conti Family – Sounds Of America Don Byas – Savoy Jam Party Donovan – Open Road Doris Day – Sentimental Journey Duke Ellington – 70th Birthday Concert Duke Ellington – Concert In The Virgin Islands Dukes Of Dixieland – Creole Gumbow Fabulous Poodles – Mirror Stars Gary Lewis & The Playboys – Rhythm! Geils – Monkey Island Gene Watson – Between This Time & The Next Time Glass Moon – Glass Moon Hank Snow – The Highest Bidder Herbie Mann – Mellow Jeri Southern – Southern Hospitality Joe Farrell – Night Dancing John Denver – Autograph John Denver – Take Me To Tomorrow Johnny Lee – Bet Your Heart On Me Johnny Van Zandt Band – No More Dirty Deals Julie London – Gone With The Wind Kenny Ball – Midnight In Moscow Led Zeppelin – Coda Louis Armstrong – King Louis (Selected Favorites) Louis Armstrong – Satchmo At Symphony Hall Mike Rutherford – Smallcreep’s Day Moon Martin – Street Fever Motorhead – Iron Fist Motorhead – No Sleep ’Til Hammersmith Motorhead – Orgasmatron New York Dolls – In Too Much Too Soon The Ohio Express – Beg, Borrow And Steel Pat Boone – Sixteen Great Performances Paulette Reaves – Secret Lover Pearl Bailey – Sings Porgy & Bess Poco – Crazy Eyes Pousette-Dart Band – Pousette-Dart Band Pure Prairie League – Dance The Ramsey Lewis Trio – More Sounds of Christmas Robert Goulet – I Never Did As I Was Told Roy Acuff – American Folk Songs Rusty Draper – Sings Night Life Saga – Heads Or Tales Sarah Vaughan – Close To You Schneider With The Kick – Exposed Sherbet – Howzat Spider – Spider States – Picture Me With You Steve Wariner – Life’s Highway Straight Eight – Shuffle ’N’ Cut The Sweet – Featuring “Little Willy” & “Blockbuster” Suzi Quatro – Quatro Tom Jones – Green, Green Grass Of Home The Trammps – The Whole World’s Dancing Ultravox – Rage In Eden The Unseen – Left That World Behind Various – Cahoots County Various – On This Christmas Night The Ventures – Ventures A Go Go Village People – Live And Sleazy Webb Pierce – Cross Country What Is This – Squeezed
We are excited for this finalist round in the annual Illinois Times’s “Best Of Springfield 2021” poll. As far as we can tell, we have made it on to finalists in FOUR different categories as Dumb Records and those are as follows:
BEST MUSIC STORE
BEST LIVE MUSIC VENUE (SMALL)
BEST PLACE TO GO DOWNTOWN
BEST ANTIQUE / VINTAGE STORE
Okay, all of those things sound great! Don’t vote for us for best vintage / antique shop though, you should vote for Springfield Vintage around the corner for us! 😂 Really, vote for whoever you want to in all of those categories, and all of your other favorite local businesses and people in all of the other categories as well.
Voting is online right here at the Illinois Times website from now up until 11:59pm on September 27th one week from now. The winners will be published in the October 28th issue of the Illinois Times.
Yes. There IS a show happening at Dumb Records tonight! It’s a three-band show! The bands are more in the alternative and indie-rock directions! Maybe even some shoegaze music! For this show we have “Grey Slush” – Grey Slush is an indie rock group from Peoria Illinois! You can stream their debut EP on the player embedded below. For this show we also have the return of The Telephone Junkies! Telephone Junkies put out an album last year and it’s great. Looks like opening things up we have the Lincoln, Illinois-based shoegaze project Hushpad. What an all around nice time.
This show will start at 7:00 pm and admission is $7. Check out a facebook event for this one right here. Also check our shows page on our site for a list of all three shows we have lined up right now.
And for this show following suite with health guidelines, state mandates, and all of that fun stuff – masks are required at this show and we are once again checking for proof of vaccine at the door! We will also accept negative covid test results within the last 72 hours.
Those October show announcements are starting to roll in! Here we have one to tell you about happening on Thursday, October 28th. It’s a nice and “chill” show. It should be a good one.
For this show we have singer/songwriter Jack M. Senff from Traverse City, Michigan! Jack has had records released through our friends over at Skeletal Lightning based out of Urbana, Illinois. He’s also performed once before here in town at the CFP house! You can stream his newest collection of songs which came out earlier this year on the player below. Looks like this time around Jack will be coming with another act called “Nephele” from Minneapolis, Minnesota! We also have the first time Dumb Records performance for a solo Decatur act called “Oatmilk!” Yum! Opening things up is none other than Emily Hough – who had performed a few times at our space, but moved to California! Is she back in town??
This show will start at 7:00 pm and admission is $7. You can find a facebook event for this one right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page where you can find everything else we have announced and lined up at Dumb Records right now.
There is some really good music going out onto our shelves recently here at Dumb Records. Like, some really good music. Believe us. Our store is open every day from 10:00am to 7:00pm and we are constantly pumping out new and used LPs, 7″s, CDs, and cassettes out onto the shelves. We got t-shirts, we got stickers, we got pins, we got pinball, etc, etc. You know the drill. Okay, here are just some of the new arrivals that have gone out over the past few days:
New LPs Amyl & The Sniffers – Amyl & The Sniffers Amyl & The Sniffers – Comfort To Me Animal Collective – Feels Beirut – No No No Black Sabbath – 13 The Bug – Fire The Cars – Moving In Stereo: The Best Of The Cars Cold Feet – Punk Entity The Dave Pike Quartet / Bill Evans – Pike’s Peak Death Angel – Frolic Through The Park Digital Underground – This Is An E.P. Release Digital Underground – Sex Packets Doug Cam – Infant Eyes Imagine Dragons – Mercury Act 1 JuJu – Our Mother Was A Plant Kacey Musgraves – Star Crossed Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Butterfly 3000 Lowell George – Hey What Modest Mouse – The Golden Casket Neighborhood Brats – Confines Of Life O.V. Wright – A Nickle And A Nail And Ace Of Spades Radiohead – Amnesiac The Residents – Eskimo Spllit – Spllit Sides Teddy Pendergrass – Duets Love & Soul Tom Waits – Real Gone
Used LPs Al Caiola – Warm And Mellow Al Pierson – Dance In The Old Fashioned Way Aldo Monges – La Historia De Aldo Monges The Alvino Rey Orchestra – The King Family Show! Aviator – Aviator Barbara Fairchild – Look Inside The Asylum Choir Barbara Fairchild – Standing In Your Line Barbra Streisand – Simply Streisand Barbra Streisand – The Way We Were Baker Gurvitz Army – Hearts On Fire Big Bird – Big Bird Sings Bill Snodgrass – The University Of Texas At Arlington Billy Preston – Genius Of Billy Preston Blues Magoos – Psychedelic Lollipop Booker Ervin – The In Between Crazy Otto – Crazy Otto Rides Again Charlie Rich – The Silver Fox Cheech & Chong – Los Cochinos Chuck Mangione – Children of Sanchez Count Basie & His Orchestra – Kansas City Suite The Creed Taylor Orchestra – Shock Music In Hi-Fi The Crusaders – Royal Jam David Whitfield – Cara Mia Dexter Gordon – Sophisticated Giant Don Glasser / Louis Costello – Together 25 Years Donna Summer – Golden Hits Vol. Two Donovan – Barabajagal The Earl Scruggs Revue – Strike Anywhere Elvis Presley – Elvis Country Memories The Equators – Hot Eric Clapton – Live With Sonny Boy Williamson Erskine Hawkins – 25 Golden Years Of Jazz Floyd Cramer – This Is Floyd Cramer The Four Seasons – Four Seasons Story Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush – World Anthem Frankie Yankovic – Polka Funk & Wagnalls – Chopin Album 5 George Melachrino – The Music of Sigmund Romberg Harry Babasin & Terry Gibbs – Pick N’ Pat Head East – U.S. 1 The Harmonicats – The Harmonicats Iron Butterfly – Evolution: The Best of Iron Butterfly Iron Butterfly – Live Iron Butterfly – Metamorphosis Ironhorse – Ironhorse Jack Teagarden – 1944 Big Band Jakob Magnusson – Special Treatment James Gang – Bang James Gang – Newborn Jan & Dean – Folk N’ Roll John Scofield Trio – Out Like A Light Johnny Mathis – Johnny’s Newest Hits Johnny Mathis – This Is Love Johnny Winter – Johnny Winter Johnny Winter – First Winter Kris Kristofferson – Jesus Was A Capricorn Las Tres Guitarras – Navidad Lenny Williams – Choosing You Louis Prima – Wonderland By Night Mandré – M3000 Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – Nightingales & Bombers The Martial Solal Trio – In Concert Mongo Santamaria – Mongomania Neil Young – Decade Norman Lee Pat Travers – Pat Travers Patsy Cline – Walking After Midnight Peter Nero – Piano Forte The Pretenders – The Vinyl Collection 1979-1999 Quartette Tres Bien – Boss Tres Bien Qlowski – Quale Futuro? Quicksilver Messenger Service – What About Me Rare Earth – Ma Ray Charles – The Best Of Ray Charles Red Steagall – Lone Star Beer The Residents – Eskimo Shirley Bassey – I, Capricorn Sandy Nelson – Heavy Drums Stan Kenton – Conducts The Lost Angeles Neophonic Orchestra Steve Wariner – Midnight Fire Steve Wariner – Down In Tennessee Steve Wariner – I Should Be With You Strange Advance – 2wo Sweet – Off The Record Trooper – Two For The Show Various – Streets Of Fire: Music From The Motion Picture Various – Mardi Gras In New Orleans Various – Married To The Mob (Soundtrack)
Guess what? We’ve got another show tonight – our third one back inside our space since our return since this dreadful pandemic (which is still lingering on in our world). Tonight is just a short and sweet three-band Monday night show.
Tonight the show just features one touring act and that is “Bliind To Life.” They are from Colorado Springs, Colorado and you can stream their newest two-song release on the player embedded below. We also have the band “Split’ coming from St. Louis. This was a very hard band to find on the internet, but we finally found them and their music is online right here. Prevention (from here in Springfield) is playing as well, we are not sure if Prevention is opening, closing the show, or playing right in the middle, so you better be there for all of it!
This show will begin at 7:00 pm and admission this tie around is $7 (bring your cash). Find a facebook event for this one right here. And YES, we ARE still checking for proof of vaccination cards (or proof of a negative Covid test within the past 72 hours) at this show once again, and masks are required as well.
Are you ready for another show announcement? Those October show announcements are starting to roll in… Here we have another hardcore show happening Sunday, October 24th at Dumb Records.
For this show we have four bands. At the top of the bill is “Snuffed” – a hardcore band from Chicago we have been told is “nasty.” Stream the music on the player below to hear just now nasty they really are. Also on this show is Peoria veteran hardcore rockers in Bull Cult! Some of them over there helped open up a new venue in Peoria called the Hot Box. There is also a NEW band from Jacksonville on this bill playing some metal music called “War And Rumor.” Then there is also a NEW band from right here in Springfield playing hardcore music called “Hemlock”!
This show will start at 7:00 pm and admission this time around is $7. As far as we can tell, we are still requiring masks and checking vaccination cards for shows in October. Find a facebook event for this one right here. Also check out our shows page for a list of other upcoming shows at our space.
Some of you that were around for our earlier years at the original location might have remembered a brief moment in time where we had Dumb Records enamel pins with our old logo. Well… we have been wanting to make more with the new logo for a while now, and that time has finally come! We have our drippy record logo enamel pins available in the store for $4.00! But also, they are now available online along with a NEW simple and revamped online store we set up for some of our Dumb Records merch items righthere at dumbrecords.bigcartel.com!Fun! On this version of our online store, you can only find five items including some of our recent shirt designs, enamel pins, and a sticker bundle deal. We are keeping things simple this go-around, there is no option for in-store pickup (sorry, this time it’s geared more for out of towners for us to ship stuff to because that is what makes the most sense for us right now)! Our online store with records and CDs is still setup through Discogs here.
Holy smokes, are we really ready for a show with six bands on it right now? We are not sure, but we’ve got a little bit of time to practice our mosh moves and get ready for this one, which is going to be happening on Wednesday, October 20th at Dumb Records.
This one features heavy hitting Louisville, Kentucky hardcore band “Constraint.” You can stream their latest album Nerf Planet embedded on the player below. Looks like Constraint is going to be touring with Discourage coming all the way from California (and also playing hardcore music)! Ope, looks like we have another Louisville band and that is “Gates To Hell.” There’s even a band from Canada on here called Flash Back??? We have bands coming in every direction for this show! Of course we also have Prevention on the bill – and then also is the very first show for a brand new Springfield hardcore band called Penalty Box!
This show will start at 7:00 pm and admission is $10. Check out a facebook event for this show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a list of everything we have announced and lined up.
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