Oh boy! It feels like forever since we’ve made one of these posts… TONIGHT – it looks like we have a show happening at Dumb Records for the first time in 1.5 years. We have a new stage. We have a new arcade. It’s going to be the first time we’ve gotten to use both of those for a show.
Before we get into the bands for tonight, let’s go over our updated policies regarding attendees and COVID-19:
All show attendees will be required to provide proof of at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine or negative COVID test within the last 72 hoursmasks are required at these events for all attendees.
Masks are required at these events for all attendees.
*Proof of vaccine can be in the form of either your physical COVID-19 vaccination card or a photo on your phone. Okay? Okay, now that we’ve got that out of the way here’s who’s playing tonight: we’ve got… Bottom Bracket who put out their full length album I Don’t Care Enough To Stay right at the start of the pandemic. We’ve got Attic Salt, who also put out an album, Get Wise right in the middle of the pandemic. AND we’ve got a brand new band called “Tilt Warning” that formed during the pandemic.
All of this starts at Dumb Records at 7:00 pm. Admission is just $5. Find a facebook event here. I think that’s it.
This is a post to let you know that we just got stocked up with the newest issue of Activator Magazine!This one is for August 2021 – and it is packed with some great content.
As you can see on the cover is local artist Cee Jones – who just released a folk album entitled It’s Okay To Fall From Grace. Then on the bottom portion of the cover there you might be able to see the *exclusive* snippet that is an interview with Laura Jane Grace (of the band Against Me!) about her recent solo album Stay Alive and upcoming performance August 28th right here in our alleyway. What else does this issue got? It’s got “best bets” – which is highlights of upcoming local shows. Also plenty of album reviews and a “regional roundup”. There’s an interview with local singer Lazarus Lubisi who has been active at Intricate Flow Fridays, part 2 of the interview with hip hop professor A.D. Carson, a photospread of Downhome music fest – and even our “Dumb Perspective” column which is a bit of a travelogue of small towns in Illinois.
Activator is available for free and can be picked up at Dumb Records and other various local spots around Central Illinois! You should also check out their patreon page online and consider donating!
Whoops! Here we are lettin’ loose with a new arrivals post for the week late in the day on a Thursday! We suppose any time is as good as any to let you know what new and used LPs we’ve got dumping out on to the shelves for the week. This week there is a pretty hefty chunk of new new records going out. This list below doesn’t even include re-stocks either! We are open every day now from 10:30 am – 7:00 pm downtown. I guess there are shows coming up too, so we might have to be open later for those again… Here is a look at some of what’s new in this week:
New LPs The Aggrovators – Rasta Dub ‘76 Alice In Chains – Live At The Palladium, 1992 Aretha Franklin – Aretha Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers – Moanin’ Augustus Pablo – Moods of Pablo Augustus Pablo – Africa Must Be Free Bad Brains – I And I Survive Black Sheep – A Wolf In Shep’s Clothing Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan Brand New – Science Fiction Bring Me The Horizon – This Is What The Edge of Your Seat Was Made For The Clash – The Clash Cradle of Filth – Cruelty And The Beast The Cramps – Hot Pearl Radio Broadcast Doldrey – Invocation of Doom The Ethiopian – Open The Gate of Zion The Exploided – Horror Epics Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand Garth Brooks – 7-Diamond Triple Live Geld – Perfect Texture George Guzman – Introducing George Guzman Graham T. Brown – I Tell It Like It Used To Be Grant Green – Idle MOments Ini Kamoze – Sly & Robbie resents Ini Kamoze Jim Stafford – Not Just Another Pretty Foot King Tubby – The Roots of Dub Leadbelly – Easy Rider Lee Perry – The Black Emperor Vol. 1 Malcria – El Reino De Lo Falso New York Dolls – Live At Radio Luxembourg 1973 Nick Drake – Pink Moon Nippon Girls – Japanese Pop, Beat & Bossa Nova Nina Simone – The Best of Nina Simone Over Kill – The Electric Age (Deluxe Edition) Phillis Dillon – One Life To Live Pixies – Live At The Los Angeles Palladium Motorhead – Tales of Glory: Live At L’Amour, New York Ricky Banda – Niwanji Walwa Amwishyo Shinedown – Amaryllis Snoop Dogg – Bush Solomon Ilori – African High Life Split Decision Band – Split Decision Band Tyler Childers – Purgatory Various – Black Man’s Cry: The Inspiration of Fela Kuti Various – Bombay Disco 2 Various – Get It Together! Various – Legends Play The Beatles Various – Take Us Home: Boston Roots Reggae Void – Sessions 1981-83 Walt Disney – Songs From Cars Wells Fargo – Watch Out! Witch – In The Past Yoruba Singers – Fighting For Survival
Used LPs Alabama – Christmas Animotion – Animotion Annabella – Fever Black Oak Arkansas – 10 Yr Overnight Succes Bobby Darin – Mack The Knife Boz Scaggs – Other Roads Carl Smith – Greatest Hits Volume One Charlie Rich – Arkansas Traveler Chena – Promises City Boy – City Boy Coleman Hawkins – The Hawk Returns Count Basie Orchestra – The ABC Collection The Cousins – Music Of The Strip David Crosby / Graham Nash – The Best Of David Brinkley – The Kennedy Wit Dionne Warwick – The Collection Don Gibson – Oh Lonesome Me Eagles – Hell Freezes Over Eurythmics – Revenge Gary Lewis And The Playboys – Greatest Hits Gene Watson – No One Will Ever Know Harry Belafonte – Calypso Jackie Wilson – Sings The World’s Greatest Melodies Jackson 5 – A B C Johnny Paycheck – Slide Off Of Your Satin Sheets Johnny Rivers – At The Whisky A-Go-Go Johnny Winter – And/Live Joni Mitchell – Ladies Of The Canyon Larry Coryell – European Impressions Love Unlimited – In Heat Mama Cass – Bubble Gum, Lemonade &… Something Maurice Chevalier – The World Of Michael Weiss Quintet – Presenting Michael Weiss Mike Nock – Climbing Minnie Riperton – Perfect Angel Mister Rogers – A Place Of Our Own Moe Bandy – She’s Not Really Cheatin’ Moe Bandy – Devoted To Your Memory Patrick Joyce – Pushin’ Patrick Paul Winter / Paul Halley – Whales Alive Powder Blues – Party Line Ramsey Lewis Trio – Dancing In The Street Renaissance – Ashes Are Burning Sandi Patti – The Gift Goes On Sarcasm – Creeping Life Skeeter Davis – Blueberry Hill Sonny And Cher – Baby Don’t Go Stan Getz – The Sound Stephen Stills – Live Steve Howe – The Steve Howe Album Suncast – In Touch Again Teresa Brewer / Count Basie – The Songs of Bessie Smith Trapeze – You Are The Music… We’re Just The Band Van Morrison – Astral Weeks Various – Best Of The 60’s Various – Good Ol’ Gospel Music Various – Live At CBGB’s Various – Living Presence Sampler Various – Stars On Long Play II Various – Twisin’ Time Wes Montgomery – Goin’ Out of My Head Wet Willie – Manorisms Willie Nelson – Angel Eyes Wishbone Ash – New England
The first shows that we have lined up at Dumb Records are coming up quick – this Saturday, August 14th, and Monday, August 16th. It’s pretty clear that when these shows were booked on the calendar and the decision was made to move forward with them, cases of COVID-19 in our region and country overall seamed to be in a much better place then they are now. Because COVID-19 is still a very real threat to our community, we are going to be taking needed precautions to make sure the shows we have lined up are as safe as possible.
All show attendees will be required to provide proof of at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine or negative COVID test within the last 72 hoursmasks are required at these events for all attendees.
Masks are required at these events for all attendees.
*Proof of vaccine can be in the form of either your physical COVID-19 vaccination card or a photo on your phone.
We are still in uncertain times and we currently do not have any other indoor shows officially announced other than the upcoming two – but we will be likely enforcing this policy until further notice. The alley show with Laura Jane Grace on August 28th is a free event and outdoors – but as of right now it is safe to say we will all be masking up in the alley, and we are asking for those not vaccinated to not come to that event. You can likely expect a post regarding that show and policies for that at some point before the event.
Happy Tornado Drill Tuesday everyone!!! We are back today with another very fresh stack of new and used vinyl to list off as just some of the new arrivals we have been getting into the store over this past week. Our store is open every day from 10:30am – 6:30pm here downtown. Our arcade is open during that same time as well. We are happy to be here serving as your local music record shop since 2014. Give us a good review on Yelp or Google if you want! Okay, here is a list of what’s new:
New LPs Afroman – Crazy Rap Atomic Forest – Disco Roar Baroness – Gold & Grey Billie Eilish – Happier Than Ever Chloe X Balle – Ungodly Hour Currensy – Collection Agency Eric Nervous – Bugs!! Faceless Burial – Grotesque Miscreation Five Finger Death Punch – Decade Of Destruction Vol. 2 Fleetwood Mac – Greatest Hits GAG – Still Laughing Idles – Brutalism J Dilla – Instrumentals From The Diary Of J Dilla James Brown – Sho Is Funky Down Here The Lowest Form – Negative Ecstasy The Marked Men – On The Other Side Method Man – Street Education Mudhoney – Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge Pennywise – Land Of The Free Pentagram – Show ‘Em How Prince – Welcome 2 America Shrinkwrap Killers – Parents + FBI = Cahoots Sigur Ros – Valtari Spiritualized – Pure Phase Tom Waits – Small Change U2 – The Best Of 1990-2000 Witch – Lazy Bones!! Yola – Stand For Myself
Used LPs The Allman Brothers Band – Reach For The Sky Bobby Darin – Clementine Bobby Darin – That’s All Bobby Darin – Darin 1936-1973 B.T.O. – Rock N’ Roll Nights Bud Powell – The Amazing Bud Powell The Byrds – The Byrds Play Dylan Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band – Safe As Milk Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen – Country Casanova Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen – Lost In The Ozone Dave & Sugar – That’s The Way Love Should Be Doug Sahm – Groovers Paradise Emmylou Harris – Quarter Moon In A Ten Cent Shop Europe – Wings of Tomorrow Exile – Kentucky Hearts George Benson – The New Boss Guitar Of George Benson George Benson / Earl Klugh – Collaboration George Howard – A Nice Place To Be Ginni Clemmens – Lopin’ Along Through The Cosmos Grand Funk Railroad – Good Singin’ Good Playin’ Greg Hyslop – Manhattan Date Janie Fricke – Somebody Else’s Jefferson Airplane – Thirty Seconds Over Winterland Jim Croce – Time In A Bottle The Joe Pass Trio – Live At Donte’s Johnny Horton – The Johnny Horton Collection Judas Priest – Sin After Sin The Kendalls – Two Heart Harmony Kim Carnes – Café Racer Leon Patillo – Cornerstone Leon Patillo – Brand New Luther Henderson – Clap Hands! Machito And His Orchestra – Soul Source Mantovani – Music From Films Marvin Gaye – Live At The London Palladium MGM Studio Orchestra – The Wizard of Oz The Muppets – The Muppet Movie Soundtrack Murray The “K” – Live As It Happened Oliver Nelson – Screamin’ The Blues Oscar Peterson – Plays Harry Warren Oscar Peterson – Plays Richard Rodgers Paul Carrack – One Good Reason Paul Simon – Hearts And Bones Pork & The Havana Ducks – Pork & The Havana Ducks Raspberries – Fresh Reg Owen – Under Paris Skies Rusty Warren – Bounces Back Santana – Santana (1971) Slim Boyd – Nashville Express! Stan And Doug – Yust Go Nuts At Christmas The Statesmen Quartet – With Hovie Lister Stevie Wonder – Hotter Than July Streets – 1st T.H.P. Orchestra – Too Hot For Love Varel And Baily – From France With Music Various – Big Bands’ Greatest Hits Various – Country Fever Various – Dinah Washington – A Memorial Various – Hot Ladies Of Rock Various – Hotels, Motels And Road Shows Various – La Bamba (Soundtrack) Various – Lovedolls Superstar Various – Stars Of The Grand Ole Opry Venom – American Assault Vince Guaraldi – Greatest Hits Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes Vixen – Vixen Wang Chung – Mosaic Weather Report – Mr. Gone Willie & The Red Rubber Band – Willie And The Red Rubber Band Wet Willie – Drippin’ Wet Live White Lion – Big Game White Lion – Pride 101 Strings – Themes From Superman
12” Singles Mad Skillz – Ghostwriter UB40 – 808 State One In Ten 9th Wonder – Brooklyn In My Mind
Amazing… just, amazing. You may have heard the big news by now, but if now – on Saturday, August 28th we’ve got one for the books coming up in the alleyway between Dumb Records and Good Heart Tattoo. Laura Jane Grace – singer and guitarist for the punk rock band Against Me! – and also “notable for being one of the first highly visible punk rock musicians to come out as transgender, after she publicly came out in May 2012″ – will be performing.
In addition to LJG we have a few other solo acts performing. Cole Bridges is coming up from St. Louis – a solo musician formerly from Champaign. Jessica Knight of the band Looming will also be playing, as well as Ricki Marvel also from here in Springfield.
The show will start exactly at 7:00 pm and it is free. With conditions of the pandemic still being up in the air, there might be a strong mask suggestion even if the show is outdoors. We don’t have a facebook event for this one yet, sorry. Laura Jane Grace released her solo album Stay Alive last year on Polyvinyl Records. You can stream that on the player below.
Good morning! It’s another week at our record store and we are still trying our darndest to keep those shelves replenished after a successful Record Store Day a little over a week ago now! It doesn’t seem like anybody has stopped buying records after Record Store Day is over! Our store is open here downtown every day from 10:30 am – 6:30 pm, and so is our arcade. We try to have fun over here. Below is a list of just some of what’s new in this week. Check out our discogs page if you want.
New LPs AFI – Bodies Andre & Josi – Amandla Buddy Guy – Stone Crazy! CAN – CAN CH3 – Fear Of Life Cypress Hill – Cypress Hill Dolly Parton – Early Dolly The Gun Club – Fire Of Love Inglorious Basterds Original Soundtrack Iron Maiden – Final Frontier The Jesus And Mary Chain – The Pocket Gods King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Demos Vols. 1 & 2 Little Miss Sunshine – Original Sountrack Mass Arrest – Power Miley Cyrus – Plastic Hearts Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Hey Hey, My My: 1989 Rare Tracks Nirvana – Happy Halloween: Live At The Paramount Overkill – Feel The Fire Paul McCartney – McCartney III Imagined Pig Heart Transplant – For Mass Consumption Rakta – Falha Comum Rashomon – Pathogen X Rodrigo Amarante – Drama Sparks – A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip Steely & Clevie – Frighten Friday Sufjan Stevens – Planetarium Sun Ra – Angels And Demons At Play Taylor Swift – Folklore Tedeschi Trucks Band – Layla Them – Time Out! Time In For Them Tyler Childers – Country Squire Various – Brown Acid: The Eighth Trip Various – Ghetto Hot Again
Used LPs Al Caiola – Soft Guitars Al Di Meola – Casino Alcatrazz – Dangerous Games Alfred Apaka – The Best Of Alvin Lee – Pump Iron! America – Hat Trick Barefoot Jerry – You Can’t Get Off With Your Shoes On The Beatles – Hey Jude Bessie Smith – The Empress Boots Randolph – Hip Boots! Canned Heat – Historical Figures And Ancient Heads Chastity Belt – Time To Go Home Crystal Gayle – The Best of Crystal Gayle Earl Doud – The First Family Rides Again Earth Girls – Wanderlust Dave Gardner – It Don’t Make No Difference Dino – A Christmas Gift Of Love Dixie Dregs – Dregs Of The Earth Elvin Bishop – Let It Flow Fela Anikulapo Kuti – Black President Ferrante & Teicher – Star Wars Frankie Carle – Frankie Carle’s Finest Frank Zappa / Captain Beefheart – Bongo Furry Gene Autry – Back In The Saddle Again Glen Campbell – Christmas With Gloria Loring – Gloria Loring Goose Creek Symphony – Welcome To Goose Creek Grateful Dead – In The Dark Hank Williams – The Spirit of Hank Williams Harry Nilsson – Sandman Head East – Choice of Weapons James Galway – The Four Seasons Joan Armatrading – Me Myself I Joan Baez – The Best Of Joan Baez Joe Cocker – Joe Cocker’s Greatest Hits John Gary – A Heart Filled With Song John Hartford – Aereo-Plain Johnny Paycheck – Greatest Hits, Volume II Lani Hall – Sun Down Lady Larry Coryell – The Lion And The Ram Leon Redbone – On The Track Lionel Hampton With Dexter Gordon – Who’s Who In Jazz Lou Reed – Sally Can’t Dance Luciano Pavarotti – The Great Pavarotti Luka Bloom – Riverside Mac Davis – Til I Made It With You Melissa Manchester – Home To Myself Majorie Meinert – Hi-Fi And Mighty Mantovani – Music From The Films Norma Jean – Norma Jean Paul Butterfield’s Better Days Perverts Again – Our Big Party Red Rider – Breaking Curfew Redd Foxx – The Best of Redd Foxx REO Speed Wagon – This Time We Mean It The Residents – Residue Of The Residents Robert Hunter – Tiger Rose Robert Plant – Pictures At Eleven Sonic Avenues – Disconnector Spyro Gyra – City Kids Tangerine Dream – Exit Tommy Tutone – Tommy Tutone Triumph – Just A Game Urban Verbs – Urban Verbs Van Cliburn – My Favorite Chopin Various – The Motown Sound Vol. 5 Various – Typical Girls Vern Gosdin – Never My Love Waylon Jennings – Are You Ready For The Country The Who – Tommy The Who – The Kids Are Alright
12” Singles Blaxk Widow – Crazy Taxes Do Or Die – Already Know Joe Thomas – Plato’s Retreat The Liks – Best U Can Modern English – Life’s Rich Tapestry
We are now halfway through July and what do you know it looks like we have plenty of copies of the new Activator Magazine stocked on our front counter! This is a very busy month for Activator with the release of the full-color and very nicely done Black Artists Matter issue that we still have plenty of copies of as well.
One the cover of this month’s issue is Decatur Illinois native A.D. Carson also known as “The Professor of Hip Hop.” There is a pretty lengthy interview with him, as well as the usual album reviews for bands in our area and more, also the live music show calendar is making a bit of a return with Activator’s “Best Best” – their top picks for live music this month. There’s a show write-up for the Intricate Flow Fridays Juneteenth Show, an interview with Springfield rock group Enamel, an interview with Splendid Flunkys, Dexter Anodyne, a photospread of bands playing in a tunnel, the Levitt AMP Music Series, and the “Dumb Perspective” column is back where Brian Galecki gives a history of ska bands in Springfield.
Wow! You can pick up all of that in this latest issue of Activator for free here at Dumb Records and various other local spots around Central Illinois. Be sure to check out the Activator Patreon Page online as well to become a monthly donor for exclusive content!
It’s Thursday! That means it’s another Levitt show out on the y-block just through the alley-way from us. This is show number 7 in the 10-part weekly free music series going on here downtown on the y-block (on 4th and Capitol) thanks to our city getting a grant through the Levitt Foundation.
Tonight is the reggae night of the series! The headlining act is Gizzae – which are a group which formed out of the ashes of Ziggy Marley’s backing band “Dallol” in the 1990’s! Neato! They are based out of the Chicago area and they have been a band for 35 years at this point. Opening things up is Loud Clouds from our area.
All of that sounds like a pretty fun time to us! That kicks off out on the lawn at 6:00 pm. Check out the schedule for the remaining shows in the Levitt series on the Levitt website right here.
We’ve now already announced one show happening in August (August 16th)… and here is another one, happening on Saturday, August 14th here at Dumb Records downtown. Those two shows will be our first shows back in this new era – and also our first time having full bands perform on our stage that was built close to a year and a half ago.
This one is just a nice and sweet three band lineup. We have Springfield emo / indie act Bottom Bracket at the top of the bill. The band released their album I Don’t Care Enough To Stay last year, which you can stream on the player below. Another band that released a killer album last year – Attic Salt is also playing. Opening things up is a brand new band called “Tilt Warning” – playing their first show! How fitting!
Oh yeah, and our arcade IS going to be open for these shows we have lined up – all games are set to free play along with show admission. This one starts at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. Check out our shows page to look at what we’ve got officially lined up right now!
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