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!
It’s another Tuesday here at Dumb Records and we are dumping out more records than ever… you’d think that Record Store Day is already here or something! As you may know, Record Store Day (the second of two “drop dates”) is happening on this Saturday. We will be open at 8:00 am to 8:00 pm on that day, but all of the other days right now we are open 10:30 am – 6:30 pm. Our arcade is open that same time. Of course on Saturday we’ll be dropping hundreds of exclusive releases that will be out for Record Store Day, but we also have plenty of other goodies in this week. This list is just some of that!
New LPs Almost Famous – Music From The Motion Picture Bastard Squad – The Alexian Sessions Bastard Squad – Bastard Luck Ben Folds Five – The Sound of the Life Of The Mind Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band – Live At The Cawtown Ballroom 1974 Chevelle – Wonder What’s Next Clipping – Wriggle Danny Elfman – Edward Scissorhands Original Soundtrack D.O.A. – Talk-Action=0 Donnie & Joe Emerson – Dreamin’ Wild D.R.I. – Crossover Fleetwood Mac – Recorded For BBC, 1967 Grave Digger – The Grave Digger Guns N’ Roses – River Plate Stadium 1993 The Heartbreakers – Yonkers Demo 1976 Hüsker Dü – Live At Camden Palace 1985 Iron Bars – Iron Bars The Jam – This Is The Modern World The Jazz Messengers – At The Cafe Bohemia Johnnie Frierson – Have You Been Good To Yourself King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Live In Asheville ‘19 Kraftwerk – Live In Koeln Sartory Saal 1975 Lee Moses – Time And Place Link Wray Link Wray Lin-Manuel Miranda – In The Heights Soundtrack Maze – II Megadeth – New York’s Alright Mighty Baby – Mighty Baby The Mind – Open Up The Window And Leave Your Boady Morbid Angel – Altars of Madness The Muffs – The Muffs Muse – Origin of Symmetry Nirvana – Live At The Pier 48, 1993 Nirvana – The Tripple J Broadcast Rob Zombie – Halloween II Soundtrack Roky Erickson – The Evil One Sepultura – Caslemaniafest Live At Donington 1994 Shaved Women – Just Death Sonny Rollins – Saxophone Colossus Space Jam – Original Soundtrack Sunn O))) – Kannon Various – Brown Acid: The Fourth Trip Various – Siler Girls & Indian Pipes The Velvet Underground – The Boston Tea Party 1969 Wilco – A.M. Willie Nelson – Spirit
Used LPs Mr. Acker Bilk – Stranger On The Shore Al Stewart – The Early Years The American Breed – Bend Me, Shape Me Barbi Benton – Barbi Benton Black Oak Arkansas – Early Times Bob James – Rameau Boomtown Rats – In The Long Grass Bon Jovi – 7800º Fahrenheight Brook Benton – Bakin’ Love Is Good For You Buck Owens – Dust On Mother’s Bible The Cars – Panorama Celeste Legaspi – Ako At Si Celeste Charlie Barnet – Volume I Charlie Parker / Miles Davis – Bird & Miles The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Jazz: Red Hot And Cool David Carroll – Dancer’s Delight David Sanborn – Hideaway Dinah Washington – I Don’t Hurt Anymore Dokken – Tooth And Nail The Doobie Brothers – Stampede Donna Summer – Greatest Hits Donovan – In Concert Donovan – Donovan P. Leitch Eubie Blake – And His Friends Fleetwood Mac – Vintage Years Four Tops – Anthology Frances Faye – Caught In The Act Frances Faye – Relaxin’ With Frances Faye Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush – What’s Next Fred Burton – Honky Tonk Percussion Gladys Knight & The Pips – 2nd Anniversary Hall & Oates – Live At The Apollo Hot Tuna – Burgers Jimi Hendrix – In Concert John Barry – Midnight Cowboy John Coltrane – Coltrane’s Sound The Kinks – The Live Kinks Lake – Lake The Lettermen – For Christmas This Year Les Brown – The Best of Les Brown Lita Ford – Dancin’ On The Edge Living Guitars – Finger Lickin’ Pickin’ The Living Series – A Salute To The Tijuana Brass Men Without Hats – Folk Of The 80’s (Part III) Nazareth – Snaz Pat Travers Band – Crash And Burn Paul Butterfield – Put It In Your Ear Paul Butterfield – North South Rita Coolidge – Fall Into Spring Ronco Records – Star Trackin’ 76 The Rutles – The Rutles The Shirelles – The Very Best Of Siegel-Schwall – The Best of Siegel-Schwall Stanley Clarke – School Days Sylvia – Snapshot Third World – All The Way Strong Valerie Carter – Just A Stone’s Throw Away Various – The Best of ‘66 Various – Let’s Twist Various – We Wish You The Merriest Various – Stone Love Dancehall Volume 2 The Yardbirds – Remember… The Yardbirds
12” Singles David Sanborn – Tintin Mariah Carey – Someday
We’re only a couple of days in and already just about need to be re-stocked with this issue, but this is a post to let you know that we do have the most recent “Black Artists Matter” issue of Activator Magazine. This is the second year that Activator has compiled this local zine full of art, poetry, interviews, and more featuring black artists in the area. It’s in full color too, they’ve really gone all out this time around.
In addition to this – the July issue of Activator is also on the way! AND Activator hooked us up with printed out “Live Music Calendars” for the month of July! They are amazing! Consider going and signing up to become a donor for their online Patreon page! We’ll be sure to let you know as soon as we have the July issue in stock.
Let’s boogie! It’s a Thursday and it’s latin dance night at the Levitt AMP Music Series here downtown! This is show number 6 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’s headlining act is: Tito Puedo, Jr. – a latin jazz musician and also son of legendary timbale player Tio Puedo. Before Tito goes on at 7:00 pm though – there is going to be a dance lesson on stage by Julio Barrenzuela! And before that at 6:00 pm the opening act is Cuarteto Bendito – a newly formed trio from here in Springfield specializing in Latin Jazz.
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.
Record Store Day (the second of two “drop dates” this summer) is just ten days away on Saturday, July 17th, and we are having some fun with this one. We had mentioned in our original post that the first 50 people in line would get a free exclusive t-shirt. Today we are back with photos of those shirts. There it is pictured above. If you want one you better get in line early for when we open at 8:00 am on that day.
Is there a way for any out-of-towners or people unable to make it to Record Store Day to get these shirts? No, there’s not. These are limited run, exclusive shirts. They are very special.
You can find a facebook event with more info on Record Store Day Drop #2 right here. Also check out the Record Store Day website right here for the full list of all of the exclusive releases coming out for that day right here. In addition to the exclusives we will be holding a 10% sale on our whole store other than exclusive RSD releases, half off dollar records, live music, and free coffee!
It’s another tornado drill Tuesday… and today the tornado drill got to you before we could deliver the list to you here of this week’s records… oh well. This week just like every week we have a fresh stack of new and used LPs, 12″ singles (we also put out CDs and cassettes on to the shelves but we stopped listing those for now). Our store is open every day from 11:00 am to 6:30 pm. Don’t forget Record Store Day 2021 Drop #2 is coming up in just about 10 days on Saturday, July 17th!
New LPs Angel Olsen – Phases Aphex Twin – Cheetah Getting The Fear – Death Is Bigger Dinosaur Jr. – Give A Glimpse of What Yer Not Institute – Re-Adjusting The Locks The Flaming Lips – Greatest Hits Vol. 1 Jess Joy – Patreearchy John Carpenter – Halloween Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Justin Timberlake – The 20/20 Experience Kaina – Next To The Sun Kanye West – Jesus Is King Kishi Bashi – Emigrant EP Maserati – Maserati VII Modest Mouse – No One’s First, And You’re Next Monster Magnet – A Better Dystopia The Mothers of Invention – Burnt Weeny Sandwich Nina Simone My Baby Just Cares For Me OXY – Along Alo: 1981-1989 Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain Pharmakon – Devour Ramones – It’s Alive Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Getaway Sharon Van Etten – I Don’t Want To Let You Down Stan Getz & The Oscar Peterson Trio Travis Scott – Birds In The Trap Sing McKnight Various – Strum & Thrum Walt Disney – Music From Sleeping Beauty Walt Disney – Tarzan Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Yoko Ono – Feeling The Space Yoko Ono – Fly
Used LPs Al Martino – This Is Love Barrett Deems And The Hottet – Deemus Barry White – Can’t Get Enough Basil Valdez – Basil Billie Holiday – Lady Day Bobby Vinton – All-Time Greatest Hits Carman – The Champion Cedar Walton Quartet – First Set Cher – Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves Chiliwack – Opus X Claude Thornhill – The Uncollected 1947 David Frizzell & Shelly West – Carryin’ On The Family Names Don Williams – Country Boy Donovan – Hurdy Gurdy Man The Eagles – Hotel California Electric Light Orchestra – Time Ella Fitzgerald – Sings The Gershwin Song Book Vol. 2 James Galway – The Magic Flute of James Galway Ferante & Teicher – You Light Up My Life Freddy Fender – If You Don’t Love Me George Strait – If You Ain’t Lovin’ You Ain’t Livin’ George Thorogood & The Destroyers – Live Glenn Yarbrough – The Lonely Things Grace Slick – Software Guy & Ralna – Love Songs Hannibal Marvin Peterson – Naima Hank Williams – On Stage Recorded Live Head East – Gettin’ Lucky Horrible Things – Everybody Else Ipi ’N Tombia – The Warrior Ivan Moravec – Chopin 24 Preludes James Last – Music From Across The Way Jefferson Airplane – Volunteers Jerry White – Honky Tonkin’ Jimmy Dorsey – So Rare Johnny Mathis – I’ll Search My Heart Johnny Rodriguez – My Third Album Julian Bream – The Art of Julian Bream Lady Flash – Beauties In The Night Leftover Crack – Constructs Of The State Leon Patillo – The Sky’s The Limit Martha Reeves – Gotta Keep Moving Melissa Manchester – For The Working Girl Mike Reno And Moxy – Thinking About You The Mike Theodore Orchestra – Cosmic Wind Miles Davis – Tutu Monty Python’s Flying Circus – Another Monty Python Record Nancy Sinatra – Sugar Nazareth – Hot Tracks New Christy Minstrels – Merry Christmas! The Night Train Revue – Oldmate – It Is What It Is Paul Shaffer – Coast To Coast Patti Labelle & The Bluebelles – The Very Best of Patti Labelle Pele – Enemies Perry Como – So Smooth Q5 – Steel The Light Rare Earth – Grand Slam Rare Earth – Willie Remembers… Rita Coolidge – It’s Only Love Roy Orbison – Greatest Hits Sleepy LaBeef – The Rockabilly Giant Spooky Tooth – You Broke My Heart Stormie Omartian – Exercise For Life Susan Raye – Wheel of Fortune The Three Degrees – Standing Up For Love Tubes – The Completion Backward Principle Various – Country Christmas Vol. 2 Various – Fame: Original Soundtrack Various – The Winter Scene Wayne Newton – The Little Drummer Boy Weird TV – Weird TV
12” Singles Bits & Pieces – Don’t Stop The Music Brother And Sister – Midnight Desire Eminem – Like Toy Soldiers Frank Hooker – Ooh Sugar Wooga New Jersey Drive – Soundtrack Sampler Saint Tropez – Fill My Life With Love Spinners – Long Live Soul Music Stephanie Mills – What Cha Gonna Do With My Lovin’ Sugga & Spice – Boyz Just Wanna Get Skeezed! Viola Wills – Up On The Roof Wu-Tang Clan – Rules / In The Hood 8 Ball And MJG – Get Low 8 Ball – Creeses And Pieces
This is just a post to let you know we are closed today for the 4th of July. Sorry. We will resume with our regular hours of 11:00 am to 6:30 pm every day tomorrow (Monday). Enjoy your day!
Now that it’s July, that means it’s not June anymore. And now that it’s not June anymore that means our June Bubbles arcade contest is officially over. Great! Here are our final results:
Chris O – 81,900
Nia T – 71,500
Corbin – 68,020
Levi – 64,300
Lanny D – 55,320
Eddie O – 51,080
Zach H – 47,250
Tyler S – 44,270
Kolton – 44,170
Connor S – 41,100
Shelby W. – 40,760
Congratulations to everyone who participated in this contest! We have prizes for all of the top 11 scorers. Almost all of those prizes are ready (whoops we still have to get our bubble gum and big bubble gift basket together)!!
What will are next contest be? We don’t know. The next contest just might be our big downtown Springfield business pinball tournament later this year! We will see!
Happy Saturday! It might be a busy one here at Dumb Records today. We are open 10:00 am – 6:30 pm. We just debuted a new pinball machine yesterday and also the Legacy of Giving Music Festival is going on downtown all day. And it’s the Saturday Old State Capitol Farmer’s Market!
But another thing we are doing today is hosting a pop-up shop all day long for Sketbort! Skateboards (a local / Taylorville) small skate company. There will be skateboards and skating gear for sale. Sketbort! is also part of the push behind “Taylorville Needs A Skatepark” – a campaign to get a new skatepark in Taylorville. The pop-up will be going on all day today.
*Once again, we would like to note here that we will be closed tomorrow for the 4th of July!
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