As we mentioned earlier, there are three major outdoor music festivals happening downtown in the month of July. This includes Legacy of Giving Festival this upcoming weekend, Downhome Music Festival at the end of the month, and Abe Fest the weekend of July 9th and 10th.
Abe Fest might feature the fewest bands out of those three, however the festival might be bringing in headliners which might be the heaviest hitters when it comes to national acts. The festival is being held at the Bank of Springfield Center Plaza, and features headlining act Flock of Seagullson Friday, July 9th and Starship (featuring Mickey Thomas) as the headlining act on Saturday, July 10th. Tickets for each of those dates can be purchased in advance on the Bank of Springfield Center website. For the complete lineup and also more info on the festival, be sure to follow the Abe Fest facebook page.
We just caught word of a new Springfield musical project that put out an album at the start of this month… They are called “Splendid Flunkys” and feature recording artist extraordinaire March Schwartz and also Scott Faingold (Epsom, Heptanes, etc.) as a duo. The two have released a debut album called Throne Room and you can stream all 14 tracks of that on the player below! Also head on over to the Splendid Flunkys bandcamp page where you can purchase the download of the album. And a description from their page:
“Splendid Flunkys is the raw, loud, punkish garage rock brainchild of veteran rockers Scott Faingold (Backwards Day, Epsom) and Mark Schwartz (Forest Saints, Tin Ghost, End Times Trio). With a combination of rib-tickling humor and brutal self- and societal observations, their music is not for the faint of heart. Take a deep breath and enter into the company of the Splendid Flunkys.”
Splendid Flunkys don’t have any plans for any live shows as far as we know. We’ve added this one to our Springfield album archive page, where we definitely have some catching up to do!
Today we bring you a hot new release from Springfield hardcore band Prevention! Four new tracks of heavier than ever hardcore. This new release is entitled What Do You Say NoTo and you can find it embedded on the player below. Head on over to Prevention’s bandcamp page to download the EP at your own price. Prevention also released Your Bad Habits in 2019. They don’t have any shows announced for right now but we hear they will very very soon. What’s that? No, we don’t know anything about them playing anywhere in town last night either.
Between Legacy of Giving, Abe Fest, and Downhome Music Festival there are THREE major outdoor music festivals happening here downtown in July that we know of! Plus there is still the Levitt AMP Music Series out on the y-block still every Thursday night through August 5th! That’s a lot of outdoor live music happening here downtown.
The Legacy Of Giving Music Festival is happening here downtown this upcoming weekend Friday and Saturday July 2nd and 3rd. As you can see on the poster above, there are too many bands playing for us to even list off here. The headlining acts look to be Enamel, The Longmeyer Band, The Station, and This One’s Pink. There are probably about 50 bands listed on that poster playing throughout the weekend. Update – there are actually 60 bands playing 5 different stages for 10 different charities! The festival also features food trucks, a kids area, a vendor fair, a disc golf tournament, and much much more.
We are told to be on the lookout for a band schedule to be released any day now on the Legacy of Giving facebook page. You can also find more information on the festival at logmusicfest.org.
It looks like this will not be a summer without music festivals here in downtown Springfield like last summer was! Legacy of Giving Music Festival is happening in just one week on July 2nd and 3rd this year. Abe Fest is happening on Friday July 9th and Saturday July 10th. Downhome Music Festival is happening later on in the summer (still only one month away), and are ones that have just recently announced their lineup!
Downhome Music Festival is happening Friday and Saturday July 30th and 31st! This festival will feature first time performances since before the pandemic hit for a number of local groups! Big headliners on Friday night include Looming and also Junior Pasare. On Saturday night Solar Chariot and Starwolf are headlining but there are a few other notable acts including Park. Stream some of Looming’s music on the player below!
We are unsure if any time slot or ticket info has yet been released, but you can stay up to date with Downhome going-ons on their facebook page. Holy smokes we are thinking about re-booting our Springfield shows page right now!
Whoops, we didn’t even do a post for Activator Magazine this month! Man, we reallly need to get back on it. By this time we are already re-stocked with our second batch of June issues of Activator Magazine in the store! Activator has recently hit 3 years of being around as a monthly magazine focusing on music and art in Central Illlinois and they are great.
This month’s issue has featured on the cover “Punks In Peoria” – which is a new book and music compilation being released on record and CD by a dedicated group of people whose mission is to document punk in Peoria in the 80’s and 90’s. There is even an upcoming festival in Peoria this early fall featuring some Peoria punk groups reuniting. In addition to a great interview with Punks in Peoria, there is also an interview with Peoria metal group Darker Than Fiction, Springfield power pop group Local Drags, a “10 Up 10 Down” with Knarly Nice, an interview with Springfield rock group Astrofix, Tiara Standage with Intricate Designz, an interview from the archives with Dave Baker about Springfield punk rock in the 1980’s, a photospread for Blue Monday at The Alamo, and an interview with local musician Cameron McClure. The “Dumb Perspective” column is also back where Brian Galecki write about the new exhibit “State of Sound” at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum.
Wow, that was a lot! You can pick up copies of Activator Magazine here at Dumb Records for free as well as other locations around town. Before you know it there will be a July issue out.
The Levitt AMP Music Series continues downtown tonight, with another Thursday night free concert! Tonight it’s country and bluegrass night out on the y-block, and it is the fourth concert lined up in the ten part series that goes on throughout the summer until August 5th. The headlining act tonight is Henhouse Prowlers which can be described as a Chicago bluegrass “powerhouse.” Opening up is Appleton, Wisconson’s DUSK bringing the country. Dusk features members of the band Tenement, who have performed two of our Dumb Fests in the past (2013 and 2015). Stream some of their music on the player below.
All of this kicks off tonight right at 6:00 pm on the Y-block downtown right in-between the governorn’s mansion and our alleyway and is scheduled to go until 8:30pm. We’ll even be closing our store a tad bit early at 5:55pm for this event. If it is raining too hard then this event will be canceled, but lordy heavens lets hope that doesn’t happen. You can find a facebook event for this one right here. Also check out a full schedule of other upcoming Levitt concerts, which were made possible by our city receiving a grant through the Levitt foundation plus other local sponsors, right here on levittampspringfield.org.
Good morning! Look-ee here! We have a fresh stack of new and used LPs and 12″ singles to list off for you today of stuff that has recently hit our shelves this week at Dumb Records, as per usual. There is a lot coming in once again and this list is only some of what’s new. Our store is still open every day from 11:00 am to 6:30 pm here downtown. You can find all different musics of all different genres, shapes, and sizes at our store. Okay, here’s what we’ve got:
New LPs Alligator Records – 50 Years of Genuine Houserockin’ Music Aretha Franklin – Knew You Were Waiting Billie Holiday – Strange Fruit Body Count – Bloodlust Chris Stapleton – From A Room Volume 2 Cult Leader – A Patient Man The Cranberries – Dreams The Collection D Smoke – Black Habits Drill Sergeant – Vile Ebb Evil I – Official Bootleg 1983 Explosions In The Sky – Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die Groupie – Ephemeral Harms Way – Rust Iggy And The Stooges – Jesus Loves The Stooges Iron Maiden – Fear Of The Dark Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee Merle Haggard – Working In Tennessee Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – Carnage Outer Heaven – Diabolous Vobiscum Phish – Live: LP on LP 1 Phish – Live: LP on LP2 Sam & Dave – Double Dynamite Shai Hulud – Sincerely Hated Sharon Van Etten – Epic Ten The Siren Six – Young And Professional Toby Keith – Should’ve Been A Cowboy Walt Disney – Songs From Mulan Warish – Next To Pay Yungblood – Weird!
Used LPs Al Hirt – Trumpet And Strings Anne Murray – Annie Avon – The Stars of Christmas Bette Midler – Beaches Original Soundtrack Billy Vaughn And His Orchestra – Blue Hawaii The Brothers Four – Greatest Hits Chuck Mangione – Chase The Clouds Away Dave Lewis – Mmm-Mmm-Mmm. David Bromberg – Wanted Dead Or Alive Dick Dale – Dick Dale Elton John – The Fox Emmett Kelly – Sing Along Fats Waller – A Legendary Performer Franck Pourcel – Western Movies Greatest Hits Gladys Knight & The Pips – Standing Ovation Glen Campbell – Gentle On My Mind Gloria Loring – Sing A Song For The Mountain Hank Snow – The Wreck Of The Old 97 Harry James & His Orchestra – 18 Famous Hits Homer & Jethro – Songs My Mother Never Sang Homer & Jethro – At The Country Club Hot Tuna – Hot Tuna Ike & Tina Turner – ROck Me Baby Ingrid Sunday – Modern World J.B. Hutto & The New Hawks – Slideslinger Jerry Jeff Walker – Contrary To Ordinary Jerry Vale – This Guy’s In Love With You Jess Pearson – Woody Guthrie’s We Ain’t Down Yet John Lee Hooker – Travelin’ John Scofield – East Meats West Johnny Mathis – Portrait of Johnny Johnny Winter – Second Winter Johnny Mathis – You’ve Got A Friend Little Anthony – Daylight Lee Morgan – Leeway Milt Herth – Happiness Is Milt Herth Miss D. D. Phillips – Miss D. D. Phillips Mississippi John Hurt – Volume II Of The Original Piedmont Recordings The Moody Blues – Caught Live + 5 Night – Night Odetta – At Town Hall The Partridge Family – Shopping Bag Paul Jourard – Paul And The Calliope Paul Payne – Best of Broadway Paul Revere & The Raiders – Something Happening Pet Clark – My Love Pete Fountain – Licorice Stick Pete Townshend – The Iron Man Pete Townshend – Who Came First Randy Moos – Mistral The Ray Conniff Singers – It’s The Talk Of The Town Roy Drusky – The Best Of Rusty Wier – Rusty Wier The Siegel-Schwall Band – 935 West Silly Wizard – Kiss The Tears Away The Statler Brothers – Years Ago Steppenwolf – For Ladies Only Steve Miller Band – Your Saving Grace Supertramp – Supertramp Thompson Twins – Set Tina Turner – Tina Live In Europe Tom Jones – Tom The Turtles – Present The Battle of the Bands Various – The Motown Sound Vol. 9 Various – The Phil Spector Wall Of Sound Vol. 6 Various – The History of Northwest Rock Vol. IV Various – Sun Records’ Greatest Hits 38 Special – Flashback
12” Singles Color Me Badd – I Adore Mi Amor Disco Four – Whip Rap Harry T Booker – Bicentennial Part II Lovebug Starski – Rappin’ Nazty – Do Em Dirty 1-20 – Break Bread 4:00 PM – She’s In There 702 – No Doubt
Happy Tuesday! Yes, despite coming out of a really busy and hectic Record Store Day drop date, we are coming at you today with another long list of new and used records that are hitting our store here in the past week. We do still have a stack of Record Store Day exclusive releases left over in our store and also listed online on our discogs page. Our store is currently open every day from 11:00 am to 6:30 pm. And also as we come out of a very successful Record Store Day drop date we are going to be gearing up for another big one coming up on Saturday, July 17th – in just about one month!! We may have more info on that here in the coming days. For now here is what’s new in this week:
New LPs Arcade Fire – Neon Bible Blacklisted – We’re Unstoppable Candy Apple – Sweet Dreams of Violence Career Suicide – Machine Response Cell Rot – Slowly Falls Apart Cheap Trick – In Another World Converge – You Fail Me D’Angelo And The Vanguard – Black Messiah Disney – Music From Sleeping Beauty Disney – The Princess And The Frog Disney – Songs From Snow White Early Graves – Red Horse Elvis Presley – Elvis 30 #1 Hits Faith No More – Who Care’s A Lot? Greatest Hits Father John Misty – God’s Favorite Customer Goon – Natural Evil Green Day – Shenanigans Loretta Lynn – Coal Miner’s Daughter Mammoth WVH – Mammoth WVH Old Lines – No Child Left Behind Pentagram – Relentless Pink Floyd – Soundtrack From The Film More The Psychos – One Voice Red Hot Chili Peppers – Greatest Hits Self Defense Family – Wounded Masculinity Sleater-Kinney – Path of Wellness Spiritualized – Lazer Guided Melodies Stevie Ray Vaughan – The Sky Is Crying Too $hort – Life Is… Townes Van Zandt – Somebody Had To Write It
Used LPs Al Green – I Get Joy Bellamy Brothers – Just Fly The Blues Project – Live At The Cafe Au Go Go Bobby Cruz Con – Amor En La Escuela The Byrds – Ballad of Easy Rider Charlie – No Second Chance Charlie Barnet – Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra Cheap Trick – Lap of Luxury Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett, McCoy Tyner Chuck Berry – One Dozen Berrys Commodores – Anthology Del Mariachi Vargas – La Vueva Dimension Donna Summer – Love To Love You Baby Donna Summer – Once Upon A Time… Eddie Arnold – Cattle Call Elton John – Friends Fred Astaire – The Best Of Freddie King – All His Hits Freddy Martin And His Orchestra – As Time Goes By Gary Lewis & The Playboys – (You Don’t Have To) Paint Me A Picture Glen Campbell – Oh Happy Day Gordon Waller – …And Gordon Harvest – Give Them Back Herb Alpert – Herb Alpert’s Ninth Highway 101 – Highway 101 The J. Geils Band – Hotline John Entwistle – Too Late The Hero Lena Horne – Give The Lady What She Wants The Limeliters – Folk Matinee The Limeliters – Sing Out! Liquid Heat – Liquid Heat The Manhattan Transfer – Brasil Mary Macdonald – Variations On Rule Britannia Mel McDaniel – Take Me To The Country Mel Tillis & Bob Wills – In Person Michael Martin Murphey – The Best Of Mitch Ryder And The Detroit Wheels – Breakout…!!! The Moody Blues – In The Beginning… The Moody Blues – Out Of This World Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Let’s Go The Osborne Brothers – Bluegrass Spectacular Parlor Jazz Band – Jazz In The Parlor Pat Metheny / Ornette Coleman – Song X Paul Potski – Polka, Polka, Polka Pet Clark – I Couldn’t Live Without Your Love Phil Collins – Buester Soundtrack Poco – Inamorata The Living Voices – This One’s For You Lobo – The Best Of Lobo Pure Prairie League – Just Fly The Romantics – In Heat Rossington Collins Band – Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere Roy Orbison – The All Time Greatest Hits Sammy Davis Jr. – Portrait Of Sammy Davis Jr. The Shoppe – You Ain’t Heard Nothin’ Yet Skitch Henderson – Body & Soul Sonny James – I’ll Never Find Another You Steppenwolf – Rest In Peace Stephen Stills – Right By You Suzi Quatro – Suzi Quatro Ta Mara & The Seen – Ta Mara And The Seen Ta Mara & The Seen – Thinking About You Ted Weems – Golden Hits Tex Ritter – Featuring The Rio Grande River Boys Tom Saunders’ – Surf Side 6 Various – Really Hooked On Poka’s Vikki Carr – Discovery Volume II Vikki Carr – Intimite Excitement Vincent Lopez – Lopez Playing Wes Montgomery Trio – Portrait of Wes The Wild Ones – The Arthur Sound 38 Special – Rock & Roll Strategy 38 Special – Strength In Numbers Yves Montand – One Man Show
12” Singles Club Nouveau – No Friend Of Mine Doug Lazy – Let The Rhythhm Pump Jimi Tunnel – U-Turn Mary J. Blige – I Don’t Want To Do Anything Peter & The Test Tube Babies – The Jinx Remix Trio – Boom Boom
Good morning, happy Tuesday. Are you ready for us to send over another incredibly long list of arrivals that we have been getting in our record store? This is a long list below, but it isn’t even nearly as long as the list of things we ordered for Record Store Day on Saturday (which we just started getting boxes in the mail for). Our store is open every day 11:00am – 6:30pm now, but we are open 8:00am to 8:00pm for Record Store Day this Saturday!! We might be uploading a special Record Store Day unboxing video to our youtube page at some point between now and then so you can get a sneak peak. We will also be putting out a few extra boxes of used records (not listed here) on Saturday for Record Store Day. Anyways, here is some of whats new in our store this week:
New LPs Antagonize – Slip Death Archers of Loaf – White Trash Heroes Beachy Head – Beachy Head The Black Keys – Let’s Rock Bob Mould – Silver Age The City Champs – Luna ‘68 Czarface / MF Doom – Super What? John Coltrane – Olé Jon Batiste – Music From Disney Pixar Soul Judas Priest – British Steel LL Cool J – Mama Said Knock You Out Marilyn Monroe – The Essential Masters Megadeth – Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying? Modest Mouse – Sad Sappy Sucker Rise Against – Nowhere Generation Sid Vicious – My Way Skids – Songs From A Haunted Ballroom The Toasters – New York Fever Various – Brown Acid: The Twelfth Trip Various – Designer Records Presents: Together Walt Disney – The Little Mermaid (Picture Disc) Willie Mitchell – Robbin’s Nest Wu-Tang Clan – Disciples of the 36 Chambers
Used LPs Al Martino – 20 Greatest Hits Andy Williams – Born Free Bad Company – Rough Diamonds Bad Company – Fame And Fortune Bay City Rollers – It’s A Game The Band – Anthology The Blackwood Brothers – Live! From Nashville Blue Oyster Cult – Agents of Fortune Bob Ralston – Christmas Hymns B.J. Thomas – Young And In Love Bellamy Brothers – Sons of the Sun Bellamy Brothers – Strong Weakness Bette Midler – Live At Last Billy Boy Arnold – Sinners Prayer Black Oak Arkansas – Raunch N’ Roll Black Oak Arkansas – High On The Hog Blondie – Plastic Letters Brave Belt – Brave Belt II Bread – Guitar Man Cheo Feliciano – Looking For Love Cleo Laine – Gonna Get Through Count Basie – Basie’s Back In Town Danny Toan – First Serve The Dave Brubeck Quartet – A Place In Time Dee Dee Sharp – It’s Mashed Potato Time Dire Straits – Love Over Gold Donna Fargo – My Second Album Ed Ames – Christmas With Ed Ames Ed Ames – The Best of Ed Ames Empire Brass Quartet – Encores Ferrante & Teicher – Love In The Generation Gap Frank Sinatra – Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Freddie King – Freddie King 1934-1976 Gary Lewis – This Diamond Ring Gary Lewis – I’m On The Right Road Now George Burns – I Wish I Was Eighteen Again Gene Pitney & Melba Montgomery Gloria Gaynor – I’ve Got You Golden Earring – N.E.W.S. Guadalajara Brass – Zorba The Greek Hank Williams Jr. – Strong Stuff Harry James – The Uncollected 1943-1945 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass – Greatest Hits Higher Ground – Sharing… Live Homer And Jethro – Cornfucius Say Homer And Jethro – Strike Back John Denver – Greatest Hits Volume 3 Jim Croce – Greatest Hits Jimmy Haislip – In Nova Scotia| Johnny Cash – The Man, The World, His Music John Schneider – White Christmas John Schneider – Take The Long Way Home John Gary – The John Gary Christmas Album Joni James – In The Still of The Night Joni Mitchell – Clouds Kitty Wells – Songs From The Heart Les Baxter – I Could Have Danced All Night Lalo Schifrin – Great Adventure Film Scores Little Richard – Lifetime Friend Loretta Lynn – I Like ‘Em Country Mantovani – Film Encores Vol. 2 The Marvelettes – Please Mr. Postman Maynard Ferguson – M.F. Horn Melanie – Stoneground Words Michael Bloomfield – Living In The Fast Lane Michael Bloomfield – Analine Michael Jones – After The Rain The Mississippi Mudcats – The Mississippi Mudcats Molly Hatchet – No Guts… No Glory The Moody Blues – Go Now Montrose – Jump On It Natalie Cole – Thankful Nocturna – Original Soundtrack Oliver – Again Paul Harvey – The Uncommon Man Peter Yarrow – Hard Times Poco – Ghost Town Ramsey Lewis – Golden Hits Ray Stevens – Misty Reba McEntire – What Am I Gonna Do About You Richard And Patti – Richard And Patti The Rolling Stones – It’s Only Rock N’ Roll Ronnie & His Ramblers – Calypso Bamba Rosetta Stone – Rosetta Stone RUSH – Grace Under Pressure Ruth Bell Graham – Looking Homeward Shooting Star – Silent Scream The Single Swingers – Bach’s Biggest Hits Slim Fenton – Memories of Hank Williams Steve & Eydie – At The Movies Steve Lacy – Soprano Sax Sylvia Greatest Hits The Three Suns – Christmas With The Three Suns Tono Zamora – Y Tu Paleta? T. Rex – Tank Trini Lopez – The Fork Album Various – Zapped Various – It’s Christmas Various – 20 Grand Years of Country Various – Piano Roll Discoveries Various – Songs For The Christmas Season The Victors – Life Is Worth Living Wayne Newton – She Believes In Me The Who – Face Dances 101 Strings – A Night In Vienna 101 Strings – Fiddler On The Roof
12” Singles Animotion – Obsession Bone Thugs-N-Harmony – Change The World The Cover Girls – My Heart Skips A Beat Donna Summer – Cold Love / Grand Illusion Eazy-E – Luv 4 Dem Gangsta’z The Higsons – Push Out The Boat Ludacris – Area Codes
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