Holy smokes there is a new album here for us to tell you about! This one is from Springfield musician (who maybe moved to Peoria and maybe moved back (?)) Dexter Anodyne. Dexter released her debut album Weeping Venus in 2019 and this one is Dexter Anodyne & The D. Sparrows which features a full band and probably goes in a much different direction than Weeping Venus! Check out the 12-track album streaming on the player embedded below. There is also a track featuring none other than Jeff Williams of NIL8! Head on over to Dexter’s bandcamp page to download the album at your own price and check out more of her music.
Getting this one added to our Springfield album archive page for 2021 lickety-split! We are sure we have some catching up to do on that! Oh hey wow this puts us at 600 releases we have kept track of total!
Are you ready for our next arcade contest?? Here it is… for the month of JUNE we are holding an arcade contest for the game BUBBLES. What is BUBBLES? From the Bubbles wikipedia page:
“Bubbles is an action game where the player controls a soap bubble from a top-down perspective. The object is to clean a kitchen sink by maneuvering over ants, crumbs, and grease spots to absorb them before they slide into the drain. As the bubble absorbs more objects, it grows in size, eventually acquiring first eyes and then a smiling mouth. At the same time, sponges and scrub brushes slowly move around the sink, cleaning it on their own in competition with the player. Touching either of these enemies costs a player one life unless the bubble is large enough to have a complete face. In this case, the enemy will be knocked away and the bubble will shrink. Sponges and brushes can be knocked into the drain for bonus points, eliminating them from play. Two other enemies in the sink are stationary razor blades and roaches that crawl out of the drain. Contact with a blade is always fatal, while the bubble can safely touch the roach only while carrying a broom, which will kill the roach with one hit. The broom can be acquired by running over a cleaning lady who appears in the sink from time to time.[1][2]“
In our arcade, BUBBLES is the third game on the Joust arcade cabinet. If you are looking to dive further into some BUBBLES tips and tricks before you venture out to our arcade, then check out the BUBBLES thread on our underground pinball forum. How fun!
This contest goes from June 1st through the 30th! Everyone is welcome to play, as long as you pay the $5 entry to the Dumb Arcade (or get entry by spending $10 or more in the store). You can play as many times as you like, just let us know what your high score! For this contest we actually have ELEVEN different prizes for all of the top scorers and this time we are going BIG:
1st place prize: $100 in cash + free entry to our arcade for a month
2nd place prize: your own private party!! *2 hours afterhours on any date
3rd place prize: a bubbles gift basket! + $25 dumb records gift card
4th place prize: a limited edition Bubbles Arcade t-shirt
5th place prize: a lava lamp
6th place prize: a bubbles lawn mower
7th place prize: the tiny Tetris arcade game that we have
8th place prize: bubble gum
9th place prize: hangout with the band Bottom Bracket for 1 day
Happy tornado drill Tuesday everyone! It’s not morning anymore, but we still have this long list of some new and used records that have gone out on the shelves in our store in the past week. Summer is just about in full effect over here and before you know it there are going to be things and events going on here downtown all of the time (the Levitt AMP Music Series kicks off in two days)! Our store is open right now every day from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm downtown. We still have a giant elephant outside. We stopped listing new records on our storenvy page because it was becoming too much work for us to keep up with, but you can still see a steady flow of used records coming in to our discogs page online!
New LPs Al Green – The Belle Album Counting Crows – Butter Miracle Suite One Dillinger Four – Versus God Hi Rhythm – On The Loose Pelican – Arktika Modern Life Is War – Witness R.L. Burnside – Come On In R.L. Burnside – Mr. Wizard Pissed Jeans – Shallow Porcupine – The Sibyl She & Him – Volume One The Spits – The Spits (III) Taylor Swift – Evermore Wear Your Wounds – Rust On The Gates of Heaven United Mutation – Dark Self Image Various – Still Wish You Were Here: A Tribute To Pink Floyd
Used LPs Anne Murray – Keeping The Touch Arlo Guthrie – Running Down The Road Artie Shaw – Artie Shaw Hour Bad Company – Dangerous Age Bay City Rollers – Rollin’ The Beatles – Yesterday And Today Bellamy Brothers – Beautiful Friends The Bellamy Brothers – The Two And Only Black Oak Arkansas – If An Angel Came To See You… Black Oak Arkansas – 10 Yr Overnight Success Bloomfield / Hammond / Dr. John – Triumvirate Blue Oyster Cult – The Revolution By Night Brooke Benton – Golden Hits Volume 2 The Cadillacs – The Best of the Cadillacs Vol. I The Carpenters – Yesterday Once More Chet Bogans’ Wolverine Jass Band – Dixiebelle Volume I Deep Purple – Burn Diana Ross – Dirty Looks Diana Trask – Lean It All On Me Dino – Regal Reign Doc Severinsen – Doc Severinsen’s Closet Don Johnson – Heart Beat Ebn-Ozn – Feeling Cavalier Ed Bruce – Greatest Hits Emmylou Harris – Profile / Best of Emmylou Harris Emmylou Harris – Light Of The Stable Fernando Villalona – Todo Fats Waller – Fats Sings And Swings Freddie King – Getting Ready… Freddy King – Hide Away Gene Mayl’s Dixieland Rhythm Kings – Jazz Concert Gene Pitney – Gene Pitney’s Big Sixteen Gertrude Behanna – God Isn’t Dead! The Imperials – The Very Best of the Imperials Iron Butterfly – Heavy Jethro Tull – Crest Of A Knave Jimmy Swaggart – Christmas Spirit Jon Anderson – Song of Seven John Abercrombie Quartet – Arcade John Klemmer – Constant Throb John Schneider – Too Good To Stop Now Johnny Guarnieri – Plays Echoes of Ellington Johnny Mathis – So Nice Johnny Mathis – Those Were The Days Judy Collins – Colors Of The Day The Kingston Trio – Something Special Ladyhawke – Original Motion Picture Sountrack The Lennon Sisters – Sentimental Journey Liberace – Liberace Now Liberace – Twas The Night Before Christmas Louis Armstrong – Ambassador Satch Louis Armstrong – The Definitive Album Mantovani – The Mantovani Scene Michael Bloomfield – It’s Not Killing Me Muggsy Spanier – At Club Hangover Vol. 2 Myron FLoren – Dizzy Fingers The New Reformation Dixieland Band – Beginnings Ohman Bros – The Glorious Sound of Brass Old St. Louis Levee Band – Live At The Rockville Opry House Ozark Mountain Daredevils – Men From Earth Pearl Bailey – For Adult Listening Pete Fountain – Dixieland Peter And Gordon – I Don’t Want To See You Again Rainbow – Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow The Ragtimers – The Mickie Finn Theme The Range – Potential Rare Earth – Rare Earth In Concert Ray Stevens – Unreal!!! Red Nichols – Parade of the Pennies Restless Heart – Restless Heart Rex Smith – Forever Resless Heart – Big Dreams In A Small Town Robert Palmer – Heavy Nova Roberta Flack – Blue Lights In The Basement Roger Whittakker – When I Need You The Rolling Stones – Still Life (American Concert 1981) Ronnie Milsap – The Best of Ronnie Milsap Sade – Promise Sad Cafe – Sad Cafe The San Sebastian Strings – The Sky Shadowfax – Shadowfax Snoop Dogg – B-Please Stan Getz – Groovin’ High Starz – Starz Ted Des Plantes – And His Buddies Uriah Heep – Wonderworld Various – Barbershopping: Rock Island Fall 1970 Various – The Golden Glow of Christmas Various – Silent Night Various – 35 Banjo Favorites Vincent Lopez And His Orchestra – Merry Christmas Waylon & Jessi – Leather And Lace Yank Lawson And Bob Haggart – World’s Greatest Jazzband
12” Singles Do Or Die – Magic Chick Domino – Sweet Potatoe Pie Rampage – Wild For Da Night Rampage – Get The Money And Dip Sequence – Simon Says T. Robinson – What
Back to the local music! Today we bring you a new track from Lincoln / Springfield based hip hop artist Deezy Da Paperboy in colaboration with Jacc Breeze also from Central Illinois. That track is called “Runnin Man” and you can check that out embedded on the player below.
Be sure to check out more of Deezy Da Paperboy’s music online right here, and more of Jacc Breeze’s music online right here.
It’s another Tuesday, and another week here at our record store downtown! Good morning! Are you ready for another long list of new arrivals that we have had come in this week? New, used, LP’s and 12″ singles? We have also been counting down the days until the first Record Store Day “drop date” for 2021 which is happening on Saturday, June 12th (we are now 18 days away)! Our store is currently open from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm every day, and we are opening one hour earlier on Saturdays! Fun! Okay, now let’s take a look at what’s new!
New LPs Alfred Hitchcock – Music To Be Murdered By Archers of Loaf – All The Nations Airports August Burns Red – Guardians The Beatles – The Beatles and Esher Demos Bob Mould – Patch The Sky Ceremony – The L-Shaped Man Chai – Wink Chris Stapleton – Volume I Conor Oberst – Outer South Destroyer – Trouble In Dreams Eric Church – Soul George Jones – Amazing Grace Gogol Bordello – Super Taranta! Iggy & The Stooges – Ready To Die Judge – Bringin’ It Down Kero Kero – Bonito Lambchop – This (Is What I Wanted To Tell You) The Lumineers – The Lumineers Marcos Valle – Marcos Valle Mike Krol – Turkey The Mountain Goats – Beat The Champ The Mountain Goats – All Eternals Deck Propagandhi – Supporting Caste Queen – Greatest Hits II Red Kross – Researching The Blues Shannon & The Clams – Onion Tav Falco’s Panther Burns – Behind The Magnolia Curtain Thom Yorke – Anima X-Ray Spex – Germfree Adolescents Youth Of Today – Can’t Close My Eyes
Used LPs ABBA – Greatest Hits Vol. 2 Abercrombie Quartet – M Andy Williams – My Fair Lady Art Garfunkel – Fate For Breakfast Bill Evans / Jim Hall – Intermodulation Billy Swan – You’re OK I’m OK Billy Swan – I Can Help Billy Ocean – Love Really Hurts Without You Blues Brothers – Briefcase Full of Blues Bruford – One Of A Kind Carmen Cavallaro – The Uncollected: 1946 Con Brio – The Ray Coronet Records – Music From The Swinging 30’s Cristy Lane – Christmas Is The Man From Galilee Diana Ross – All The Greatest Hits Diana Ross – Swept Away Don Ewell & Bob Green – Together! The Dukes of Dixieland – New Orleans Jazz Eddy Arnold – This Is Eddy Arnold The Emotions – Sincerely Erroll Garner – Plays Misty Esther Philips – You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby Frankie Miller – A Perfect Fit Gary Ogan / Bill Lamb – Portland Gene Pitney – This Is Gene Pitney Gonz – Caught In The Act Gordon Beck – Reasons Harry Chapin – Verities & Balderdash Jack Wilkins – You Can’t Live Without It Jimmy Swaggart – Songs From Mama’s Songbook John Abercrombie Trio – Straight Flight John Astley – Everyone Loves The Pilot John Coltrane & Don Cherry – The Avant-Garde John Denver – One World John Denver – Whose Garden Was This Johnny Cash – The singing Story Teller Joni James – Dedicated To You The Kingston Trio – Goin’ Places The Kingston Trio – New Frontier K-Tel Records – Night Flight The Kinsey Report – Edge of the City Laszlo Gardony – The Legend of Tsumi Lee Morgan – Search For The New Land Les Paul And Mary Ford – Lover’s Luau The Lettermen – The Best Of, Vol. 2 Linda Carr – Cherry Pie Guy Little Feat – Sailin’ Shoes Living Guitars – Folk-Dixie Jamboree The McCoys – Hang On Sloopy The McGuire Sisters – May You Always Merrilee Rush – Angel Of The Morning The Mexicali Singers – The Mexicali Singers Mexican Brass – Spanish Flea McKendree Spring – Spring Suite Michael McDonald – No Lookin’ Back Mick Goodrick – In Pas(s)ing Muddy Waters – They Call Me Muddy Waters Nino Tempo & 5th Ave Sax – Come See Me Round Midnight Norgan Records – Our Best Pat Martino – Joyous Lake Patti Page – Love Letters Perry Como – The Scene Changes The Pied Piper’s – Tommy Dorsey Favorites The Platters – Collector’s Treasury Album No. 2 The Pozo Seco Singers – I Can Make It With You Procol Harum – The Best of Procol Harum Quincy Jones – Back On The Block Ralph Towner / John Abercrombie – Five Years Later Richard Strange – The Live Rise of Richard Strange Roy Orbison – The Classic Roy Orbison Samson – The Fight Goes On The Supremes – The Supremes At Their Best Susan Raye – Willy Jones Tango Argentino – Original Cast Recording Tony Joe White – Black And White The Tubes – Remote Control Various – An Evening With Windham Hill Live Various – Jazz Giants Various – Music In Depth Various – Woodstock Two Waitresses – Bruiseology Walt Disney – Lady And The Tramp Webley Edwards – Island Paradise ZZ Top – Tejas
12” Singles Brand Nubian – Who Wanna Be A Star? Diverse – Just Biz Eminem – I’m Shady MC Eiht – Automatic The Merciless R.N.S. – Tonight’s The Night RUN DMC – Ooh, Whatcha Gonna Do Tupac – One Day At A Time (Em’s Version) Young MC – Bust A Move
It’s happened again. Recording engineer and producer Reco Hill (also from “Reco On The Move”) has unleashed a brand new mixtape jam-packed with the best of best of the current names in local hip hop right here in the 217! This one is called “Dope 3” (following Dope 2 and Dope 1 in previous years). This one kicks off with an interview by Samara Brunt, then we have ten original tracks by ten local original artists, and a “farewell” at the end by Reco himself.
Happy rainy as heck Tuesday! We’ve got new records coming in still today and every day all of the time. Our store is open from 11:00am to 6:00pm nowadays downtown. Yes, masks are still required in our store for now. However, the one thing we are changing up this week is that we are stopping listing new records online. Sorry. This way we are going to be able to put more records out! We still do have a lot of records listed online at shopdumbrecords.com (we are not stopping shipping out orders, don’t worry), and there still is a steady flow of used records coming in on our discogs page. We hope you understand. Okay here are new records this week:
New LPs The Abruptors – Love And Other Disasters Big Business – The Best You Are The Bombpops – Dead In Venice Beach Ceremony – In The Spirit World Now The Claypool Lennon Delirium – South of Reality Damien Jurado – The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania Fugazi – Instrument The Garden – Haha GISM – Detestation Lagwagon – Trashed Leftover Crack – Fuck World Trade Masked Intruder – III Memphis Slim / Willie Dixon – In Paris Milt Hinton And Friends – Here Swings The Judge Phish – The White Tape Rancid – …Honor Is All We Know Ryan Adams – Wednesdays The Shins – The Worms Heart St. Vincent – Daddy’s Home Tom Waits – Mule Variations The Weirdos – We Go The Neutron Bomb Yola – Walk Through Fire
Used LPs Al Martino – Sausalito Alan And Iris Clements – Dance In Time Amii Stewart – Paradise Bird Andre Kostelanetz – Everything Is Beautiful Andre Kotelanetz – I Wish You Love April Wine – Stand Back Baby Washington – Soulful Baby Bananarama – Wow Barry Manilow – Here Comes The Night Billie Holiday – God Bless The Child Bobby Rydell – Biggest Hits Volume 2 Bud Freeman – The Real Bud Freeman 1984 Carolyne Mas – Hold On Cedar Walton Quartet – Second Set Chad Mitchell Trio – The Best of Chad Mitchell Trio Chuck Foster – The Uncollected Commodores – Commodores David Holland Quartet – Conference Of The Birds David Liebman – Forgotten Fantasies Diana Ross – Red Hot Rhythm + Blues Dionne Warwick – Heartbreaker Dionne Warwick – The Love Machine Discotheque – Dancers-Go-Go! Donna Summer – All Systems Go Duncan Sisters – The Duncan Sisters Enoch Light – Command Performances Esther Philips – Capricorn Princess Four Tops – Four Tops Reach Out George Wright – Command Performances Gladys Knight & The Pips – Claudine Jean Kittrell – Alone John Abercrombie – Timeless John Mayall’s Blues Breakers – Crusade Johnny Rivers – A Touch Of Gold José Melis – The Exciting TV Star Karen Pree – Karen Pree Keith Emerson & The Nice – Keith Emerson & The Nice Larry Graham – Just Be My Lady Lamont Dozier – Love And Beauty Loretta Lynn – Hymns Luis Valentin – No Puedo Olvidarte Made In U.S.A. – Made In U.S.A. The Manhattan Transfer – Live Marie Osmond – There’s No Stopping Your Heart Mario Peralta – At The Regecy Marvin Gaye & Maary Wells – Together Merle Haggard And The Strangers – My Love Affair With Trains Mickey Mouse – Christmas Surprises Miles Davis – Star People The Mills Brothers – Beer Barrel Polka Mundell Lowe – Blues For A Stripper Pat Boone – Canadian Sunset Pat Boone – April Love Pat Martino – Consciousness Patti Smith Group – Waves Peaches & Herb – Worth The Wait Pearl – Pearl Peter Kiham – The Frog Pond Prince And The Revolution – Around The World In A Day Ralph Sutton / Ruby Braff – Ralph & Ruby Quartet Ray Conniff – Send In The Clowns Razzberrie Ragtimers – Razzberrie Ragtimers Reflections In Guitar – A Time For Joy The Ritchie Family – Life Is Music Ruby & The Romantics – Makin’ Out Sammy Davis Jr. – The Shelter Of Your Arms Sheila E. – Sheila E. Sister Sledge – The Sisters Spike Jones – The Best of Spike Jones Vol. 2 Tammi Terrell – Irresistible Tammy Wynette – Tammys’ Greatest Hits Various – 25 Years of Grammy Greats Various – Jazz West Coast Various – Top 10 With A Bullet: Motown Girl Groups Wings – Wings Over America The Who – Hooligans The Woman In Red (Selections From The Original Motion Picture)
12” Singles Ace / Tightest Whitest – Ain’t That Something Apache – Gangsta Bitch Brotherhood Creed BHC – Helluva Digital Underground – Wussup Wit The Luv Donna Summer – Hot Stuff Fusion Unlimited – UP2U Ken “C” – Get Outta My Face MC Lyte – Lyte As A Rock Mobb Deep – Pray For Me / Clap Mobb Deep – It’s Mine / Quiet Storm Naughty By Nature – Feel Me Flow The Primeridian – Trumpets of Zion Queen Latifah – U.N.I.T.Y. Remix Ras Kass – Bars Up Seduction – All Night Long Spice 1 – 187 Proof Timbaland & Magoo – We At It Again Trick Daddy – Drop (Low, Low, Low) Wale Oyejide / MF Doom – This Is Dedicated To…
We’ve already made a post telling you that Record Store Day is happening this year as two separate “drop dates” in June and July – but we are telling you again today, this time with a little flier for our store! The first of those is now less than one month away, on Saturday, June 12th. Then the second is Saturday, June 17th. We will be open 8:00 am to 8:00 pm on both of those days, and we do expect there to be lines!
The list of exclusive releases coming out for both of those days is much to long for us to list here, but you can head on over to Recordstoreday.com for that full list as well as a description of each item and which of the drop dates each exclusive release comes out on. As usual, we can not do any holds for any of these items, they are first come first serve. We will be listing any leftovers we have the following days after the initial release on our online stores. We DID order everything on the list for both of these drop dates – however, not everything we ordered is always guaranteed. We will say that this was the biggest RSD order we have ever submitted, so we are expecting a very big day all around!
We are here, we are ready to post on our site the first thing related to live music happening again in right here in this city. Today is the day. We still aren’t ready to have shows in our own space, but some nice outdoor events in a great big open field starting in June sounds pretty good to us. Especially if all of us are vaccinated.
Today, Levitt AMP Springfield (presented by PNC Bank) announced their big schedule for 2021 – including 10 outdoor concerts every Thursday night from June 3rd to August 5th. These concerts will be taking place out on the “Y-block” next to the Illinois governor’s mansion as they did in the 2019 season, just through the alleyway from our store. Most of these concerts feature two acts – the first one going on at 6:00 pm and the second going on at 7:00 pm and until 8:30 pm. Oh, by the way all of these shows are FREE. This series was made possible by Springfield applying for and getting a grand through the Levitt Foundation, as well as other local sponsors teaming together.
This is just a post to let you know that local band Bottom Bracket have been announced as playing “Fest 19” in Gainesville, Florida coming up this October! Congratulations to them! We’ve been lucky to have a good number of Springfield bands represented at FEST in the past including Hospital Job, Looming, and Attic Salt. Right now Bottom Bracket is the only local group announced for this year that we know of. FEST takes place on October 29th-31st in Florida.
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