New Arrivals This Week At Dumb Records

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Good morning and happy Tuesday! Is it supposed to snow today or something? What the heck is up with that? Anyways, this week we are still adding pile after pile of new and used records to our inventory. Our store is still open every day from 11:30am to 6:00pm, and we open at 10:00am on Saturdays. This Saturday there’s even a big “sidewalk sale” day happening throughout downtown. For that we are doing 50% off dollar records and 20% off all Dumb Records apparel! Our online store is still at shopdumbrecords.com. Okay here is what’s new for this week:

New LPs
Against Me! – Shape Shift With Me
Alice Coltrane – Live At Carnegie Hall, 1971
Alkaline Trio – Is This Thing Cursed?
Byron Lee & The Dragonaires – Reggay International
Grandaddy – Last Place
Greta Van Fleet – The Battle at Garden’s Gate
Herbie Hancock – Takin’ Off
Hüsker Dü – The Complete Spin Radio Concert, 1985
Jeff Russo – Star Trek Discovery
Jimmy Eat World – Surviving 
Jon Batiste – We Are
Knife Hits – Eris
Lucky Daye – Painted
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd Live From Jacksonville
Nigel Godrich – Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
The Modern Lovers – Live
Oiltanker – No Tomorrow
The Offspring – Let The Bad Times Roll
Parasol – Nowhere To Go
Pine Barrens – Kingmaker
Protestant – Reclamation
Ray Chalres – Modern Sounds In Country And Western
Robin Thicke – On Earth, And In Heaven
Selve – Eleo
Slayer – El Infierno Te Espera
Sturgill Simpson – Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
Tom Petty – Finding Wildflowers (Alternative Versions)
Tutti I Colori Del Buio – Initiation Into Nothingness
Various – Rush Dem: Room Jointz
Weak Teeth – What A Plague You Are

Used LPs
Amy Grant – In Concert
Arthur Sullivan – The Tempest
Bing Crosby – Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings
The Border Brass – Tijuana Christmas
Cameo – Single Life
Casey Anderson – More Pretty Girls Than One
Catfish Hodge – Bout With The Blues
Chicago – Chicago X
Connie Francis – Do The Twist With Connie Francis
Davey Dex – Bangin’ Beatz
Deerhoof – Reveille
Dawn Featuring TOny Orlando – Tuneweaving
Dionne Warwick – Golden Hits Part 2
Dionne Warwick – Greatest Hits
Don Francisco – Got To Tell Somebody
Duke Ellington – Afro-Bossa
Duke Ellington – The Stereophonic Sound Of
Kermit Schafer – All-Time Great Bloopers
Gladys Knight & The Pips – A Little Knight Music
Gladys Knight & The Pips – Nitty Gritty
Gloriia Gaynor – Glorious
Harry Chapin – Heads
Harry James – The Golden Trumpet Of…
Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass – Volume 2
Hoyt Axton – Greenback Dollar
Isaac Hayes Movement – Disco Connection
John Abercrombie / John Scofield – Solar
John D. Loudermilk – Just Passing Through
KajaGooGoo – White Feathers
Kay Starr – Enchanting
Larry Clinton – In Hi-Fi
Lefty Frizzell – Sings The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers
Leo Kottke – Circle ‘Round The Sun
Les Brown And His Orchestra – The Uncollected 1944-46
Louis Prima / Keely Smith – The Hits of Louis & Keely
Mario Lanza – Student Prince
Marty Robbins – A Lifetime of Song
Marty Robbins – More Greatest Hits
Nat King Cole – Sings
Nat King Cole – The Velvet Moods of Nat King Cole
The New Tony Williams Lifetime – Million Dollar Legs
Pat Martino – Footprints
The Pat Terry Group – The Pat Terry Group
Pete Seeger – The Essential
Peter, Paul & Mary – Peter, Paul & Mommy
Phil Keaggy – The Master & The Musician
Ronco Records – Get It On!
Roy Clar – Greatest Hits Volume 1
Roy Orbison – Orbisongs
Sidney Bechet – Sidney Bechet
Silversun Pickups – Better Nature
Squeeze – Argybargy
Steve Martin – Let’s Get Small
Sweet Cream – Sweet Cream & Other Delights
Teddy Wilson – Three Little Words
Terry Ross Altman – Crosswalk
Tony Bennett – I Left My Heart In San Francisco
Wayne Newton – One More Time
Wayne Newton – Now!
Wes Montgomery – Jazz Guitar
The White Stripes – White Blood Cells
The Wilburn Brothers – Country Gold
Woody Herman – Encore
Woody Herman / Harry James – The Battle of the Bands Vol. 1
Van Morrison – Tupelo Honey
Various – Blue Ribbon Country Vol. II
Various – Rush Hour Soundtrack
Various – Where The Action Is

12” Singles
A+ feat. Chico Debarge – It’s On You
Deadly Venoms – Don’t Give Up
DL – Josephine
D’Mello – Best Love Story
The Madd Rapper – Ghetto / Whateva
Mariah Carey – The One
Phajja – Checkin’ For Me
Rah Digga / Lloyd Banks – Party Over Here
Sheeba Black – Check Yo’ Style

The Lovelorn “Hootin N’ Hollerin” (Video)

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The new local band The Lovelorn have released a new music video for their song “Hootin N’ Hollerin” last month. You can check out the video, which was shot by Elijah Settles / Mecoclub embedded below. The Lovelorn are a new local group that formed last year featuring members of No Good Deed and a few other past projects. This song is a track off of their debut album, May You Find Worth In The Waking World, which was released earlier this year and you can find online right here.

You can find a long list of local music videos shot over the years over on our vids/pics page.

Sir Belham (w/ SuperTiny): “The Golden Lobes”

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Good morning. We are trying our best to tell you about some local music around here. It’s hard with all of these records flying in and out of our store so fast anymore. Here is another brand new project put together by multi-instrumentalist recording extrodinaire in town, Mark Schwartz (Forest Saints, Demons on Wheels, Tin Ghost, and more). This one is called “Sir Belham (w/ SuperTiny)” (is Mark Schwartz both Sir Belham and SuperTiny)? We don’t know. The album is called The Golden Lobes and you can find all 23 tracks streaming on the player below. You can head on over to the Sir Belham w/ SuperTiny bandcamp page to purchase the download of the album.

We are adding this one to our Springfield album archive page of course. This brings us to just eight releases we have kept track of this year, but we are missing a lot! Whoops!

New Arrivals This Week at Dumb Records

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It’s another Tuesday here at Dumb Records! Things sure aren’t slowing down at our store, it’s busy as heck and we are trying are hardest to keep up with putting out stacks of records every day. We are open here downtown from 11:30 am to 6:00 pm now. Spring has sprung and the tree outside has flowers on it. Our online store can still be found at shopdumbrecords.com and our arcade is also still open during store hours. Okay now let’s dive into what’s new!

New LPs
AC/DC – The Razors Edge
Ariana Grande – Positions
Back To The Future – Music From The Motion Picture
Blistered – The Poison of Self Confinement
Busta Rhymes – Extinction Level 2: The Wrath of God
Byron Lee & The Dragonaires – Reggay Roun’ The World
Caithlin De Marrais – Red Coats
Chicago News – Have You Heard The News?
Death Cab For Cutie – Narrow Stairs
Decades/Failures – Goodby3
Dennis Brown – Visions of Dennis Brown
DJ Kayslay – Homage
Downpresser – Don’t Need A Reason
Elvis Presley – A Boy From Tupelo
Guns ’N’ Roses – Acoustic At CBGB’s 1987
Guns ’N’ Roses – Use Your Illusion I
Ice Cube – War & Peace Vol. I
Jack M. Seriff – These Northwood Blues
Jet Black – L’ere Du Vide
Joliette – Luz Devora
Kings of Leon – Walls
Megadeth – Live In Los Angeles 1995
Old Wounds – From Where We Came
Ramones – Live At The Hollywood Palladium
The Residents – Duck Stab
Strife – Witness A Rebirth
Townes Van Zandt – Live At The Old Quarter
Train – Drops of Jupiter
The Upsetters With Vin Gordon – Musical Bones
The Weeknd – Beauty Behind The Madness

Used LPs
Arthur Smith – Great Country & Western Hits
The Association – Live
Barbra Streisand – Butterfly
The Bill Gaither Trio – I Am A Promise
Billy Vaughn – Golden Gems
Bob Barnard Jazz Band
Bob Wills – Country Music
Buck Owens – The Best of Buck Owens
Butterfield Blues Band – The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw
Camel – Breathless
Carl Smith – I Want To Live And Love
Center Stage – Enter Center Stage
Chip Taylor – Chip Taylor’s Last Chance
Chris Conor – Sings Lullabys of Burdland
The Church – Starfish
Dave Brubeck – Jazz Goes To Junior College
Dottie West – Feminine Fancy
Duke Ellington / Arthur Fiedler – The Duke At Tanglewood
Earl Thomas Conley – Treadin’ Water
Erroll Garner – Encores in Hi Fi
Estrogen Highs – Here Me On The Number Station
Elvis Costello And The Attractions – Trust
Exile – The Best of Exile
Gary Lewis And The Playboys – Hits Again!
Genesis – Reflection: Rock Theatre
Genesis – Trespass
Glan Campbell – Basic
Grady Martin And The Slew Foot Five – Hot Time Tonight
Guy Lombardo – An Evening With
Hank Williams – A Home In Heaven
Hank Williams, Jr. – Songs My Father Left Me
Jimmie Rodgers – His Golden Year
King Crimson – Discipline
Lee Greenwood – If There’s Any Justice
Les And Larry Elgar – The New Elgart Touch
Liona Boyd – Classical Guitar
The Manhattan Transfer – The Best Of
Michael Pinder – The Promise
The Moirs – State of Shock
Mumford & Sons – Wilder Mind
The New Professionals – Fireballs of Freedom
Noel Paul Stookey – Band & Bodyworks
OK-4 – A Album
Oral Roberts – Country Roads
Orphan Fam – Hurt Me / In The Summer
Peanuts Hucko – Pied Piper Quintet
Perez Prado y Carlos Molina – En Mexico
Polly Bergen – The Party’s Over
Rare Earth – Rarearth
Ray Conniff – Plays The Bee Gees & Other Great Hits
Regis Philbin – It’s Time For Regis!
Richard Roberts – Searching Questions
Robin Lane – Heart Connection
The Roches – Another World
The Roches – Nurds
Roger Blackburn – Barbershopping In Brass
Ronnie Milsap – Live
Spyro Gyra
So Cow – So Cow
Tammy Wynette And George Jones – We Go Together
TKO – Let It Roll
Traffic – Welcome To The Canteen
Traffic – Mr. Fantasy
Various – Go With The Greats
Vicki Sue Robinson – Half and Half
Walter Carlos – Switched-On Back II
Weather Report – Heavy Weather
Wild Cherry – Wild Cherry
The Who – Odds & Sods

12” Singles
Beelow – Let Me See You Twerk
Benzino – Rock The Party
Black Eyed Peas – Joints & Jam Remixes
Black Eyed Peas – Request Line
Jennifer Lopez – Ain’t It Funny
Malaysa – I Don’t Give A Damn
Memphis Bleek – What You Think Of That
Mike Control – Rhyme For Rhyme
Monica – Before Dark
Mystikal – Round Out The Tank / Life Ain’t Cool
Trina – For All My Ladies
Willy Gleamz – Move My Body

April 2021 Issue of Activator Magazine Available Now

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Here we are in another month, and there is yet another issue of Activator Magazine, which is approaching 3 years of being around covering local music and art in Central Illinois! As you can see pictured above, this one features local hip hop artist VGE FROST on the cover.

What else does this issue have in store? It’s got… plenty of album reviews for all different types of artists, we also have our “Dumb Perspective” column written by Brian Galecki, this time with a short interview segment with Drew Kodrich about midwesthardcore.org. There is also an interview with Liz Fitz, who just released a CD called Cover Me, a “10 up 10 down” with Zach Moad, interview with new local punk band “Fist Fight”, an interview with After School Special, Robot Army, and a nice “Soundcheck” segment checking in on many other local musicians from around the area. All of that plus more!

You can pick of free copies of Activator at Dumb Records and various other local businesses around town. We usually have a few back issues as well. Also consider heading over to the Activator Patreon page to become a monthly donor in support of the magazine!

Now Booking Private Parties At The Dumb Arcade

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Today we are announcing us doing something a little new that might kiiiinda be the next step for us as we ease back in to some type of normalcy and are eventually able to host shows again. Starting NOW we are open to booking private parties at the Dumb Records arcade after or before our regular store hours. (Our store is now open every day from 11:30 am to 6:00 pm at 418 E Monroe Street downtown).

We are now doing a limited offer of $50 an hour to rent out our venue and arcade spaces for private parties up up to 12 persons. You can come in the store to talk to us about reserving calendar space, or email us at dumbrecs@gmail.com or give us a call at 217-691-8991. This is a limited offer and we are trying things out, so we could change our policies on private parties in the future!

Titles Announced For Record Store Day “Drops” June 12th & July 17th

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It is April now and spring is springing outside. For many Aprils our store has existed it has been a big month for us because of Record Store Day holding their annual event typically this month. The pandemic has effected both this and last year’s events and for 2021 it was announced that Record Store Day will be split into two different “drop dates” to happen on Saturday June 12th and Saturday July 17th. Our store will be participating in this event as we always do, and so is Recycled Records also downtown.

Today, all of the releases for both of these “drop dates” were announced through the Record Store Day website. You can check all of those out – nearly 500 exclusive releases including re-issues, brand new albums, compilations, and more right here.

If you find something on this list you really want, how does this work? We can not do any special orders or set anything aside for anyone off of this list – we must operate on a first come first serve basis on both of the drop dates. However, we are trying to get an idea of how many of each item to order – so feel free to comment here or on our facebook post with any releases you especially want to see us well stocked with!

We will be back with a separate announcement for what our store will be doing exactly for both of those dates (probably no live music still) – but for now we will say we will be open from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm both of those Saturdays.

New Arrivals This Week At Dumb Records

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It IS a tornado drill Tuesday today, huzzah! We are ready for that drill with piles upon piles of new records in our store! It’s all records this time once again, no CD’s or any of that other stuff. Our store is open every day from 11:30 am to 6:00 pm right now at 418 E Monroe Street downtown. There is still a big green elephant outside. Our online stores can still all be found at shopdumbrecords.com. Oh by the way, check us out on youtube if you are bored! Okay here are our new arrivals for the week:

New LPs
Brian Eno – Here Come The Warm Jets
Caithlin De Marrais – My Magic City
Caithlin De Marrais – What Will You Do Then?
Droughts – Stay Behind
Evanescence – The Bitter Truth
The Damned – Punk Oddities & Rare Tracks: 1977-1982
Dikembe – Chicago Bowls
Dikembe – Muck
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – G_d’s Pee At State’s End
The Greeting Committee – This Is It
Jack M. Seriff – Good To Know You
Knola – The Black Beach
La Dispute – Tiny Dots
La Femme – Paradigmes
Lovechild – Migraine Music
Mover Shaker – Another Truck Stop
Mush – Thank You We’re Mush
Noga Erez – Kids
The Notorious B.I.G. – Born Again
Ostraca – Last
Tigers Jaw – Charmer

Used LPs
ABBA – The Album
Alex Taylor – With Friends And Neighbors
Barbra Streisand – Barbra Joan Streisand
Barbra Streisand – Yentl
Bellamy Brothers – Howard & David
Bing Crosby – Shillelaghs And Shamrocks
Bobby Bland – Here We Go Again
Bobby Vee – Golden Greats
BoDeans – Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams
Bootsy – Ultra Wave
Brook Benton – Brook Benton Today
Buck Owens – All Star Jamboree
Cannonball Adderley – Julian “Cannonball” Adderley
Charlie Weaver – Sings For His People
Chicago – Presents The Innovative Guitar Of Terry Kath
Chris Montez – The More I See You
Christopher Parkening – Parkening Plays Bach
Estrogen Highs – Friends & Relatives
Dan Fogelberg – High Country Snows
Dave Grusin – One of A Kind
Don Williams – Cafe Carolina
Donna Summer – Cats Without Claws
Doris Day – Cuttin’ Capers
Focus – Hamburger Concerto
Frank Zappa – Sheik Yerbouti
Gary Lewis & The Playboys – A Session With
Gary Morris – Faded Blue
The Gaynotes – Strictly Barbershop
Genesis – Three Sides Live
George Jones – Sings The Songs of Dallas Frazier
George Shearing – The Shearing Touch
Glenn Yarbrough – The Bitter And The Sweet
Grand Funk – Closer To Home
Henry Mancini – The Best Of Vol. 3
Jello Biafra – No More Cocoons
Jimmy Wakely – Heartaches
Joe Wayman – Anything Can Happen
John Schneider – Tryin’ To Outrun The Wind
Johnnie Taylor – Eargasm
Ken Medema – Sunday Afternoon
The Knack – Get The Knack
Lee Greenwood – Christmas To Christmas
Lee Greenwood – Love Will Find Its Way To You
The Living World – Reason To Live
Lucifer’s Friend – Where The Groupies Killed The Blues
Marillion – Heart of Lothian
Mel Tillis – Mel Tillis’ Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
Michael Martin Murphey – Best Of
Mick Taylor – Mick Taylor
Mike & Dean – Rock ’n’ Roll Again
The Miracles – The Miracles Greatest Hits
Neil Young & The Bluenotes – This Note’s For You
Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Live Rust
Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Life
Neil Young & The Shocking Pinks – Everybody’s Rockin’
Neil Young – Freedom
Neil Young – Landing On Water
Nikki Price – Introducing The Beautiful Nikki Price
Nots – Live At Goner Records
Norman Wallace – Recipes For Romantic Rendezvous
Oregon – Oregon
Oscar Peterson – Soul Espanol
Pee Wee Russell – Pee Wee Russell
Peggy Lee – Lover
Ray Price – I Won’t Mention It Again
Ronnie SPector – Unfinished Business
Sammy Davis Jr. – Greatest Hits
Sergio Mendes – Confetti
Spyro Gyra – Alternating Currents
Spyro Gyra – Carnaval
Susan Raye – Pitty, Pitty, Patter
Terry Baxter – The Best of ‘69
Third World – You’ve Got The Power
Two For The Show Trio – On Track
Various – 10 Years of Barbershop Champions
Various – 20 Country Hits
Various – Bomb Catalogue 1981
Various – Music For The Easy Hours
Wayne Newton – The Best Of Live
The Yardbirds – Greatest Hits

12” Singles
Big Lew / Popeye Reds – How We Do
Crimewave – Think Big
Diamenz – Do Or Die / Sex Appeal
Do Or Die – Do U?
The Lords – Take Dat
TLC – Hands Up
TLC – My Life
Trav – Get This Poppin’
Trina Broussard – Love You So Much
3rd Storee – Party TOnight
50 Cent – Rowdy Rowdy

The After School Special “Last Of The Curlews”

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Today we are bringing you a brand new release by a newer local act (at least new to us)! This is a duo called After School Special, who are an acoustic folk duo in town featuring Aasne Daniels and Jerry Setnicky. They play “a very wide variety of tunes from a host of artists and genres.” And guess what! They have a new 10-track album and we actually have copies available on CD in our record store. The album is called Last Of The Curlews. You can check out some of that on the youtube player embedded below. To find a link to stream the full album and more about the band, check out their website.

As the weather starts warming up and vaccines become more widely available we are going to start seeing some live shows popping up! After School Special actually does have a few lined up, and you can check out their facebook page to see what those are. We’ve also added their album onto our Springfield album archive page for this year, bringing us to 7 local releases we have kept track of (and there are many, many more we need to catch up with).

Dumb Records April Pinball Contest!

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We finally feel that it is time… to announce… our next contest to happen at the arcade!! It’s been a while since we have done anything like this due to us being cautious in re-opening things fully. We feel that for the month of April it’s time to hold another contest to see who can get the highest score on a certain game, and for this month it is going to be: FISH TALES PINBALL.

This contest is open to everyone, and you can try as many times as you would like to get a Fish Tales high score. Normal arcade entry rules apply: entry is $5 or free with purchase of $10 or more in our store. We are limiting arcade occupancy to 6 persons right now.

Throughout the month, the first place highest score will receive: $100 in downtown gift certificates to locations including Good Heart Tattoo, The Elf Shelf, and La Piazza. Second place prize will receive a lava lamp. Third place price will receive a free Dumb Records t-shirt.

You better get practicing! The contest will be throughout the month of April, ending at the end of the 30th, but we will accept score entries starting today. If you are looking for some Fish Tale tricks and trips, you better check out our underground pinball discussion forum! Good luck!