Happy Wednesday afternoon, we are diving back into a little more of the local music!! Here is a brand new release from the new Taylorville / Springfield garage punk project that arose from the ashes of Snuff Rider called “Balki Bros“! They performed in our space at one point earlier this year as we were trying to figure out how to do live streaming (it worked out fine, but we decided we couldn’t pull off continuing to do that). (Sorry). Balki Bros debut release is here. It is called Sex • Drugs • Taco Bell, and you can stream it on the player below! Also head on over to the Balki Bros bandcamp to purchase the download for yourself.
We have added this one to our Springfield albums archive page. It’s like number 8 for this year or something. We still probably have a lot of catching up to do. That’s okay.
Good morning everyone – surely we hope that after yesterday we have seen all there is to see for snow for this winter and it’s just warmer nicer weather from here on out. We especially hope it will be nice out for this Saturday (4/24) because the Downtown Springfield annual Sidewalk Sales are supposed to be taking place! This is when a lot of downtown businesses offer special sales, put things out on the sidewalk, and it’s a great spring Saturday to go downtown! Here’s a full list of who is participating:
How nice! For this sale we will be offering 50% off all dollar records and also 20% off all Dumb Records apparel! Cool! That’s pretty much it. Our store is also open 10:00 am to 6:00 pm on Saturdays. And our arcade is also open during those hours.
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 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.
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!
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
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!
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!
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.
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
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