Jacksonville-based psychedelic band The Dixie Narcos have just unleashed a new three-song surprise EP right at the end of the year! That EP is called Godin Drag, and you can find it on youtube, or streaming on the player embedded below.
The Dixie Narcos also released TWO full length albums earlier this year – Nantucket 1: Mr. Nantucket and Nantucket 2: Charley. (We have definitely lost count of how many albums or releases this band has total at this point). We have added this one to our Springfield album archive list, bringing us to 92 releases we have kept track of so far this year.
Oh how nice, we just love the holiday themed local releases that are coming out this year! This one is from the hip hop end of things – WeirdMarc300 has teamed up with A1 to bring us A Very Pandemic Christmas: a five-track release. You can stream this one on the player embedded below. Also head over to the WeirdMarc300 bandcamp page to stream the release, purchase the download, or check out any more of his music.
We have this one added to this year on our Springfield album archive page, where we have kept track of 89 releases so far this year.
Here we go on our first phase of re-opening up our own store as we leave this dreadful third wave of COVID-19 in this holiday season! We have been keeping our eyes on the numbers and are ready to start slowly re-opening the store (and then eventually the arcade).
Starting right now, our store is open for appointments only! To book an appointment to shop at our store, give us a call (217-691-8991), or email us at dumbrecs@gmail.com. We’ll keep a calendar going of our appointments and let shoppers in one at a time for this. We are open to make appointments at any time of the day as long as our calendar is open.
We are still pushing our online stores of course. Find the link to everything you need as far as that goes at SHOPDUMBRECORDS.COM. We are still going to be around every day for pickup orders from 12:00 am to 6:00 pm.
Yeah, we know that it’s Thursday and the week is almost over, but here is some new stuff that we’ve recently got in store. We’ve been busy… gosh! Shipping out all of these orders for Christmas and getting everything together for the Best of Springfield Music 2020 poll results! It’s a lot to keep up with! Alright, we’ll stop our bickering and get into what’s new. Here are a few new and used LPs, 12″ singles, and CDs that have gone out within the past week or so. Our store is still closed, but you can find all the links to all of our online stores you will ever need at:
Nice! And don’t forget shipping, delivery, and pickup are all options when you are placing your order. We are still there every day from 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm for pickup orders. We will also very likely be moving to shopping appointments very soon! Okay here’s what’s new:
New LPs Baroness – Yellow & Green Billy Joe Armstrong – No Fun Mondays Bruce Springsteen – Greatest Hits Eminem – Curtain Call Descendents – ALL De La Soul – And The Anonymous Nobody Jay Reatard – Matador Singles ‘08 Khruangbin – Late Night Tales King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – K.G. Kowabunga Kid! – Wasting My Time Laura Jane Grace – Stay Alive Logic – No Pressure Misfits – Legacy of Brutality Mumford & Sons – Delta Tour EP Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californiacation Superchunk – On The Mouth The White Stripes – Greatest Hits
Used LPs The Ahmad Jamal Trio – The Ahmad Jamal Trio Anthony Newley – In My Solitude Byron Janis – New! First Time Ever! Cat Stevens – Numbers Charlie McCoy – Harpin’ The Blues Cheap Trick – The Doctor Cheap Trick – Lap Of Luxury Chicago Transit Authority – Live In Concert Count Basie – Dance Session Eddie Rabbitt – Rabbitt Emery And His Violin of Love – Play, Emery, Play Ella Fitzgerald – Ella Fitzgerald George Benson – Good King Bad Grover Washington, Jr. – Soul Box Vol. 2 Helen Cornelius – On The Road With Souther Spirit Jesse Colin Young – On The Road Jerry Clower – Clower Power Johnny Cash – Story Songs of the Trains And Ribers Johnny Cash – Happiness Is You Johnny Cash – Sings The Ballads of the True West Johnny Mathis – I’ll Buy You A Star Julian Bream – A Celebration of Andres Segovia Kay Starr – The Hits of Kay Starr The Limeliters – Fourteen 14K Folk Songs Mike Oldfield – QE2 Otis Rush – Right Place, Wrong Time Pure Prairie League – Live: Takin’ The Stage Pussy Galore – Groove Hate Fuck EP Ricardo – Organ And Piano Just For You Shirley Bassey – This Is My Life Sonny Rollins – Saxophone Colossus Sumeria – Golden Tears Ten Years After – Greatest Hits Tony “Little Sun” Glover – Blues Harp: An Instruction Method Various – The Music Of Cosmos
12” Singles Cap.One feat. Canibus – Ladies & Willies The Dead Crew – The Projects / Step Ya’ Game Up Spearhead – People In Tha Middle Trick Daddy – Boy Treacherous Three – Yes We Can-Can The Tripple Threat Three – M.P.G. Uncle Kracker – Follow Me
New / Used CDs Aaliyah – Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number Brooks & Dunn – Brand New Man Eazy-E – Impact Of A Legend Emmylou Harris – Songs of the West Eurythmics – Touch Dion – King of the New York Streets Fugazi – 13 Songs Harpers Bizarre – Feelin Groovy: The Best Of Honeymoon Suite – Honeymoon Suite Ice T – The 7th Deadly Sin Jay-Z – The Blueprint 2 Matthew Sweet – In Reverse Music For The Developing Mind – Baby’s First Classics Patti Smith – Gung Ho Rancid – …And Out Come The Wolves Spacehog – The Hogyssey Sum 41 – All Killer No Filler Various – Mozart For Your Mind
This is your final reminder that the LAST day of voting in our annual Best of Springfield Music Poll for 2020 is today!!! Our poll is turned on until TONIGHT at 11:59pm. You better get your votes in before then! Find the link to vote right below:
Find our original post with a long list of local releases and links to listen to most of them right here. This year we have hip hop releases in a whole separate category since there were so many of them. The results will be featured along with different write-ups in the January issue of Activator Magazine, and we will also post results on our site.
In addition to asking for you favorite songs and albums of 2020, we also have a category this year for you to tell us about any other favorite Central Illinois releases that may have came out this year outside of Springfield. There is also a suggestion box for both Dumb Records and Activator Magazine. Find the results from last year (2019) right here and right here.
Ah, yes the time is upon us. We always love to see winter or holiday-themed local releases, and today we bring you one from multi instrumentalist Mark Schwartz, who is constantly cranking out albums. This release is entitled Winterlieder and you can find it streaming on the player below. This release features ten songs – “computer music compositions celebrating the magical season.” Also head on over to the Mark Schwartz bandcamp page where you can purchase the download of the album and also hear much more of his music.
We have added this one to our Springfield album archive page, bringing us to 89 local releases we have kept track of this year.
It’s time for a holiday surprise. The surprise is that we are once again the featured business in Downtown Springfield Inc’s holiday advent calendar (we were featured a different day back in November when we were open). Today’s “Holi-deal” is that if you place any order with us on either of our online stores, you get two free arcade entry tickets good for any point once we open our arcade again. We aren’t sure when our arcade will open again, but based on the numbers for the county we may be opening our store up one step at a time very soon. Find the links to our online stores below:
Good morning, happy Saturday! We hope you are all having a fun time out there. This is a post to let you know a “save the date” has been announced for Record Store Day 2021. That is June 12th, 2021. The annual event, which is usually held every year in April in addition to a smaller event for Black Friday, has been doing their best to navigate these times and do what makes the most sense during the pandemic.
As you may know, this past year’s Record Store Day was pushed back and eventually split into three different “drop dates” in August, September, and October. As far as we can tell this Record Store Day in June 2021 is just going to be all the exclusive releases being released as normal on one date (who knows what can happen in our world between now and then though).
Legendary 217 hip hop artist “Cornbread” has unleashed a new video for his song “Fly.” The song comes from Cornbread’s latest full length album entitled Negros & Jazz, which unfortunately seems to have been recently taken off of bandcamp. Ope, it’s still on Apple Music right here. Either way, you can still listen to the song “Fly” and check it out on the player below. This one was shot and directed by Twenty One Seven Studios.
Negros & Jazz is in the running in the best hip hop release of 2020 as part of our ongoing Best of Local Music 2020 poll. Check out more music videos shot over the years on our pics/vids page.
Happy middle of the week! We’ve been still keeping busy getting our online stores updated as our physical store is still closed over here at Dumb Records. Slowly but surely we are adding more and more new and used LPs, CDs, and more to the online. Don’t forget that shipping and local pickup are options on both our Discogs page and our Storenvy page. We are at our store from 12:00 to 6:00 pm every day for pickup orders. We are still unsure on when we will be opening our store back up to the public.
New LPs Adrianne Lenker – Songs And Instrumentals AFI – The Blood Album Between The Buried And Me – The Great Misdirect Bill Callahan – Gold Record Charles Bradley – No Time For Dreaming Chris Stapleton – Starting Over Chubby & The Gang – Speed Kills Diarrhea Planet – I’m Rick Beyond Your Wildest Dreams Hatebreed – Weight Of The False Self King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Live In San Francisco ‘16 Madlib – Shades of Blue Nirvana – Nirvana Nnamdi Obonnaya – Drool Orville Peck – Show Pony Sigur Rós – Odin’s Raven Magic Smashing Pumpkins – CYR The Smiths – The Smiths War On Drugs – Live Drugs Wayne Shorter – Second Genesis The Yardbirds – The Best of the Yardbirds
Used LPs Alice Cooper – Welcome To My Nightmare Andy Williams – Love Story Benny Goodman – Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert Crystal Gayle – A Woman’s Heart Crystal Gayle – Straight To The Heart Engelbert Humperdinck – Last of the Romantics Engelbert Humperdinck – Miracles Chicago – Chicago 13 Denny McLain – Denny McLain At The Organ Frank Sinatra – Frank Sinatra’s Greatest Hits Vol. 2 Gentle Giant – The Power And The Glory George Harrison – Dark Horse George Harrison – Gone Troppo Hank Williams, Jr. – Lone Wolf Hookfoot – Good Times A’ Comin’ The Ink Spots – The Ink Spots Volume Two Kay Starr – Jazz Singer The Kingsway Quartet – The Kingsway Quartet Kingsway – The Statue of Liberty Linda Ronstadt – A Retrospective Mario Lanza – The Touch Of Your Hand Mario Lanza – The Desert Song Master P – Ghetto Postage Michael Sembello – Bossa Nova Hotel Peter Green – In The Skies Raymond Lefevre – Soul Coaxing Roman Holiday – Cookin’ On The Roof The Royal Guardsmen – Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron Steve Hackett – Defector Stonewall Jackson – The Dynamic Stonewall Jackson Tony Banks – A Curious Feeling Various – Kiss Me, Kate Various – The Jazz Makers Various – Spinning Pups Wanda Jackson – Wanda Jackson Wanda Jackson – We’ll Sing In The Sunshine Wynton Marsalis – Black Codes (From The Underground)
12” Singles Sandie Shaw – Nothing Less Than Brilliant Treacherous Three – Turning You On / U.F.O. Mac Lethal & Murs – Women of Scribble Jam
New / Used CDs Beethoven – For Relaxation Bette Midler – Live At Last Blink-182 – Enema Of The State Brooks & Dunn – Super Hits Chris Cagle – Play It Loud Element 101 – Stereo Girl Emmylou Harris – Bluebird Esthero – Breath From Another F-Minus – Suburban Blight Fine Young Cannibals – Fine Young Cannibals Gary Numan – Tubeaway Army Premier Hits Gordon Gano – Hitting The Ground Green Jelly – Cereal Killer Soundtrack Highway 101 – Latest & Greatest Highway 101 – The New Frontier The Hives – Veni Vidi Vicious Jay-Z – In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 Joe Ely – Live Shots Joe Ely – Twistin’ In The Wind Keith Lockart – The Latin Album Knoc-Turn’al – L.A. Confidential Presents Liszt – The 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies Liszt – The Best of Liszt Lyle Lovett – Anthology Volume One Martina McBride – The Time Has Come Master P – Ghetto Postage Mint Collection – The Collection 1991-1998 New Kids On The Block – Greatest Hits The Nylons – Rockapella Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure Roxy Music – Roxy Music Sawyer Brown – Greatest Hits Steve Holy – Blue Moon Stroke 9 – Nasty Little Thoughts Various – Sweet Dreams: Baby’s First Classics 8 Ball – 8 Ball Presents The Slab
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