This past week we are honored to accept the Springfield ICON’s annual “good neighbor” award for 2020 in the business category. “The ICON Good Neighbor awards recognize individuals, organizations and businesses who make an objective, measurable positive impact on the quality of life for Springfield residents in inner city older neighborhoods.”
Lisa Stott, executive director of Downtown Springfield, Inc. nominated us / owner Brian Galecki for this award, and gave a nice speech in this acceptance video. Also from the Springfield ICON website:
“Dumb Records, led by owners Brian Galecki and Jeff Black, has been an amazing community force and partner during COVID. They are part of a young generation of business owners in the music and arts space who are leading by example to help us all embrace the societal changes taking place. Their all-ages music venue and record shop was an early, welcoming, safe space for the teenage organizers of one of the first and largest Black Lives Matter protests in downtown Springfield.
Dumb Records organized a later-summer, downtown-wide pinball tournament between business owners to help alleviate some of the stress of trying to operate small businesses during COVID and build up the sense of community. The tournament gave fellow business owners a different, fun way to express themselves, and it was a great way to show the benefits of locating a business in a neighborhood like ours.
Brian and Jeff’s willingness to create shenanigans, spread positive vibes, bring all ages together, and good-naturedly lift up everyone who needs lifting makes them a very Good Neighbor.”
Lookout! Yes, our store is closed this entire week, and who knows how long after that, but we are still putting out plenty of great new and used LPs, CDs, and more onto the shelves!! Today we tested out putting a few records onto our Storenvy page and it seemed to work out pretty well, so we will probably keep going with that! We have shipping, local delivery, and local pickup options all set up for that to cater to your needs and make sure you get your records during this third-wave of COVID! Also we have our Discogs page set up and rolling for the same! Moving forward we may start listing more new LPs on our storenvy, and continue listing used LPs and all CDs on Discogs. We will see how things go! Here’s what’s new!
New LPs AC/DC – Power Up Albert Ayler – The First Recordings, Vol. 1 Bad Religion – Christmas Songs Ghost Key – The Things I Am Not La Dispute – Wildlife Lambchop – Trip The Menzingers – From Exile Oneohtrix Point Never – Magic Soul Glo – Songs To Yeet At The Sun Testament – Dark Roots of Earth Wilco – The Whole Love
Used LPs Al DiMeola – Land of the Midnight Sun Alejandro Escovedo – Big Station Andreas Vollenweider – Book of Roses Arthur Fiedler – Encore (Fiedler’s Greatest Hits) Bill Burkett – Law And Love Burt Bacharach – Burt Bacharach Bobby Vinton – My Elusive Dreams Claudine Longet – Claudine Crabby Appleton – Crabby Appleton Danny Davis – America 200 Years Young Defunkt – Thermo Nuclear Sweat Desmond Dekker – Compas Point Engelbert Humperdinck – A Man Without Love The Four Lads – Breezin’ Along Frank Sinatra – This Is Sinatra Volume Two Frampton – Breaking All The Rules Genesis – Spot The Pigeon George Harrison – George Harrison George Harrison – Somewhere In England Gigi Gryce / Donald Byrd – Gigi Gryce, Donald Byrd Grover Washington, Jr. – The Best Is Yet To Come Jackson Browne – Downhill From Everywhere J.B. Lenoir – Natural Man Johnny Dankworth – Bundle From Britain Johnny Mathis – When Will I See You Again Judy Collins – Running For My Life The Last Poets – Douglas 3 Lenny Dee – Golden Organ Favorites Lightnin’ Hopkins – Blues Hoot Little Milton – Sings Big Blues Maynard Ferguson – Primal Scream Melanie – Candles In The Rain Michael Franks – Burchfield Nines Michael Franks – One Bad Habit Mickey Mouse Club – Mousekedances Martha Davis – A Tribute To Fats Waller Miles Davis – Seven Steps To Heaven Nina Simone – Pastel Blues Paul Williams – Classics Perry Como – Saturday Night With Mr. C Poco – Live Poco – Under The Gun Riot – Restless Breed Roger Daltrey – Under A Raging Moon Ruth Welcome – Zither Goes West Sally Rogers And Howard Bursen – Satisfied Customers REO Speedwagon – Nine Lives Sidney Bechet – The Grand Master of the Soprano Saxophone Slim Whitman – Just For You Stan Getz / Charlie Byrd – Jazz Samba T.G. Sheppard – 3/4 Lonely T.I.M.E. – Time Three Man Army – Three Man Army Triumvirat – A La Carte Various – Modern Jazz Hall of Fame Volume 1 Walt Disney – Bambi Walter Carlos – The Well-Tempered Synthesizer Woody Herman – Woody Herman Yo-Yo Ma / Chris Thile – Bach Trios
12” Singles 2Pac – In His Own Words E-40 – Big Ballin’ With My Homies Heavy D & The Boys – Who’s The Man HWA – All That L.L. Cool J – Big Ole Butt Scholly D. – Housing The Joint The Traveling Circus – Set It Off N This Mutha Wendy Wall – Real Love
New / Used CDs Andrew Lloyd Webber – The Premier Collection Andrew Lloyd Webber – Gold The Charlie Daniels Band – Road Dogs Eminem – The Eminem Show Eminem – 8 Mile Soundtrack Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams Are Made of This Exile – Latest & Greatest Fantastic Plastic Machine – Beautiful Full Devil Jacket – Full Devil Jacket Guttermouth – Friendly People Information Society – Peace And Love, Inc. The Internationals – Behind Bars The Internationals – Busted! Jan Peerce – Neapolitan Serenade Khia – Thug Misses Naughty By Nature – Iicons No Doubt – Tragic Kingdom Pennywise – Unknown Road Pet Shop Boys – Behavior Pet Shop Boys – Release Pulp – We Love Life Rancid – Rancid 1993 St. Lunatics – Free City Three 6 Mafia – Choices The Album Ty England – Two Ways To Fall Yusef Lateef – The Last Savoy Sessions 311 – Evolver
We’ve been keeping quiet about Black Friday Record Store Day which is coming up in just ten days now, because we’ve been trying to figure out the best way to approach this day, which is a hard thing to do when the future is always so unpredictable during these times.
Black Friday RSD is happening on Friday, November 27th the day after Thanksgiving as it is every year. This is usually the second biggest day of the year for our store, next to Record Store Day which usually takes place in April. This RSD event is going to be a big one for us because it is the first that we have ordered absolutely every exclusive release on “the list”. This includes over 130 different exclusive titles, which is too many for us to even list out below this time!! For that complete list along with photos and more info on each one, you can head over to the Record Store Day website right here.
As of right now, here’s how we are approaching this day: we WILL have our store open and limit the occupancy inside to 5 customers at a time. This means there will likely be a line you will have to wait in outside. We will be open on this day from 8:00 am to 7:00 pm. Then, online we will be offering 25% discounts on our regular Dumb Records mech items on our storenvy page. If you are local and place an order online through our online store, we will also be waving our delivery fees for that day. We are unable to run a sale on our Discogs page unfortunately, but we will be waving usual local delivery fees on that page for that day as well. We will also be listing whatever exclusive releases that we can on our storenvy and Discogs page later on in the day. (Our RSD pledge states that we can not do this until 1:00 pm, and we probably won’t be able to until later). This all may seem a little hectic, but we will be working hard this day and doing our best to make sure we have all of our RSD exclusives available one way or another!
Our online operations will continue – and we are offering local pickup, local delivery, and shipping options on our storenvy and discogs online stores. Check those out linked below:
We will be back tomorrow with more info on how we are going to be handing Black Friday Record Store Day 2020, which is less than two weeks away on November 27th, 2020.
For curbside delivery orders, we are going to be open and available that at our downtown location from noon – 6pm every day.
We’re well into November now – today is 11-11 in fact, so that means we have a brand new issue of Activator Magazine available for free in our store.
This issue features long-running hip hop artist Cornbread featured on the cover! Cornbread has a new album coming out later this month. This issue is also jam-packed with other content, as always. As usual, there are plenty of write-ups on new local and also national releases. You can find interviews with “The Truth Council” a Central Illinois prog/rock band, “The Lettermans” – pop punk from Philadelphia, “Searching For Silence”- a metal group from Peoria, “Black Mountain” from St. Louis, and also an interview with Jesica Knight-Carnes about First Try Sessions. All of that and much, much more!
You can find issues of Activator Magazine for free at our store and various other local businesses around town. Also consider checking out Activator’s Patreon page and donating to them online!
Welcome to another Tuesday edition of “here are the things that are new inside of our store” here at Dumb Records. We are still open from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm everyday. The virus is worse than ever before. If you want to stay at home and peruse our Discogs page, that is totally fine. But this week we do have plenty of new and used LPs, 12″ singles, CDs, and more. Let’s see what we’ve got:
New LPs Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Polygondwanaland Kraftwerk – Computer World Mort Garson – Music From Patch Chord Productions Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Return To Greendale Sleep – Volume One
Used LPs Alessl – Driftin’ Amy Grant – Amy Grant Barry Manilow – 2:00 AM Paradise Cafe Claudine Longet – The Look of Love Dinah Washington – September In The Rain Doris Day and Harry James – Young Man With A Horn Frank Sinatra – One More For The Road Hank Thompson – On Tap, In The Can, Or In The Bottle Herbie Mann – The Herbie Mann String Album Jackie Gleason – Music To Remember Her Jackie Gleason – The More I See You Jesus Christ Superstar – A Rock Opera John Davis And The Monster Orchestra – Up Jumped The Devil John Hartford – John Hartford Jo Stafford – The Hits of Joe Stafford Johnny Cash – Sings The Songs That Made Him Famous Johnny Cash – Folsom Prison Blues Julie London – Julie Is Her Name Julie London – Love On The Rocks Lee Ritenour – Rit Lighthouse – Sunny Days Little Sonny – Black & Blue Little Willie LIttlefield – Jump With Little Willie Littlefield Lynn Anderson – What A Man My Man Is Merrilee Rush – Angel Of The Morning Neil Diamond – Heartlight Oscar Peterson – My Favorite Instrument Paul Barbarin’s New Orleans Band – Recorded In New Orleans Peggy Lee – The Best of Peggy Lee Perez Prado – “Prez” Pure Prairie League – Can’t Hold Back Rod Stewart – Greatest Hits Roy Clark – Come Live With Me Roy Clark – Roy Clark’s Family Album Siegel / Schwall – The Reunion Concert Stanley Turrentine – Have You Ever Seen The Rain Staying Alive – Original Sountrack Subri Moulin – Jungle Percussion Supertramp – Indelibly Stamped Supertramp – Paris Triumvirat – Old Loves Die Hard Various – Happy Birthday U.S.A. Various – The Playboy Jazz All-Stars Various – Nitty-Gritty Guitar Various – World Pacific Jazz Short Cuts Various – 30 Golden Country Hits Various – 30 Fiddler’s Greatest Hits Willie Nelson – Pretty Paper Willie Nelson – Angel Eyes Xzibit – Man Vs. Machine
12” Singles Clipse – The Funeral Doug E. Fresh – If I Was Your Man Geto Boys – Mary 2 Jazzy Jeff + Fresh Prince – I’m Looking For The One S.A. Smash – Gangsta Trick Daddy – Sweatin’ Me
New / Used CDs Charlie Daniels – Listen Up! Charlie Daniels – Super Hits Charles Ives – An American Journey The Charlie Daniels Band – A Decade of Hits Da Hood – Mack 10 Presents Da Hood Deryl Dodd – Pearl Snaps Emmylou Harris – Wrecking Ball Eric Heatherly – Swimming In Champagne Eve – Ruff Ryders’ First Lady E-40 – Breakin’ News Five – Invincible Fuel – Natural Selection Gang of Four – A Brief History Of The Twentieth Century Garbage – Garbage Gary Numan – Down In The Park: Alternative Anthology Glen Campbell – Wichita Lineman Goldfinger – Darrin’s Coconut Ass Goo Goo Dolls – Jed Idlewild – 100 Broken Windows Ill Nino – Revolution Revolution The Impotent Sea Snakes – Everything In Excess Information Society – Information Society Insolence – Revulution The Internationals – On The Run Again James Galway – The Very Best Of Jay-Z – The Black Album Joe Diffie – Biggest Hits Lee Greenwood – God Bless The USA Mac Davis – Very Best And More… Mac Davis – Greatest Hits Macy Gray – The Id Marsill – Raw Material MC Hammer – Active Duty Missy Elliott – So Addictive Musiq Soulchild – Aijuswanaseing New Edition – Heart Break Notorious B.I.G. – Life After Death The Nylons – Live To Love The Nylons – One Size Fits All Pat Green – Three Days Pet Shop Boys – Actually Pet Shop Boys – Alternative Pet Shop Boys The Romantics – Strictly Personal Sam Philips – Fan Dance Sara Evans – Three Chords And The Truth Spring Heeled Jack – Amassed The Step Kings – Let’s Get It On! Ty England – Ty England Various – The Best of Haydn Various – Fatbeats Compilation Vol. 1 Various – Punk-O-Rama 3
Do you got 2 rock? Sometimes we all got 2 rock. Today we bring you a brand new EP from local sound artist Timothy Donavan Russell. This one is called Got 2 Rock. It’s four new “sort of dance” songs from Timothy. Head on over to his bandcamp page where you can download the release for free and also find more music!
And you bet we have included this one on our Springfield album archive page, bringing us to 54 local releases we have kept track of so far this year!
Today we bring you some brand new, very interesting local music from a new project called “Headbug”! This new release by Headbug is called Pain Pill and you can find it streaming on the player below. Headbug is from the same artist(s?) involved with the “X-E-A” and Rootbound projects that have come out with some creative music and sounds in recent years. From the bandcamp page:
“Headbug seeks to blend spoken word lyrics, jazz-inspired musical arrangements, and glitchcore aesthetics as they explore a cerebral digital hellscape.”
You can also head over to the Headbug bandcamp page to download the album at your own price. The X-E-A facebook page also has a full claymation video for the second song on the album! Yes, we have added this to our Springfield album archive page, bringing us to 53 local releases we have kept track of so far this year.
Jacksonville, Illinois – based psychedelic project The Dixie Narcos have blessed us yet again with two more new tracks. Those songs are called “Compulsion” and “Called You When You Went Away” and you can stream both of those on seperate players embedded below. According to the Dixie Narcos youtube page both of these songs will be on an upcoming album entitled Jenny.
The Dixie Narcos are constantly putting out new music – they already have two full length albums under their belts this year alone which includes Nantucket 1: Mr. Nantucket and Nantucket 2: Charley.
Warning: the album art pictured above is pretty extreme. Warning: the music that goes along with it is also pretty extreme, extremely black metal. This is GARGANTUAN, the mysterious and dark black metal project that recently emerged from the depths somewhere here in town, and today (or a couple of days ago, on Halloween) Gargantuan unleashed it’s debut full length album to the world. You can stream that album on the player embedded below. Also head on over to the Gargantuan bandcamp page where you can download the full album at your own price right here.
We have also added this one to our Springfield album archive page for this year, putting us at 52 local releases that have come out in 2020 we have kept track of so far.
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