New Arrivals This Week at Dumb Records

Welcome to another Tornado Drill Tuesday here at Dumb Records! You know the drill, there are plenty of good new and used LPs, 12″ singles, CDs, and more hitting the shelves. Here is a list of some of those. Also of course don’t forget we have a big “Virtual Cash Mob” going live on the Downtown Springfield Inc. facebook page this Thursday at noon where we will be offering many great exclusive deals on more records, turntables, LPs, shirts, and some more surprises!!! We’ll have more info on that and also the third Record Store Day “drop date” also happening later this month very very soon!! Alright, let’s take a look at what’s new in this week:

New LPs
Black Kites – Songs Written While Things Were Chainging
Change – Closer Still
Deftones – Ohms
Germs – Cat’s Claus
Guns N Roses – Greatest Hits
Howlin’ Wolf – Moanin’ In The Moonlight
Iron Maiden – Powerslave
Jane’s Addiction – Ritual De Lo Habitual
Knuckle Puck – 20/20
Lana Del Rey – Violet Bent Backwards
Mac Miller – Kids
Napalm Death – Utopia Banished
Public Service Broadcasting – The Race For Space
Semisonic – Feeling Strangely Fine
Sufjan Stevens – The Asension
The Weeknd – After Hours

Used LPs
The Andrews Sisters – Too Shy
Bing Crosby – When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
Bloodrock – Whirlwind Tongues
The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Jazz Impressions of Eurasia
David Houston – A Loser’s Cathedral
The Doobie Brothers – The Best of the Doobies Vol. II
Earl Bostic – Harlem Nocturn
Erroll Garner – The One And Only
Gene Pitney – Only Love Can Break A Heart
Gentle Giant – Free Hand
Gong – Expresso II
Grateful Dead – Wake of the Flood
Gregg Allman – Laid Back
Focus – Focus III
George Wright – The Genius of George Wright
Grover Washington, Jr. – Anthology
Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass – South of the Border
Ian Hunter – Welcome To The Club: Live
Jackie Gleason – Music For Lovers Only
José Melis – A Dance Party With
Juice Newton – Juice
King Crimson – Lark’s Tongues in Aspic
King Crimson – Earthbound
The Kinks – Sleepwalker
Lenny Dee – The Lenny Dee Tour
Linda Ronstadt – Hasten Down The Wind
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Best of the Rest
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Street Survivors
Mystic Moods Orchestra English Muffins
Nancy Sinatra – Country, My Way
Peppermint Rainbow – Will You Be Staying After Sunday
Ramsey Lewis – Mother Nature’s Son
Redd Foxx – Wild Party
The Rolling Stones – Aftermath
Sammy Davis Jr – Spotlight On…
Stee Hackett – Please, Don’t Touch!
Sting – The Dream of the Blue Turtles
Ted Nugent – Cat Scratch Fever
Tanya Tucker – Strong Enough To Bend
Various – Tribute to Steve Goodman
Yes – Yessongs

12” Singles
EPMD – Never Seen Before
Kajagoogoo – Too Shy
NV – Let Me Do You

New / Used CDs
Attic Salt – Get Wise
Bottom Bracket – I Don’t Care Enough To Stay
Brand New – Daisy
Charlie Byrd – Great Guitars / Straight Tracks
David Gray – White Ladder
Deana Carter – Did I Shave My Legs For This?
Diamond Rio – Diamond Rio
Echo & The Bunnymen – Evergreen
Enter Shikari – Take To The Skies
Fort Minor – The Rising Tied
Hoodoo Gurus – Bite The Bullet
Hospital Job – The Believer
Hospital Job – Never Get Cold
Ja Rule – The Last Temptation
Judgement Night – Music From The Motion Picture
June Tabor – Aleyn
Juice – Original Soundtrack
Lil’ Flip – Underground Legend
Mates of State – My Solo Project
Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral
Pennywise – Wildcard / A Word From The Wise
Pennywise – Straight Ahead
Puya – Union
Rawkus Presents – Soundbombing II
Rusted Root – Welcome To My Party
Rusted Root – Remember
Snoop Dogg – Greatest Hits
Tokyo Police Club – Elephant Shell
Too $hort – Shorty The Pimp
Various – So So Def Bass All Stars
Various – Inside Out Studio Premier Collection
Vince Gill – The Key
Vitamin String Quartet – Tribute To R.E.M.
Wanda – Live! At Third Man Records

Downtown Pinball Tournament Round 4 RECAP

Yes, our pinball tournament is still going on… and now wrapping up ROUND 4 of the tournament we are now down to the final TWO competing businesses in all of downtown!!! Round 4 featured the non-pinball arcade Asteroids from 1979. Here is what the final scores for this round were:

PRAIRIE ARCHIVES = 28,200
THE PHARMACY = 7,850

OLD STATE CAPITOL = 18,830
CRAFT BEER BAR = 26,030

This means that PRAIRIE ARCHIVES and CRAFT BEER BAR are the ones to move on and go head to head in the final round!!! The final round has been scheduled to be a live video where the two competitors play the best two out of three games, right after our Virtual Cash Mob video at noon on Thursday, October 8th. However now Craft Beer Bar is letting us know this time will not work for them so… we might have to figure something out here. Stay tuned for more!

Keyng: “Keyng The Tape”

Local artist Nykeyla Henderson aka “Keyng” has recently dropped a brand new mixtape of new music. This is six new tracks from her, and is called Keyng the Tape. You can find that streaming on the player embedded below. Also check it out on youtube right here.

Nykeyla is also one of the leaders behind the Black People Party of America, a local group “established to bringing the community together one step at a time.”

We’ve also added this one to our Springfield album archive page, making release number 49 we have kept track of so far this year.

New Arrivals This Week at Dumb Records

It’s another week at our record store, and we are once again recovering from a very busy “Record Store Day” weekend. Apparently we’ve got to do a few more of these yet before the year is over still… one in October and a Black Friday Record Store Day in November. We are trying to get the shelves stocked back up into this week with fresh new and used LPs, 12″ singles, CDs, cassettes, and more. We had plenty of the new Attic Salt record and then sold out right away… hoping to get more back in stock at some point today. Don’t forget we also have our big “Virtual Cash Mob” coming up a week from Thursday on October 8th! Even with no shows, there still is a lot going on! Okay, now let’s look at what’s new:

New LPs
Abest – Asylum
The Avett Brothers – The Gleam III
Blacklisted – When People Grow, People Go
Blondie –  Parallel Lines
Bob Mould – Blue Hearts
Kataklysm – Unconquered
LMI – Excess Subconscious
The Messthetics – Anthropocosmic Nest
Praise – Leave It All Behind
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – …What That Is!
Sufjan Stevens – Seven Swans
Tegan And Sara – Tonight In The Dark We’re Seeing Colors
100 Demons – 100 Demons

Used LPs
ABBA – Super Trouper
Aldo Nova – Aldo Nova
Anne Murray – Christmas
Aretha Franklin – Today I Sing The Blues
Billy Satellite – Billy Satellite
Bobby Bar – Folsom Prison Blues
Brothers Four – Beatles Songbook
Burl Ives – It’s Just My Funny Way of Laughin’
Conway Twitty – A Night With Conway Twitty
Corey Hart – Boy In The Box
Diana Ross – To Love Again
Diana Ross / Marvin Gaye – Diana & Marvin
Don Ho – Greatest Hits
Don Williams – Greatest Hits
Eric Burdon – The Animals Greatest Hits
Exotic Guitars – I Can’t Stop Loving You
Frank Sinatra – Swingin’ Session!
Frank Zappa – You Are What You Is
Gap Mangione – Gap Mangione!
Gentle Giant – Live: Playing The Fool
Grateful Dead – Terrapin Station
It’s A Beautiful Day – Choice Quality Stuff / Anytime
The J. Geils Band – Freeze Frame
Joe Cocker – I Can Stand A Little Rain
Johnny Mathis – Johnny’s Mood
Johnny Rivers – Borrowed Time
Kate Bush – The Kick Inside
King Crimson – In The Court of the Crimson King
Kitaro – Silk Road
Kool & The Gang – Celebrate!
Manhattans – Crazy
Marty Robbins – Just A Little Sentimental
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Dirty, Silver & Gold
Peter Gabriel – Waiting For The Big One
The Producers – The Producers
Quincy Jones – Roots
Rare Earth – Get Ready
The Ray Brown Trio – Soular Energy
The Rockets – No Ballads
Roy Hamilton – With All My Love
The Side Effects – The Side Effects
Spooky Tooth – Witness
Steeleye Span – The Steeleye Span Story
Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble – Texas Flood
Tony Bennett – In Person!
Tony Orlando & Dawn – Skybird
U2 – October
Various – Jazz Gala Concert
Wynton Marsalis – Wynton Marsalis

12” Singles
Information Society – How Long
Jodeci – Freek’n You
Greg Kihn Band – Jeopardy
Tia – Boy Toy
The Time – Jerk Out

New / Used CDs
Alison Krauss – I’ve Got That Old Feeling
Beth Nielsen Chapman – You Hold The Key
Billie Holiday – Greatest Hits
Chely – Never Love You Enough
Dave Koz – The Dance
Diana Krall – The Girl In The Other Room
Diamond Rio – Four
Diamond Rio – One More Day
Dion – The Very Best of Dion
Dr. Dolittle 2 – Original Soundtrack
Echo And The Bunnymen – Crocodiles
Echo And The Bunnymen – Heaven Up Here
Emmylou Harris – Brand New Dance
Emmylou Harris – Quarter Moon In A Ten Cent Town
Girls Against Boys – Cruise Yourself
John Michael Montgomery – John Michael Montgomery
Mahalia Jackson – The Best of Mahalia Jackson
Mahalia Jackson – My Home Over There
Mozart – Your Favorite Mozart
Obie Trice – Cheers
Panorama – Modest Mussorgsky
Pennywise – Pennywise
P.O.D. – Brown
Pat Green – Cary On
The Psychedelic Furs – Should God Forget: A Retrospective
The Presidents of the United States II
Rachmaninoff – Greatest Hits
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication
R.E.M. – Murmur
R.E.M. – Green
Rob McConnell – Even Canadians Get The Blues
Rossini – The Barber of Seville
Russell Malone – Look Who’s Here
RUN-D.M.C. – King of Rock
Simon And Garfunkel – Collected Works
Snoop Dogg – The Last Meal
Snoop Dogg – Paid Tha Cost To Be Da Bo$$
The Source Presents – Hip Hop Hits Volume 3
Terri Clark – How I Feel
Toby Keith – Unleased
Trick Daddy – Book of Thugs
Vince Gill – Let’s Make Sure We Kiss Goodbye
Wu-Tang Clan – Wu-Tang Forever

Downtown Pinball Tournament Round 3: RECAP

Things are really narrowing down to a few remaining businesses for our big Downtown Springfield Pinball Tournament! Yesterday marked the last day for ROUND 3, so here we are today bringing you a RECAP of those scores! Here are the final scores for ROUND 3:

CUSTOM CUP = 1,040,330
MAYOR JIMMY LANGADANG = 1,793,010
PRAIRIE ARCHIVES = 4,907,790 (WINNER)

THE PHARMACY = 2,287,110
ARLINGTON’S = 1,287,650

PUBLIC MARKET = 1,112,780
OLD STATE CAPITOL = 2,417,180

CRAFT BEER BAR = 2,865,440
REVERIE APPAREL = 798,340

Now for ROUND 4, we have FOUR remaining competitors including Prairie Archives, The Pharmacy, Old State Capitol, and Craft Beer Bar. This round features the game Asteroids (1979) which is not a pinball- the round goes from now (September 28th) until Saturday, October 3rd. Keep following our facebook page for daily updates on this round.

We have some big things planned for the final round, which will be broadcasted live right after our Virtual Cash Mob at noon on Thursday, October 8th.

Deezy Da Paperboy feat. Alexa Redd: “No Justice”

New song and video from Deezy Da Paperboy alert! Deezy is a Lincoln, Illinois-based hip hop artist who has been very active for the past few years. A couple of days ago he dropped a new song and video for “No Justice” also featuring Alexa Redd, which you can check out on the player embedded below. From the youtube page:

“No Justice” – By Deezy Da Paperboy (feat. Alexa Redd) is a Song about societal inequality, systemic racism, human rights activism and peaceful protest, to help bring about much needed cultural change. its crazy to me, because we recorded this song roughly 2 years ago, and the Relevance today is still just as Pure as when it was inspired, I fight everyday for Equal Justice through out all Race, tax brackets, and cultures, when there is #NoJustice There will be #NoPeace – Deezy Da Paperboy

Also check out our vids/pics page for a long list of other local music videos shot over the years.

Attic Salt: “Get Wise”

Springfield pop punk / indie band Attic Salt have officially released their second full length album, Get Wise, out on Jump Start Records. You can check out the album embedded on the player below, or head on over to the Jump Start bandcamp page where you can purchse the download or order the physical album directly from them.

The album is available on vinyl on black or a very nice looking blue transparent. Believe it or not we thought we were stocked full of these records on Friday the day it was released, and then we ran out right away. The plan is for us to get it re-stocked at some point soon this coming week!

Today at Dumb Records: “Record Store Day 2020 Drop Date 2”

It’s been a long time since we’ve made any “today” or “tonight” at Dumb Records posts. Last month, the first Record Store Day “drop date” was a success and we were able to stick to our own guidelines of masks and limiting the number of people in the store, so we are ready for another one of these today. Today is the second of the three drop dates, which are happening at the end of August, September, and October. For these days we are getting in a number of exclusive Record Store Day releases. We listed out some of them on this post, and you can find some pictured above. Once again we have a more limited amount of these exclusives compared to normal Record Store Days we have participated in in the past.

In addition to those exclusive releases, we plan on putting out some more new and used records onto the shelves for today.

Our store is open today a little bit earlier than normal – we open at 10:00 am and are open until 7:00 pm. Masks are required and we are limiting the number of people in the store to 10.

Timothy Donavan Russell: “Storment Drome,” “Steps,” “Pursuant”

Happy new local music Friday everyone! It’s just been a lot of pinball lately, not a whole lot going on here in terms of new local music. Let’s get back to it! Recently, local sound artist Timothy Donavan Russell dropped three new releases in the forms of albums and songs up online. We have ALL three embedded on players below!

Storment Drome is on the bottom and is two tracks over 7 minutes long. These are “raw drone synth noise field recording weird.” Steps is in the middle, includes five new tracks. Then at the top Pursuant is one track over 8 minutes – “Studio jam on microKORG and Electro-Faustus Drone Thing Mostly in 18/4 time….”

Check all of that out on the player below, or head on over to the Timothy Donavan Russell bandcamp page for more music!

October 8th at Noon: Dumb Records Virtual Cash Mob, Pinball Tournament *FINAL ROUND*, *NEW GAME REVEAL* (All Live)

Are you ready for us to dump a ton of stuff happening all at once on you right now??? Get ready…

On Thursday, October 8th, at NOON, on the Downtown Springfield Inc. facebook page:

We are participating in a “VIRTUAL CASH MOB.” What is this? What does this mean? It means we are going to be selling a bunch of stuff exclusively through an online store at this time along with a live video showing you these items. There are going to be some really really good deals, so you are going to have to be logged in watching the live video to act quick! This live video will be shown on the Downtown Springfield Inc. facebook page. We will have the link up to an online shop where each item will be for sale as well. For this you can expect good deals on new and used records, turntables and speakers, exclusive t-shirts and merch items, and more surprises along the way!! Expect the cash mob to go for 30 minutes from 12:00 to 12:30 pm. It will also be hosted by Momentum on Main Street member Kristina Barbee. For other examples of Cash Mobs other downtown businesses have been doing, check out the Downtown Springfield Inc facebook page! We will be posting more hints on our facebook page of items we are going to be selling on the virtual cash mob leading up to the event.

The OTHER big thing that is going to be happening LIVE, IMMEDIATELY after we are done with our cash mob also on the Downtown Springfield Inc. facebook page on the same live video is THE FINAL ROUND OF OUR PINBALL TOURNAMENT. By this time the tournament will be down to TWO competing businesses. The game they will be playing, *live* is going to be Blackout (1980). This is a fast moving game, and the winner of the tournament will be the best two out of three of that game. This will be intense. The winner will get a trophy and a gold key to our our arcade, and a champion t-shirt.

THEN, last but not least the WINNER of our tournament will be pulling back the curtain on a NEW GAME that we WILL HAVE in our ARCADE!!!! LIVE!!!!!

That’s it for now. Be sure to follow the Downtown Springfield Inc. facebook page and tune in on that day and time for all of the fun.