Local singer/songwriter Adam Maletich has released a brand new track as well as announced that he has a new album on the way. The new track is called “Cumoulonimbus” and the upcoming album is called Turbulence. You can check out the track on the Youtube player embedded below, or head on over to Adam’s Youtube channel right here.
Adam released his last album Over The Edge a couple of years ago in 2018.
It’s another week at Dumb Records, and we feel we are probably coming nearer and nearer to the time when we can open up our physical doors to the world once again. Until then, we are still cranking out new records to add to our online store on discogs, and also slinging t-shirts and more on our storenvy page. This week we bring you a few new and used LPs, and a handful of 12″ singles and new CDs. Maybe it’s slowed down for us a bit because we are trying to catch up on so many orders! And be sure to check out facebook page everyday for those sweet, sweet deals-of-the-day!
New LPs
Ben Folds Five – Songs For Silverman
Howlin’ Wolf – Howlin’ Wolf
Gentle Giant – Gentle Giant
John Coltrane – Coltrane
Misfits – Static Age
Mort Garson – Plantasia
Propagandhi – Failed States
Stan Getz & The Oscar Peterson Trio
Used LPs
Altan – Horse With A Heart
Bachman-Turner Overdrive – Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Bernay’s Propaganda – Bernay’s Propaganda
Bikini Gospel – Happy Squid
Brick Layer Cake – Eye For An Eye Tooth For A Tooth
Charlie Rich – Take Me
Charlie Rich – The Sun Story Vol. 2
Chet Atkins – Street Dreams
Chopper – 4play
The Dirt Band – An American Dream
Doris Day – Wonderful Day
Eric Clapton And His Band – Backless
Henry Gross – Release
Jan & Dean – The Very Best of Jan & Dean
Jessi Colter – Mirriam
John Stewart And Buffy Ford – Signals Through The Glass
Jose -Melis – Tonight
Kansas – Audio-Visions
Kansas – Monolith
Kill The Capulets – The Stranger
Larry Elgart – New Sounds At The Roosevelt
Lynn Anderson – Sings About Love
Melissa Manchester – Melissa
Miles Davis – In Person, Friday Night At The Blackhawk
The Mystic Moods Orchestra – Cosmic Force
Neil Sedaka – Steppin’ Out
Neil Young – Hawks & Doves
Night Ranger – Midnight Madness
Roger Miller – A Tender Look At Love
The Screaming Blue Messiahs – Totally Religious
The Searchers – Silver Searchers
The Searchers – PYE File Series
Sir John Barbirolli – Sibelius
Talking Heads – Naked
Todd Rundgren – Something/Anything
12” Singles
Dynas – Game Huntin’
Kid N’ Play – Funhouse (The House We Dance In)
New CDs
A*Teens – Teen Spirit
Big Head Todd And The Monsters – Sister Sweetly
Bob James – Restoration: The Best of Bob James
Celine Dion – 1 Fille & 4 Types
Frank Sinatra – Come Swing With Me!
Joe Henderson – Double Rainbow
Julie Reeves – It’s About Time
Mariah Carey – Glitter
Molly Hatchet – Kingdom of XII
Tim McGraw – All I Want
We can all agree that these days the world needs more “TP.” Toilet Paper? Yes, maybe. But this “TP” that Local Drags is talking about today is Tom Petty. The local group, which is the project of Lanny Durbin, also of Starter Jackets, has just dropped a six-track release of Tom Petty covers. You can find that streaming on the player below. Also head on over to the Local Drags bandcamp page to download the songs at your own price.
Local Drags released a full length album of original material, Shit’s Lookin’ Up last year.
Activator Magazine has posted this month’s edition of their ongoing video series they have been putting together with Crowdson Creative. In the series artists perform some of their songs live on video, paired with video interviews. Check out the video embedded below, or right here on the Activator youtube channel.
Earlier videos Activator has also released as part of this series include last month with Bottom Bracket (right here), Vincent Sebastian right here, and Blushe right here.
Looks like amidst this global pandemic and stay at home order, some amazingly positive things are coming into fruition in our local music community. Earlier this week Jessica Knight and Brandon Carnes of the band Looming launched a new project called “First Try Sessions” with the goal of acquiring guitars for children ages 7-17 “and curate music lessons for them in hopes of encouraging a future full of knowledge and creativity.” Amazing! There isn’t a whole lot to the newly created Firsttrysessions.com but you can find their mission statement and a link to donate to the project there.
Along with announcing the project, the duo also released a 16-track album of covers up on bandcamp set to a name-your-own-cost download with the proceeds going towards First Try Sessions. You can also find that streaming below.
We are excited to report back with more news on this project later on and the positive things it may bring!
Happy Tuesday everyone. We are back at it again with another round of new and used LPs and CDs! Not as many CDs this week, as we have slowed down a bit on getting those entered into the inventory as we try to catch up with all of these online orders and work on some secret projects in our space for whenever we can open back up! Don’t forget that our online store and over 5,000 CDs and LPs are listed on our Discogs site right here, and you can check out our Storenvy page for our Dumb Records t-shirts and merch. And don’t forget to check out facebook page daily for some sweet “Deals-of-the-Day,” those have been coming in hot! Okay, here is what’s new this week!
New LPs
A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here
B.B. King – King Of The Blues
Black Sabbath – Live From The Ontario Speedway Park 1974
Dean Martin – Cha Cha De Amor
Elmore James – The Definitive Elmore James
The Kitchen Cinq – We Got It From Here
Shabazz Palaces – The Don of Diamond Dreams
The Skatalites – The Skatalites Play Ska
Various – Music of Indonesia
Used LPs
Bikini Gospel – Happy
Bobby Vee – Bobby Vee
Cat Power – Moon Pix
Charley Pride – Make Mine Country
Charlie Rich – His Super Hits
Chubby Checker – All The Hits (For Your Dancin’ Party)
Domenico Modugno – A Sicilian In Paris
Eddie Rabbitt – Eddie Rabbitt
Erroll Garner Trio – The Most Happy Piano
Foghat – Night Shift
Heaven – Bent
Jackson 5 – Jackson 5 Christmas Album
John Klemmer – Touch
Johnny Lee – Greatest Hits
Johnny Lee – Lookin’ For Love
Loretta Lynn – Making Love From Memory
Loretta Lynn – You’re Lookin’ At Country
Luigi Boccherini – String Quartets
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – Watch
Mantovani And His Orchestra – Mantovani Magic
Merle Haggard – Songs I’ll Always Sing
The Michael Schenker Group – Built To Destroy
Miles Davis – Porgy And Bess
The Music Man – Original Soundtrack
Neil Sedaka – A Song
Neil Young – American Stars N’ Bars
Nullstadt – Flesh
Ossian – Dove Across The Water
Peter Frampton – Wind of Change
The Peter Pan Chorus – Songs From Sesame Street Vol. 3
Pousette-Dart Band – Never Enough
Preservation Hall Jazz Band – When The Saints Go Marchin’ In
Roger Miller – King Of The Road
Ronco Records – Superstars
Searchers – Searchers’ Smash Hits Vol. 2
Shaun Davey – Granuaile
Slices – Still Cruising
Styx – Killroy Was Here
Talking Heads – Talking Heads: 77
The Turtles – Happy Together
Various – The Be-Bop Era
Various – Big Band Stereo
Various – Remember How Great?
Various – Rockin’ On
12” Singles
Fearless Four – After Tonight
Funky Four – Do You Want To Rock
Melle Mel & Duke Bootee – Message II (Survival)
Pheave – Motorcycle
New CDs
Boards of Canada – Twoism
Frank Sinatra – Come Swing With Me!
Frank Sinatra – Everything Happens To Me
Nasir Jones – God’s Son
Steve Wariner – Faith In You
Tammy Wynette – Anniversary: Twenty Years of Hits
Tony Bennett – Playin’ With Friends
Warren Zevon – Excitable Boy
Wreckx-N-Effect – Hard or Smooth
Happy Mothers Day everyone. Today we bring you some more new local music during these times of quarantine from another local solo project. That is yet another album by Tin Ghost, the solo project of Mark Schwartz, who also performs in End Times Trio, and has other projects by the names of Demons on Wheels, and Forrest Saints, and his latest release was just a solo album, Mark Schwartz on Guitar. This new Tin Ghost album is called Galleons of Time and it is a whopping 19 tracks. Find a player for this one embedded below, or head over to the Tin Ghost bandcamp page where you can purchase the download of the album.
We are also adding this one to our Springfield album archive page, bringing us to release number 17 that we have kept track of so far this year.
Looks like local pop punk group Local Drags have released a brand new song as a part of a musical quarantine series put together by Something To Do Records out of Seattle Washington. The series is called “Something To Do Music For Something To Do People” and the Local Drags song is the 20th installment of the series. You can check it out on the Something To Do bandcamp page, or stream that sucker on the player below.
Local Drags released their full length album, Shit’s Lookin’ Up last year, and also The Boys Are Still In Town 7″ this past fall.
It’s another month, and another issue of Activator Magazine is here – and this time the print issue is back! Of course this month is different, with our physical store and many other locations Activator is usually available for free being closed. We plan on distributing the magazine ourselves by sending it out with most of our curbside pickup and delivery orders while we have copies available! Some other local spots are doing the same (check the Activator facebook page), there is also a newsstand outside of Penny Lane that has free copies that you can pull up and grab.
This issue features local musician Dexter Anodyne on the cover. It also features various interviews with local musicians on what they are doing during this pandemic while normal live shows aren’t an option. There are also album reviews, more interviews with Square of the Roots, Rings, Stick People, Courtboy, and much more. No live music calendar this time around though, sorry.
Earlier this week our governor and neighbor through the alleyway, JB Pritzker issued a detailed 5-phase plan to re-opening the state following the spread of the pandemic, called “Restore Illinois.” The full plan can be found right here on the state’s coronavirus response website.
Out of these 5-phases, we are currently on phase 2, and switched over to that phase at the start of this month. What does phase 2 mean for our store and venue space? Just that we are officially able to do deliveries and curbside pickup for orders as a non-essential business, which we are currently doing.
Phase 3 is the next phase, and that happens once the number of coronavirus cases has been stable or declining. For us, this phase means non-essential retail shops (our record store) can open back up. The earliest this phase can happen is May 29th. Also in this phase gatherings of people are limited to no more than 10. (So, we would also probably limit the number of people in our store to that).
Phase 4 happens when the number of patients being admitted to hospitals continues to decline. It is looking like the earliest this phase may happen right now is the end of June. That is when bars and sit-down dining in restaurants can open back up. Gatherings of 50 or fewer people are permitted at that point.
Phase 5 is the last phase and that only happens once there is a vaccine or highly effective treatment available. It’s very unclear how far off that may be. Once we are at this phase we can finally officially have live music events or festivals with no restrictions on gatherings of people.
While this mapping out of phases is a good thing to have, and gives us a look at what we have to look forward to – we are still going to make careful consideration on re-opening our store and venue on our own after each phase is hit. Wether or not we can “technically” have shows might be in question once we are in phase 4, but it might be safest for us to wait until we are in phase 5 to make that call ourselves. These are still uncertain times for us, and we want to make the best decisions we can moving forward with safety in mind.
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