Illinois Stay-At-Home Order Extended To May 30th, Curbside And Delivery Options May 1st

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Above is a picture of Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker walking six feet apart from some penguins. This is definitely not a news news website (just local music news), however the most recent extension of the stay-at-home order issued by the governor yesterday of course effects us because it determines at what point we will be able to open up our store again. The most recent extension has the stay-at-home order going until May 30th. This means our physical store will remain closed throughout the entire month of May.

However! The good news in all of this is that curbside pickup and delivery is now opening up as an option for non essential businesses such as ourselves starting on May 1st. We have been keeping things to shipping and “free local shipping” throughout April. Starting in May we may be considering having curbside pickup as an option for local orders – however we have not completely decided yet.

New Dumb Records Shirts Designed By Kamila Glowacki (Nectar) Available Now!

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Wow! Our news today is that we finally decided to mix things up with a new run of a new design of t-shirts to add to our online storenvy page! These were designed by our friend Kamila Glowacki of the band Nectar, and printed by Miles T Shirts on Anvil and American Apparel brand super soft t-shirts!

To purchase, head on over to our storenvy page where these shirts are listed as well as a few other leftovers from our last run. They are $14, plus some shipping and handling – we now have a free shipping option set up for those of you in Springfield.

Baby Ocho: “Demos EP”

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Springfield musical project Baby Ocho has came forward with a collection of demo recordings during this quarantine a few days ago. The collection is of seven songs under the title Demo EP. You can find that all streaming on the player below. Also head on over to the Baby Ocho bandcamp page where you can download the EP at your own price.

Baby Ocho, which started as the solo project of Mateusz Serafin, played their first show in Springfield as a three-piece full band at one of the last shows we got to have before the shut-down on March 12th. Of course there are no live shows currently lined up.

 

New Arrivals This Week At Dumb Records

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Here we are… in week number… 5? 6? 7? Of the quarantine? How many days has it been? Are we used to this strange new world yet? Do we even need to keep telling you that our physical store is closed at this point? You know the drill, right? Our Discogs page of 5,500 items is still active with new additions being added every day, and our Storenvy page is also active, and looks like we are running low on shirts. Our GoFundMe page is still out there on the internet, we hit our goal, it was a huge success, and the day is saved. You can check our facebook page for some daily “Deals-of-the-Day” where we pick five records to post at discounted prices every day. Alright, now let’s get into what’s new:

New LPs
Atmosphere – Whenever
Hop Along – Get Disowned
Starter Jackets – Decisions

Used LPs
The Blackjacks – Dress In Black
Bobby Darin – From Hello Dolly To Goodbye Charlie
Carl Reiner / Mel Brooks – 2000 Years With Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks
Das Damen – Mousetrap
Das Damen – Jupiter Eye
Denis Mullins / Danny Giordano – A Joyful Noise
Dick Wellstood – Plays Ragtime Music Of The Sting
Don McLean – Believers
Glenn Miller – The Authentic Sound of Glenn Miller
Jim Ed Brown – Barrooms and Pop-A-Tops
John Mayall – The Latest Edition
Johnny Cash – Sings The Ballads Of The True West
Johnny Cash – Sings The Greatest Hits
Johnny Maddox – The World’s Greatest Piano Rolls
Jonathan Edwards – Honky-Tonk Stardust Cowboy
Jonathan Winters – Down To Earth
K-Tel Records – Pure Gold Collection
Kenny Loggins – Nightwatch
Lifeboys – The Living Class
Loretta Lynn / Conway Twitty – The Very Best of Loretta And Conway
Mike Warnke – Alive!
Nazareth – No Mean City
The Nervous Set – Original Broadway Cast
New England – Walking Wild
Olivia Newton-John – The Rumor
Orleans – Walking And Dreaming
Pamela Wilson – Once Upon A Christmas
Patrick Street – Irish Times
Petra – Come And Join Us
Prime Movers – Museum
The Regals – We Shall Rise
Roberta Flack – Killing Me Softly
Ron Salsbury And The J.C. Power Outlet
Sandi Patti – Songs From The Heart
Sha Na Na – Sha Na Now
Stevie Wonder – Fulfillingness’ First Finale
Toni Scotti – Starring Toni Scotti
Various – Originals Music Comedy 1909-1935
Willie Nelson & Roger Miller – Old Friends
Willie Nelson – Sings Kristofferson
Wrestling Worms – Wrestling Worms
38 Special – Tour De Force

12” Singles
Body Head Bangerz – I Smoke, I Drank
KMC KRU – Talk Dirty To Me
Sarah McLachlan – Vox
Wreckin’ Crew – Chance To Dance

New CDs
Adam Ant – Antics In The Forbidden Zone
Apoptygma Berzerk – Welcome To Earth
Asia – Asia
Asia – Aura
Atlanta Rhythm Section – Champagne Jam
Bad Religion – The Process of Belief
Barbara Streisand – The Way We Were Soundtrack
Big Wreck – The Pleasure And The Greed
Britney Spears – Oops! I Did It Again
Brooke Allison – Brooke Allison
Bryan Adams – On A Day Like Today
Bryan Adams – So Far So Good
Built To Spill – Ancient Melodies Of The Future
Butthole Surfers – Weird Revolution
Carole Kid – Nice Work
Charlie Haden / Michael Brecker – American Dreams
Charlie Haden – Nocturne
Charlie Rich – Ultimate Collection
Chicago – Live In Toronto
Christina Aguilera – Stripped
Eddie Rabbit – All Time Greatest Hits
Herbie Hancock – Future 2 Future
Herbie Hancock – The New Standard
Hiroshima – Between Black & White
Hiroshima – Another Place
Jackson Browne – For Everyman
Jennifer Lopez – Reel Me
Jennifer Lopez – This Is Me… Then
Jennifer Warnes – Famous Blue Raincoat
Julia Fordham – Falling Forward
Julia Fordham – Swept
Keiko Matsui – No Borders
Lorrie Morgan – Greater Need
Lorrie Morgan – Something In Red
Madonna – Ray Of Light
Madonna – Music
Mary Coughlan – Love For Sale
Natalie Cole – Leavin’
Natalie Cole – Unforgettable With Love
Paul Hardcastle – Hardcastle 2
Peter Cetera – Solitude / Solitaire
Peter Cetera – World Falling Down
Quincy Jones / Herbie Hancock – Backtracks
The Rapture – Echoes
Rascal Flatts – Feels Like Today
RATT – Detonator
Ray Stevens – Greatest Hits
Ray Stevens – The Country Hits Collection
Rick Astley – Whenever You Need Somebody
Rodney Jones – Soul Manifesto
Roger Miller – Best of Roger Miller
Ryan Adams – Love Is Hell Pt. 1
Sarah McLachlan – Closer: The Best Of
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World – Original Soundtrack
Supertramp – Classics Volume 9
Tim McGraw – A Place In The Sun
Tori Amos – Scarlet’s Walk
Tori Amos – Little Earthquakes
Various – Mojo Chess Classics
V.S.O.P. – The Quintet

Dumb Records GoFundMe Update: Goal Met!

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Wow, happy would-have-been-Record-Store-Day-2020! We are happy to report today that our original goal of $3,500 for our recent online GoFundMe campaign, Help Keep Dumb Records Afloat has been met as of yesterday!

Currently we are also applying for an additional $500 GoFundMe is offering a select number of small businesses currently closed as a result of COVID-19. We have also applied for a few other loans and grants, and have succeeded in securing a loan through the Paycheck Protection Program.

We are very much aware that we are not the only small local business in need during these times, and we encourage all of you to support local businesses, especially the ones that are not able to have their doors open during these times. The Downtown Springfield Inc. facebook page has done a nice job of featuring different downtown businesses each day and the services or online options they are offering during this stay-at-home order as well as other ways you can support small businesses during this time.

Since we still do not know exactly when the physical store or venue portions of our operation will be able to re-open, we are leaving our GoFundMe campaign up online for anyone who wishes to donate past our goal as well. Even if our physical store can open again, we are worried that hosting events might be much farther off into the future. We also continue to sell records and CDs online through Discogs, and other Dumb Records merch on our storenvy page.

Today at Dumb Records: (Would Have Been) Record Store Day 2020

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We’d like to take a moment of silence for today, which would have been Record Store Day 2020, and what surely would have been our biggest day of the year and possibly of all time if a dreaded disease and global pandemic struck and changed everything.

Record Store Day has since announced that the world-wide event has been post-poned to Saturday, June 20th, but even right now we are very unsure of how the world will look on that date which is almost two months from now. We still have a facebook event up for that later event. You can follow Record Store Day (the organization) on facebook, where they are still actively promoting independent record stores around the world, and also follow their page for any latest news regarding that is supposed to be happening later on in June. ALSO, as we announced yesterday we are participating in a “virtual screening” going on of a new Vinyl Nation documentary to take place today only, on the day Record Store Day would have been. Find more info and the link to purchase tickets or the download of the film to support our store right here.

If you want to buy something from our online Discogs store in honor of what would have been a day to support local independent record stores, that is certainly welcome as well.

We Are A Participating In “Vinyl Nation” Documentary Virtual Screening Tomorrow (April 18th)

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Wow, here is an opportunity that sprang up rather quickly for us!

Record Store Day has been organizing “virtual screenings” of a brand new documentary on the resurgence of vinyl called Vinyl Nation to take place tomorrow (April 18th) on what would have been Record Store Day 2020. Record Store Day has since been post-poned until June 20th (a little over two months from now).

To help record stores during these challenging times and closures due to COVID-19, we are presenting a one-time special online screening of our documentary Vinyl Nation in association with Record Store Day on April 18-19, 2020.

No one has seen Vinyl Nation yet! You will be the first audience to get a chance to see our documentary dig into the record resurgence here in America!

All ticket proceeds go to local record stores participating in this special screening. The link you used to buy your tickets allows us to track your ticket purchase directly back to your local record store, and your local record store will receive the full $10 face value from your individual ticket purchase.

That’s right. 100% of the face value of your ticket purchase goes straight to your local record store.

This special screening of our documentary Vinyl Nation will be available digitally from 12 midnight ET Saturday, April 18, 2020 through 11:59 PM PT Sunday, April 19, 2020.

Follow this link to purchase your online tickets to watch the documentary online and support our store! 100% of the proceeds will be going to support our store if you purchase tickets through that link!

Kid Ziggy: “Monster” (feat. Papa Luke & JunioR Pasáre)

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Local hip hop artist Kid Ziggy is at it again. One of the key players in the Zippir Collective has dropped a new hit single song and video for a new track called “Monster.” This video was shot and produced by Delta Collective and you can check it out on the youtube player embedded below. This track features other Zippir Collective artists Papa Luke and JunioR Pasáre.

Kid Ziggy released a full length album, U God & Smoke earlier last year. Also be sure to check out the new Zippir Collective website with brand new merch up for sale right here. Check out our vids/pics page for a long list of other local music videos shot from over the years.

Dumb Records GoFundMe Update

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It has now been one full week since we’ve launched our most recent GoFundMe campaign online to help our store and venue “stay afloat” during these times in which all shows are cancelled and our physical store can not be open. We felt it appropriate to give a little update now – and importantly say a big Thank You to all who have donated, or even any of you who have placed orders with us when our store is closed or have shown support in any way!

As of right now we have passed the $3,000 mark! The goal we had originally set was for $3,500 – but in the case of GoFundMe we get to keep the amount we have collected even if we don’t hit that goal, and we can also collect more than that after the goal is met. Placing a dollar amount goal wasn’t an easy task for us because we did not (and still do not) have any idea how long the venue portion or physical store portion of our operation will be out of commission for. It is likely that even once we are able to open our store back up, we will still not be able to host events for some time after that.

Another 4/16/20: Aside from the GoFundMe Campaign, we have been also seeking out other means of financial aide that we are eligible for as a small business during these times. Even though the PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) funding ran out on a national level today, we were able to secure an additional $2228 forgivable loan through the PPP with our bank!!!

Find the link to our online GoFundMe right here. We also encourage all of you to support any other local businesses in our community at this time.