Dumb Records Participating In Annual Springfield St. Patrick’s Day Parade This Saturday

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Here we are, one year later, using the exact same flier that we made for the downtown Springfield St. Patrick’s Day Parade last year. We are once again participating in the downtown parade that is happening this Saturday at noon downtown, and being pulled by the Miles T Shirts van. What’s different this year? Our elephant is supposed to be completely fixed with a brand new coat of paint! So that should be exciting! Check out the parade route on the parade website right here.

Throughout all of this, our store will be open at 418 E Monroe during its regular hours of 10:00 am to 8:00 pm all day on Saturday. Actually no wait! We’ll be open even later than that because we got a show going on that night!

New And Expected Arrivals This Week At Dumb Records

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It’s Tuesday, so we got another fresh batch of records and whatnot for you that have all recently come into the store! And a bunch of goodies on vinyl that we are expecting for Friday! There are a lot of shows lined up these next few months at our space too. Be sure to check some of them out, and check out our beautiful selection of premium quality music while you are here. Let’s take a look at our schedule for this week and then jump into what’s new!

Tuesday (today): 10:00 am – 9:00 pm
Wednesday: 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Thursday (show): 10:00 am – 9:00 pm
Friday: 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Saturday (show): 10:00 am – 9:00 pm
Sunday: 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Monday: 10:00 am – 8:00 pm

Expected Friday LPs
Against Me – White Crosses
Esme Patterson – There Will Come Soft Rains
Lizzo – Cuz I Love You
Nathaniel Rateliff – And It’s Still Alright
Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Pearl Jam – Ten
Tame Impala – The Slow Rush
Tupac Shakur – Me Against The World
The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Wonder Years – No Closer To Heaven

New LPs
Best Coast – Always Tomorrow
The Breakfast Club – Soundtrack
Charles Bradley – Changes
Ozzy Osbourne – Ordinary Man
The Notorious B.I.G. – Greatest Hits
Selena Gomez – Rare
The Specials – Ghost Town
Thick – 5 Years Behind
Tool – Opiate EP
Weird Al Yankovic – Mandatory Fun

Used LPs
Billy Joel – Streetlife Serenade
Bryan Adams – Cuts Like A Knife
Chet Atkins – Chet, Floyd & Boots
Chet Atkins – Hum And Strum
David Sanborn – Backstreet
Elton John – Rock Of The Westies
Forgotten Rebels – Untitled
Frank Sinatra – That Old Feeling
Frank Zappa – Hot Rats
Glen Campbell – Arkansas
Gordon Lightfoot – The Very Best of Gordon Lightfoot Volume II
Hank Williams Jr. – Hank Williams Jr.’s Greatest Hits
Happy Banjos – Happy Banjos Play The Beatles
Heart – Heart
Heart – Passionworks
Helen Reddy – Music, Music
Hüsker Dü – Land Speed Recording
Jo Jo Gunne – Bite Down Hard
Kenny Loggins – Back To Avalon
The Kinks – Low Budget
K-Tel Records – Disco Nights
The Other Ones – The Other Ones
Maureen McGovern – The Morning After
The Mothers – Filmore East June 1971
Pale – Tantrum
Pete Fountain – High Socitey
Piglatin – Jackpot
Pink Reason – Cleaning The Mirror
The Police – Every Breath You Take: The Singles
Rachel Sweet – Protect The Innocent
Rare Air – Primeval
Rod Stewart – Foot Loose & Fancy Free
Roy Drusky – I Love The Way That You’ve Been Lovin’ Me
Ry Cooder – Bop Till You Drop
Ry Cooder – Ry Cooder
Three Dog Night – Naturally
Truman’s Water – Godspeed The Static
Warlock Pinchers – Deadly Kung Fu Action
The Wind – Guest Of The Staphs
20/20 – Look Out!

12” Singles
The Conscious Daughters – We Roll Deep
Dilated Peoples – Worst Comes To Worst
D12 – Purple Pills
Marillion – War Wet Circles Remix
Stone City Band – Ladies Choice
White Boy Mike & DJ The Boy – Something To Dance To

New CDs
Art of Noise – The Seduction of Claude Debussy
Babyface – A Closer Look
Bad Religion – Shades of Truth
Badmarsh & Shri – Signs
Billy Bragg and the Blokes – England, Half English
Blessid Union of Souls – Home
Brother Cane – Seeds
Busta Rhymes – The Coming
Chocolate Genius – Black Music
Concrete Blonde – Walking In London
Concrete Blonde – Bloodletting
Coolio – Gangsta’s Paradise
Cracker – Garage d’Or
Cracker – The Golden Age
Deftones – Around The Fur
Don Williams – 20 Great Hits
Dwight Yoakam – Population: Me
Dwight Yoakam – In Others’ Words
Elvis Presley – Love Songs
Elvis Presley – In Person At The International Hotel
Gil Scott-Heron / Brian Jackson – Winter In America
Levert – The Whole Scenario
Marcus Johnson – Comin’ Back Around
Marcus Johnson – UrbanGroove
Mel Torme – Comin’ Home Baby And Other Hits
Milt Jackson – Early Modern
Milt Jackson – Sa Va Bella
Murphy Lee – Da Skool Boy Presents Murphy’s Law
Mystikal – Mind of Mystikal
Mystikal – Tarantula
Oscar Peterson Trio – Tenderly
Ron Holloway – Scorcher
Sonny Stitt – Just The Way It Was
Sonny Stitt – 12!
Stefon Harris / Jacky Terrasson – Kindred
Stefon Haris / Jason Moran – New Directions
Thelonious Monk – Criss-Cross
Thelonious Monk – The London Collection Volume 1
Thelonious Sphere Monk – Monk’s Blues
Trisha Yearwood – The Song Remembers When
Uncle Kracker – No Stranger To Shame

Tonight at Dumb Records: Prevention, Gumm, Direct Measure, Bull Cult, Black Box

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Tonight is gonna be a stinger of a gig. This one is going to be a tour kickoff for the bands Prevention and their Tennessee-based friends, Gumm who have played here at least once before. Nice. Stream some of Gumm’s music on the player below. You already know what Prevention sounds like. Also on this show is “Direct Measure” who used to be called… Brute Force. They have played here a bunch too, but you wouldn’t know it looking at the flier because they changed their name. Also on this show is the mighty Bull Cult from Galesburg, playing here for the second time ever. Black Box from Springfield is going to be opening things up with their wild & crazy hardcore music. Enjoy!

All of that is tonight at 7:00 pm and admission is $7! Check out a facebook event for this one right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a good look at what else is coming up at Dumb Dumb’s this spring!

April 10th at CFP: Vagabonds, P.I.N.T., Layers, Austin Connelly, Izabel Miller

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There is a show happening at Springfield basement venue “CFP” coming up next month for us to tell you about. It’s happening on Friday, April 10th. We don’t see too many house shows now that Radon Lounge has joined forces with us, and thank goodness this is happening because we have a pretty full schedule ourselves around this time. This one features a touring act from Michican called Vagabonds. Stream some music from that project on the player below if you want a little taste. Speaking of tastes, Pretend I’m Not There is performing as well – the solo / ambient project of BJ Pearce. Right in the middle of this *layered* show is the experimental / spoken word duo “Layers.” We’ve got some more solo acts before that – including Austin Connelly (of the band Sorry Charlie and more). Opening things up is more spoken word or poetry from Izabel Miller. Looks like opening up actually is a project we don’t know too much about called “Vegan Sloppy Joes.”

All of that is happening at The CFP that night at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. Check out a facebook event for this one right here. Also check out our Springfield Shows page, which probably doesn’t really have anything listed right now.

Dates Announced For Downhome Music Festival 2020

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With the weather the way it is on this beautiful Sunday, we can’t help but getting excited about all the upcoming spring and summer festivals here downtown.

Downhome Music Festival just recently announced the dates for their 2020 festival to happen this year on Friday and Saturday, July 31st and August 1st. This will be the tenth year for the festival taking place downtown. There are no bands announced just yet, but there is a facebook event launched right here, and you can also check out downhomemusicfest.com to stay tuned for more announcements.

We didn’t include a post for it earlier, but we would also like to point out that Legacy of Giving Music Festival (the festival which evolved from SOHO) is happening this year as well earlier on in the summer on June 5th and 6th. Check out a facebook event for that one right here!

Those two are not the only music festivals happening in town this summer! Don’t forget the Levitt AMP Music Series is happening once again as well from May 28th through July 30th out on the Y-Block! Announcements for that should be coming in soon!

Record Store Day 2020 Official List Released Online

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These are exciting times for Record Store Day enthusiasts and for us as well – the official Record Store Day list for 2020 was just released to the public (and to us) yesterday! This includes a little over 400 exclusive titles of limited pressings coming out for Record Store Day 2020 on Saturday, April 18th this year.

You can find that full list on the Record Store Day website right here.

See anything that you are interested in picking up on that list? We can not put in any special orders or place any exclusive items on hold for Record Store Day, but we do have an active post going on our facebook page (pinned to the top) where we are collecting comments of what you would like us to order. Don’t have facebook? You can always email us at dumbrecs@gmail.com what you would like and we can try to make sure we can have it stocked for Record Store Day!

You can find a facebook event for Record Store Day at Dumb Records right here. Our store will be open from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm (there will be people waiting in line). We are going to have live music lined up throughout the day, to be announced later on along with some more goodies!

April 14th at Dumb Records: Big Losers, The Complaint Line, Idle Oath, Marble Teeth

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Let’s boogie. On Tuesday, April 14th we are having another gig. This one Pizza Ranch Jack set up and he accidentally misspelled every single band name on the flier. That’s right. Who do we have? Big Loser is at the top of the bill, they are from Austin Texas and have played here a number of times before. They played before at Black Sheep under a different name… something like “Free Kittens and Bread.” Now they are just “Big Loser” and we are “Dumb Records.” For local bands on this show we have The Complaint Line, actually playing for the first time inside of our new space! Also on the bill is Idle Oath (that one is definitely misspelled). We’re actually not sure who’s gonna end up opening this one up, but Marble Teeth from Decatur is playing as well.

This is a 7:00 pm, $7 show and don’t you forget it! Check out a facebook event for this one right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a good look at what else is coming up at our space this spring.

Forest Saints: “Backyard Twilight Symphony”

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Springfield recording project “Forest Saints” is BACK with a massive twenty-track album! The album is entitled Backyard Twilight Symphony and you can stream it on the player below. Also head on over to the Forest Saints bandcamp page where you can purchase the download of the album. The psychedelic/experimental recording project of Mark Schwartz (also of End Times Trio, Demons on Wheels, and Tin Ghost) now has a whopping ELEVEN albums released on bandcamp, with the previous release being the nearly two-hour long The Book of Descents & Ascensions released last year.

There are no live shows for Forest Saints lined up. We are adding this one to our Springfield album archive page, bringing us to eight releases that we have had listed so far this year.

March Issue Of Activator Magazine Available Now

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Happy March, y’all! Did you know it was March? This is a post to let you all know that we now have the newest issue of Activator Magazine. This one features some people we know featured on the cover – that’s right, it’s the band Bottom Bracket, who have their new and debut album Don’t Care Enough To Stay coming out on Rat King Records later this month.

This issue also features an interview with Chicago-based indie group Ratboys, album reviews, live show calendars, more interviews with Mary Jo Curry, Sunshine Daydream, Hot Sauce Universe, Tony Young, and Vertrell Yates. There’s also Springfield and Peoria scene reports, photospreads, and more.

All of this is available for free right now inside of Dumb Records, and various other businesses around town. We also have a few back issues available as well.

March 20th at Dumb Records: Yellow Number Seven, The Florida Brothers Band, Velvet Bethany, Foot

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Hear-ye, hear-ye! We have quite an interesting show to tell you about happening in just two in a half weeks on Friday, March 20th. An old Springfield band reunion, and two touring bands from different parts of the country both featuring members of great bands that have been here before. Let’s start from the top. We have… a local band that was active in the 1990’s called “Yellow Number Seven!” Are you intrigued? The band is back with some new recordings which you can find on the player directly below! Also on this show is… all the way up north in Wisconsin, the “Florida Brothers Band.” That’s right, they are from Wisconsin. AND features at least one member of the legendary Wabeno Rock Farm. If you know, then you know. If you don’t, you should still come out to the show. The OTHER touring band we have on this bill is called Velvet Bethany. They play garage punk and are from Buffalo, New York and feature members of the band Radiation Risks! Okay, okay. Opening things up we have a rare performance of the local stoner metal group FOOT. First time playing here at the new Dumb Records even??

That’s a lot going on on one show. All of that starts at 7:00 pm and admission is $7. Check out a facebook event for this one right here. And of course be sure to check out our shows page for a good look at what else is coming up at our space this spring.