Today we bring you a brand new song and video from local HISO Music affiliated rap artist Kdoe2x, with the new single “Painful Melodies.” You can check that out on the player below, or right here on Youtube. The video was shot by Glass Imagery.
Also be sure to check out our vids/pics page where we have kept a long list of local music videos shot over the years.
Today we bring you a video of *the* Kate The Band performing at our space, Dumb Records about a week or so ago on the first of the month, February 1st. The video is of the song “Starry Eyes” and you can check it out embedded below. Check out the recorded version of the song right here. Kate Laine *solo* is performing next at our space on Tuesday, February 25th.
Check out more videos and pictures taken at Dumb Records and Black Sheep over the years on our vids/pics page. Or, check out our youtube channel.
Today we have a big show to tell you about coming up in March. This one is on Saturday, March 14th and it is going to be the big EP release show for local band Blushe! Blushe have been playing shows for over a year now, and their first recordings have been long anticipated. For this show we welcome garage punk band The Dry Look back from Champaign. It sure has been a minute since they last performed here, perhaps at Black Sheep. Stream some of their music on the player embedded below. Also Attic Salt is performing, a band everyone knows and loves. Before them is Dexter Anodyne performing another solo show. Looks like opening things up is the electronic synth act with a new album, Ricki Marvel.
All of that starts at 7:00 pm and admission is just $5. Check out a facebook event for the show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a look at what else is coming up at Dumb Records in the near future.
Happy Saturday! Today is the second time we are participating in the big annual “Vintage Love Tour,” orchestrated by our friend Linda over at Springfield Vintage. We are one of ten locations participating in this big tour – all locations including us have different vendors selling vintage goods, antiques, and more. We have five different vendors set up inside our venue space right now. For the full list of locations, check out that flier above, or the facebook event right here.
The Vintage Love Tour takes place from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Our store is still open our regular hours from 10:00 am to 8:00 pm today. Of course it is free to come out! Check out a facebook event for the tour right here.
Gonna throw another February show announcement at you all right now! This one is happening on Saturday, February 22nd, and it’s pretty much an all-local show happening at our space. For this one we have the full band Sorry Charlie on board playing – and then everyone else playing this show has never played our space before! Lovely! The first of those is Nic Gundy, who is the one act based a little bit away in Normal, Illinois. Stream some of Nic’s music on the player below. Before that is Springfield-based Jessica Cloyd, performing at our space for the first time! And opening things up is Nathan Dickerson, who apparently is a new solo act from right here in town!
This show starts at 7:00 pm and it’s a five dollar classic foot long. 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 we’ve got lined up!
We are overflowing with show announcements we have to tell you about for the upcoming spring right now. This one is a hardcore show of sorts happening on Sunday, March 29th. There are five whole bands. At the top of the bill is Pig City coming all the way from Phoenix, Arizona (that’s a long ways away). Stream their music on the player embedded below. We also have… from Kenosha, Wisconsin for real this time… Livid! This two piece group had played Black Sheep a couple of times including at the last Dumb Fest. Isn’t that all amazing. For this one we have a heck ton of local support. It’s the return of Capitol Offense from Decatur for the first time in our space this year. We also have Power of Dusk from Champaign/Urbana coming and playing at our downtown location for the first time. Opening things up is the one Springfield band on the bill and that is Prowess!
This show starts at 7:00 pm and costs $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 everything coming up this year.
It’s February (five days in now), and we’ve got plenty of copies of the new issue of Activator Magazine in stock inside our store for free. What does this issue include? As you can see on the cover is featured local hip hop artist Ty Witty. There is a Q&A with him. In addition to that there are interviews with Americana band Wayward Motel, punk rock St. Louis band “The Uppers,” the 13 year old singer song writer Ella Gibson, local rapper Prez A. Dent, and with electronic/synth artist Ricki Marvel. In addition to that there are photo spreads, album reviews, Central Illinois and St. Louis live music show calendars, and other tid-bits here and there.
Activator is available for free inside of our store and at other locations around town. Consider supporting what they do and signing up for their online Patreon campaign!
We are doing this thing again. For those of you who can remember as far back as December of the year 2017, we held a game show / trivia night of sorts at Black Sheep, put on by “Country Breakfast Jack” aka BJ. This included triva, relay races, and a live jazz band performing the jeopardy theme song throughout most of the night. Now, on Friday, February 21st it is happening all over again at our new space featuring our new gold curtains. From the event description:
Game Show Night is going to include games, challenges, music, and tons of other surprises that will make us all feel like winners in the end.
The Show will be hosted by our own Country Jack and his mom Jill.
Music will be provided by Animals with Human names and maybe some comedy TBA.
Surely this is going to be a good time. The fun will begin at 7:00 pm on this day and entry is $5. Check out a facebook event for the show right here. Also check out our shows page for a look at what else is coming up this month and beyond at Dumb Records.
Today we bring you a brand new album, from just one of Springfield’s number of Father and son duo’s, Musical Realists. Musical Realists is composed of local artist Timothy Donavan Russell and his son Isaac. This time they have released a brand new 14-track album entitled Go Bananas!! You can find that streaming on the player below, or also go head on over to the group’s bandcamp page where you can purchase the download of the album.
You bet this one is being added to our Springfield album archive, bringing us to five releases that we have kept track of this year so far.
What’s up chili fan’s, and happy tornado drill Tuesday. It’s Tuesday, so that means we are bringing you a list of what’s new over in our store, and also a short list of some things we expect to be getting for new release Friday. We do NOT have any shows lined up this whole entire week or weekend (wow), in fact our next show is not until Saturday, February 15th. This weekend we do however have the Vintage Love Tour happening in our space from 10:00 am – 4:00 pm, so be sure to stop by especially if you want to get some Valentine’s Day shopping in. Let’s check out our hours for the week and then get into what’s new.
Tuesday (today): 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Wednesday: 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Thursday: 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Friday: 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Saturday (Vintage Love Tour): 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Sunday: 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Monday: 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Expected Friday
The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Daniel Johnson – Fun
Eminem – The Eminem Show
Kid Dynamite – Shorter, Faster, Louder
Nirvana – Nevermind
Smashing Pumpkins – Adore
Wipers – Over The Edge
New LPs
Dashboard Confessional – Best Ones Of The Best Ones
Pantera – History of Hostility
Harley “Cro-Mags” Flanagan – The Original Cro-Mags Demos
Queen – Queen II
Used LPs
AC/DC – Highway To Hell
Al Pierson – Best Waltzes & Foxtrots
The Amboy Dukes – Journeys & Migrations
America – Hearts
Andy Stewart – I Love A Lassie
Arlo Guthrie – Hobo’s Lullaby
Atlanta Rhythm Section – Underdog
Basica – Time And Tide
The Beatles – Magical Mystery Tour
Billy “Crash” Craddock – Turning Up And Turning On
Billy Joel – 52nd Street
Bob Dylan – Street-Legal
Bob Seger System – Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man
Carl Perkins – Carl Perkins
Chris Be Burgh – Flying Colours
Count Basie – Count Basie Plays His Hits of the 60’s
Creedence Clearwater Revival – 1969
De Danann – The Best of De Danann
Earl Klugh – Heart String
Earl Klugh / Bob James – Two Of A Kind
Eddy Arnold – The Best of Eddy Arnold
Emerson Lake & Palmer – In Concert
Energy Orchard – Energy Orchard
Freda Payne – Stares and Whispers
George Benson – Tenderly
Gordon Lightfoot – Sundown
Hank Locklin – Nashville Women
Jennifer Warnes – Famous Blue Raincoat
Juice Newton – Well Kept Secret
Kenny Rogers – We’ve Got Tonight
Kenny Rogers – Love Or Something Like It
Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge – Breadaway
Lenny Dee – Dee-Lightful!
Lobo – Of A Simple Man
Lynn Anderson – The Ways To Love A Man
Montrose – Paper Money
Nanci Griffith – Little Love Affairs
Natalie Cole – Natalie Live!
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Dream
Patti Page – The Waltz Wueen
Ray Stevens – The Very Best Of
R.E.M. – Fables Of The Reconstruction
Rick Springfield – Beginnings
Ron Wood – I’ve Got My Own Album To Make
Salif Keita – Soro
Sammy Davis Jr – Porgy And Bess
The Sergio Mendes Trio – Brasil ‘65
The Shacklefords – Until You’ve Heard The Shacklefords…
The Smothers Brothers – The Two Sides Of The Smothers Brothers
Steve Goodman – Hot Spot
Steve Wariner – Greatest Hits
Swing Out Sister – Kaleidoscope World
Three Dog Night – The Golden Greats
UB40 – Labour of Love
UB40 – Rat In The Kitchen
The Undisputed Truth – The Undisputed Truth
Wendy Waldman – Love Has Got Me
Wilderness Road – Wilderness Road
Yevgeny Svetlanov – Music of Glinka
Zenobia – In The Night
12” Singles
Big Daddy Kane – I Get The Job Done
The Charlie Calello Orchestra – Sing, Sing, Sing
Czar Nok – Pimp Tight / Throw Me That Pack
Entouch – All Nite
Meshell Ndegeocello – Earth
Princess – I’ll Keep On Loving You
New CDs
The Art of Noise – The Best of The Art of Noise
Bad Boy Bill – The Bangin Box V4
Boards of Canada – Geogaddi
Dar Williams – The Beauty of the Rain
Dar Williams – Out There Live
Din_Fiv – Escape To Reality
Earth Wind & Fire – In The Name of Love
Frank Sinatra – The Collection: 3 CD Set
Frank Sinatra / Tommy Dorsey – The Popular Sinatra Vol. 2
The Future Sound of London – Accelerator
Jaheim – Still Ghetto
Jodeci – Forever My Lady
Joey Beltram – The Sound of 2AM
Mark Wills – Loving Every Minute
Mason Williams – The Mason Williams Phonograph Record
New Class Soul – New Class Soul
Niccademus – Twista Presents: From The Depths…
Rascal Flats – Melt
Silk – Tonight
Steve Wariner – Burnin’ The Roadhouse Down
Steve Wariner – Two Teardrops
Tony Bennett – The Good Life
Tony Bennett – Sings Ellington Hot & Cool
Trisha Yearwood – Hearts In Armor
Various – Battery Sentinel 2
Various – The World of Dream & Trance
Vast – Visual Audio Sensory
Velvet Acid Christ – Run With Knifes
Vigilantes of Love – Summershine
Voices of Theory – Voices of Theory
Warren Brothers – King of Nothing
Warren Zevon – Life’ll Kill Ya
Ween – Chocolate And Cheese
Wu-Tang Killa Bees – The Swarm Volume 1
Wynonna – Collection
Wynonna Judd – Wynonna
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