New Arrivals This Week at Dumb Records

Posted on December 3, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

It’s another week and we are just about done recovering from Black Friday and this past busy weekend for our store, and have slowly started to get some new stuff back on the shelves as we are still at the beginning of December and a holiday shopping season downtown! Info on the holiday walks can be found right here. We are open 10:00 am to 8:00 pm every single day throughout the month (probably closed on Christmas or something). This week there are used LPs, 12″ singles, and new CDs hitting the shelves. We’ll go ahead and look at the schedule for this week and then dive 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 (show): 10:00 am – 9:00 pm
Sunday: 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Monday: 10:00 am – 8:00 pm

Used LPs
Aleksander John – Days Go By
Amy Grant – Unguarded
Andres Segovia – A Bach Recital
Art Corney / Mitch Miller – The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz
Atlanta Rhythm Section – The Boys From Doraville
Babe Ruth – Kid’s Stuff
Barbra Streisand / Omar Sharif – Funny Girl
Bert Kaempfert – Christmas Wonderland
Bing Crosby – Sings The Great Country Hits
Clark Gassman – The Word Made Music
Crystal Gayle – We Must Believe In Magic
Darlene Love – Paint Another Picture
Dickey Lee – The Hits Of Dickey Lee
Donna Fargo – Miss Donna Fargo
Earth, Wind & Fire – Gratitude
Eddie Rabbitt – Step By Step
The Edmonton Quartet – Ready To Leave
The Elvin Bishop Band – Rock My Soul
Floyd Cramer – Spotlight On Floyd Cramer
Floyd Cramer – Piano Masterpieces 1900-1975
The Flying Burrito Bros – The Last Of The Red Hot Burritos
Foghat – Tight Shoes
George Colclasure & The High Lonesome Bluegrass – This World Is Not My Home
George Van Eps – Mellow Guitar
Jeannie C. Riley – Things Go Better With Love
Jennifer Warnes – Jennifer Warnes
Jimmie Davis – Going Home For Christmas
John Farnham – Whispering Jack
Kate Smith – The Glorious Voice Of Kate Smith
K-Tel Records – 22 Explosive Hits
The Larry Williams Show – Featuring Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson
Lloyd Price – The Best of Lloyd Price
Lloyd Price – Mr. Rhythm & Blues
Lynn Anderson – Rose Garden
Morton Gould – Stars And Stripes: Sousa’s Greatest Marches
Pete Fountain – Pete Fountain & The New Orleans All Stars
Priscilla – Priscilla Sings Herself
The Ray Conniff Singers – Christmas With Conniff
Rogers & Hammerstein – The King And I
Rotary Connection – The Rotary Connection
Roy Acuff – Roy Acuff’s Greatest Hits
Roy Clark – The Entertainer Of The Year
Scorpions – In Trance
Skeeter Davis – What Does It Take (To Keep A Man Like You)
Stephane Grappelli / Martin Taylor – We’ve Got The World On A String
The Stylistics – Heavy
Uriah / Verne Bullock – Uriah
Various – Canaan Country Christmas
Various – Different Strokes
Various – A Gospel Jubilee
Various – Memories Of The Cow Palace
Various – 25 Polka Greats
Walt Disney – Winnie The Pooh And Tiger
Walt Disney – Winnie The Pooh And The Honey Tree
The Wailers – Out Of Our Tree
Widowmaker – Too Late To Cry
Willie Nelson – Without A Song
Willie Nelson – Willie And Family Live
The Wiz – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Xavier Cugat – Viva Cugat!

12” Singles
Brassmunk – Push Up / Get Right
Dizzy Dee – I’m Not Your Wild Thing
DJ Taz – That’s Right
En Vogue – Hold On
Gloria Gaynor – I Will Survive
Go West – Eye To Eye
Sporty Thieves – No Pigeons
Ice-T – Ricochet / Mind Over Matter
Sugar Hill Gang – Kick It Live From 9 to 5

New CDs
Anabolic Frolic – Happy 2b Hardcore
Bachman-Turner Overdrive – The Anthology
Bachman-Turner Overdrive – II
Bob Dylan – Modern Times
Bob Dylan – 3 Classic Albums
Curtis Mayfield – Beautiful Brother: The Essential Curtis Mayfield
Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions – Anthology 1961-1977
Dan Fogelberg – Phoenix
Dave Matthews Band – DMB Live Trax Vol. 6 Fenway Park
David Holmes – This Film’s Crap Let’s Slash The Seats
Denny Zeitlin / Charlie Haden – Time Remembers One Time Once
D:Fuse – Progressive Mix Session 1.0
DJ Icey – Essential Elements
Fergie – Let There Be Hard House
Fleetwood Mac – Rumors
Fleetwood Mac – Fleetwood Mac
Frank Zappa – Strictly Commercial: The Best of Frank Zappa
Groove Armada – Back To Mine
Icon of Coil – Serenity Is The Devil
J. Walrath & Larry Willis – Portraits In Ivory And Brass
Joe Zawinul – Stories Of The Danube
Joe Zawinul / The Zawinul Syndicate – World Tour
John Denver – Dreamland Express
John Denver – Poems, Prayers & Promises
John Zorn – Cobra
Liquid’z – Apnoea / Amphibia
Lo Fielity All Stars – On The Floor At The Boutique
Marvin Gaye – Last Concert Tour
Marvin Gaye – Vulnerable
Michael Bolton – Only A Woman Like You
Michael Bolton – Vintage
Neil Diamond – Love Songs
Neil Diamond – Stones
Sam Cooke – Sam Cooke With The Soul Stirrers
The Staff – The Staff
Steve Tyrell – Standard Time
Stevie Nicks – Timespace: The Best of Stevie Nicks
Trevor Rockcliffe – Influence
Tuck & Patti – As Time Goes By
Various – Island Life: Ibiza Grooves and Chillout Tunes
Yellowjackets – Like A River
Yellowjackets – Time Squared

Help Us List Springfield Releases Of 2019

Posted on December 2, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

It’s that time of the year again. Yep, it’s time for us to get ready for our annual Best of Springfield Music 2019 end of the year poll and write-ups that we do here on this site. Which means right now we gotta get our ducks in a row and figure out all of what came out this year on a local level. We’ve been building up our Springfield album archive page and have listed off 52* releases so far this year. Those are as follows:

Animals With Human Names – Anti Social / Duck Guts
Black Box – What Happens Inside
Bruce Kodrich – Don’t Leave Empty Handed
Chance Reiniesch – People Pleaser
CityFME – Lost N The Muzik 3
CompositionC – Back To The Beginning
Deezy Da Paperboy / Cornbread – Kush & Kollabs
Demons on Wheels – The Well-Worn Tale
Dexter Anodyne – Weeping Venus
The Dixie Narcos – Soda Pop!
The Dixie Narcos – Tinder Folk
DJ Reco – Dope: The Mixtape
DreTheGuy – Lapis Effect
Emily Hough – Glass EP
Emily Hough – Jewel Tones EP
Kate The Band – Wine & Dine
Final Order – Tainted Tradition
Foam Fangers – The Trash Talk And Taco Trucks
Forest Saints – Intergalactic Radio
Forest Saints – The Book Of Descents & Ascensions
Funmachine.exe – All Our Friends Are Algorithms
Imaginary Colours – Among The Horizon
Iris Wake – Demo
Jeff Cowhick – Cauterized
Junior Pasáre – We Gone Win
Levi Tucker – The Shoestring EP
Lick Creek – Too Damn Country
The Little Death – No Such Thing As Fiction
Local Drags – Shit’s Lookin’ Up
Master Bastard – Drinking With Children
Meezy Killafield – Killafield Kronicles
Musical Realists – Hill of Beans
Mvrty1300 – True Colors
Prevention – Your Bad Habits
Prince Cash – Menace Of Society
Renegade – Flowers EP
Satisfy – Take A Deep Dive Into What I Go Through
Spiff – Yellow Kelso
Stuart Smith – The Sun EP
TaQsem – American Dream
Terrell Burns – TBH EP
Timothy Donavan Russell – Antibody
Timothy Donavan Russell – Dark Light
Timothy Donavan Russell – Public Domain 2019
Timothy Donavan Russell – Messages
Timothy Donavan Russell – Then (From Now)
Tin Ghost – Ghost Stories- The Early Years
Tin Ghost – Life, At It’s Best
Tin Ghost – Into The Arms Of The Great Unknown
Tony Colantino – Extradimensional
Ty Witty – For When It Rains…
Ty Witty / Junior Pasáre – Half Full EP
Vincent Sebastian – Interference
Zetaretic – United $lave$ of America

Nice, we’ve even got all of the links right there! Okay this is where we need your help listing off any that we are missing. Let’s say a release includes a grouping of two or more original songs by a local Springfield band or artist – we’ll include nearby cities such as Jacksonville, Taylorville, or Decatur. If you know of any, comment below, or email us at dumbrecs@gmail.com! We are going to kick off our poll as early as five days from now or something, and publish results at the end of the month / beginning of next month. Oh! And we are also teaming up with Activator Magazine once again for this feature to be in their January of 2020 issue!

Our end of the year poll usually includes the best shows, songs, and albums from local bands or artists for the year. We will likely do this format again, featuring the top 10 picks from each category.

Mvrty1300: “True Colors”

Posted on December 2, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

Today we are bringing you a brand new album by local Springfield hip hop artist “Mvrty1300.” The album is a full nine tracks and called True Colors. You can find the album streaming on the soundcloud player embedded below. Check out a direct link to stream the album on youtube right here, or on soundcloud right here.

Yes, we are adding this one to our Springfield album archive page, which brings us to 50 releases from this year featured on our site. We’ll be compiling a list for our annual best-of’s poll here very soon and will be asking for your help in naming off releases we might have forgotten!

Dumb Records Donating 20% Of Sales To Springfield Community Broadcasters December 8th – 14th

Posted on December 1, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

We mentioned this little ditty along with our announcement for the benefit show that is happening at our space for Springfield Community Broadcasters (programming formerly on 88.3 WQNA fm) on Friday, December 13th. We felt it appropriate to make another post to make sure everyone out there knows. In the week leading up to our benefit show – from Sunday December 8th through Saturday December 14th – we will be donating 20% of our store sales to Springfield Community Broadcasters in their mission to obtain a radio license and get back on air! The license for 88.3 WQNA was sold to a Catholic Radio Group earlier last month, so that is no longer obtainable for SCB, but there are other routes being explored. The live stream can still be heard online at http://listen.wqnaradio.org/. The Dumb Records Radio Show is on hiatus at the moment until things further develop with SBC’s mission, but we are involved with a “True Freak” Radio Show that should be back on airing on Fridays at midnight on the live stream.

A GoFundMe page is still up and active online where you can donate directly right here. Dumb Records, Recycled Records, and The Elf Shelf are also all cash or check drop off points for donations at all times.

The Radon Lounge Announces An End To Shows After 8 Years

Posted on November 30, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

An almost completely unexpected announcement came today from our friends The Radon Lounge that they will no longer continue hosting shows at their basement venue after their upcoming Christmas show on Saturday, December 14th. Here’s the short version of the announcement:

Our show on December 14, 2019 will be the last Radon Lounge show, ever.

It’s been a fun ride, 8 years is a very long life for a DIY house venue. I’m also happy to say these years have been entirely incident free and lots of good times. There are no bad reasons why this is happening, only good. Don’t worry as I’ll still be around filling up your feed with show invites as I can’t imagine living my life without shows and pinball.

Aaaand the long version of the announcement which includes a nice history of The Radon Lounge can be found as part of the announcement on their facebook page.

The final Radon Lounge show is taking place on Saturday, December 14th and features 6’10, Idle Oath, The Uh Ohs, David Lasley & Sophia Magruder, and the art of Kristin Diehl on display. Find a facebook event for that one right here.

We’ll be sure to post any updates on announcements regarding future endeavors The Radon Lounge or Jeff Black of The Radon Lounge may be involved with.

Emily Hough: “Jewel Tones” EP

Posted on November 30, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

We are already about a whole month late in reporting in this great great local music release by Emily Hough, 17 year old up and coming artist who was featured on popular TV show The Voice. Emily has released a new 3-track EP called Jewel Tones as a follow up to her Glass EP from earlier this year. You can stream the first track off of that on the player below. You can stream all three tracks on youtube right here, or on CD baby right here.

We have added this one to our Springfield Album Archive list, bringing us to 49 releases we have had featured this year. Keep your eyes and ears posted for upcoming Emily Hough shows at our space before the end of this year.

Black Friday Record Store Day Today At Dumb Records, Show Tonight

Posted on November 29, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

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Good morning everyone and hope you had a great Thanksgiving, now it’s time for Black Friday Record Store Day!!! Our store opens in a few minutes at 8:00 am and looks like there have been some people in line since around 6:00 am!!

Of course some people are in line to get dibs on those limited exclusives that we have coming in. We will have free coffee and donuts. Everything in the store other than the exclusive releases will be 25% off. This is the first time we have ever done a sale in the new store. We DO have a fresh run of shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, and zip-ups in time for this day! We DO have gift cards available for the first time at the new store! We also just put out about a hundred extra used records into the store for the first time! Wow! We also have a few record players for sale!

Then there is a show happening at 7:00 pm that night at our space with five acts. This includes Kate The Band, who we all know and love. This also includes “Pretty Pleased” – a guy from Chicago whose music you can find streaming on the player below. Right smack dab in the middle is Ricki Marvel (formerly Eric Marvel), playing some of that electronic new wave music. Before that is… Animals with Human Names! Playing some old school hip hop after he gets done perusing our hip hop section in the store and taking advantage of that 25% off sale. Opening things up is Kenyon DeShasier playing some sweet sweet and refreshing indie pop.

Yes. Find a facebook event for all of that right here. Also check out our shows page where we keep a list of everything that’s coming up and going on.

State Journal-Register: “Local Stores To Mark Record Store Day”

Posted on November 28, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

Wow, we are mentioned in the local paper yet again. The State-Journal Register have an article in their big fat Black Friday Deals Thanksgiving newspaper about Black Friday Record Store Day being celebrated around the globe, and taking place at Dumb Records and Recycled Record downtown. (Let’s not forget to support The Elf Shelf even if they don’t have exclusives, because Record Store Day is about supporting the local record store). The paper talked with owners Brian Galecki and Mark Kessler about what each store has lined up for tomorrow. From the article:

This year’s event comes at an interesting time for both stores, as Dumb Records – previously located in the South Town district – closes in on one year since its move downtown and as Recycled Records owner Mark Kessler continues to entertain offers to sell his one-of-a-kind store.

For Galecki, the move downtown has been good for his business, which has seen increased traffic driven by tourists. He also lauded the neighborhood’s creative atmosphere.

Check out that full article online right here, or pick up a copy of today’s local paper while you still have time.

We open at 8:00 am tomorrow morning, and Recycled Records opens even earlier, but starts selling their Black Friday Record Store Day exclusives at 8:00 am. Check out a facebook event for what we have going on tomorrow right here. Don’t forget we have a show going on at 7:00 pm featuring Kate The Band, Pretty Pleased, Animals With Human Names, Ricki Marvel, and Kenyon DeShasier. Check out the Record Store Day website right here. We have been posting photos today of some of the exclusive releases before we get them priced and on the shelves for tomorrow morning.

December 15th at Dumb Records: Black Box (Tape Release), Blushe, Freon, Prevention

Posted on November 27, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

Here’s a pretty fun show we have to announce to you today! This one is happening on Sunday, December 15th. It is the big cassette tape release show for local hardcore band Black Box. The Black Box demo – “What Happens Inside” is already up streaming online, which you can check out on the player below. Also on this show is local Springfield/Bloomington band Blushe. Also coming up from St. Louis is… a newer group called “Freon”! Opening things up… looks like we’ve got another Prevention!

All of that, starts December 15th at 7:00 pm and that show is only going to be $5 (what a deal). Find a facebook event for this one right here. Be sure to check out our shows page for a good look at what else is coming up at Dumb Records in the near future.

Videos: Spowder At Dumb Records (10-14-19)

Posted on November 27, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

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Today we bring you a video from a show that happened at our space over one month ago. On October 14th, we have captured a video of the band Spowder from New Jersey performing one song. Spowder have a lot of songs. Check out that video on the player below.

You can also check out more videos shot at Dumb Records / Black Sheep over the many many years on our vids/pics page. Or head over to our youtube page to check out more. Be sure to “like” and “subscribe” while you are at it.