It seems our elephant has gone viral a bit lately. We finally got stocked up with the brat record and wanted to participate in the fun. I guess people really dig it or something.

This Friday we have another big loud hardcore show featuring Doubt from Maryland, Lead Spirit from Florida, Rest Assured from Indiana and locals Shroud, Carnal, and Meta-stasis

This Week’s Friday Releases!
– The third album by South African country singer-songwriter ORVILLE PECK – “Stampede” is coming! Available on a few different colorways, I think one is a creamy color and another pink, maybe a green.
– Re-issue of QUIET RIOT’s 1983 album “Metal Health,” come on feel the noise!
– California based Punk rock band X with their FINAL STUDIO ALBUM “Smoke & Fiction” available on a few different colorways (did you know John Doe in this band was born in Decatur)
– 10th anniversary of DIRTY HEADS “Home… Phantoms of Summer… Acoustic…” or something.
– X-RAY SPEX: “Live At The Roxy Club” in 1977! I have no idea if this is colored vinyl or what.

This week Pepperoni chose brat

“Bumpin’ that”

We just installed fans to keep all you weirdos and baddies cool at shows.

This Friday’s new releases!
– GRATEFUL DEAD reissues of 2 of their studio albums “Shakedown Street” and “Go To Heaven” both on sea blue vinyl. After this we are done listening to the Grateful Dead in the store because me and Jeff are sick of it!
– LINKIN PARK with a white/gold/red splattery pressing of their 2003 hit album “Meteora” and also a colored vinyl 10 year anniversary pressing of “The Hunting Party”
– MARIAH CAREY with the double LP greatest hits compilation “#1’s” on silver vinyl with some bonus tracks!
– 1990 Industrial album from SKINNY PUPPY “Too Dark Park” getting a 140 gram black vinyl re-issue.
– And TALKING HEADS with a repress of the “Stop Making Sense” deluxe double LP vinyl that we had a hard time getting ahold of last year around the time “Stop Making Sense” was playing in theaters.

Pepperoni picked the Vampire Weekend Contra album this week

“This week, I pick… Vampire Weekend’s second studio album released in 2010, “Contra”. It’s more of that feel good indie pop music that blends plenty of other genres. Favorite track for me would have to be “Holiday” (I am telling you, it’s a really good ska song). Also hey, their new album that came out this year is also really good and we should have a few copies in stock still?”

Tonight we have a hardcore show featuring Spit My Rage and Grimoire from Texas, and locals Fatal Dose, Reject Modernity, and Change of Heart

Also this Saturday is our next Drag Show!

So far the Smashing Pumpkins haven’t given us tickets to their show despite us selling their albums all the time. But do feel free to hang out with us for the free performance of Marshall Tucker Band at the State Fair on August 13th!

Tonight! we have a show featuring Chicago CYBERGRIND band Blind Equation, also Houston CYBERGRIND CPU Buddha, twin cities straight-edge band Bejalvin, and local hardcore bands Subversion and Bruxism

Here are the Friday Releases!
– GLASS ANIMALS with their 4th studio album “I Love You So F***ing Much” – note: we mostly just got the black vinyl version of this one because the indie exclusive variant was considerably more expensive!
– TYPE O NEGATIVE with the 30th anniversary of “Bloody Kisses” with alternative artwork!
– HOZIER with a deluxe, double-vinyl, special color variant version of their album “Wasteland, Baby!”
– SLEEP TOKEN re-pressing of “Take Me Back To Eden” on a couple of different splatter variants, one of them being gold with black splatter. everyone asks about this one.
– VINCE STAPLES the sixth studio album by American rap artist on black vinyl… hey haven’t enough artists aready done a plain black album cover??

This week Pepperoni picked N.W.A.

“This week I’m picking an all-out hip hop CLASSIC, and that is N.W.A.’s “Straight Outta Compton” from 1988. In this all-star group we’ve got members Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, MC Ren, DJ Yella, Arabian Prince and Ice Cube. This album was huge for rap music in a direction towards “gangsta rap”, and they even made a movie about it a few years ago.”

We also got some shiny new stickers recently!

This Saturday we got a good ol rock show for you featuring Zuzus Petals from Kansas, local rockers The Local Drags, and local folk punk from Yardwaste. Unfortunately the Pets went to live on a bright beautiful farm and will not be playing this show.

New This Friday!
– PHISH with their 16th studio album “Evolve” on very pretty colored vinyl.
– BILLY STRINGS has a “Live, Volume I” double LP coming! We might have some of that exclusive blue vinyl, but the black was a few dollars cheaper in this case so we will have that as well.
– The third album by singer song-writer CLAIRO called “Charm” looks like is out on light purple vinyl.
– CIGARETTES AFTER SEX is a “dream pop” band and this is their third album, “X”. There are a couple of different variations, including a deluxe version.
– Love that Blue Note Tone Poet series and this week we have ordered a few of LEE MORGAN’s album “The Sidewinder” originally released in 1963.
– CIRCA SURVIVE (are they some type of emo band?) with a fancy very colorful splatter re-issue of their 2010 album “Blue Sky Noise.”

This week Pepperoni has picked the Twilight Soundtrack

“Meow! You know what our #1 selling record here at Dumb Records was last month? It was the newly re-issued Twilight Soundtrack! The film was originally released in 2008, and the teens today still agree – they all want to be vampires and fight each other in teams like in this movie! Edward and Jacob fan’s, we have the soundtrack for you right here at Dumb Records! Also find the link to buy it from us online in the comments!”

We have a pinball named Dale now

This Friday’s new releases!
– JOHNNY CASH “Songwriter” – believe it or not this is actually an album of previously unreleased material Johnny Cash recorded in 1993 in Nashville.
– NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS new album “South Of Here”, we should have on exclusive green and regular black vinyl.
– Hip hop artist LUPE FIASCO’s 9th studio album “Samurai”
– IMAGINE DRAGONS are here with a new EP of some sort called “Loom” and there are a couple of different variations with vinyl color ways and alternate artwork we are getting
– SPECIALS “More Specials” is getting re-issued from this 2nd wave British ska group, originally released in 1980.
– NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE “Early Daze” – a collection of rare and unreleased studio recordings from 1969 from this legendary group.
– LORD HURON “Strange Trails” – a reissue of this 2015 indie folk album on clear blue vinyl.
– CAMILA CABELLO “C, XOXO” the fourth studio album from singer songwriter, blue raspberry flavor.

This week Pepperoni chose RUSH

“It’s about time that I made a move on picking a RUSH album as a pick of the week! Any band that has their own pinball machine deserves a Pepperoni pick. This is their second album “Fly By Night”. I tell you what, it is harder and harder to come across this album used (original copies go for a lot), so I have decided it is time to stock up on the newer copies.”

Yesterday was surreal. A building the next street over from us suffered a major fire and total loss of the building. Nobody was hurt but multiple businesses are affected. The spaces for the Cat’s Pyjamas, Electric Quill Tattoos, Elf Shelf, and the Moving Pillsbury Forward exhibit are gone. It sounds like the parking garage next door with offices and apartments is also heavily damaged. Other businesses next door are also impacted. It is unknown right now how much Cafe Moxo is affected as it sounds like they may have suffered damage. I just ate there the day before, one of my favorite downtown restaurants. Also the Wakery and Daisy Janes is reporting not opening today.

We always feel the more businesses downtown the better. The more there is to do, then more people are going to come check things out. This will certainly set all of this progress back. It’s a scary reminder how important fire safety is and how possible this could be us.

Here are this Friday’s releases:

– 24 year old indie pop singer GRACIE ABRAMS with her sophomore release “The Secret Of Us” available on indie exclusive and black vinyl.
– A 50th anniversary / remastering of GRATEFUL DEAD’s live album “From The Mars Motel”
– A ton of new re-issues from 2000’s pop punk queen AVRIL LAVIGNE – the ones we chose to stock up the most on are “Under My Skin” and “Let Go”.
– A few people have been asking about “PETTY COUNTRY” an all-country artist tribute double-album all of Tom Petty covers. Should be here on black and indie exclusive vinyl.

This week Pepperoni picked the Dead Kennedys

“Certified classic. Essential 1980 California punk. It’s fun, it’s political, it’s surfy, even scary, it’s got guitar solos. The singer sounds like Daffy Duck if I close my eyes.”

Sometime in the next couple weeks or so we’re bringing something big to the Dumb Records Arcade!

This week we went on a business trip to the Chicago suburbs. We picked up 2 pinball machines and visited the Volo Museum to see our favorite band, The Rock-afire Explosion!

Speaking of bands, here are some playing our place on Friday! We have punk band Kids from St Louis and local psych metal Acid Fog, folk punkers Yardwaste, and solo artist Whitney Divine.

Here are this Friday’s new releases!

– TWILIGHT SOUNDTRACKS. For the first one and “New Moon” (is that the second movie?). Looks like silver and gold exclusive vinyl.
– DAVID BOWIE with “Rock N’ Roll Star” – alternate mixes from the Ziggy Stardust sessions, on black vinyl.
– A new album from THE DECEMBERISTS called “And So It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again” we should have indie exclusive vinyl.
– Re-issue of Seal’s 1991 self-titled album (featuring Kiss From A Rose), on double black LP.

This week Pepperoni has picked Diamond Dogs

“It’s about time we had another David Bowie pick around here. This was Bowie’s 8th studio album “Diamond Dogs” released 50 years ago in 1974. You may recognize the glam-rock hit “Rebel Rebel” which was the first single off this album. Something, something, something “Diamond Cats” haha ha ha?”

Oh and we had another new billboard go up recently with a completely different design.

Last Friday we all went to Robin Roberts stadium to see the Springfield Lucky Horseshoes take on the Normal Cornbelters. And I’d say they belted us pretty good at 14-0. It was also Star Wars night so they were handing out lightsabres! Plus we saw some really great Stars Wars characters walking around during the game. It seems the Horseshoes are off to a bad start this year but the games are still fun to attend!

Here are your Friday releases this week!
– The 7th album from PEDRO THE LION “Santa Cruz” out on exclusive green vinyl… this guy played at Jeff’s house once.
– THE CURE compilation album “Japanese Whispers” being re-issued on a double LP!
– A number of reissues from country artist DWIGHT YOAKAM which had been extremely hard to come by before now, we chose to stock up on and highlight “Hillbilly Deluxe”
– It had already gotten pushed back, but BAD BUNNY & THE WEEKEND with a really long album title that looks like a western soundtrack.
– Big release for “CHARLI XCX” with her new album “Brat” which features really pixelated artwork on purpose because it’s a vibe, on exclusive pink splatter vinyl

This week Pepperoni picked this Greta album.

“My pick this week is the 2018 debut album from Michigan rock group Greta Van Fleet, “Anthem Of The Peaceful Army”. Hey wait a minute this kid sounds just like Led Zeppelin?? Who does he think he is!? Anyways, I wanted to be stocked up on this album so that we will be ready for the next time this band goes viral on Tik Tok.”

Saturday we’re hosting this loud hardcore show featuring Dry Socket from Portland OR, Blight Future from St Louis, and local loud bands Payasa, Propoganda, and Worldview.

Kind of a quieter weekend coming up after the holiday weekend last week and another hardcore show last Tuesday. Tonight is the first Levitt show, which is only a block away from our store and best of all it’s free.

The Springfield Lucky Horseshoes have started their season and have racked up 2 losses so far. That means they have to play our song! Everytime they lose a game this season they all have to come in and buy a record from us. Some of us plan to attend the game this Friday night, which also happens to be Star Wars night.

Here are your Friday releases this week:
– ATEEZ with “Golden Hour Part 1” (this is K-POP just so you know)… black ice vinyl
– R.E.M.’s third studio album “Fables of the Reconstruction” originally released in 1985
– JOAN JETT with a greatest hits album spanning her career (on black vinyl).
– MAYA HAWKE (actress and musician) with her third (?) full length album, the picture shown is red vinyl but I can’t tell what kind exactly we have coming in, sorry.
– WILLIE NELSON, age 91 years old is here with his 75th studio album, “The Border”
– JOHN MORELAND country artist who played the first LEVITT AMP Springfield series back in 2019, here with a new album “Visitor”

This week Pepperoni has picked another Dead album

“Good morning music fan’s! This one is for all of you dirty old hippies. This week I am picking The Grateful Dead’s twelfth studio album “In The Dark”. It is a must-have for any Grateful Dead collector because it features their only good song that they have – “Touch Of Grey”! You know you all love it. Sometimes I like to put on my jogging shorts and grab my cassette walkman and listen to that song while I jog in Washington Park. Come on, sing along with me! IIiiiii willlll get by, I wiiiiiillll get by, I willll get byyyyeyyeyyeyyeyeyyyy, I will survive!