Tonight at Dumb Records: Rockford, The Telephone Junkies, Sorry Charlie

Posted on August 9, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

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Good morning everyone and welcome to the weekend!! We have two shows going on both tonight and tomorrow night. Tonight is a solid three band show that you won’t want to miss, and tomorrow night is the second hip hop show we have put on at our new space downtown. Tonight is special because it is going to be the last ever show for local band Rockford! The last time Rockford played was the final final last ever Black Sheep show back in December. This will be their first time performing at our new space and their last show before some of them depart off to college and different cities into the big world. Good luck to all of them. Stream their music one last time on the player below. Also playing this show is Rockford’s long time friends The Telephone Junkies. And opening things up we have the return of another band we have not seen in quite a minute – Sorry Charlie!

All of this starts at 7:00 pm that night and admission is $5. Check out a facebook event for this one right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page to see what else is coming up in the near future at our space.

WQNA FM Community Radio Ending After 40 Years

Posted on August 8, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

It is with great sadness that tonight we are letting you know that our community radio station 88.3 WQNA FM and home to The Black Sheep Radio Show / Dumb Records Radio Show is coming to an end. WQNA has been on the airwaves in Springfield for forty years coming up this month since 1979. We have been lucky enough to host our own Dumb Records / Black Sheep Radio Show out of the station for the past six and a half of those years.

There is an article in The State-Journal Register that was posted online today and will be in tomorrow’s print version – “Career Center Confirms WQNA Is Up For Sale.” After dwindling to absolutely no student interest in TV and radio in recent years, the Capitol Area Career Center which houses the station’s base and supplies most of the funding to keep things going was left with a tough choice to no longer continue housing the station and putting it up for sale. From the article:

“When you’re serving zero students, you can’t justify pouring $30,000-$40,000 into the station,” Ferriell said. “It’s not a decision that we’ve taken lightly. It was a difficult decision. It’s a great station.”

This does mean that our weekly radio show on Fridays from 4:00 to 6:00 pm on the airwaves as we know it will be soon coming to an end, as well as a great number of other local weekly programs featured on the station of all different genres.

Some WQNA DJs will be getting together for a meeting soon to discuss any options of any type of contingency, or the possibilities of online streaming or podcast-type shows for the future. We are open to hearing these options out for The Dumb Records Radio Show, but are uncertain as to what the future holds for us right now. We have been recording more recent episodes of our radio program and have a few of them streaming on Mix Cloud.

A definite end date to the station is uncertain now, at this point any episode of our radio program could be our last.

Music Videos: Wasted Talent – “Wasted Creativity”

Posted on August 8, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

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Today we bring you a fresh new local music video by hip hop group “Wasted Talent” for their song “Wasted Creativity”. The video was shot by Jayy Wills Entertainment in a few places in town that look a little too familiar. Check out the video streaming below, or on Youtube right here. Wasted Talent doesn’t have any live shows lined up that we know of.

Check out our vids/pics page for a list of music videos shot in town over the years.

September 4th at Dumb Records: ????, Teenage Bigfoot, Starter Jackets, Bottom Bracket

Posted on August 8, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

Happy Thursday to all of you out there following what we do here at The Bread Factory / Dumb Records. Sorry we are all over the place with website posts lately. Today we are telling you about a show coming up in a little less than a month and our first one being announced for September. Fun! This is a weird one because there is a band on the bill that we can not officially announce yet, but we CAN tell you that it is a band that’s coming from overseas. That’s exiting, right? Don’t worry, it will be good. That band is touring with another band from Philadelphia called Teenage Bigfoot that we can tell you about. In fact, you can even stream their music on the player below. This show will be joined by local support from local favorite solid group Starter Jackets, and also solid solid group Bottom Bracket.

All of this starts at 7:00 pm and admission will be $10. Check out a facebook event for this show right here. Also check out our shows page for a look at everything else coming up at our show space downtown.

Vincent Sebastian on Activator Magazine Video Feature

Posted on August 7, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

Today we bring you the second Activator Magazine video feature they have done, we are really digging these! The video was put together by Crowdson Creative, who also did the last featured Activator video and interview which was shot partially in our space for the band Blushe. This time around the featured artist is Vincent Sebastian and his backing band, who just put out the album Interference earlier this summer. The video features clips of Vincent Sebastian performing a couple of songs and also sitting down and doing an interview. You can check all of that out on the video below, or also on the Activator facebook page. Vincent Sebastian is featured in another print interview inside this month’s latest issue which is now available for free inside of Dumb Records and other varios locations.

CompositionC: “Back To The Beginning”

Posted on August 7, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

Today we bring you yet another brand new local album from another up and coming Springfield artist going by “CompositionC” aka Taylor Roberts. The new album is called Back To The Beginning which Taylor says he has been working hard on for a number of years. Check that out all on Youtube right here, also a number of other streaming sites which are all listed out right here. We also have a Youtube player embedded below. Taylor also had a release party at the new HISO Music Event Hall late last month for the album, where he gave out cards which included limited coupons for discounts at our record store! Wow!

Keep your eyes and ears peeled for CompositionC performing in the near future. Yes, this one is being added to our Springfield Album Archive for this year, bringing us to a count of 32 releases this year and

Prince Cash: “Menace Of Society”

Posted on August 6, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

Here we are bringing you some more new local music in the form of this release from Jacksonville-based hip hop artist “Prince Cash“. You can find Price Cash’s new eight-song album Menace To Society streaming on the Soundcloud player below. The album was released earlier this summer. You can also find it streaming on Youtube right here.

Prince Cash doesn’t have any live shows lined up as far as we can tell. We might be wrong though. We are also adding this release to this year for our Springfield album archive, bringing us to 31 releases this year and 457 releases total (surely there are many more that we need to catch up on).

New Arrivals This Week at Dumb Records

Posted on August 6, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

Good afternoon, it’s Tuesday. Did we miss the tornado drill today?? Did anybody hear it?? What happened?? Anyways, here we are today with another fresh batch of used LPs, 12″ singles, and new CDs. We hope you enjoy. Yes, our store is open every single day 10am to 8pm at 418 E Monroe Street downtown. We’ve got two shows this weekend on Friday and Saturday. Let’s take a look at what we’ve got lined up 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: 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Sunday: 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Monday: 10:00 am – 8:00 pm

Used LPs
Andre Previn – Give My Regards To Broadway
The Beach Boys – 15 Big Ones
The Beach Boys – Best of the Beach Boys Vol. 1
The Bee Gees – E.S.P.
Bobby Bare – Cowboys And Daddys
Deep Purple – Deepest Purple: The Best Of
Donny & Marie – Winning Combination
Dottie West – House of Love
Fishbone – In Your Face
Glenn Frey – The Allnighter
Gordon Jenkins – Manhattan Tower / California
Hermin’s Hermits – On Tour
Johnny Horton – Johnny Horton’s Greatest Hits
Johnny Teupen – Goldene Harfenklange
K-Tel Records – Gold Rush ‘79
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin
LeRoy Van Dyke – Greatest Hits
Maston Williams – The Mason Williams Listening Matter
Mary Hopkin – Post Card
Moe Bandy – Soft Lights And Hard Country Music
The Monkees – Monkeeshines
Monty Python – Live! At City Center
Nice & Smooth – Jewel Of The Nile
The Night Pastor And Seven Friends – Play Chicago Jazz
Nonchalant – Take It There
Norman Lee – As We Are
The Oscar Peterson Trio – Plays
The Osmonds – Greatest Hits
Phineas Newborn – Phineas’ Rainbow
Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade Of Pale
Procol Harum – Procol’s Ninth
Ramsey Lewis – The Best of Ramsey Lewis
Queen – Live Killers
Roger Miller – The One And Only
Slade – Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply
Sparks – Big Beat
Tennessee Ernie Ford – Everything Is Beautiful
Three Dog Knight – It Ain’t Easy
Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper – Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper

12” Singles
Amari – Callin’ Remix
Brand Nubian – Let’s Dance
The Click – Say Dat Den
Ja Rule – I Cry / Rule Won’t Die
Purple City – Purple City Byrdgang
Queen Latifah – Bananas
Raze – Livin’ It / Bosses
Red Dragon / Beenie Man – We Run Things / Dungle Boogie
Rhymefest – Stick
RUN-D.M.C. – What’s It All About
Snoop Dogg – Snoop Dogg / Backup Ho
Too $hort – I’m A Player
WC – Flirt / Throw Ya Hood Up

New CDs
Al Jolson – The Very Best Of: 20 Greatest Hits
Andy Williams – Lonely Street
Andy Williams – Super Hits
Belafonte – At Carnegie Hall
Benny Goodman – The Best Of
Craig Chaquico – Panorama
David Arkenstone – Return of the Guardians
David Arkenstone – In The Wake Of The Storm
Dean Evenson – Healing Sanctuary
Duke Ellington – Ken Burns Jazz
Duke Ellington – The Essential Collection 1927-1962
The Everly Brothers – Highlights: The Reunion Concert
The Everly Brothers – Wake Up Little Suzie And Other Hits
Harry Belafonte – All Time Greatest Vol. I
Johnny Ray – 16 Most Requested Songs
Johnny Rivers – Greatest Hits
Karunesh – Zen Breakfast
The Kingsmen – The Best of the Kingsmen
Kitaro – Ancient
Kitaro – Thinking Of You
Miles Davis – E.S.P.
Miles Davis – Quiet Nights
Neil Sedaka – The Hungry Years
Neil Sedaka – Tuneweaver
Out of Phase – Dark Side of the Moon 2001
Perry Como – Greatest Hits
Perry Como – With The Fontane Sisters
The Phill Collins Big Band – A Hot Night In Paris
Pink Floyd – A Momentary Lapse of Reason
Pink Floyd – Meddle
The Righteous Brothers – Unchained Melody
The Righteous Brothers – Reunion
Tangerine Dream – Oasis
Tangerine Dream – Atlantic Walls
Yes – Big Generator
Yes – Highlights – The Very Best of Yes

Master Bastard: “Drinking With Children”

Posted on August 5, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

A couple of weekends ago now we held CD release shows for two local artists in our space as part of Downhome Music Festival aftershows. One was for Dexter Anodyne, and the other for local band Master Bastard and their album Drinking With Children. Drinking With Children is now available streaming on a few different platforms, unfortunately not any that we are able to embed below. You can check out the album streaming on Spotify right here. Something called “iHeartRadio” right here? (Looks like you need to set up an account for that one too). Amazon.com has it (only 30 clips of the songs though and you have to buy the full mp3s) right here. The same goes with the album on Apple Music right here. We think it’s on “Google Play” too but don’t know how to link to it on that.

We have the album listed on our Springfield album archive page for this year right here. Master Bastard do not have any other shows lined up at our space as of yet. Keep an eye out!

New Band Pages: Black Box

Posted on August 5, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

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It’s Monday! Welcome to a brand new week. Here we are bringing you yet another new Springfield band page for a brand new band. That band is “Black Box” and they are so brand brand new that they have only played three shows and don’t have recordings up yet. You can check out their new page right here where you can find out more about the band, and see a long list of related projects that more than likely is not complete. Black Box does not have any shows currently lined up at our space, but keep an eye out!

The current active band count for band pages we have on our site right now is 43! Yes, there are plenty of bands we don’t have pages for, and a few on that page that are inactive that we need to update. But check those all out right here. Do you play in a local band that has not gotten a page set up with us yet? Get in touch with us at dumbrecs@gmail.com and we will work with you to get something set up!