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Wow, He was on Fire This Whole Time??

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Boy do we have a packed week! Hardcore show tonight (Wednesday). Then Thursday we have the Laufey Midnight Release Party, and on Friday we have a rock ‘n roll show booked by Lovelorn. All of these events happening at our downtown location.

Here are the new releases coming out this Friday!
– LAUFEY (pronounced “Lay-vay”) with her third studio album “A Matter Of Time”. We are having a midnight release party for this one the night before!
– TYLER THE CREATOR with a long awaited re-issue of his 2015 album “Cherry Bomb” – two different front cover variants for this one!
– DEFTONES here with their tenth studio album “Private Music!” There are two different variants for this one as well – one with a pink cover and one with green.
– MAC DEMARCO has a new album out just called “Guitar” and we will have copies! Indie exclusive orange vinyl variant.
– JON BATISTE with his sixth studio album “Big Money”
– THE SMASHING PUMPKINS with a re-issue of their 2000 album “Machina” out on double black 180g vinyl.
(also being released but not pictured):
– TEYANA TAYLOR “Escape Room”
– a re-issue of BILLY JOEL “Greatest Hits Volume I & II”

This week Pepperoni picked the Doors

“It’s back to school season. The weather is getting a tad cooler, tourist season is ending downtown and things are slowing down a little bit. So why not I pick a record that has a track “Summer’s Almost Gone” for us all to cry to. That’s The Doors 1968 album “Waiting For The Sun.” Can you believe I haven’t picked a Doors album yet? This one kicks off with the pulsating hit, “Hello, I Love You.” This was also the band’s only album to hit the top of the billboard charts! Enjoy!”

photo by Jordan Minder Photography

Goth night last friday was a huge success! Lots of people dressed up, came out, danced, and we all had a good time.

Just a gentle, soothing reminder to keep an eye on our Upcoming Shows for all the shows, release parties and other events we have coming up! Besides 1 million hardcore shows, we have some cool stuff coming up like the Twenty One Pilots and Sabrina Carpenter release parties and our next Illinois Vintage Fair.

Like Hot Beef Oil Dripping From The Ceiling

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This Friday we’re one of the lucky stores hosting the Official TurnStile Release Party! This will be happening at our Mall store at 6pm! We’ll have a big stack of posters to hand out, some add-ons if you purchase the album. We’ll have plenty of copies of the record for sale as some CDs and a tape!

Here’s a look at all the records new this Friday!
– TURNSTILE out with their followup to their 2021 album “Glow On”, this is “Never Enough” and we will have the purply vinyl and of course we are having a big release party at our mall location on Friday 6:00pm!
– MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE “Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge” is hitting it’s 20 year anniversary, and we will have the special edition being pressed with alternative cover art on bloody red vinyl or something!\
– LIL WAYNE with his sixth Carter album, “Tha Carter VI” ! We will have vinyl.
– Alternative / folk band from Ohio called CAAMP with their album “Copper Changes Color”
– THE RED CLAY STRAYS have a double LP live album, “Live At The Ryman” out on red vinyl!
– There was a re-issue of Primus’s FRIZZLE FRY we were supposed to get a month or so ago that got pushed back to this week!

This week Pep picked Hozier

“Hozier favorite record store cat??? Me, Pepperoni?!? This week I am back with Hozier’s self-titled album as my pick! This album just hit its 10th anniversary too – released in 2014, a deluxe version recently dropped, but this is the original. Hozier is an Irish musician with quite the voice. The stand out vocal performance makes Hozier special, but it also blends genres of Americana, soul, R&B, pop, etc. He sings the song about taking him to church, which is actually on this album!”

Here’s our next show, coming up on Sunday!

The String Cheese Accident

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Here’s your latest update on us fumbling celebrity musician guests. Last weekend Kyle Hollingsworth of the String Cheese Incident visited our store with his family. Unfortunately he was playing in the arcade without paying so was ushered out by our founding owner without knowing who he was. So this time we don’t even have an employee to blame. At least he posted this cool photo of our brat elephant, thanks Kyle! If you want to visit us again, we’ll try our best to not suck.

This Friday’s new vinyl drop!
– New mixtape from DENZEL CURRY – “King Of The Mischievous South, Vol. 2” on regular black and exclusive violet vinyl.
– The fifth album from American country artist LUKE COMBS, “Fathers & Sons” on exclusive white vinyl.
– The 18th studio album from Australian rock group NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS called “Wild God” there were a bunch of different color options for this one and we got like one of each.
– Re-issue of punk band DEAD MOON’s 2004 album “Dead Ahead” (on black vinyl)
– Re-issue of 2018 studio album from tour-cancelling Jack Black silly band TENACIOUS D, “Post-Apocalypto”
– 30th anniversary of recently re-united duo of brothers that don’t like each other OASIS album “Definitely Maybe” on double pink splattery vinyl and the whole works

Tonight, we have a show that’s kinda mixed genre with a little black metal and emo sprinkled in but still basically another loud kung fu pit thing featuring Sign Language from Cincinnati, Broken Vow from New England, Rejoice from Ohio, Montclaire from CT, and local support Subversion

Thursday night we have another show which changes things up, a mostly solo artist show featuring indie folk americana artists Doby Watson and Teri Quinn along with local artists Ricki Marvel, Jess Knight of Looming, and folk punk band Yardwaste.

This week Pepperoni has picked Fearless

“It’s been a minute – join me once again as we continue our journey down Taylor Swift’s discography through my pick’s of the week (we are nearing completing all of her albums, don’t worry). This week’s pick is Taylor’s 2008 album “Fearless” – more specifically the “Platinum Edition” of the album that was originally released on CD and DVD with the 6 additional bonus tracks that came out in 2009. Now we all know that Taylor’s version of this album came out in 2021 and it was the first of her re-release “Taylor’s Version” series. Taylor’s version first and foremost of course, but this one is for all of the completists out there that need that Platinum Edition on vinyl. It’s even still got the link to her myspace page on the back cover. Did you know Taylor was just 18 years old when this album was released?”

Completely Out of Toilet Paper

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This Friday we can finally come up for air after being drowned in unending hardcore shows. An actual mixed bill show with no hardcore bands in sight! That means none of those kids will be here so you can actually stretch out in the venue and just soak in the riffs.

This show will feature brand new Glenwood HS metal band Martyr, Peoria indie rock The Blank Stairs (sorry Brain misspelled your name on the flier), Indianapolis psych-rock Cairo Jag, and local rockers Crash Planet

New vinyl releases this Friday!

– CAGE THE ELEPHANT with their sixth studio album, “Neon Pill” going to be available on black and indie exclusive milky vinyl.
– BILLIE EILISH is here with a NEW album, “Hit Me Hard And Soft” on exclusive blue vinyl.
– A re-issue of BEN FOLDS FIVE 1997 album “Whatever And Ever Amen” (black vinyl)
– Wow! Compilation “NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL K-POP” (this is great because a lot of K-pop artists we are not able to get on vinyl)
– SLASH of Guns N Roses fame is here with a new album “Orgy Of The Damned”
– Aaaaand a new album from AVETT BROTHERS – their self-titled? Available black and exclusive light blue.

We will also have copies of the last SHELLAC album which features the late Steve Albini

This week Pepperoni has picked SZA

“My pick this week is R&B / neo soul singer SZA’s 2017 debut album “Ctrl.” (Feels like a very new album still, but it was 7 whole years ago)! Still, one of the best selling albums to come out in the last decade, this double LP is also in the Rolling Stone’s top 500 albums and was also nominated for four Grammys! With features from artists Travis Scott, Kendrick Lamar, and more.”

Saturday is gonna be a big day for downtown with Springfield Pridefest, The Famer’s Market, and the Old Capital Art Fair all going on at the same time. Then Saturday night we’re back to the same ol hardcore. For this show we have SPY and Jivebomb from Baltimore, Destiny Bond from Denver, and locals Shroud and Sock ‘Em. I guess this one is a little more notable since it costs $20. Good luck to all the bands.

John Denver with his SHIRT OFF???

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Well hello there, just another week with your ol’ pal Dumb Records. We’re up to our ears with hardcore shows as usual and Steve Albini died. Levitt just announced their new summer lineup of free shows happening every Thursday this summer just a block away from us out on the big lawn, and we just got a huge restock on our turntables, CD players, and whatnots. We’re making some small overdue updates to our PA system. Oh and Stern Pinball just announced their newest title John Wick, which we probably won’t be getting. We also might have just moved in a new arcade machine.

Pepperoni has gone and picked Bloody Sabbath this week

“What’s up, I have to say a special welcome to all of the Deftones fans out there that are new followers to our page, I have no idea why my Deftones pick last week went so viral but I guess there’s a lot of you Deftones fans out there. Have any of you heard of a band called Black Sabbath? I’ve picked close to all of their albums at this point! (The ones with Ozzy anyways, should I pick the others???) This was their 5th studio album “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath” originally released in 1973. This is actually the 50th anniversary edition pressed on clear vinyl with black smoke that we have in stock. The title track was a hit, but I love this whole album, especially how weird and synthy they get on “Who Are You?” A must have for any fans of the band or early hard rock or metal!”

Sorry for the cropped pic, here are the new releases coming out Friday May 10th!

– A new album from RAINBOW KITTEN SURPRISE, their fourth studio album called “Love Hate Music Box” out on black and clear vinyl (sorry the picture looks blue)
– the third full length album from American hardcore band KNOCKED LOOSE, “You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To” available on black and “indie exclusive” vinyl (we are not sure what color of indie exclusive we are getting)
– We have a 10th anniversary edition of STURGILL SIMPSON’s “Metamodern Sounds In Country Music” just black vinyl with new artwork.
– ALKALINE TRIO’s 2001 album “From Here To Infirmary” out on red and black splatter vinyl.
– KINGS OF LEON with their ninth studio album “Can We Please Have Fun”
– YELLOWCARD with “Ocean Avenue Acoustic” on “orange inside of yellow” vinyl.

Gosh it’s time for May shows already?? This Friday we have Indiana hardcore bands D.R.L.N. and Velocity, supported by local hardcore bands Innervision and Adieux. Also first show for new local hardcore band Worldview (these things just keep breeding I guess).

Then Saturday night we have a completely different lineup of hardcore bands DEMSFIGHTINWORDS from Chicago, PREMEDETATED from Quebec??, Come Correct from Ohio, Reaver from Alton and local band Keep.

It’s been a while since I’ve TICKLED MY IVORIES

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We were pleasantly surprised this week when I happened to flip open the most recent Springfield Tourist guide and found our picture in it really big! Wow was not expecting that! You know sometimes we forget just how hardcore our town is, we do have Lincoln’s actual body after all.

We’ve got a whole MESS of releases coming out this Friday to highlight!
– Jazz saxophonist KAMASI WASHINGTON is out with a double album called “Fearless Movement” on red and blue vinyl.
– Dance-pop artist DUA LIPA with her third studio album “Radial Optimism”
– Folk singer-songwriter FRANK TURNER with his tenth studio album “Undefeated”
– A re-issue of the 2021 EP “Typical of Me” by LAUFEY
– GREEN DAY’s 2000 album “Warning” is being re-issued on green vinyl!
– CAMERA OBSCURA’s first new album in nine years, “Look To The East, Look To The West”
– The Vitamin String Quartet plays the music of Taylor Swift! On exclusive blue swirly vinyl! (Fingers crossed we get this one in)
– The Lemon Twigs “A Dream Is All We Know” – truly beautiful music, available on black vinyl.
– Not pictured: Melanie Martinez’s “K-12” is getting a re-issue and we should have a few copies.

This week Pepperoni has picked this DEFTONES album

“Alright, I am finally picking an album by DEFTONES, this is a band that people ask if we have all of the time so I hope all of you Deftones fans are happy now. Most of these are the 20th anniversary pressing on transparent red vinyl. (This is their self-titled album from 2003). No it’s not the album with the girl on it, it’s the record with the skull on it. What are Deftones anyways, are they like nümetal or more like hard rock?”

This Friday we have another loud kung fu show with California hardcore bands Ceramik and Bare Minimum, and local hardcores Prevention, Volition, and Propaganda

You’re invited to Walk in the Parade With Us Saturday

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2 hardcore shows are happening at our place this week plus we’re taking the elephant out to the St. Patrick’s day parade Saturday. We welcome all you St. Patricks Day Tourists who come in for your annual trip downtown to ask us if records are still around while you spill your drinks on them.

Thursday we have a hardcore show featuring Surfaced from Louisville, Out 4 Blood from Minneapolis, Blistered Spirit from St Louis and locals Subversion and Javelin.

Then on Saturday we have this other hardcore show featuring Gnaw from Missouri, Security Footage from Missouri, plus locals Prevention, War and Rumor, and Bruxism. Side note when I was at the downtown retailer meeting, they were asking if any of the stores were holding events. I think they were talking about sidewalk sales and wine tastings so I didn’t say anything.

On to Vinyl Release Friday!

– NOAH KAHAN with the “Cape Elizabeth EP”! This was a Record Store Day release for Black Friday this past year and in high demand. Well it’s back, baby.
– CAKE “Pressure Chief” – Cake re-issues been going down their discography and we are to their 5th album released in 2004
– KACEY MUSGRAVES with her 6th studio album “Deeper Well”
– BLACK CROWES have a new album “Happiness Bastards”
– A reissue of Sum 41’s 2019 album “Order In Decline”
– JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE has a brand new album “Everything I Thought It Was”

This week Pepperoni has picked Noah Kahan’s “Stick Season”

“This week I’ve picked an artist that sure has blown the heck up recently… Noah Kahan. With his album from last year, “Stick Season”. We had it when it came out, but around Christmas time everyone wanted it and it was out of print for a while, but now it’s back. Jeff says this guy just sounds like Mumford & Sons. His second album is also being released for Record Store Day and I can say that it’s what we ordered the most copies of.”