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You Don’t Know About Moondog???

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Starting to feel like we’re getting back into the swing of things this year with all the holidays behind us, the snow and frigid temperatures, and Brian going on a honey moon. I guess we do have a big hole in front of our store.

Let’s take a look at what Friday releases are ahead of us this week!

– THE WEEKND new album “Hurry Up Tomorrow” – his 6th studio album – just on black vinyl but it’s really cheap, like $19.98!?!? That’s almost unheard of for a new record now! This is a “secured release” so the big label is making sure we do not get it until some point during the day Friday so bear with us.
– MADVILLAIN “Madvillainy Demos” – one of the best selling albums here of all time is getting its demos released!
– RUSH have their later albums being re-issued to vinyl! Two that we are highlighting here are 1989’s “Presto” and 1991’s “Roll The Bones”
– STEELY DAN’s 1975 studio album “Katy Lied” getting re-issued for it’s 50th anniversary!

This week Pep picked Alvvays

“This week I am picking Canadian indie-pop band Alvvays’ 2014 self-titled album, “Alvvays”. This is one of those times where I am not picking an album because I know it’s going to hit the #1 year end top seller, no I am picking it because I truly believe that this album is so good that it needs to be in my record store on the shelves at all times. A record that everyone who works here can 100% agree on. Anyone ever comes in and asks me to recommend them an album that they can listen to that is good, right here it is. Look no further than Alvvays self-titled from 2014, it is all you need. And it’s released by Polvyinyl Records out of Champaign!”

A Taylor Swift Signed This CD

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Boy do we have a busy and exciting week. We’re currently running a drawing for people to put in their names to win some pretty rare Taylor things such as a signed Folklore CD and a rare 12″ single, plus a cardboard standup. The winner will be announced Friday at 7.

Also this week we’ve announced a new game for our arcade, a submarine adventure called Battle Shark! It’s pretty rare to find these to play. It’s got cool lights and force feedback controls, pretty hi tech for 1989.

Here are this Friday’s hot new vinyl!

– CHAPPELL ROAN “The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess” DELUXE EDITION, on peach colored vinyl! We took many pre-orders for these – if you are one of those pre-orders look out for a text or phone call from us when your copy is ready!
– BRIGHT EYES “Five Dice, All Threes” Is this a new Bright Eyes album? It’s a new Bright Eyes album!
– Another PHISH re-issue! This time it’s their 1994 album “Hoist” on fancy color vinyl. The Phish re-issues from a couple of weeks ago were also delayed and we are hoping they show up this weekend.
– POWER TRIP and their 2017 album “Nightmare Logic” on red and black splatter vinyl.
– THE DANDY WARHOLS “Come Down” re-issue of the band’s 1997 album on bright yellow vinyl.

This week Pepperoni picked Alice In Chains

“Everyone knows the 90’s are back. Grunge is back. Jnco jeans are back. Alice In Chains is back. And this… is their 1994 EP, “Jar Of Flies”. Seven songs, and is it true this is the first ever EP to top the Billboard charts? This one’s got mostly acoustic guitar and the guy is singing in his whiny grungy voice. You got your faded jeans on at home, maybe your oversized flannel or band t-shirt on, and your hair is getting long and it’s parted down the middle and hanging a little over your eyes and you are looking up like this as your hair is hanging down and you are listening to Alice in Chains in your bedroom.”

This Friday we are hosting a show with hardcore band Strange Joy from Colorado and local hardcore bands Innervision, Worldview and Discern. Oh right Discern is not hardcore, just has all the same people in it from all the other bands.

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?”

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 Was A Record Store Day

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Record Store Day has come and gone. We had our biggest day yet. It was the most titles we’ve ever stocked and a huge line despite the cold, and the most records we’ve sold in a single day. The earliest campers got in line around 5pm Friday night. We opened at 8am and had a line at the store until sometime after 11am. We need a bigger store.

Here’s our staff photo we took the night before as we got ready for the event. These shirts were available to the first 100 people to make it in Saturday morning.

But not only was it Record Store Day, it was also the weekend of a new Taylor Swift release! This time her album came out with 4 variants available to Indie record store. The normal white cover, and then 3 variants each with a different bonus track. That Taylor is getting pretty crafty! We have helped a lot of confused parents and grandparents with figuring which one they were supposed to get! We also received the special postcards that we handed out to first few people coming in for the variants.

We’ve been very busy processing online orders and trying to get back to normal business all week and perhaps by Friday we’ll finally be there.

Diving in to those FRIDAY RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS which just happens to be TOMORROW’s releases:
– ST. VINCENT has a brand new album “All Born Screaming” – we should have copies on plain black and also exclusive red vinyl.
– IRON & WINE have a brand new album “Light Verse” available on black and also nifty clear with blue swirl vinyl.
– THE BEST OF THE WAILERS: this was a UK RSD release I believe but available here starting tomorrow, on pink vinyl.
– PET SHOP BOYS with their 15th studio album “Nonetheless” available on grey vinyl.
– LAUFEY “Bewitched: Goddess Edition” (it’s goddess edition because the vinyl is blue and it comes with a board game) (I just learned how to pronounce this artist’s name and I’m really proud of myself)
– DEF LEPPARD with the 40th anniversary of “Pyromania” there is a single LP half-speed mastering version of this and also a double-LP version with demos and live tracks.
– GLORIA COLEMAN QUARTET “Soul Sisters” (being re-issued on black vinyl as part of the Verve by-request series).

This week Pepperoni has picked MCR’s Black Parade

“What’s up nerds. I hope everyone had a good Record Store Day this weekend. I’m back in the office today pickin’ my next pick… what’s this? A picture disc? I did not mean to order the picture disc version of this record but it is what showed up in the mail so I guess we’re gonna go with it. (How do you feel about picture discs Pepperoni fan’s, yay or nay)? Anyways, this is “The Black Parade” by My Chemical Romance and some of you out there will freak out about it because it is ALL you listened to in high school in the 2000’s or 2010’s or something. You owned it on CD then, come out to Dumb Records so you can own it on picture disc now.”

Total Eclipse of the Fart

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Sorry I missed a week. I was off on a weeklong vacation with my family riding a ferris wheel into the ocean (Galveston). Also Brian got engaged on Rex Manning Day, nerd.

We got so much going on this week! Friday night this show is happening with New Mexico hardcore Bleak, Cincinnati emo shoegazers Sign Language, South Carolina hardcore Your Spirit Dies and local hardcores Pucker Up and Volition

Then on Saturday we have a local hip-hop/R&B showcase with Almost Homeless and friends, presented by Paperboy Entertainment

Wow Big Releases and re-issues Friday!

– BEYONCE: “COWBOY CARTER” You all know what it is, Beyoncé’s “Country” “Album”, we listened to the full thing and I don’t even think it’s all that country TBH, just sounds like another Beyonce album and it’s good. Physical release is tomorrow.
– SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE with the 30th anniversary release of their iconic emo album “Diary” on “pearl” vinyl
– NOAH KAHAN with some deluxe triple-LP version of his album “Stick People” pressed on “black ice” vinyl.
– Metal band DEATH have re-issues of just about all of their albums on fancy splatter vinyl, we just have their album “Human” featured here.
– GIRL IN RED with a new album “I’m Doing It Again, Baby”
– LINKIN PARK “Papercuts” a 20-track singles collection spanning the band’s career. We should be getting black and also the indie-exclusive version.

For some reason Pepperoni picked this album this week

“Here is my pick this week, this is the only KISS album you need in your collection.”

oh and Record Store Day is next week???

Yee Haw!

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Tonight! We’re hosting a rare country/folk/indie show featuring Blue County Pistol from Madison, WI, Marble Teeth from Decatur, local folk punkers Yardwaste and folk heroes Cut Flowers, all for a total of $9

Friday Releases this week!

– TYPE O NEGATIVE, their last album “Dead Again” from 2007 gets a white and black splattery re-issue.

– BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS “Trenchtown Rock” a collection of songs on yellow vinyl.
– CHASTITY BELT “Live Laugh Love” the fourth(?) album from this indie-rock four piece band.
– SERPENTWITHFEET brand new album “Grip” which is the 3rd from this singer songwriter.
– ALL TIME LOW “MTV Unplugged” originally released in 2009 out Friday on “electric blue” vinyl.

Pepperoni’s pick this week is the not-taylors-version 1989

“I know, I know, another Taylor Swift pick. This week I am picking “1989” (not Taylor’s version). You know, before this we have had SIX Taylor Swift albums in the Pepperoni’s hall-of-fame vault, this makes number SEVEN… and you know how many albums Taylor has? FIFTEEN including the four “Taylor’s Versions” that have been released so far and also her upcoming album to be released next month! You better believe I am eventually picking them all.”

In case anyone walking into our store is still not sure if we buy records, then hopefully this new banner will get the message across

And my last little treat for you this week, a new run of Pepperoni shirts has recently landed in the store, better grab one before they’re gone!

5 Pepperoni Teeth Later

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We took our elephant out last Saturday to the St patrick’s parade. Thanks to all who helped and gave out 1000 dum-dums!

This Friday we have a show featuring queer femme indie rock from Chicago PinkSqueeze, Emily the Band from Peoria and Ricki Marvel

This Week’s Friday Releases!

– the big one is this ALICE IN CHAINS “Jar Of Flies” re-issue, 140 gram LP. we should have plenty of copies.
– WHAM “Make It Big” 150 gram vinyl re-issue. (wake me up before you go go)
– WAXAHATCHEE has a brand new album out “Tigers Blood” (did you know Springfield native Brandon Carnes is a guitar tech for this group, who knew!)
– MISFITS “Collection” on glow-in-the-dark vinyl oohhhhh!
– The Cure “Paris” (live album) 30th anniversary release, expanded edition with a couple of extra tracks!
– A new solo album by Adrianne Lenker of the band Big Thief, “Bright Future”!

This week Pepperoni picked the Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack

“There are only 226 days until Halloween so what a perfect time to pick… THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW on vinyl as my pick of the week! Rocky Horror is more than just a record… it’s a movie too! And it’s more than a movie… it’s a play or something. And it’s even more than a play… it’s a way of life. Also, it has Meatloaf in it.”

Also this week Pepperoni had some teeth surgically removed and he’s doing just fine.

Congrats to Mitch on winning our Turbo arcade contest. It was a battle right to the end for 1st place, although we’re stoked for everyone who came out and put up a score.

I only listen to music ALANLOG

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Let’s take a look at THIS FRIDAY’S RELEASES… March 1st!

– MANNEQUIN P@%&SSY with their 4th studio album “I Got Heaven”, we should have the clear / black smoke indie exclusive version and normal
– PISSED JEANS with their 6th studio album “Half Divorced” one of my favorite bands out on Sub Pop
– MINISTRY, Chicago Industrial project from the 80’s are back with a new album “Hopiumforthemasses”! On green / yellow splattered vinyl!
– SHEER MAG with “Playing Favorites” after being signed to Third Man Records! Another one of my favorite current groups!
– KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD have a “Live at Bonaroo” double LP out on red and green wax!

This week Pepperoni has picked The Wall.

This is the 2016 pressing, 180g double LP (Pepperoni turned all of them around with the hype stickers on the other side because he liked the picture better)

Something fun we do every month is note all the total plays for all the pinballs and some of the video games in the arcade. Each game gets hundreds of plays. In fact our Godzilla pinball, which came new in the box 2 years ago has over 16,000 plays!

In February, Foo Fighters pinball had the highest number of plays at 631. You can find out more about what’s happening at our arcade and stuff by joining our forum.

Also if you’ve not heard, there is a new pinball in the arcade this week which has taken the spot in the lineup previously held by Judge Dredd, more info on that to come!