Happy new year from those of us at Black Sheep and Southtown headquarters! With the new year we are going to be trying some new things, as we enter 2015 (year of the sheep) and approach the ten year mark for Black Sheep as an all ages venue.

This is not something that Black Sheep or Dumb Records normally gets the opportunity to do, but on Thursday, January 15th at Melt (Bar/Grill/Cafe) in St. Louis Dumb Records will be taking part in a Dumb Records Showcase show. The show will feature a couple of Springfield bands (right now including Soap Scum and SAP) as well as St. Louis local Maximum Effort. You can stream some of Maximum Effort’s music below. Dumb Records will also have a distro set up at this show and all door money will be going towards the out of town bands and our record store.

***UPDATE: Diaper Rash (Springfield) and Nos Bos (St. Louis) have also recently been added to the show.

The event will start at 9:00 pm at Melt in St. Louis (2712 Cherokee Street). Admission is $5-7 for our cause. You can find a facebook event for the show right here. Dumb Records will also be having its one year anniversary show at Black Sheep on Saturday, January 10th. More info on that can be found right here.