Monthly Archives: January 2015

SAP: “Maiden, Mother, Crone”

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Today we are bringing you a stream of SAP‘s entire 8-track release, Maiden, Mother, Crone. The three piece grunge-rock group had their cassette release show last night to a sold out crowd inside Black Sheep. A new Springfield band called WARRS also played featuring members of Loses The Mighty and Soap Scum. You can find the stream of Maiden, Mother, Crone below. The cassette is being released by local label Ooey Gooey Tapes, and you can head over here to the Ooey Gooey bandcamp page to download the full album at your own price. You can also find the physical cassette at Southtown record store Dumb Records.

SAP will be playing at Black Sheep next on Friday, February 20th (full show announcement coming very soon)!

“What-The-Heck-Fest” in Galesburg, IL March 20th-21st

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With announcements for Dumb Fest 3 (is it happening this year?) just around the corner, we want to also highlight some notable DIY music festivals happening in other parts of Central Illinois coming up this year. This one is being called “What-The-Heck-Fest” and it is happening in Galesburg, Illinois (about two hours away from Springfield). There are plenty of bands from Central Illinois playing, including Springfield’s own Bad Banshee. Check out the full lineup below:

DAY ONE: (@ Venue TBA [Probably Glory Days])
Emily Prewitt
Flesh & Phantoms
The Raw Boys
(TBA)
Jacob Kenney
Comfort
Memorial For A Dove
Oceanographers
Biggie STRDST

DAY TWO: (@ Glory Days Barber Shop in Galesburg)
Qiana Garmon
PM Buys (Peter Buys)
Werepire Day
Bad Banshee
Gas Up Yr Hearse‼ (blono ballerinacore)
The Gnar Wave Rangers (Chicago silly boyz)

You can find a facebook event for What-The-Heck-Fest and stay updated on venue and band additions right here. The festival is happening two days during Friday, March 20th and Saturday, March 21st. We also plan on keeping you updated on all of the other DIY and punk festivals happening around Central Illinois this year.

Tonight at Black Sheep: SAP, Sick Sad World, Person, The Funs, WARRS

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Tonight is sure to be a great show happening at Black Sheep- it is our only show this weekend, and it includes a cassette release from one band and a first show ever for another brand new local band. The show tonight features local band SAP– and they will be releasing their first ever cassette called Maiden, Mother, Crone. You can stream one song from that release right here. Also on this show is the band Sick Sad World from Chicago. You can find their music streaming below. Then next up is another Chicago band called Person, which features members of old Champaign bands Laughboy and Midstress. We also have a third out of town act, and that is the two-piece space fuzz band The Funs. Opening things up we have a first ever performance by a new band called WARRS, which we have been told features members of Loses The Mighty and Soap Scum.

The show tonight starts at 7:00 pm (don’t be late!). Admission is $5. You can find a facebook event for the show tonight right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page where you can take a look at everything else coming up at Black Sheep in the year 2015.

February 14th at Black Sheep: Bad Banshee, Must Build Jacuzzi, The Runner Ups

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Speaking of very special events in the year 2015, if you did not have any plans for Valentine’s Day this year- you do now! At Black Sheep this year on Saturday, February 14th (Valentine’s Day) we will be hosting a ska formal show. That’s right, a chance for you to dress up, bring a date, and dance to a bunch of ska bands. Or, go alone and wear trash bags! It doesn’t matter in 2015! On this show we have Springfield ska all-stars Bad Banshee (who won your #1 choice for best Springfield release of 2014 with their hit CD Skitter/Skitter). Also on this show is the Peoria ska-frenzy known as Must Build Jacuzzi. You can check out some of their tunes streaming below. And the third and final band on this ska-tastic lineup is The Runner Ups from Lincoln, IL and Chicago.

This show will start at 7:00 pm and cost $5. You can find a facebook event for the show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a look at everything else coming up at Black Sheep and Southtown in 2015.

January 19th at South Town Studio: Tantive IV, F///\\\M, Sargent Karate

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It looks like it is already time to announce the next studio show live at South Town Studio, and it looks like this one is happening… in four days! Surprise! This is almost like a pop quiz of a show, happening on Monday, January 19th up in the studio. Much like the last studio show, this show features three bands and attendees will receive live recordings of each of the bands’s sets along with paying for admission. This show features touring act Tantive IV coming from Indianapolis, IN. You can find some of that band’s music streaming below. This show will also feature a rare performance by one-man project F///\\\M. We also get another rare performance of “Sargent Karate (Everyone Is So Pretty)” which is the one man black metal project of Chris Yeager which came out of our first ever Band Lotto show this past summer.

The show Monday will start in the studio at 7:00 pm, and admission is $5 (attendees will also receive a live recording of all three sets). You can’t find a facebook event anywhere for this, but check out our shows page for a long list of everything coming up at Black Sheep and Southtown.

Tonight at MELT (St. Louis): Dumb Records Showcase

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Tonight not in Springfield, but the grand city of St. Louis there is a special event going on showcasing a lot of bands fresh out of the Springfield music scene. That event is the Dumb Records showcase show happening at Melt Bar & Eatery (2712 Cherokee St). Things are sure to get wild tonight in St. Louis, with a total of six bands playing this show (four from Springfield and two from St. Louis). The bands traveling from Springfield include: the very mysterious Diaper Rash, the even more mysterious Soap Scum, the indie/ghoulie indie alternative band SAP, and the high school sweet-fart punk band Panzys. What a lineup of Springfield bands! From St. Louis there will also be two bands playing. Those include Nos Bos (streaming below), and also Maximum Effort.

The show tonight will start right at 8:00 pm (remember this is at MELT in St. Louis, not at Black Sheep). Admission is $5-7 (a percentage of the door is going straight to Dumb Records) and the event is all ages. You can find a facebook event for the show right here.

February 13th at Black Sheep: Coosh*t Presents The “SuperDuperDopeDank Show”

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10869669_10202016533773673_8853608192813905223_oGet ready, because on Friday, February 13th we have another hip hop show coming up being put on by the local clothing line known around these parts as “Coosh*t.” For this Coosh*t “SuperDuperDopeDank Show” we have quite the lineup of performers. At the very top of the bill we have “Freddie Old Soul” from Chicago. Stream some of Freddie’s music on the player embedded below. Before that we have the artist “Fleetwood Jones.” And in the middle we have D.B. Cooper, founder of Coosh*t himself, who recently just came out with a hot new music video shot all around Southtown. Also on the lineup is “Dooblavey” also coming from the South Side of Chicago. Before that is an act called “Dios” and also local artist Mikey Hash, making this an all around great lineup.

This show will start at 7:00 pm and admission is “$5 dolla.” You can find a facebook event for the show right here. Be sure to also check out our shows page where you can see all of the upcoming events at Black Sheep.

 

Loses The Mighty: “What The Artist Said To The Bird”

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We are a little late on this one (the release show for this EP was late last month), but today we have a stream of the brand new Loses The Mighty EP: What The Artist Said To The Bird. The 7-track EP was recorded last year at South Town Studios and released at Black Sheep late in December. You can find the CD of this release available at Dumb Records. Stream the full thing below, or also head over to the Loses The Mighty bandcamp page where you can download the EP at your own price.

Loses The Mighty will be playing at Black Sheep next on Saturday, January 24th. That show will be with bands Come Out Fighting, Orator, Panzys, and Fifty Year Storm. They will also be playing at Black Sheep on Wednesday, February 11th along with Until We Are Ghosts, Household, Krelboyne, and Hope For Now.

New Arrivals This Week At Dumb Records

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Dumb Records is already into its second year of being a record store here in Springfield, and can you believe it? We want to again thank all of you who came out to the store or the anniversary show for Dumb Records this past weekend. The bands were great and we had a lot of fun. As the store enters its second year of being around, there are still plenty of great new arrivals coming in every week. We have that list of new arrivals for you to look at right now. Let’s go over that and also Dumb Records’s operating hours for this week:

Tuesday (today): 3:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Wednesday: 3:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Thursday: 3:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Friday: 3:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Saturday (show): 10:00 am – 9:00 pm
Sunday: 3:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Used LPs
Andre Le Bec And His Accordion – Mardi Gras
Bing Crosby – Bing And Stachmo
Boots Randolph – Yakety Sax!
The California Raisins – Sing The Hit Songs
Disney – Chilling, Thrilling Sounds Of The Haunted House
Eddy Wasilewski – Polish Party
Francois Chantal – Accordeon de Paris
Frederick Loewe – Gigi
Frederick Loewe – My Fair Lady
George Benson – West Side Story
Glenn Miller – Pure Gold
Hollywood Sound Stage Orchestra And Chorus
Horst Wende And His Orchestra – International Polka Favorites
Lionel Bart – Oliver!
Meredith Willson – The Music Man (Soundtrack)
Meredith Willson – The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Mimi Benzell / Felix Knight – Can Can / Kiss Me Kate
Monty Python – Live At City Center
Ralph Burns – Cabaret (Original Soundtrack)
Santana – Santana’s Greatest Hits
Various – Hello Dolly (Soundtrack)
Various – Stagecoach
Various – Calling Pandemic Cacophony

New CDs
Loses The Mighty – What The Artist Said To The Bird
Genovia Forever – Genovia Forever

Used CDs
ACDC – Ballbreaker
Bad Company – 10 From 6
Big Storm / Brother George – Split
Blackhawk – Blackhawk
Candlebox – Candlebox
Eagles – Their Greatest Hits
Eagles – Greatest Hits Volume 2
Garth Brooks – Garth Brooks
Jethro Tull – Aqualung
Jethro Tull – Original Masters
Kansas – The Best Of Kansas
Kenny G – Breathless
Led Zeppelin – II
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Greatest Hits
The Mavericks – Music For All Occasions
Randy Travis – Inspirational Journey
Secondhand Serenade – A Twist In My Story
The Secret Handshake – One Full Year
Secret & Whisper – Great White Whale
Scorpions – Best Of Rockers ‘N’ Ballads
Shania Twain – Come On Over
Shania Twain – The Woman In Me
Yanni – Live At The Acropolis

New Cassettes
Diaper Rash – Demos 1-3
Jordy Shearer – Guide To The Presidents
Pregnancy Test – Tour Cassette

Videos: Asthma South Town Studio 12-15-14

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Though it was already almost one month ago, we want to thank all of you who came out to the South Town Studio‘s first official recorded three-band show that happened last month on December 15th. We also want to thank all of you who came out to the Dumb Records one year anniversary show yesterday! It’s great to see that South Town Studio and Dumb Records have both now made it one full year right here in Southtown.

Today we are bringing you a video from the South Town Studio show on December 15th. The video features Springfield hardcore band Asthma performing two of their songs- “Your Test Results Are In” and “Egg Sac.” You can find the video below.