Monthly Archives: January 2015

January 30th at Black Sheep: Arugula, Wolf Luv, Acid Cop

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Coming up on Friday, January 30th we have a show coming up at Black Sheep for you all. It is looking like this one will be a good old fashioned three-band punk show. This show features touring act Arugula from Chicago, featuring members of the band Sputter that came through back in October. You can find some of Arugula’s music streaming on the player below. This show will also be the return of Champaign/Urbana wolf-fronted punk band Wolf Luv. Last time Wolf Luv made an appearance in Southtown was on the ramp of Skank Skates during Dumb Fest 2. Opening this show up is a performance by a brand new Springfield band called Acid Cop. Make sure to come early to find out who is in that band and what they are all about.

This show will begin at 7:00 pm and admission is $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 coming up at Black Sheep and Southtown.

SAP: “Shmutz”

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Today we are bringing you a stream of a brand new never-heard-before track of the first ever recording for the Springfield band SAP! That song is called “Shmutz” and you can stream it on the player below.

“Shmutz” comes off of the band’s upcoming release titled Maiden, Mother, Crone which will be released on cassette at the upcoming show next Saturday, January 17th at Black Sheep. The show includes SAP, Sick Sad World, Person, The Funs, and WARRS. Springfield tape label Ooey Gooey Tapes will be releasing the eight-song cassette hopefully in time for the show next weekend. You can also check out the artwork for the release above, done by Brian Galecki of Teen Freak. Head over to the Ooey Gooey bandcamp page to download the song.

Dumb Fest Facebook Page

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It looks like a new facebook page has been created for Dumb Fest (the whole fest, not just Dumb Fest 2 or 3). Dumb Fest is an annual music festival in Southtown focusing on DIY music and punk happening in Central Illinois, the Midwest, and the surrounding areas. The page has confirmed that planning for a third Dumb Fest has begun, but no dates or bands have been confirmed yet. You can be on the lookout for date announcements next month, and probably band announcements in March. Check out the new page right here.

Dumb Fest 2 happened last year on June 13th and 14th at Black Sheep, Skank Skates, Dumb Records, and South Town Studio. You can find a lot of photos from that event on our Dumb Fest 2 flickr album.

Dumb Records One Year Anniversary Today

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Today is a big day in Southtown. For those of you who can remember one whole year back, you might remember on January 10th and 11th of 2014 Dumb Records opening it’s doors for the first time. There was a big grand opening party on the 11th with an art show at Black Sheep next door, and the store even appeared in the Springfield Business Journal the following month.

Today Dumb Records is turning one whole year old and we have some things in store to celebrate. First off, everything in the store today (open 10:00 am – 9:00 pm) is 15% off. Then tonight we are having a show at Black Sheep to celebrate the store being around for one year. Bands playing that include Caterpillar Club– the shoegaze project of Kevin Bradford, owner of Black Sheep. We also have Kevin’s band lotto jazz-fushion project going by the name “International Mutant Orchestra.” Also on the bill is Springfield pop group Full Chroma. Before them are another high school-aged pop group called The Locals. And opening things up will be a performance by the alternative/punk group The Seething Coast.

The show tonight begins at 6:30 pm and is $5, inside of Black Sheep. Dumb Records will be open all day and all through the show. Find a facebook event for all of this right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a look at everything else coming up in Southtown.

WUIS: “Art Beat” With Scott Faingold And Rachel Otwell

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Today Springfield radio station WUIS based on the campus of the University of Springfield is launching a new weekly segment called “Art Beat.” The segment is of Scott Faingold (The Illinois Times, Epsom) and Rachel Otwell (WUIS) going over music and art events that are happening around town in the upcoming weekend. From the WUIS website:

With my focus also being on the arts world here in Springfield, and Illinois – we’ll tell listeners about our favorite things to check out in the area. We’ll be learning about new artists and musicians right along with you.

You can check out the very first segment streaming on the WUIS site right here. In the segment the two touch up on a good handful of events coming up in Springfield this weekend, including the big Dumb Records one year anniversary show happening tomorrow. You can also listen to 91.9 fm on your radio dial every friday to catch WUIS’s “Art Beat.” Don’t forget The Black Sheep Radio Show also airs every Friday on 88.3 WQNA fm from 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm. Today there will also be another episode of The Black Sheep Radio Show airing at its usual time.

Tonight at Black Sheep: Wir Können, Bad Banshee, Single Player, Nectar, Old Fox Road

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We have a wonderful show happening at Black Sheep on this cold, cold Friday night and you should all come out. This show is the return-from-home show for Springfield emo band Wir Können, who have been out on tour for a week. Come listen to Wir Können play and hear how their tour went. We also have Springfield ska band Bad Banshee playing tonight. They won your vote for the best album/release for 2014 with their hit CD “Skitter/Skitter.” Up next we have a couple of Champaign bands who are going out on tour for a week or so. The first of those is Single Player, who’s music you can find streaming below. The second is Nectar– the pop band featuring members of Kowabunga! Kid that played here last in June. Opening things up we have Central Illinois folk punk project Old Fox Road, who is also returning from a short tour.

The show tonight starts right at 7:00 pm and admission is $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 coming up at Black Sheep in 2015.

New Arrivals At Dumb Records

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blankarrivalsThis week is another week at Springfield record store Dumb Records, and it’s a big one because the store is going to be celebrating it’s one year anniversary this weekend. That’s right, on Saturday January 10th there will be a big one-year celebration for Dumb Records. There will be a 15% off sale for all items in the store for that day, and there will also be a show going on at Black Sheep at 6:30 pm that night to celebrate. To see who’s playing that show and for more info on that, you can head over to the facebook event right here. Let’s also take a look at Dumb Records’s hours of operation this week, and then we will get into the new arrivals.

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 – 9:00 pm
Saturday: 10:00 am – 9:00 pm
Sunday: 3:00 pm – 8:00 pm

New LPs
Antonio Vivaldi – Cllegium Areum
Bernstein New York Philharmonic – Sibelius Fifth Symphony
Boulez New York Philharmonic – Bartok Concerto For Orchestra
Enrique Grandados – Twelve Spanish Dances For Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach – Magnificat / Missa
Manuel De Falla – El Amor Brujo
Ormandy Philadelphia Orchestra – Brahms Violin Concerto Isaac Stern
Philadelphia Orchestra – Orff: Carmina Burana Ormandy
Szell Cleveland Orchestra – Mahler’s Fourth Symphony
Szell Cleveland Orchestra – Prokofiev: Lt. Lije Suite Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite
Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Stern / Schneider – Bach “Double” Concerto
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Concerto No. 4 / Concerto No. 3

New 7”s
Latex – Latex

Cassettes
Blank Spell – Tour Cassette

 

 

February 11th at Black Sheep: Until We Are Ghosts, Household, Loses The Mighty, Krelboyne, Hope For Now

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Hold onto your socks because on Wednesday, February 11th we have a show coming up at Black Sheep with five great bands. The first of those is a band called Until We Are Ghosts playing melodic hardcore on tour from Rochester, New York. You can even stream some of their music at the player on the very bottom of this post. Until We Are Ghosts will be hitting the road on tour with another Minneapolis, Minnesota project called Household. Now on to the local bands that will be playing. We have Loses The Mighty, who recently just released a new EP at the end of the year, recorded at South Town Studio. We also have the return of sad post-hardcore band Krelboyne from nearby areas of Central Illinois. Opening things up on this one is the indie/post-hardcore band Hope For Now from Morton, Illinois.

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

Some Things Can’t Be Ignored: Ingot Unreleased 1994 Demo

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Looks like Springfield music blog Some Things Can’t Be Ignored are at it again in 2015, this time bringing us an unreleased demo from 1994. The demo is from the old Springfield band Ingot (pictured above playing at Skank Skates in the early 1990’s. From the blog:

When I met up with Ben Jacob a couple of years back to discuss music and borrow some of his recordings from what can only be described as an unbelievable and immaculate collection of 1990’s Springfield and regional music, he provided me with something that simply blew my mind — an ingot demo from 1994 containing 4 unreleased songs!!!  I had heard some folks speak of the song, “Dad, The Evil Clown” in recent years, but I never recalled ever hearing it played live and it certainly wasn’t on either of the two cassettes the band released in 1994 and 1995.  When Ben pulled out this cassette and I saw “Dad, The Evil Clown” scribbled on the j-card along with 3 other songs that I didn’t recognize, I nearly jumped out of my skin with excitement!  IT STILL EXISTS!!  …and Ben still has his master copy!!  Needless to say, I took great care with this one to be certain to preserve the recording exactly as it was captured over 20 years ago!!  The version you have here has been “touched up” a little bit to improve the overall sound and “beef things up”, but in no way takes away from the original recording.

You can head over to somethingscantbeignored.wordpress.com and stream or download the full 1994 demo.

The Radon Lounge’s “14 Things From 2014”

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Springfield house venue The Radon Lounge posted their “14 Things From 2014,” a list of 14 things that happened there that made 2014 a special year. From The Radon Lounge website:

One of our basic human needs is to obtain some top 10 list of things at the end of a calendar year. Do not fret, as I will not disappoint you. My spin is to provide 14 memorable moments of 2014. I’m not saying any of these moments are better than others, or are in anyway all the great moments of 2014, these are just 14 awesome things that happened at the Radon Lounge

The Radon Lounge has also already set the date for their big Horse Show happening in the summer and that is Saturday, June 20th 2015. No bands have been announced so far, but you can head over to their Horse Show Page for a better look at what that is all about. If you head over to The Radon Lounge’s shows page you can also have a look at what other shows the venue has coming up in 2015.