Monthly Archives: January 2015

January 29th at Black Sheep: The Copyrights, The Timmys, King Worm

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10854323_10200171532686974_658804900921795102_oWe are all in for a treat at the end of this month on Thursday, January 30th. We have Carbonadale, IL pop punk band The Copyrights coming up to play at Black Sheep. The Copyrights features Luke McNeil of Hospital Job and last performed at Black Sheep as part of the first ever Dumb Fest in the summer of 2013. We will be excited to welcome them back. Also stream some of The Copyrights’s music below. Also on this show is long running Springfield punk band The Timmys. That and they will be paired up with another local band King Worm, who won #1 song and #3 album of the year on our Best Of 2014 list.

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 upcoming shows page for a good look at everything coming up in 2015.

 

January 26th at Black Sheep: Our Lady, Paqui, Krelboyne, Looming

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Earlier we told you that Springfield emotional hardcore band Our Lady are hitting the road with No Sleep Records band Aviator at the end of the month. Today we have the info for Our Lady’s tour kickoff for that show, which is happening right here at Black Sheep on Monday, January 26th! Our Lady will be playing this show, as well as Springfield acoustic songwriter “Paqui.” Other than that, we also have Chamapaign/Urbana post rock band Kreylbone returning to Black Sheep- they were just here last month for the Loses The Mighty EP release show. To top off this great show we have Looming.

This show will start at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. Find a facebook event for the show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a good look at what else is coming up in 2015.

Today on Black Sheep Radio: “Best Of 2014 Episode”

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Today the Black Sheep Radio Show will be airing at its normal time of 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm, and it will be a very special episode. First off, the radio show will be hitting it’s two-year anniversary episode, which started at the very beginning of 2013. Second, this is a special episode because our hosts Brandon Carnes and Mike Tirehaus will be taking us on a wild ride going through all of the results of our recent best of Springfield Music 2014 poll. This means they will be playing all of the songs from your top voted shows, albums, and songs of this year.

The Black Sheep Radio show airs from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm on 88.3 WQNA fm. You can tune in on the radio or online during that time at wqna.org. Also head over to our radio page where you can download a good chunk of episodes from the past.

Tonight at Black Sheep + South Town Studio: Moonassi, Family Hearse, Knives, Gas Up Yr Hearse, Latex, Blank Spell

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The new year is going to start of with a bang here in Southtown as we kick 2015 off tonight with a double-header of a show featuring four bands at Black Sheep and then a two-band aftershow at South Town Studio. Things are sure to get wild. The show at Black Sheep features the band Moonassi coming from Texas. You can stream their music on the player at the very bottom of this post. Also coming from Austin, Texas is the group Family Hearse. They play experimental music. Before them is the one Springfield band out of the bunch and that is the new screamo project called Knives. We also have an appearance from Bloomington Illinois screamo project Gas Up Yr Hearse!.

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Round two of tonight is happening upstairs at South Town Studio, right after the first four bands are done playing inside of Black Sheep. This show will feature two Philadelphia female-fronted hardcore bands, and those are Latex and Blank Spell. Everyone and anyone is welcome to join.

The show tonight starts at 7:00 pm and admission for the whole shebang is $5. You can find a facebook event for it all right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a good look at what else is in store for 2015.

Dumb Records Showcase Show In St. Louis On January 15th

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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.