Today we bring you some smashing hot new content in the form of a video of the band Drool from Chicago, Illinois performing at Black Sheep a week ago. The show was on January 17th along with Pryss and Lincoln’s Tomb. Check out a video of Drool performing one of their songs below. Also head over to Drool’s bandcamp right here to listen to some of their recorded music.
Check out hundreds more videos of touring and local bands taken over the years at Black Sheep on our vids/pics page.
Would you look at that, Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and we are already late on getting things together for the big and great “Black Sheep Valentine’s Day Ball.” It’s time to straighten up those bow ties and grab a dancin’ partner for this big event. For the big dance this year we have Livin’ Thing (or “Lovin’ Thing”) lined up for the big stage. We also have the Champaign-Urbana post-emo band Krelboyne who will be on tour. Up before that is the rock n’ roll outfit Sammy & The Punk who came out with a new album late last year which you can find streaming on the player below. Opening things up is the hit Springfield project that everyone’s been raving about – Animals With Human Names.
The Black Sheep High School Valentine’s Day Ball will start at 7:00 pm and admission is just $5. You can check out 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 at Black Sheep this year.
It’s been a minute, but just because we may have missed a couple of weeks on new arrivals posts for Dumb Records doesn’t mean the store is not getting in stacks upon stacks of new great vinyl every day. Tonight we bring you the list of what’s new in the store from the past week- mostly a good chunk of used LPs and 7″s for your ears. Let’s take a look at the store’s hours for this week and then dive in to the new arrivals:
Wednesday: noon – 8:00 pm
Thursday: noon – 8:00 pm
Friday (show): noon – 9:00 pm
Saturday (show): noon – 9:00 pm
Sunday: noon – 8:00 pm
Monday: noon – 8:00 pm
New LPs
Code Orange – Forever
Used LPs
ACDC – If You Want Blood
Andy Griffith – Just For Laughs
The Animals – Ark
The Bastard Noise – A Culture of Monsters
The Beach Boys – Surfin’ USA
Cheap Trick – Cheap Trick
Chér – Chér
Chér – Foxy Lady
Cream – Wheels of Fire
David Rose & Orchestra – Strings Alive
Def Leppard – High n Dry
Del Wood – Rousing Ragtime
Despise You – West Side Horizons
Duane Eddy – Twangy Guitar Silky Strings
Elton John – Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player
Ferrante & Teicher – Tonight
Ferrante & Teicher – Salute Nashville
The Foggy River Boys – Reaching Out!
George Stone – 51 Organ Skating Favorites
Iron Lung – Sexless / No Sex
Johnny Cash – The Mighty Johnny Cash
Ken Griffin – The Best of Ken Griffin
Lenny Dee – Down South
Montovani – All Time Romantic Hits
Pappy Lanahan – Honky Tonk In Percussion
Paul McCartney & Wings – Red Rose Speedway
Pete King Orchestra and Chorale – Moon River
The Plastic Ono Band – Live Peace In Toronto 1969
Poco – Deliverin’
Queen – Greatest Hits
Rollins Band – Weight
RUSH – Caress of Steel
Sammi Smith – Help Me Make It Through The Night
Thou – Summit
Tommy Garrett – Six Flags Over Texas
Toto – Hydra
Various – Kings of Swing!
Various – Magic Moments
Weekend Nachos – Punish And Destroy
Weekend Nachos – Worthless
Used 7”s
Bate – Chrimes
Canadian Rifle / American Cheeseburger – Split
Confront – The Curtain of an Intense Attack
Discharge – Never Again
Disfear & Doomriders – There Is Only Death
Failures – Failures
Merkit / Resurrectionists – Split
Regrets – Pope Floats And So Does Shit
Scapegoat – Scapegoat
Sea of Shit / Socially Retarded – Split
Swallowing Shit – Love Is The Act of Being Moved Into Action
Thou / Human Intruder – A Faire Quarrell
Thrive & Decay – The Hammer That I Once Brought Down
Today we have a show to tell you about happening in about a week over at Bar None, our buddy bar in town for the 21 and up crowd. This one is happening on Wednesday, February 1st and features the touring act Two Houses from Chicago. Stream some of Two Houses’ music on the player embedded below. This show features a solid lineup of Two Houses and a couple of locals – hit Springfield band Attic Salt will also be playing. They will also be joined by newer Springfield pop punk band Starter Jackets from some of the same people that brought you Hospital Job.
This show will start at 9:00 pm and we are guessing the door charge is $5. This one is ages 21 and up, sorry! Check out a facebook event for that right here. Also check out our Springfield shows page for a list we are working on of shows coming up in town outside of Black Sheep.
Today we bring you a new hit music video for a newer recording project based out of Springfield called “Forest Saints.” Forest Saints is the solo recording project of Mark Schwartz – local artist and photographer and also member of the free form jazz band End Times Trio. Mark recently released a music video for his song “Stock in Misery” which you can find embedded below.
Forest Saints may be a newer project – but in the past year alone Mark has recorded and released four full length albums under the name. You can find all of those on the Forest Saints bandcamp page right here. There is also a new album in the works.
We’ve never posted about any events happening at The Lincoln Library downtown on our site before. With new renovations taking effect this year and a new communications coordinator – Elizabeth Buctha working hard to reach out to Springfield communities, new things are in store for our downtown library in Springfield. Be sure to check out our episode of The Black Sheep Radio Show with Elizabeth as our guest to hear more on big plans for the Library.
The Library recently announced plans for “SAME FEST” happening one week from today on Saturday, January 28th from 1:00 to 3:00 pm. They are fitting a lot of activities, conversations, workshops, and more into that two hour block. SAME FEST stands for “Springfield Area’s Many Ethnicities” as the festival will focus on different ethnicities and cultures that call Springfield home. You can check out a more proper breakdown of everything going on on that flier above, or on the facebook event for the fest right here. Also check out our Springfield Shows page for more events like this one happening in Springfield outside of Black Sheep (we are updating the page this weekend!!!).
What do you know about The Radon Lounge? Did you know that it is a top notch premier Springfield basement venue, and there is a show going on down there tonight? Nothing going on at Black Sheep tonight too, so we can all go! For this show the lounge has great musical act Rebecca Rego & The Trainmen lined up from Champaign, Illinois. You can stream some of their music on the player below. In addition to that they also have solo artist Ben Bedford from the area performing. Looks like there is also a solo performance by Mike Butler (of Vonne and Starlorde). How nice. And The Radon Lounge appears to be mixing things up a bit for this one and featuring poetry peformed by Johari Idusuyi! And there is also a book performing! Cosmic Fate by Jonathan A Meyer will be taking the big stage!
All of that over at The Radon Lounge will be starting at 7:00 pm tonight for just $5. For The Radon Lounge’s secret location you will have to dig around their website a little bit. Check out a facebook event for this one right here. Also check out our Springfield Shows page for (maybe) a look at some shows happening in town outside of Black Sheep.
At the beginning of the year we announced that a new project for us on this site would be to try and build a more accessible archive of Springfield albums, demos, and releases from years past. The project began on a forum we had created when we launched this site close to five years ago and has been growing off and on over the past four years or so. More current years have been easy to document thanks to our year-end polls on this site, earlier years have been coming together thanks to the Some Things Can’t Be Ignored music blog and a few other friends.
Today we are bringing you a brand new page to this site to house the Springfield Album Archive. You can check out that new page right here. Right now we are at 289 releases listed off (most have links to stream or download the release along with artwork) and that list is growing. You can help us out by emailing us any additions at blacksheepspringfield@gmail.com (we would prefer if you can provide a name and date for the release and also artwork, photos, or even bring a physical copy to us at Dumb Records or Black Sheep so we can get it uploaded for the public)!
We will continue to be updating this list as often as we can! You can head over to this page and check back on it on our site by hovering over the “about” tab -> and then “history” and then from there a pull out tab for “Springfield Album Archive” shows up.
Tonight at Black Sheep we have a short and sweet three band show lined up on this Tuesday night! It’s our third show of the year (fourth if you count the show in Dumb Records), and so far all of the shows that have happened this year have been a hit! Let’s keep the streak going tonight. Tonight we have the experimental rock fusion band “Drool” playing from Chicago. Check out some of their music on the player below. We also have heavy hitting hardcore band (as featured in Springfield’s Own Magazine), Pryss. Opening things up is ongoing band lotto group- Lincoln’s Tomb.
The show tonight start at 7:00 pm, admission is $5. Check out 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 at Black Sheep and Southtown in the next few months.
It’s that time of the year again. Well, not really that time of the year yet, but time to start thinking about that time of the year. If your band is interested in our annual Black Sheep Cover Show then it’s time to reach out to us to let us know what you are interested in doing and start getting that set together. This year we are looking at the weekends of May 12th and 13th and the 19th and 20th as potential dates for a Black Sheep Cover Show at Black Sheep and also at Bar None. Check out photos of last year’s cover show at Black Sheep right here. In all previous years the cover show has also been a benefit of some sort, which will likely continue this year. Last year we were able to raise enough money to be able to support a free show at Rock N’ Roll Hardee’s as part of last year’s Dumb Fest.
If you are interested, please email us at blacksheepspringfield@gmail.com (serious inquiries please)! We also prefer already existing original bands coming forward to do cover sets instead of new groups getting together just for this. We will have all of the inquiries down that we hear from in the next few weeks on a list to check back with at the end of March / beginning of April and will determine a lineup based on which of those bands have already started getting sets together.
*Note: no bands actually play any covers of any licensed music inside of Black Sheep. F*#% you, ASCAP and BMI.
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