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Vincent Sebastian: “A New Rhode”

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The new Springfield music does not stop coming in! Today we have a five-track EP by Vincent Sgro, also going as Vincent Sebastian with some experimental / “chill” electronic music. Vincent was also behind the project “Opposite Good” which had another release come out earlier this year. Stream Vincent Sebastian’s newest release: A New Rhode on the player below. Also head over to Vincent’s bandcamp page where you can download the full release.

No current live shows are lined up for Vincent Sebastian – he is currently attending school over in another Springfield – Springfield, Missouri!

New Arrivals This Week at Dumb Records

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It’s been a minute since we’ve hit you with a wave of new arrivals from our very own Southtown record store Dumb Records (1107 South Grand Ave. E). The store has been going strong all summer long, and this week especially there are plenty of new items on the shelves. This week includes a good selection of new and used LPs, used 7″s, and used cassettes. Let’s take a look at the store’s operating hours for the week and then get into the new arrivals:

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

New LPs
Adam Torres – Pearls To Swine
Alpine – Yuck
Audioslave – Audioslave
Banks – Goddess
Blackalicious – Imani Vol. 1
The Bohicas – The Making of The Bohicas
Childish Gambino – Awaken, My Love!
The Fantastic Aleems – Stepping Out
Fat White Family – Songs For Our Mothers
Foreign Tongues – Fragile, As Said Before
Georgia – Georgia
Gogol Bordello – Seekers and Finders
A Grave With No Name – Feathers, Wet, Under The Moon
Hippocampus – Landmark
Iron & Wine – Beast Epic
Ivan & Alyosha – It’s All Just Pretend
Jim White – Take It Like A Man
Jimmy Eat World – Futures
Johnny Cash – The Sound of Johnny Cash
Le1f – Riot Boi
Lily Allen – Divide Et Impera
MewithoutYou – Pale Horses
Miles Davis – Live In San Juan ‘89
Mod Sun – Look Up
Modest Mouse – Modest Mouse
Natalie Cole – Unpredictable
O.V. Wright – Live
Pissed Jeans – Why Love Now
Priory – Need To Know
Punch Brothers – The Phosphorescent Blues
Serious Nicodemus – Meets Roots Radics At Channel One
Strange Faith – Love & Poverty
Stranger Cat – In The Wilderness
T-Model Ford – Bad Man
Various – Fast Car
Verite – Somewhere In Between
Yung – These Thoughts Are Like Mandatory Chores
311 – Greatest Hits ’93-‘03

Used LPs
Al Hirt – Trumpet and Strings
The Charles Camaron Orchestra – Spanish Rhapsody
“Hap” O’ Hallihan – Hot Honky-Tonk Piano
Living Trio – “Honey” and Other Hits
Madelaine – Sister Adele Dominique
Majorie Meinert – Sitting Pretty at the Lowrey Organ
Mink DeVille – Coup De Grace
Percy Faith – Touchdown!
Piper – Can’t Wait
Ricky West – And North South East
THP Orchestra – Two Hot For Love!
Wally Mateck – Polkas For Parties

Used 7”s
Amordazado – Amordazado
Barbaric Thrash – Demolition Vol. II
Blownapart Bastards – All You Can Eat
Code 13 – A Part of America Died Today
Funeral Shock – III
Jenny Piccolo – Sul9b
Mainstrike – Mainstrike
Monster X – Human Greed
Northless – Protestant Volume Two
Poison 13 – Poison 13
This Scares Me – This Scares Me
Spitting Teeth – Don’t Believe The Hype!
Stack – Mondonervaktion

Used Cassettes
Alabama – Cheap Seats
Alabama – Greatest Hits III
Anne Murral – A Little Good News
David Lee Roth – A Little Ain’t Enough
The Doobie Brothers – Minute By Minute
Europe – Wings of Tomorrow
Gene Watson – Honky Tonk Crazy
Georgia’s Satellites – Georgia’s Satellites
Iron Maiden – In Prayer For The Dying
Johnny Paycheck
Judas Priest – Defenders of the Faith
Judas Priest – British Steel
Judas Priest – Hell Bent For Leather
Marty Robbins – Some Memories Just Won’t Die
Merle Haggard – The Epic Collection
Pearl Jam – Ten
The Power Station – The Power Station
Ricky Van Shelton – Grestest Hits Plus
Ronnie Milsap – 20-20 Vision
RUSH – Hold Your Fire
Suzy Bogguss – Moment of Truth
Tesla – Five Man Acoustical Jam
Vince Gill – High Lonesome Sound

September 30th at Black Sheep: Hallow Point, Eyes From Above, Robot Army, Kryosis

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You want more metal shows at Black Sheep? Well, just you look because they are here! On Saturday, September 30th before the end of this month we will be hosting another metal show in our venue. This one will feature St. Louis metal band “Hallow Point” on tour. It will also feature local band Eyes From Above, who you can check out on that player below. We also have Jacksonville band “Robot Army” on the lineup for this one. Then last but not least is Kryosis, who also performed their CD release show at Black Sheep earlierr this summer.

Check out a facebook event for this one right here. This one starts at 7:00 pm and admission is $10. Also check out our shows page for a look at what else is coming up at Black Sheep this fall.

War Magic – “War Magic (2017)”

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You may have thought the Springfield dream folk project War Magic was long dead but oh no no that is not the case. Earlier this summer the project released a brand new EP and thought no one would notice! That is five new tracks under an EP called War Magic (2017) which you can find streaming on the player below. Head over to the War Magic bandcamp page where you can download the EP at your own price. There is not a physical release for this EP as far as we can tell.

No, War Magic does not have any shows lined up. Will we see another War Magic live performance in the future?

New Band Pages: Animals With Human Names

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Hey, happy Monday everyone! Thanks to all who came out to our roundtable meeting yesterday to discuss the future of Black Sheep and the future of live music as we know it. Let’s start the week off with another featured band/project – this one has been around for a while, shame on us for taking this long to get a page up! This is Animals With Human Names – the hip hop project of Jim Whitehead also in Say Something, Statues of the Dead, and numerous other bands throughout the ages through pretty much all of Black Sheep’s twelve years of being a venue. Head over to the newly created band page right here to find out more about the project and hear some tunes. And be on the lookout for some AWHN shows here in the future.

Check out any of our 55+ current band pages on our site right here. Do you play in a band or are a solo musician in Springfield that has not yet set up a page with us? We would love to hear from you! Send us an email to blacksheepspringfield@gmail.com and we will work with you to get something set up.

Videos: It’s Me: Ross at Black Sheep 8-9-17

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Today we bring you a video of one of the greatest bands of all time performing on our very own Black Sheep state last month. That is “It’s Me: Ross” the band from Columbia, Missouri. No one was at the show so we are sharing this video with all of you so you can almost experience the same live music concert experience from your very own couch. The song is called “I Got The Blues” which comes from the band’s second full length album you can find in its entirety right here. Find the video on the player below. The show was also with Rella, Bottom Bracket, and Special Death.

Also check out our vids/pics page for a good amount of live performances caught on video at The Black Sheep from over the years.

Black Sheep Roundtable Meeting Tonight

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Yes, with our most recent announcement a week or so ago about us entering a difficult time, and the front page State Journal-Register story, a lot of you may have a lot on your mind. It’s been a minute since we have hosted a Black Sheep roundtable meeting, but here we are having one tonight at 7:00 pm. You can expect about an hour of this to be solid meeting points, and maybe around another hour of discussion and things fizzle off around there. Here’s what you can expect tonight:

  • Us reiterating the position we are in right now. We will be happy to further explain to all of you interested a breakdown of our operating costs and how much we need to make per show to keep up with them.
  • The importance of coming to shows.
  • We’ll also be more than willing to explain our show booking process in depth, especially to those who are interested in starting to help set up shows. This is a process we are open to hearing details to fine-tune, but not necessarily something we are wanting to completely change.
  • If you want to come with ideas, that is great and we will listen to them all, but also not the main point of us having this meeting.
  • Further discussion on what YOU can do to get more involved or help improve our space.

The State Journal-Register: “All-Ages Music Club Facing A Dark Time”

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Wow, it looks like things are really getting serious for The Black Sheep and the times we are in because today we made the front page of local paper The State Journal-Register with an article titled “All Ages Music Club Facing A Dark Time.” The article was written by Steven Spearie, who interviews co-owners Brian Galecki and BJ Pearce as well as NIL8 frontman Jeff Williams about Black Sheep. Pick up the Sunday paper at a gas station near you today for $3 or find the article online right here. From the article:

“We have a history, a culture in Springfield, a community that’s been around and we have stories to tell that can last a lifetime,” contended Pearce. ”(Black Sheep) is going to be around if people choose to attend shows.

“It’s a spot unlike anywhere else in the Midwest.”

We will also be holding a roundtable meeting inside Black Sheep at 7:00 pm tonight to further discuss topics going on in the article, and what’s next for us in these dark times.

September 23rd at Black Sheep: Brandon Austin, HILGY, Jermaine Bollinger

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Today we have another release show to tell you about for a local artist happening at Black Sheep. It’s happening this month on Saturday, September 23rd and will be the release show for Brandon Austin, who is a solo R&B performer. Brandon is releasing a CD called “Beauty in Ordinary Things” which is already out on iTunes and all of that good stuff. The show at Black Sheep will be the official release. You can check out the official music video for one of those tracks – “The Only One” on the player directly below this post. One of the other artists opening up the show is “HILGY” also from here (?). Then we also have Jermaine Bollinger opening things up.

This one starts at 7:00 pm (doors at 6:30), and is $5. Check out a facebook event for the show right here. Also check out our shows page for a list of everything we have coming up at Black Sheep this fall.

 
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