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Black Sheep Fest 1 Month Away, T Shirt Design Contest

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We are now exactly one month away from Black Sheep Fest 2017 – the tenth annual Black Sheep Fest we have put on since the first one in 2008. You can check out that lineup of 15 acts all local to Springfield right here – we actually did have one recent addition of one back outside of Springfield, and that is the band Ghoul Jr. featuring Veronica Mullen who was our official Dumb Fe5t photographer this year.

Today we are announcing that once again will be holding a design contest for the next Black Sheep Fest shirt design! This is open to anyone who wishes to participate! If you would like to come up with a design or drawing to have printed on shirts for this year’s fest – just make sure it says “Black Sheep Fest”, and the year 2017 or “#10” on it somewhere! Designs can be submitted to our email blacksheepspringfield@gmail.com. You have between now and July 20th to submit your designs! Once the deadline hits we will vote for a winning design here on our site.

Tonight at Black Sheep: Stereo Static, Acceptable Losses, Searching For Nostalgia, Stick People, Matt LaMarca

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We hope everyone had a great fourth of the month yesterday, now it’s time for the fifth of July so we are getting into serious business. Starting now we’ve got five shows in the next six days lined up in Southtown. Tonight we have two touring acts and a few locals. At the top of the bill is the local rock band Stereo Static. The main touring act on this one is pop punk band Acceptable Losses from Albuquerque, New Mexico. When was the last time we had a band from New Mexico play at Black Sheep? Also on tour from a different Springfield somewhere in Missouri is the band “Searching for Nostalgia” (what kind of band name is that)? Opening things up we have the rock grunge Taylorville act Stick People, and also a solo performance by the charming Matt LaMarca. Nice.

This show will start right at 7:30 pm and admission is $5. Check out a facebook event for the show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page to see what else is coming up this summer at Black Sheep.

Lineup and Schedule for Downhome Music Festival Happening July 28th & 29th

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The other downtown annual music festival that happens at the end of July, Downhome Music Festival has recently released their official schedule for the fest happening on Friday and Saturday, July 28th and 29th. You can find the lineup of bands and set times listed below. Admission for the festival this year is just $6 at the gate to get in both days, and bands will play on two big stages located at 7th and Washington streets downtown. You may notice the Saturday lineup includes heavy hitting Springfield punk bands NIL8 and The Timmys – and we also get a rare opportunity to see bands Looming and Park. Looming will also be playing at Black Sheep two days before that on Thursday, July 27th. Dumb Records will also have a setup outside during Saturday of Downhome. Here is the lineup:

Friday
5pm – Josh Reilly (a)
5:30pm – Wolf Crick Boys (w)
6pm – Go Tsunami (a)
6:30pm – Owen & Dooley (w)
7:30pm – Lidlifter (a)
8:30pm – The Station (w)
9:30pm – Marah (a)
11pm – Micah Walk (w)

Saturday
2pm – Attic Salt (w)
2:30 – Ragna Rye (a)
3pm – Prairie State Heartache (w)
4pm – Los Injectors (a)
5pm – Western Empire (w)
6pm – Looming (a)
7pm – Jukebox Casanova (w)
8pm – The Timmys (a)
8:30pm – Josh Catalano & TDT(w)
9:30pm – Park (a)
10:30pm – Nil8 (w)

Celtic Stage – Saturday Only
3pm – Ellyn Thornson & the Lovebirds (c)
5pm – Evan Mitchell (c)
7pm – John Brillhart (c)

Check out a facebook event for Downhome music fest right here. Also check out their official website right here. Be sure to also check out our Springfield shows page for a look at other going-ons in town outside of Black Sheep.

Hip Hop Matinee Show at Dumb Records This Sunday

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We are once again trying out new things at our record store Dumb Records, and this upcoming Sunday, July 9th we will be hosting the first hip hop show inside the store. It’s going to be a matinee show too – starting at 3:00 pm in the afternoon – and guess what, it’s also free! You have no reason not to come out! For this show we have two touring acts both from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Those are “L-Smooth” and “Mainframe.” Check out a music video from L-Smooth at the bottom of this post to get an idea on what that’s all about. In addition to those two touring acts, we also have local performer Nefarious Cloud on the bill. Nefarious is also playing Black Sheep Fest this year on August 5th. Last but not least we have DJ Tariq playing some mixes throughout the duration of the show. Tariq actually put together the flier for the show!

The show again starts at 3:00 pm and is free (just donate to the touring acts, okay?). Find a facebook event for this one right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page to take a peak at what else is coming up in Southtown this summer.

New Arrivals This Week at Dumb Records

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Southtown record store Dumb Records (1107 South Grand Ave East) is back in action this week after almost a whole month of being slowed down by Dumb Fest, other big shows, and some bands touring going on. There hasn’t been much hitting the shelves but we are changing that starting now! This week we have plenty of LPs hitting the shelves, which you can find listed below. Is the store going to be open today for 4th of July? Hmmm.. we might be open on and off throughout the day. Feel free to give us a call if you want to come on by! Let’s take a look at the store’s operating hours for the week and then get into the arrivals:

Tuesday (today): (probably open most of the day! call 217-691-8991 if we are not around!
Wednesday (show): noon – 9:00 pm
Thursday: noon – 8:00 pm
Friday (show): noon – 9:00 pm
Saturday (show): noon – 9:00 pm
Sunday: noon – 8:00 pm (hip hop matinee show at 3:00 pm)
Monday (show): noon – 9:00 pm

New LPs
Closet Burner – Disappointment. Death. Dishonor.
Dangus Tarkus – Rock n’ Roll For The People
Perverts Again – Our Big Party

Used LPs
Apeface – Apeface
Crispus Attucks – …Destroy The Teacher
Dwight Twilley – Twilley
Dwight Twilley – Scuba Divers
My Lai – Learn… Forget… Re-Learn
Frank Sinatra – Greatest Hits
Frank Sinatra – The Voice
Gary Wright – The Dream Weaver
JBA – Who Fucked The Culture Up?
Jane Siberry – The Speckless Sky
Jane Siberry – The Walking
Jane Siberry – Bound By The Beauty
Jesse Colin Young – Song For Juli
Jethro Tull – Stand Up
Joe Walsh – The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get
Lawrence Welk – Dance Party
Lobo – Calumet
Michael Parks – Blue
Michelle Shocked – Captain Swing
Mormon Tabernacle Choir – Bless This House
Paul Simon – Paul Simon
Paul Young – Between Two Fires
Paul Young – No Parlez
Paul Young – The Secret of Association
Pete Shelly – Homosapien
Richard & Linda Thompson – Sunnyvista
Richard Wright – Wet Dream
Shoes – Present Tense
Simon and Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water
Squeeze – Cool For Cats
Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes – I Don’t Want To Go Home
Thompson Twins – In The Name of Love
Thompson Twins – Here’s To Future Days
Thompson Twins – Into The Gap
Timbuk 3 – Greetings From
Timbuk 3 – Eden Alley
Various – Subterranean Modern
The Who – Tommy
The Young Fresh Fellows – The Men Who Loved Music
XTC – Beeswax
XTC – English Settlement
XTC – Mummer
XTC – Skylarking
XTC – Waxworks: Some Singles 1977-1982
ZZ Top – Afterburner

New 7”s
Perverts Again – My Accident b/w My Embarrassment

Saturday at Black Sheep: Runaway Brother, Farseek, Bottom Bracket, Jessica Knight

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Wow, have we really not told you about this show yet!? This one is coming up this upcoming weekend on Saturday, July 8th. You are not going to want to miss it. For this one we have the band Runaway Brother returning from Ohio – the band last played here over two years ago in the spring of 2014 along with Looming. Stream some of Runaway Brother’s newer music on the player embedded below. Runaway brother will be touring with the solo project “Farseek” also from Ohio and also familiar to the Black Sheep stage. For this one we have local band Bottom Bracket on the bill. Opening things up is also a rare solo performance by Jessica Knight of Looming.

This show will start at 7:00 pm on the dot, and admission is $6. Check out a facebook event for this one right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a good look at what else we have coming up at Black Sheep this summer!

Videos: Backwards Day at Black Sheep 7-1-17

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We do have some video footage of the incredible two reunion sets that took place at Black Sheep this past weekend for any of you who were as silly enough as to miss out on the once in a lifetime opportunity to see Food & Money or Backwards Day. Today we have a snippet of Backwards Day performing one of their early hit tunes “Revolutionary” at Black Sheep this past Saturday during the show. You can check out that video below.

Expect a video of Food & Money and also some photos of the show to turn up at some point soon. You can also probably expect a full video of all four sets from that night to become available on Gordon Chang’s Macomb Events youtube channel later on. Also check out our vids/pics page for a list of videos taken over the years at Black Sheep.

New Band Pages: Spell Breaker

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Welcome to a new week, this morning we are bringing you a fresh new band page for the new-ish local band Spell Breaker. (That’s two words there, not “Spellbreaker”). Spell Breaker formed earlier this year with members of former Springfield bands SAP and Lincoln’s Tomb. You can check out their new band page to find out more about the band right here. Spell Breaker just played at Black Sheep two nights ago at the big Food & Money and Backwards Day reunion show. Their next performance lined up is for Black Sheep Fest 2017, which is just a little over one month away. They also have no music recorded right now, but you can expect some to be coming very soon.

Check out any of our 60+ current band pages right here. Do you play in a Springfield band or are a local musician who has not gotten a page set up with us yet? Send us an email to blacksheepspringfield@gmail.com and we will work with you to set something up!

Friday at Black Sheep: Transgression, Head Change, Pryss, Prowess

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You like that heavy music? Well, we have a show for you coming up this Friday, July 7th at Black Sheep. Calling all of the top slammers in the area for this one. We have the band Transgression on tour from Louisville, Kentucky bringing the heavy hardcore. Stream a short track of theirs on the player below to get a little taste. On tour with Transgression and also from Kentucky is the band Head Change. Also on this bill is heavy hitting Springfield hardcore band Pryss – come see their first set in Black Sheep since their unforgettable one at Dumb Fe5t this year. Opening things up we’ve got Prowess bringing the punk jams and fart bombs.

This show actually starts a tad later than usual at 7:30 pm. Bring $5. Check out a facebook event for this one right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a look at what else is coming up at Black Sheep this summer.

Eric Marvel: “Soma”

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Here’s your healthy dose of new Springfield music for the day. Today we are bringing you a fresh new track from solo artist Eric Marvel. The track is called “Soma” and comes from a brand new Disappointment! EP coming out later in August. Stream that track on the player below, or head over to Eric’s soundcloud page. Find more of Eric Marvel’s music on their bandcamp page. Eric released Spaces EP last year.

Eric doesn’t have any shows currently lined up but you can maybe expect to hear some info on a release show at Black Sheep at some point soon?