New Band Pages: Prowess

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Hi, it’s a brand new week and today we have a hot new band page comin’ at ya for the new Springfield hit band Prowess. Prowess recently went through a name change (formerly “Nagasaki”) and also moved some members around on some instruments and now here we are. You can head over to their new page right here to find out more about the band and stream their new demo recorded up in Southtown Sound. Prowess will be playing at Black Sheep next on Friday, May 26th. More info on that show coming soon!

Check out any of our 60+ current band pages on our site right here. Do you play in a band or project here in town and don’t have a page with us yet? Email us at blacksheepspringfield@gmail.com and we will work with you to set something up!

Videos: Nefarious Cloud – “Classic Smirk”

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Today we bring you some hot new Springfield music content in the form of this new music video by local hip hop artist Nefarious Cloud. This one is a video for the song “Classic Smirk” which comes off of Nefarious’s Majin Cloud EP. Find the full EP streaming right here. You can check out that hot new music video embedded below. The video also features The Pukester formerly of the local band Scott Blacula / Table Drama.

Find more hit Springfield music videos shot over the years on our vids/pics page. More information on a free show at Black Sheep coming up that Nefarious will be setting up on Friday, June 16th coming up soon.

New Arrivals This Week at Dumb Records

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Hey, here we are again with our weekly new arrivals at Dumb Records post (Dumb Records is our very own record store located at 1107 South Grand Ave East). This week the store has piles and piles of used LPs, and also some new stuff from Iron Lung Records and more. Be sure to check out what’s new in the shop this week. Let’s take a look at the operating hours for the week and then get into the arrivals:

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

Used LPs
The Alan Parsons Project – I Robot
Alvin Lee & Company – Ten Years After
Alvin Lee & Mylon LeFevre – On The Road To Freedum
Amy Grant – Unguarded
Beau Navire – Hours
Bob Marley & The Wailers – Uprising
Bob Marley & The Wailers – Natty Dread
Brenda Lee – Sincerely, Brenda Lee
Captain & Tennille – Greatest Hits
Charles Mingus – Charlie Mingus
A Clockwork Orange – Music From The Soundtrack
Cocktail – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Connie Francis – Sing Along With Connie Francis
Damita Jo – I’ll Save The Last Dance For You
Diana Ross – An Evening With Diana Ross
Diana Ross – The Boss
Doctor Dolittle – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Dottie West – Feminine Fancy
Eagles – On The Border
Earth Wind & Fire – Raise!
Electric Dreams – Original Soundtrack
Emitt Rhodes – Mirror
Eurythmics – Here Comes The Rain Again
Ferlin Husky – Wings of a Dove
Graham Parker And The Shot – Steady Nerves
Graham Parker – Treatment
Grateful Dead – Blues for Allah
Grateful Dead – Workingman’s Dead
The J. Geils Band – Showtime!
J. Geils Band – Best of The J. Geils Band
Keith Green – For Him Who Has Ears To Hear
Laura Nyro – Season of Lights
Lee Ritenour – Captain Fingers
Liz Story – Solid Colors
Lou Rawls – All Things In Time
Lou Rawls – Unmistakably Lou
Marrying Maiden – It’s A Beautiful Day
Merle Haggard – Okie From Muskogee
Mitch Ryder – All Mitch Ryder Hits!
Nantucket – Long Way To The Top
Nantucket – Nantucket
Neil Sedaka – All You Need Is The Music
Night Ranger – Midnight Madness
Nilsson – Schmilsson
Orchestral Manoeuvers In The Dark – So In Love
Paul Simon – Still Crazy After All These Years
Poco – Seven
Prince – Prince
Procol Harum – A Salty Dog
Ral Donner – Takin’ Care of Business
The Rascals – See
The Rascals – Peaceful World
Ray Parker Jr. – The Other Woman
R.E.O. Speedwagon – R.E.O. Speedwagon
Rick Wakeman – No Earthly Connection
Robert Palmer – Some People Can Do What They Like
Robert Palmer – Double Fun
Robin Trower – Caravan To Midnight
Rod Stewart – A Shot of Rhythm and Blues
Romeo Void – Nvr Say Nvr
Rush – Grace Under Pressure
Rush – A Farewell To Kings
Ruthless People – Original Soundtrack
The Saddest Landscape – The Sound of the Spectacle
Scott Joplin – The Sting
Sheena Easton – Madness Money And Music
Smokey Robinson – One Heartbeat
Taj Mahal – The Natch’l Blues
Talking Heads – Fear of Music
Talking Heads – Stop Making Sense
Talking Heads – The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads
Ten Years After – Cricklewood Green
Thompson Twins – Into The Gap
Three Dog Night – Harmony
Todd Rundgren – Runt
Tom Petty – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Toto – Fahrenheit
The Tubes – Outside Inside
Wayne Newton – The Long And Winding Road
Willie Nelson – The Electric Horseman
Uncle Ler and Lil Tommy – Animal Stories
U2 – The Joshua Tree
Various – Up Tight On 5th Avenue

New LPs
Behavior – Bitter Bitter
Cold Sweat – Blinded
Dead Kennedys – Live… The Old Waldorf 1979
Dead Moon – Crack In The System
Dreamdecay – Yú
Iron Lung – Life. Iron Lung. Death.
Latishia’s Skull Drawing – Romanticized
Metallica – Ride The Lightning
Peter Tosh – Soon Come
Private Room – Forever And Ever
Rakta – III
Slices – Still Cruising

New 7”s
Mozart – Nasty
Roht – Roht

Tonight at Black Sheep: The F.U.F.S., Livin’ Thing, Prowess

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Wow, what’s up we do have a three band punk show happening tonight that has experienced many lineup changes since the show was first thought up, but here we are and we are going to have fun tonight! Tonight we have the supergroup Chicago / Oklahoma City hybrid band “The F.U.F.S” performing at Black Sheep. You can check out a brand new tape of theirs streaming on the player embedded below. We also have Springfield band of nobodies playing a set of their own original material, Livin’ Thing. Then we hear that we get to enjoy a special (maybe acoustic) set from Prowess (formerly Nagasaki).

This show will kick off at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. Find a facebook event for that one right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a look at everything else coming up at Black Sheep this summer.

Dumb Fe5t Band Announcement #5

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Hey! It’s been a long time coming, but here is the final announcement and wave of bands for Dumb Fest 5 happening June 9th, 10th, and 11th right here in Springfield. It’s not even a full ten bands! GEEZ! Are we dropping the ball here or what! In addition to this sad excuse for full band announcement, we have to bring you news that Acrylics and Undone are both no longer performing at the fest. 😥 Today we only have six bands to announce:

LUMPY & THE DUMPERS (St. Louis, MO)
BLEEDING GUMS (Chicago, IL)
SQUELCH (Little Rock, AR)
FETISH (Houston, TX)
SPELL BREAKER (Springfield)
STATUES OF THE DEAD (Springfield)

Stream the demo from the hot new Little Rock band SQUELCH on the player below. And we are working on updating our Dumb Fe5t page on our site and also the Dumb Fe5t facebook event with all of those bands ASAP!

May 17th at Dumb Records: Pussyfoot, GRINN, Spell Breaker

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Are you ready to hear about the next show happening inside Dumb Records? It is coming up quick, happening in just ten days on Wednesday, May 17th. This one will feature noise rock / sludge group “Pussyfoot” coming from Chicago. Can we say that name on the radio? Not sure. You can stream some of Pussyfoot’s music on the player below. In addition to them we do also have two hit Springfield bands. This includes the incredibly hard hardcore band GRINN. Smile! Also opening things up is the new hit sensational wizardly act Spell Breaker, featuring members of SAP and Lincoln’s Tomb.

Check it out, this show will be happening inside the store at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. Find a facebook event for this one right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for Black Sheep and all of Southtown right here.

Black Sheep Presents Cover Show Volume 6.5 at Bar None May 18th

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For the past three or four years we have been happy to team up with downtown bar Bar None (located at 245 S 5th street) with our annual cover show to offer this town and the 21 and up crowd a second performance of all of the acts. This year we got a little behind on picking out a date, but we are making things work over at Bar None for a second cover show on Thursday, May 18th! Don’t forget the Black Sheep Cover Show is now less than one week away and is still happening on Saturday, May 13th. The lineup for both shows is looking like it will be the exact same and goes as follows:

Livin’ Thing will be performing as Black Sabbath
Milestshirtsdotcom will be performing as Weezer
Gutterpriest will be performing as Divine

Nice! That one will start promptly at 9:00 over at Bar None (let’s say doors at 8:30 pm)? This one is ages 21 and up and admission is $5. Check out a facebook event for the Bar None show right here. Also be sure to check out our Springfield shows page for a list of shows happening in town outside of Black Sheep.

Tonight at Black Sheep: Doxx, Pryss, Dream Probe, Nervous Wreck, Prowess

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Tonight! Yes, we have a punk show going on at Black Sheep! We don’t even think we ever officially announced this one on our site. For this show tonight we have another punk band yet again coming to perform from outside the United States. That is the band Doxx from Canada. Check out some of their music streaming on the player below. Other than that this show is sure to be a hit because we have Springfield heavy hitter band Pryss on board also playing. Before that is a brand new Champaign/Urbana punk band Dream Probe (who are also playing Dumb Fe5t). Also on board is Nervous Wreck from Chicago. Opening things up is local act “Prowess” formerly known as Nagasaki. This will be their first gig with the new name.

Check out the show tonight starting right at 7:00 pm and 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 everything else coming up at Black Sheep this spring and summer.

Prowess: “Prowess EP”

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We are back here, and it’s the second day in a row for some new Springfield local music! Would you believe it, this is actually the first official demo releases that has been recorded by new hit recording studio Southtown Sound. Nice. This is a 6-track release by Springfield band “Prowess” formerly known as “Nagasaki”.

Prowess will be performing at Black Sheep tomorrow along with Doxx from Canada. Check out that new hot demo streaming below. Everyone would also like to thank Joe Coffey, best guy ever, for helping make this release possible. Head over to the Prowess bandcamp page to download the demo at your own price.

May 9th at Black Sheep: The F.U.F.S., Livin’ Thing

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We got a punk show coming up here at Black Sheep in just one week on Tuesday, May 9th. This one has seen quite a few lineup changes before we’ve even announced it hear and we are not sure what we are going to end up with for a final lineup, but we figure since it’s so close we better tell you about it right now! Even if there are only two bands! For this one we have the return of The F.U.F.S. hybrid Chicago / Oklahoma City band who last made an appearance inside Skank Skates for Dumb Fest 4-Ever last summer. Check out their music streaming on the player below. We also have Livin’ Thing- the Americana Rock N’ Roll band who will be performing a set of their own original hits. (You can catch Livin’ Thing perform at cover set as the band B**** S**** at the Black Sheep Cover Show on Saturday, May 13th).

This show will start at 7:00 pm and 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 this spring / summer.