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Tonight at Black Sheep: Abyss (EP Release), Sammy & The Punk, Fill In The Blank, Vacant Skies (Final Show)

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Hey! Did you know we will be having a show at Black Sheep tonight and it’s the only show happening this weekend? Tonight is going to be a big all-local lineup and the big EP release show for Abyss. Abyss will be coming out with their new EP called Dreadnought (pictured above). Opening up for them is a few acts, one of them being the driving punk rock band Sammy & The Punk. Before that is the pop punk project Fill In The Blank who we have not seen in a minute. And opening things up is a band we have not seen an even longer time- Vacant Skies who are also apparently playing their last show as a band tonight.

Tonight the show starts at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. Check out a facebook event for this one right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a good look at everything else we have coming up at Black Sheep in the near future.

Tonight at Black Sheep: Looming, Erik Nervous, Spodee Boy, Livin’ Thing

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Tonight’s the night for a big show happening at Black Sheep that we’ve been waiting quite some time for! Tonight we have Looming making a return to Springfield since last August- in town before they head to Texas for SXSW, after they made a stop in Chicago yesterday to record an Audiotree session. The band has also been hard at work on a new album. You can listen to the last recorded song they released on the player embedded below. The rest of this show is going to feature some wild & crazy punk acts. We have two other touring groups on the bill and those include “Erik Nervous” and “Spodee Boy” both from Michigan. Opening things up for this show on the big stage is the big time rock band Livin’ Thing.

Tonight the show will start at 7:00 pm and admission is $10 (since we have 3 touring bands to take care of). Surely this will be a gig not to miss. Check out a facebook event for this one right here, and also be sure to check out our shows page for a good look at everything else coming up at Black Sheep later this year.

Southtown Sound March Update

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The new Southtown recording studio Southtown Sound has recently unleashed a very big update upon us all at the start of this month with how the renovations for their space has been coming along and also plans for a grand opening. You can see a picture of how things are looking in the main room of the studio above. A grand opening and studio debut is now scheduled to take place on Sunday, March 26th along with the Black Sheep Annual Art Show (which we will have announcement post coming for soon). There will also be a soft opening the night before on the 25th.

Check out the full new studio update on their kickstarter page right here. More info can be found there on getting incentives shipped out, and booking recording time in the new studio. Expect updates from us on the first bands that record in the new studio, as well as new recordings as soon as they are ready!

Sunday, March 19th Black Sheep Presents A Show at Cafe Andiamo

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We are excited to announce another little partnership between us at Black Sheep and another local business. We are teaming up with Café Andiamo downtown to bring you one show in the basement of their space on Sunday, March 19th! Don’t miss this rare chance to catch an all ages show in downtown Springfield! We have a great lineup for this show including one touring act from California. Headlining the bill we have Bottom Bracket from right here in Springfield. Then on tour from Los Angeles we have the full band of Jason Paul– featuring one member of Benny The Jet Rodriguez who have played at Black Sheep before. Stream their music on the player below. Before that we have Springfield music legend Tom Irwin on board joining us for this one! Tom recently finished up a kickstarter champaign to produce a new album and release it on vinyl. Opening things up is a newer Springfield band called “The Little Death.”

This show will be at Café Andiamo (204 S 6th St). Things will start at 7:00 pm and we will be taking donations for the touring act. Check out a facebook event for the show right here. Also check out our Springfield shows page for a look at other shows happening in town outside of Black Sheep.

Tonight at Black Sheep: Falter, Pryss, Burdened, Thieves, Nagasaki

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How could we almost forget this mega huge hardcore show is happening at Black Sheep tonight? It’s our only show of the weekend too, so we best all come out and make it a big one! Tonight we have Falter returning to Black Sheep from Milwaukee for the first time since their crushing performance at the first day of Dumb Fest 4-Ever this past summer. They will be bringing the hardcore, and bringing it hard. Check out some of Falter’s music on the player below. Also on this show we have Springfield heavy hitting punk band Pryss. Also Burdened from Chicago will be performing, and so will Thieves – both bands have performed at Black Sheep a few years back. Opening things up we will have Nagasaki getting the crowd rowdied up.

This show will be starting at 7:00 pm and admission is $7. 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 other shows are coming up at Black Sheep in the near future.

New Arrivals This Week at Dumb Records

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Oh boy we are already half way through this week and maybe even more than that, but here are a whole bunch of new records that have hit the shelves of Dumb Records this week! Dumb Records is a record store right here in Southtown open every single dang day carrying records, cassettes, CDs, VHS tapes, and more. Let’s take a look at the store’s hours for the week and then what’s new:

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

Used LPs
Anodes – Anodes
Average White Band – Soul Searching
Bee Gees – Best of Bee Gees
Big Twist And The Mellow Fellows – Playing For Keeps
Billy Squier – Emotions in Motion
Black Joy – 22 Hits From Original Soundtrack
Blondie – Parallel Lines
Blood Sweat & Tears – New City
Brighter Arrows – Dreamliner
Carlos Santana / Manavishnu John McLaughlin – Love Devotion Surrender
Charles Dodge – Earth’s Magnetic Field
Charley Pride – Sweet Country
Count Basie – Evergreens
The Doors – Absolutely Live
Earl Hines – The Essential Earl “Fatha” Hines
Eddie Heywood – The Piano Style of Eddie Heywood
Emmylou Harris – Pieces of the Sky
George Benson – Breezin’
George Benson – In Flight
Hall & Oates – Live At The Apollo with David Riffin & Eddie Kendrick
Hammer – Black Sheep
Herbie Hancock – Secrets
Herbie Hancock / Willie Bobo – Succotash
Hot Chip – Why Make Sense?
The Human League – Dare
Humble Pie – Rock On
Irving Berlin – Say It With Music
Jean-Luc Ponty – The Gift Time
Jimmy Buffet – Volcano
Lindsey Buckingham – Law And Order
Loom – Frameworks
Mel Brooks – The Producers
Metronome All Stars – All Star Sessions
Miami Vice II – New Music From The Television Series
The Michael Stanley Band – You Break It… You Bought It!
Neil Young – Comes A Time
The Newfound Gap – Get It Together
Nilsson – Son of Schmilsson
Nona Hendryx – Skindiver
Octopussy – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Pat Metheny Group – Pat Metheny Group
Perfect Pussy – I Have Lost All Desire For Feeling
Peter Sellers / Ringo Starr – The Magic Christian Original Sound Track
Rainbow – On Stage
Santana – Moonflower
Santana – Welcome
Seals & Crofts – Summer Breeze
Seals & Crofts – Get Closer
Shadowfax – Watercourse Way
Stan Getz – Focus
Stan Getz and his Tenor Sax – Cool Jazz
Teddy Huffam And The Gems – Incredible
The Tennessee Three – The Sound Behind Johnny Cash
Teresa Brewer – Teresa Brewer’s Greatest Hits
Top Gun – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Traffic – Traffic
Various – Television’s Greatest Hits
Various – Vintage Music: Collectors Series
Various – Star Power
Various – Far Out
Various – Mind Bender
Wabeno Rock Farm – In Every Good Girl / Dracula School of Paper
Walt Disney – Fantasia: Soundtrack
West, Bruce & Laing – Why Dontcha
The Who – Quadrophenia
The Youngbloods – High On A Ridge Top

March 5th at The Radon Lounge: Edward + Jane, Alex & The XO’s, Kneller

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The next show happening at Springfield house venue The Radon Lounge is actually this Sunday, March 5th in less than one week. The creative basement space is mixing things up once again and will this time be featuring the paintings of a local artist – Amanda Greive up on their walls on display, and also some Baklava goodness from local restaruant Yanni’s Gyros. In addition to all of that of course there will be some music bands performing. This includes “Eward + Jane“- a touring duo from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Also playing this one is Alex & The XOs from Bloomington, Illinois. We actually have some of their music streaming on the player below. The third act on the bill here is “Kneller” – a new indie rock band in Springfield that we know nothing about!

Check out a facebook event for this show right here. Things are kicking off Sunday at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. If you don’t know where The Radon is, you better look into their website and ask them! Also check out our Springfield shows page for a list we try to keep updated of shows happening in town outside of Black Sheep.

Opposite Good: “1”

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Today we bring you a stream of another one of the first releases to come out of Springfield in 2017. This is the debut of a project called “Opposite Good” which is an ambient solo project of Vincent Sgro. You can find the three-track release called 1 streaming on the player below. Also head over to Opposite Good’s bandcamp page to download the tracks at your own price.

Vincent performed at our open mic inside Dumb Records last night and currently does not have any more shows lined up at Black Sheep as far as we know. Stay tuned for more Opposite Good shows. Stay up to date on all of the Springfield music that has come out this year and previous years at our big album archive page.

March 3rd at Black Sheep: Falter, Pryss, Burdened, Thieves, Nagasaki

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Here’s a show we just haven’t quite made an official announcement for yet on our site but it is coming up quick and it is going to be a big one. This upcoming Friday, March 3rd we have Falter returning to Black Sheep from Milwaukee for the first time since their crushing performance at the first day of Dumb Fest 4-Ever this past summer. They will be bringing the hardcore, and bringing it hard. Check out some of Falter’s music on the player below. Also on this show we have Springfield heavy hitting punk band Pryss. Also Burdened from Chicago will be performing, and so will Thieves – both bands have performed at Black Sheep a few years back. Opening things up we will have Nagasaki getting the crowd rowdied up.

This show will be starting at 7:00 pm and admission is $7. It’s our only show happening next weekend! 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 other shows are coming up at Black Sheep in the near future.

The Springfield Business Journal: “Hope For a Bright Future”

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Looking at the cover, most of you wouldn’t think that the cover of the Springfield Business Journal for the month of March 2017 has anything to do with what we are doing at Black Sheep or Dumb Records. The headline is “Hope For A Bright Future” and has a photo of Clavin Pitts who is director of a new Southtown-based business called South Town Training Center. Calvin has been hard at work renovating two buildings located at 1124 and 1122 South Grand Ave East, right across the street from Dumb Records and right next door to Walch’s Stained Glass Studio for close to a year now. From the article:

Inside a nondescript brick building in Springfield’s South Town business district, a wall covered with clear acrylic instead of drywall illustrates various tools and electrical wiring standards. Between the wooden studs, next to lineman pliers and a conduit bender, are inspirational messages about leadership and discipline.

Calvin Pitts built the wall as a teaching aid inside his South Town Training Center, which he’s opening this year as a space dedicated to offering construction training for people who might not have any other opportunity for a career. It’s an expansion of work Pitts started four years ago, providing job training and a healthy dose of hope. Soon, his students will learn skills such as solar panel installation and radon testing and mitigation through partnerships with other Springfield organizations.

Check out the full Springfield Business Journal online right here. The South Town Training Center’s program is set to be in full effect this spring as they are putting finishing touches on getting the buildings ready. It is certainly great to see new businesses popping up in our neighborhood!