Today we are bringing you yet another wave of bands being announced for Dumb Fest 3-D happening on June 12th and 13th in Southtown at Black Sheep, Dumb Records, Skank Skates, and South Town Studio. The announcements have been pouring in ever since the beginning of this month, and this isn’t even the last one! Let’s get into the new bands being announced:

CLOAKROOM from North West Indiana

ANIMAL TEETH from St. Louis, Missouri

MAYFAIR from Memphis, Tennessee

SLUGBUGS from Columbus, Ohio

SAP from Springfield

WIR KÖNNEN from Springfield

WARRS from Springfield

SINGLE PLAYER from Champaign

There you have it, eight more bands added to the Dumb Fest lineup making a total of 31 bands currently announced. You can find the full announced lineup right here on our Dumb Fest 3 page. Also find a facebook event for Dumb Fest 3-D right here. You can expect a fifth and final Dumb Fest announcement to come on our site very very soon, along with fest passes and ticket info.

Dumb Fest 3-D announcements are starting to roll in pretty hard, and this Sunday we have yet another wave of bands coming at you in 3-D! Today we are announcing eight more bands playing Dumb Fest 3-D in June, which gives us a current total of 23 bands announced for the big fest so far! Dumb Fest will be happening this year on Friday and Saturday, June 12th and 13th at Black Sheep, Skank Skates, South Town Studio, and Dumb Records. We might even say that this will be the biggest and best Dumb Fest yet? Let’s get into the bands being announced!

TENEMENT from Appleton, Wisconsin

BENNY THE JET RODRIGUEZ from Long Beach, California

BIG ZIT from North West Indiana

KNIVES from Springfield

THE BUG from Chicago, Illinois

FOREIGN LAWNS from Milwaukee, Wisconsin

RESINATER from Champaign/Urbana, Illinois

DRAINED from Peoria, Illinois

There you have it, kids! For the full list of bands currently announced for Dumb Fest 3, you can head over to the Dumb Fest 3 page on our site. Also check out a Dumb Fest 3 facebook event right here. Stay tuned for more Dumb Fest announcements, including ticket info and all of that jazz!

Looks like the Dumb Fest 3 announcements are rolling in fast, and we are already to the seconds big wave of band announcements today after announcing the first wave just a little less than one week ago! Today we are bringing you eight new bands being added to the lineup for Dumb Fest 3-D, happening Friday and Saturday, June 12th and 13th in Southtown. Let’s get right to it:

DOWSING from Chicago, Illinois

CAL & THE CALORIES from St. Louis, Missouri

ICE HOCKEY from Quad Cities, Iowa

KING WORM from Springfield

BUGG from Bloomington, Indiana

PARANOID CHANT from Houston, Texas

REDUCED TO INSTINCT from Bloomington/Normal, Illinois

DIAPER RASH from Springfield

There you have it! Eight more great bands that have been added to the lineup. Click on the link on each band’s name to find music online for each band. If you want to see which band is playing which day, head over to our Dumb Fest 3 page on our site. Or you can also head over to the Dumb Fest 3D facebook page, which will be updated with the new bands very soon.

Keep your eyes and ears peeled for more Dumb Fest announcements- more waves of bands will be coming as well as door times, and prices for tickets in the near future.

It’s March so that means it is time for us to dive into some big DUMB FEST 3 announcements!! Dumb Fest 3 will be happening on days Friday and Saturday June 12th and 13th in Southtown- at Black Sheep, Skank Skates, Dumb Records, and South Town Studio. This is the third Dumb Fest that Black Sheep has put on and we expect this one to be the biggest and best one yet. We’ll be dishing out the band announcements to you this month in five or so separate announcements. Ready for the first wave of bands? Here we go…

RUN FOREVER from Braddock, Pennsylvania

COMMON IGNORANCE from Houston, Texas

NUBILES from Kansas City, Missouri

GENOVIA FOREVER from Galesburg, Illinois

SHORT STORIES ABOUT THEIR DISTANCE from Bloomington/Normal

NECTAR from Champaign/Urbana

BAD BANSHEE from Springfield

Those are seven great bands for now! Stay tuned on the next Dumb Fest 3 announcements, and in the meantime listen to music from those seven bands by clicking their names. Also say updated on everything Dumb Fest related by checking out our Dumb Fest 3 page! Check out a facebook event for Dumb Fest 3 right here!

The past two summers in Southtown have featured the multi-band punk music festival extravaganza – DUMB FEST. Dumb Fest 1 happened two days in June in 2013 and featured 25 bands, and last year’s Dumb Fest also happened over the course of two days and featured a grand total of 46 bands. Tonight we are announcing that Dumb Fest 3 (or 3-D) is definitely happening, and it will take place Friday and Saturday June 12th and 13th. No bands are being announced at this point (you can expect those announcements to come around the month of March), but now you have the dates so you can start planning summer vacations and plane flights accordingly!

Dumb Fest 3 will be happening at The Black Sheep Cafe, Skank Skates, Dumb Records, and also South Town Studio (that’s four locations, wow)! You can also expect ticket pre-orders to pop up in March after most of the lineup has been announced. Stay on track with everything Dumb Fest related by following our Dumb Fest page. There is also now a new Dumb Fest facebook page that you can now follow. For photos of last year’s Dumb Fest, go here.

It looks like a new facebook page has been created for Dumb Fest (the whole fest, not just Dumb Fest 2 or 3). Dumb Fest is an annual music festival in Southtown focusing on DIY music and punk happening in Central Illinois, the Midwest, and the surrounding areas. The page has confirmed that planning for a third Dumb Fest has begun, but no dates or bands have been confirmed yet. You can be on the lookout for date announcements next month, and probably band announcements in March. Check out the new page right here.

Dumb Fest 2 happened last year on June 13th and 14th at Black Sheep, Skank Skates, Dumb Records, and South Town Studio. You can find a lot of photos from that event on our Dumb Fest 2 flickr album.

Thank you to everyone who made this past weekend a smashing success. Dumb Fest 2 sure was dumb. We can’t thank every one of you enough for your enthusiasm and support. Photos and a more in-depth recap of Dumb Fest 2 will be coming shortly!