Dumb Fest 3-D Announcement #4

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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 Announcement #3

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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!

Dumb Fest 3-D Announcement #2

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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.

Dumb Fest 3-D Announcement #1

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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!

DUMB FEST 3 at Black Sheep, Skank Skates, Dumb Records, and South Town Studio on June 12th and 13th

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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.

Dumb Fest Facebook Page

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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.

Dumb Fest 2 Coverage In Symphonic Magazine and Punktastic

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Dumb Fest 2 may have been over one month ago already, but the rest of the internet is not about to be done talking about how great of a time it was. Thanks to Dumb Fest 2 photographers Priten Vora and Franklin Wallace, photos of Dumb Fest 2 got out there and the Springfield-based punk festival is being noticed in a few online publications.

Online based music magazine Symphonic Magazine had a few pages dedicated to the fest in the most recent issue. You can find issue 10 of Symphonic Magazine right here, and be sure to skip ahead to pages 16-17 where you can read a write-up of Dumb Fest 2 and also find a few photos. From the write-up (by Priten):

Dumb Fest serves as an eye-opening reminder about why it’s so crucial to keep supporting local music scenes. Small, local shows and festivals have a very unique atmosphere about them. They are far more intimate than most concerts, and they have an easygoing freedom about them that is extremely rare to see at larger festivals and venues. There are no security guards, no barriers, and no real restrictions. The organizers choose to trust people to regulate themselves, and the local community responds by not letting them down. Dumb Fest hits a sweet spot when it combines the efficiency needed to run events like this with the ability to give showgoers the sense of free dome to do whatever they want, and I look forward to attending more for many years to come.

Aside from Symphonic Magazine, popular punk and indie photo site Punktastic also featured a gallery of photos taken by Franklin Wallace of Dumb Fest 2. If you like the photo pictured above, you might want to check the rest of them out right here. We are also constantly adding to our Dumb Fest 2 photo album on flickr. You can find that album right here. Don’t forget that we are also hosting Black Sheep Fest this Saturday.

Photos: Dumb Fest 2

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Dumb Fest 2 was a few weeks ago and we have been slowly gathering the tons and tons of photos and videos that resulted in the awesome and crazy weekend. Today we are bringing you a lot of those photos, and more will probably be on the way. We’ve gathered a collection that you can find below, but you can also head over to the Dumb Fest 2 album on our flickr for all of the photos (there are hundreds of them).

Thank you to all of our photographers at Dumb Fest 2 this year including AJ Francis, Lisa Marie, Ben Smith, Priten Vora, and Franklin Wallace!

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WUIS on Dumb Fest 2

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Dumb Fest 2 is already over, but we thought we would let you know that Springfield college radio group WUIS was kind enough to feature a segment on Dumb Fest 2 this past Friday, right before the festival happened. WUIS interviewed Dumb Fest coordinator Brian Galecki about what the fest is all about and what everyone could expect. You can check out that ten minute piece right here.

Dumb Fest 2 happened this past weekend and was a rousing success. Will there be a Dumb Fest 3?

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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!