Today we bring you a stream of Stick People‘s five-song release Lips, recorded right here in our neighborhood at Southtown Sound. Check out those tracks streaming below. Also head over to the Stick People bandcamp page to download the songs. Physical copies of this will be available at Dumb Records very soon! Also if you have not yet seen the music video to the second track “Lips” – be sure to go check it out right here.

Stick People do not have any shows currently lined up at Black Sheep! How about that!

Today we bring you new Springfield music from a local band that has not performed inside Black Sheep but they are still local and making original music! This is Springfield funk / rock / jam band The Station – who just released a full length album called Head On Tomorrow. You can check that out in its entirety streaming below. Head over to the band’s bandcamp page where you can purchase the download of the full album as well.

We have been trying to keep tracking all of the Springfield albums, EPs and demos released this year on our album archive page. It is tough to keep up!

Today we bring you some more new Springfield music yet again, this time from solo electronic pop project Eric Marvel. Last week Eric released a new 7-song EP called What A Disappointment. Is this release truly a disappointment? Or is it a blessing? How about you have a listen on the player below so you can decide? Head over to Eric Marvel’s bandcamp page where you can pay to download the EP or check out more of Eric’s music.

Eric Marvel will be performing on Saturday, September 23rd at The Pharmacy along with boon, Jeff Williams, and Timothy Donavan Russell.

Hi what’s up, we do have that hot new Springfield music coming at you fresh tonight. Here’s a new release from the music-making ambient machine Timothy Donavan Russell. This release is called Windows which features ten tracks of “the history of Windows system sounds all on one album.” Take a listen on the player below if you don’t believe that description. Also head over to Timothy’s bandcamp page right here where you can download the album and also listen to his other many, many albums. Timothy will be performing live next at The Pharmacy here in town on September 23rd.

So much music coming out of Springfield this year we are having a hard time keeping up! We are trying to keep track on our Springfield album archive, go check that out!

Although Summer may be at its end for this year, today we bring you a brand new release from Springfield recording project Forest Saints called Summer. The album is a whole 17 tracks and you can find it streaming below. From the Forest Saints bandcamp:

You are invited on an epic journey through the lush, exotic, tribal, playful, and psychedelic world of Summer. This double disc set (featuring 17 tracks) comes in a clear jewel case, and features the artwork of Anna Salzmann & Mark Schwartz.

Head over to the Forest Saints bandcamp page to download the album, also check out the wide collection of albums previously released by Forest Saints.

Today we are bringing you the latest installment from ambitious Springfield solo ambient project – Timothy Donavan Russell. Timothy is already on his third or forth release of this year – the newest being this release entitled Structures. Structures is eighteen tracks that went along with an art show that took place last month at The Pharmacy Gallery. Stream the entire release below, or head over to the Timothy Donavan Russell bandcamp page where you can purchase the digital download.

The Pharmacy Gallery near downtown on 5th street is also hosting another event called “Structures” on Saturday, August 12th. The event will feature art as well as live music by End Times Trio, Devin Larson, and Ted Keylon.

We may be a little late on telling you about this one, and some might not technically count it as Springfield music since it was written and recorded outside of our city – but that photo on the demo’s cover sure was taken in Springfield so we are counting it worthy of putting it up on our site. Brandon Carnes (Looming, Diaper Rash, Big Storm, etc.) came out with a new project within the past month or so called “Night Night Boy” and released a new 5 song demo on bandcamp. Brandon has gotten a full band together for the project and they have already performed one show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Brandon currently lives. You can stream that 5-song Night Night Boy demo on the player below. Also head over to the Night Night Boy bandcamp page to download the release at your own price.

Night Night Boy may or may not be playing Black Sheep Fest here on Saturday, August 5th.

Hello, here is something that we don’t really want to put up on our site, but it exists and it is kind of relating to Springfield music so here it goes! BJ Pearce of Bottom Bracket fame put together some sort of Diaper Rash-esque project here called “The Plunge.” We are not really sure what… why… but here it is. Something about him recording toilets flushing with microphones in a bathroom with vocal pedals. Stream this some type of demo or EP or something or other on the player below (we think it’s 7 songs)? Head over to The Plunge bandcamp page to download this piece at your own risk.

The Plunge will certainly not be playing any shows at Black Sheep any time in the near future. We are listing this as a release this year on our ultimate Springfield album archive though.

Today we bring you new music coming from Springfield/California hip hop artist Mikey Hash. Just recently Mikey came out with Ugly EP – a new five song release which you can find streaming on the player below. The release was also recently featured on Senclaire.com. Mikey doesn’t currently have any shows lined up at Black Sheep.

Check out our Springfield Album Archive for a look at all of the local releases that have come out this year so far.

Springfield solo ambient artist Timothy Donavan Russell sure is hard at work this year, already putting out two full albums of material and probably has even more coming. Today we are bringing you those two releases, both can be found streaming on the player below. The first is called Biosphere and was composed to be played in the background at the Pharmacy Gallery & Art Space‘s “Bio-Region” group exhibition, which took place March 24th and 25th, 2017. In the release you can hear some sounds common to Springfield and Central Illinois such as the Washington Park Carillon and some other sounds of nature. The second album, The Dark Path (pictured above) came out more recently about a month ago and features a whole 20 tracks on keyboard/synthesizers. Stream both of those below, or also head over to Timothy Donavan Russell’s bandcamp page where you can pay to download all of his releases. On the page Timothy also has a short release put together this year for the “100 Days” art exhibition out at UIS called Grab ‘Em.