Ah yes, yet another Bread Stretchers show for us to tell you about. This one happening on Thursday, May 2nd just a day after the show we announced yesterday. This show features a touring act called “GRLWOOD” playing some scream-pop-rock music from Kentucky. Check them out on that player below! We also have This Is A Stick Up from Decatur, coming out and playing their first Bread Stretcher gig. Also Night Night Boy, Springfield’s newest emo-indie supergroup. Last but not least is Dexter – some solo beautiful music that you will enjoy.

This show will start 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 what else is coming up at Bread Stretchers in the near future!

Today we are excited to announce the first show at Bread Stretchers featuring some bands from outside of the country! (Or at least since Bread Stretchers re-opened). They are two groups from Canada. One is called “CELL” and you can find their music streaming on the player below. Hardcore from Montreal, Quebec? Then on tour with them and also from Montreal is “CPU Rave“. Oh, and by the way this show is happening on Wednesday, May 1st. Both of those bands play hardcore punk music. Good thing we have Springfield hardcore punk music band Grave Switcher also on board for this show! And what’s this? Opening things up we have a brand new band called “Prevention” featuring members of No Cash Value, Final Order, and Grave Switcher?

This starts at 7:00 pm on May 1st. In case you didn’t know, Bread Stretchers shows start on the DOT. Admission is just five bucks. Find a facebook event for this one right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a good look at what else is coming up at Bread Stretchers in the near future.

And yet here is another show coming up happening at Bread Stretchers in a little over two weeks for us to tell you about! This one happening on Friday, April 26th. We’ve got two touring acts on the lineup for this one! One coming from upstate New York – “Science Man” which features members of Dumb Fest 6 band Radiation Risks. Also on tour (but not touring together) is a newer group from Chicago called Dendrons. They just have one song up online, which you can find streaming on the player below. We are lucky to have support from the psychedelic noise project “Schedule One” and also the one man band “Lord Mitchell“, both of which will be playing at Bread Stretchers Gourmet Sub Shop for the first time in their entire lives.

This show starts at 7:00 pm and admission this time is $6. 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 else is coming up at Bread Stretchers in the near future.

Today we are excited to announce a pretty big show that’s going to be happening at the new and fake Bread Stretchers Lounge downtown! (Maybe something about it is fake, but this show that is happening is very real). If any of you remember the jazz fushion group Marbin that came through Black Sheep last year and blew us all away, they will be returning! Oh by the way this is happening on Thursday, April 25th coming up in a couple of weeks! Check out their Wikipedia page right here to learn more about the group, which features two brothers from Israel (pictured above) who are now based out of Chicago. This time they will be touring with a solo musician who is opening up the show and that is Ben Delaurentis from Virginia. Check out some of Marbin’s music on the player below.

This one starts at 7:00 pm. Admission is $10 in advance and $15 at the door. You can look into getting advance tickets right here. Find a facebook event here. Also check out our shows page for what else is coming up at Bread Stretchers which is located near 4th and Monroe or 4th and a halfth streets downtown or something like that.

Today we have another show happening at Bread Stretchers later this month to tell you about. (In less than two weeks actually) – this one is happening on Easter Sunday believe it or not on Sunday, April 21st. Is it a good idea to have a show on Easter Sunday? We’ll find out. For this one we have Milwaukee, Wisconsin touring act “Gangstalker” on the bill. Stream their seven minute long demo on the player below. They will be on tour with a group called “Mister“. Mister who? We are not sure. Local support on this show will come from local hardcore group Graveswitcher – playing their first Bread Stretcher gig. Opening things up is Final Order also local hardcore.

This show starts 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 look at what else is coming up at… Bread Stretchers in the near future.

Today we have another show happening for us to tell you about going on right next door to us at Bread Stretchers, on Record Store Day! It’s looking like downtown is going to be the place to be on Saturday, April 13th! For this show we have a solid bill, one touring act and three locals. The touring act on the bill is “Parkway And Colubmia“, a group that had played at Black Sheep at some point in recent years from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Check out their music on the player streaming below! This show is going to close out with Stick People the 90’s grunge / punk group from Taylorville Illinois. We also have Heck, solo project of Hannah Songer from Bloomington, Illinois. Opening things up is the re-vamped better than ever Kate Laine aka “Kate The Band” performing as a three-piece full band. This should all be a good time.

This show kicks off next door to us at Bread Stretchers at 7:00 pm sharp on Record Store Day. Admission is just $5. Check out a facebook event here. Check out our shows page to see what else is coming up at Bread Stretchers.

Here’s another big big big show that we have not done up an official announcement post for! Wow! One of the last ever Black Sheep Show: on Saturday, December 22nd we have a mega lineup of a punk/hardcore show that you will not believe. First off, the bands Pryss and Livin’ Thing will BOTH be playing their FINAL shows ever. Both bands started at the very beginning of 2015 (right?), and now they are ending things along with the end of our venue. Then we have a band in hardcore music and one of the best in hardcore music: BIB. If you don’t believe us you can stream some BIB on the player below. We also have the return of Devil’s Den from Kansas City, Missouri who just played here last month. Also Power of Dusk from Champaign/Urbana. Opening things up is the first ever performance of a brand new Springfield band called Blushe.

Wow. This show starts at 7pm and admission is $7-10. Find a facebook event for the show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page to take a look at the nine shows we have left.

Wow, can you believe it!? We have not actually made an official show announcement post for this mega-show happening on Friday, December 21st. This one is being called the “Hobgoblinspookakrumpus” and features long running Springfield punk band NIL8 performing for the last time inside our space. Wow! We also have Taylorville’s own Stick People on board playing for the first time in a while as well. Also a band we have not seen at Black Sheep in a minute – Attic Salt! Stream their music on the player below. Another band featuring members of Attic Salt we haven’t seen in a minute is playing: Starter Jackets. And yet another band that hasn’t played Black Sheep in a long time – Statues of The Dead is teaming up with ANOTHER one – Say Something for a big ol’ collaborative set to open things up. Wow!

This show starts at 7:00 pm and admission is $5-10, pay what you want. Check out a facebook event for this one right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page to look at everything else coming up for this final month of Black Sheep.

We are wrapping up on all of our final show announcements at Black Sheep in the space we have known it to be for over 13 years! It truly is a bittersweet time. Here is a show happening on Friday, December 14th featuring a solid group of local punk bands. We have Graveswitcher – the loud and crushing new hardcore band featuring members of many other local groups. We also have Prowess – this will be their last set inside Black Sheep so surely something goofy will happen, right? Also MAC – the punk rock group that released an EP earlier this fall. Last but not least is No Cash Value – back and better than ever with a brand new lineup.

This show will start at 7:00 pm and admission is just $5. No reason not to come out and have a good time! 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 all is coming up at Black Sheep before we shut our doors at the end of the month and begin a big move.