Greetings! We hope all of you that went out to the show at Bar None last night had a good time and are ready for the weekend. We have no shows at Black Sheep this weekend, but we do have a pretty packed schedule next weekend starting with this show on Thursday, May 25th. This show features ambient / indiepop artist Ben Dipper from Kansas. Stream some of Ben’s music on the player below. We also have local groove rock band Blind Social on board, who we haven’t seen at Black Sheep for a minute. Other opener includes the ambient solo act “Opposite Good,” and then we are kicking things off with a performance by Mike Fritz of the band Spooky Action.

This show will start at 7:00 pm. Admission is $5. Check out a facebook event for this one right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a better look at everything coming up at Black Sheep this summer.

Are you ready to hear about the next show happening inside Dumb Records? It is coming up quick, happening in just ten days on Wednesday, May 17th. This one will feature noise rock / sludge group “Pussyfoot” coming from Chicago. Can we say that name on the radio? Not sure. You can stream some of Pussyfoot’s music on the player below. In addition to them we do also have two hit Springfield bands. This includes the incredibly hard hardcore band GRINN. Smile! Also opening things up is the new hit sensational wizardly act Spell Breaker, featuring members of SAP and Lincoln’s Tomb.

Check it out, this show will be happening inside the store at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. Find a facebook event for this one right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for Black Sheep and all of Southtown right here.

We are back here, and it’s the second day in a row for some new Springfield local music! Would you believe it, this is actually the first official demo releases that has been recorded by new hit recording studio Southtown Sound. Nice. This is a 6-track release by Springfield band “Prowess” formerly known as “Nagasaki”.

Prowess will be performing at Black Sheep tomorrow along with Doxx from Canada. Check out that new hot demo streaming below. Everyone would also like to thank Joe Coffey, best guy ever, for helping make this release possible. Head over to the Prowess bandcamp page to download the demo at your own price.

We got a punk show coming up here at Black Sheep in just one week on Tuesday, May 9th. This one has seen quite a few lineup changes before we’ve even announced it hear and we are not sure what we are going to end up with for a final lineup, but we figure since it’s so close we better tell you about it right now! Even if there are only two bands! For this one we have the return of The F.U.F.S. hybrid Chicago / Oklahoma City band who last made an appearance inside Skank Skates for Dumb Fest 4-Ever last summer. Check out their music streaming on the player below. We also have Livin’ Thing- the Americana Rock N’ Roll band who will be performing a set of their own original hits. (You can catch Livin’ Thing perform at cover set as the band B**** S**** at the Black Sheep Cover Show on Saturday, May 13th).

This show will start 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 good look at what else is coming up at Black Sheep this spring / summer.

We have a whopper of an ambient, noise, and free jazz show going on here at Black Sheep on Saturday, April 29th before this month is done. You’ll have the chance to catch five acts all doing interesting things based out of Springfield. This includes the wild and noisy avant guard act T.A.N.G. who we have not seen performing at Black Sheep in a minute. Also a few ambient acts, including a project with the long name of “Letters from the Schumann Resonance.” Timothy Donavan Russell will be bringing the ambience to The Black Sheep stage as well- Timothy actually just came out with a new album called “Biosphere” that you can check out right here. We’ll have a separate post for that shortly. It’s also been a minute, but End Times Trio will be performing at that one. End Times Trio is the free jazz project featuring professor Richard Gilman-Opalsky who gave a talk and book release at Black Sheep at the start of this year. Looks like things for this one will be opening up with Pretend I’m Not There who’s music you can stream on the player below.

This show will start early at 6:00 pm since there is so much packed in to one night and admission is $5. Check out an event page right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page to take a closer look at everything else coming up at Black Sheep this spring and summer.

Today we have a show happening at Black Sheep a little over just ten days away on Wednesday, April 26th that is just two acts as of right now. We have Charlotte Berg– indie pop singer and songwriter from Nashville, Tennessee coming to Black Sheep to perform for this one. Check out a video of hers embedded below. Then we have supporting local act and alternative rock band Stereo Static also on the bill. That’s it for right now!

This show will start 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 list of shows coming up at Black Sheep this spring.

Here’s an exciting show coming up at Black Sheep that we haven’t made an official announcement through our site yet for. This one is happening on Monday, April 17th and will feature the next band to play at Black Sheep from outside of the country. That is Futuro from São Paulo, Brazil who will be doing a US tour this month. Check out their music on the player below. They also made it to the cover of Maximum Rocknroll for the month of April! Also playing this show is rock n’ roll all stars Livin’ Thing. Then we have the first ever performance of a brand new Springfield band called “Spell Breaker.” We don’t know what they are going to sound like, but we do know that the band features members of the bands SAP and Lincoln’s Tomb. Neat! Opening things up is the industrial darkwave sounds of Weeping Iniquity.

This show wills start at 7:00 pm and admission is $7. Check out a facebook event for the show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a good look at what else is coming up at Black Sheep this spring.

Gosh dangit, we have a show here on Saturday, April 8th with seven whole bands. This one is being called “springing into 2017” or something. For this one we have the band Welcome Home on tour from St. Louis. We will be welcoming them to Springfield. Check out their music on the player below. We have a good number of bands from out of town from the Central Illinois area on this show. This also includes “Unamused Dave” from Peoria. We are unamused at that band name, Dave. Also we have “Avoid” from somewhere around here (that band is really hard to search for on google to find their music)!! Also “Shoot The Messenger” from Tinley Park, Illinois. Then this show also has a few bands familiar to the Black Sheep stage. We have Ashland from somewhere around here who last played here in October. Also Sidelined who played the last Ashland show and again at Black Sheep another time since then. Last band we have to list off is Gadget from Decatur. We are not sure the order those bands will be playing!

This show will start at 6:00 pm sharp and admission is $7. Check out a facebook event for the show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a list of what else is going on this spring at Black Sheep right here.

Ready to hear about some more new things that we are trying out in Southtown? We’ve been upping the wide variety of shows at Black Sheep for the past few years with more hip hop, poetry, and art, as well as open mics, even theater performances, etc. We are ready to keep being open to new genres of shows with this electronic show at Black Sheep on Friday, April 7th! There are four acts lined up on the bill from around the area. At the top of the poster is “Hippie Squishers” from Peoria, Illinois. You can check out some of their music on the player embedded below. Then over from Decatur, Illinois we have “Vanilla Gorilla” who will be “DJing some of the freshest beats.” Before that is Hood E. Klimate, who also runs “Killinoize Productions”. Then from Springfield and possibly first up is “Kabass” who will probably bringing some of that bass.

This show of course is all ages (drug and alcohol free), will start at 7:00 pm and there will be a $7 cover. Check out a facebook event for the show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a good look at what else is coming up at Black Sheep in the near future.

Trying to stay on top of our show announcements over here! This one is happening a week from tomorrow on Tuesday, April 4th. Can you believe it’s already almost April? For this one we have the band Sinai Vessel returning from Tennessee. Last time the band came through was actually a little over two years ago and they played with Looming. Check out their newest album which came out earlier this year on the player below. Also on this show we have Springfield studio-pros in the band Bottom Bracket. We had a neat time seeing them at Cafe Andiamo a week ago. Turns out they are the only Springfield act on this show too, wow. The other big touring band on the bill is Household from Minnesota. They played here last in February of 2015. Before that we have a solo performance by Austin McCuten from St. Louis of the band Choir Vandals. Then opening things up is Gadget from Decatur.

This show will start 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 some other shows coming up at Black Sheep this spring.