April Fools! April Fools day is coming up quick, and what do you know the holiday falls on a Saturday this year. So on Saturday, April 1st (this upcoming Saturday) we have a four band show going on at Black Sheep. This includes the cosmic weirdo band from right here in Springfield, Sweet Bippy. Stream some of that sweet, Sweet Bippy music on the player at the bottom of this post. This show will also be the debut of a brand new Springfield band called “Loudmouth Bo Dean Band” which is the new project of Bo Lowder, formerly of the band “Lowder” and a few other projects. Up before them you better have your phones ready because The Complaint Line will be taking the stage. Opening things up is the rock and roll Pana duo, Roofus.

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 everything else coming up in Southtown this spring.

Another show announcement here, and this one is for a show happening in just six days on Friday, March 31st. We have returning friends Lume from Chicago who have been here a good number of times and played here last in the fall for Our Lady’s final show. You can stream some of their music on the player below. Then we have a rare full-band version of the B.J. Pearce ambient project Pretend I’m Not There. Don’t miss a surely powerful performance from them. Before that once again we have Krelboyne who also performed here last month for our Valentine’s Day show. Then we have Drained from Peoria, Illinois- a band that may have performed here last for Dumb Fest 3-D which happened the summer of 2015? Who knows! Opening things up is a solo performance by Blue Parks of the band Pryss.

This show starts at 7:00 pm and admission is $6. Check out a facebook event for this one right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a look at everything else coming up at Black Sheep this spring.

We have a LOT of shows and events coming at us full force now that spring is here in Southtown. A lot of which we need to catch up on announcing! This show is happening coming up quick this Saturday- right after the “Get Connected” hip hop event takes place at Black Sheep from 2:00 to 6:00 pm that same day. This one’s a punk show starting at 7:00 pm that night. It will feature your local favorites- including the hardcore space act Starlorde. Stream Starlorde’s unstoppable four-track demo on the player below. We also have GRINN bringing more of that hardcore. Before them is a newer Central-Illinois based punk band called “Magma Diver.” Before them is school bus far bomb punk band Nagasaki. Opening things up we have a rare performance by the band Undone- who last took the Black Sheep stage before a UIS professor’s book release in January.

This show again will start at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. Check out a facebook event for this one right here. Also check out our shows page for a look at everything else coming up at Black Sheep in the near future.

Here’s a show we just haven’t quite made an official announcement for yet on our site but it is coming up quick and it is going to be a big one. This upcoming Friday, March 3rd we have Falter returning to Black Sheep from Milwaukee for the first time since their crushing performance at the first day of Dumb Fest 4-Ever this past summer. They will be bringing the hardcore, and bringing it hard. Check out some of Falter’s music on the player below. Also on this show we have Springfield heavy hitting punk band Pryss. Also Burdened from Chicago will be performing, and so will Thieves – both bands have performed at Black Sheep a few years back. Opening things up we will have Nagasaki getting the crowd rowdied up.

This show will be starting at 7:00 pm and admission is $7. It’s our only show happening next weekend! 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 other shows are coming up at Black Sheep in the near future.

Look at that show with those nice little snapshots of those bands! We have a sweet little three-band show happening here on Wednesday, March 1st to tell you about. This show features the psychedelic rock band Open Fields from Little Rock, Arkansas who will be on tour. Check out their music on the player below. Pretty neat! We also have some familiar locals on the bill. This includes the two-piece indie folk project Spooky Poo from Decatur. And also the alternative grunge rock band Stereo Static will be taking the stage for this one.

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 better look at everything else coming up at Black Sheep these next few months.

We announced a show happening at Black Sheep on Saturday, February 18th (one week from tomorrow) a while back. It is to feature Sidelined, Crowns, Stems, Low Weather, Pretend I’m Not There, and Mystery Gift. In addition to all of that going on at Black Sheep, we have an unauthorized experiment of two acts to add to the mix that will be performing inside Dumb in between bands at Black Sheep. Those will be Black Bloc (noise electronic act from New York), and also the intense local noisecore act Gutterpriest. Black Bloc also performed at South Town Studio last summer.

Check out a facebook event for the show at Black Sheep right here. The whole night will kick off at 7:00 pm. The show inside Black Sheep is $8, and for the acts inside Dumb Records we will be taking donations. Also donations = tacos!? Sounds good to us! More upcoming shows at Black Sheep / Dumb Records on our shows page right here.

Look at this, we have a bit of a last minute show coming up to tell you about in a little less than a couple of weeks happening on Friday, February 10th! This show will feature Champaign/Urbana band Single Player (possibly their first show here since the very first show of 2016 last year). Check out a hot new Single Player track that just dropped today right here at New Noise Magazine. Also stream some of their earlier tunes on the player below. Also on this show we have the rambunctious Springfield high school punk band Nagasaki on board tearing up the dance floor. Before them is “Bottom Bracket” aka “Christmas Cannamela” aka “The Roman Candle Drive Guys”. Opening things up for this show we have the solo ambient act Kenyon Deshasier.

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 winter/spring.