How neat-o! On Friday, September 30th it looks like we will be hosting a show at Black Sheep that is completely free for those of you who can’t afford the usual five bucks at the door. We have a killer all local lineup for this show too. This one will feature heavy hardcore slammers, Pryss! Vote for them as Illinois Times best punk band if you so wish. From the other end of the musical spectrum, we have the feel-great indie rock pop band Vonne. How nice. Then we will be bringing in the waves with Springfield surf-rock band The Suction Cups! Opening things up is a performance by the two-piece duo, Spooky Poo.

This show will start at 7:00 pm. Admission is $0. You can find a facebook event for this one right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a good look at everything else coming up at Black Sheep in the near future.

Here’s another show that is coming up quick at Black Sheep that we have to announce! This one is happening on Thursday, September 29th just one week from tomorrow. You remember Euriah– the band from Champaign/Urbana who played that Looming show at Black Sheep last month? Well they are coming back for this one! We also have their new album available for purchase in Dumb Records if you are into them. This time Euriah will be coming with a project based out of Nashville, Tennessee called “Pocket Science.” You can stream some of Pocket Science’s music on the player below. Then we have a couple of locals on this show- including the acoustic duo from Decator- Spooky Poo. Very cool. Opening things up we have a solo set by Bloo Parks of the band Pryss.

This show will be starting at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. You can find a facebook event for this show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a good look at everything else coming up at Black Sheep this fall.

Here’s another show announcement for something that is happening in just two days here at Black Sheep. This one is happening this Friday, September 23rd. This one is actually seven whole bands, so it’s kind of a festival. It’s being called the “Farewell Summer Festival” actually, being put on by “Grow The Scene.” The lineup features seven rock groups all from the area. Come out and say a good “goodbye” to summer with us at this show. Here’s the lineup:

Stereo Static
Spooky Action
Bring on the Fall
Schnozzberry Jam
Skunkworks
Resistant to Reason
Sweet Bippy

Wow, that is a lot of bands that start with the letter “S”! Looks like this show will be starting at 6:00 pm, and things will be running late into the night. Tickets for this one are $8 in advance and $10 at the door (for those advance tickets you have to hunt down one of the bands before the show)! Check out a facebook event for this one right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a good look at everything coming up at Black Sheep this fall.

We continue with the show announcements for shows that are happening early September in less than one week! This one is happening on Monday, September 5th and it is going to be a rocker. We have the band Some Kind of Nightmare coming from San Diego, California. You can check out their music streaming on the player below. Also playing this show is the local rock group- “Sammy And The Punk” featuring both Sammy and his punk friend. Then we also have some sort of power punk band from Alton, Illinois called “Walloper” making their first appearance at Black Sheep. Opening things up it looks like we have the Taylorville based Battle of the Bands all-star band, Stems.

This show will start at 7:00 pm and it’s another $5 show. You can find a facebook event for the show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a good look at what is happening in September and later on in the fall at Black Sheep.

Squeezing a few more of those punk shows in before the summer is over! This one is happening on Wednesday, August 31st and it is going to be a five-band banger. For this show we have Springfield hardcore band Pryss who just got back from an eight-day tour. The touring act we have on this one is Prom Nite all the way from Toronto, Canada. Check out some of Prom Nite‘s music streaming on the player below. Other than that we also have the first Black Sheep performance for a new Peoria-based powerviolence band called “Stye” lined up for you all. Then before that we have the punk band Say Something taking the stage, and opening things up is a related project called “Statues of the Dead” which you might know as the band featuring a five-year old on drums from our Battle of the Bands last month.

This show will kick off at 7:00 pm and admission this time around is $6. You can find a facebook event for the show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page where you can see what else is coming up at Black Sheep these next few months.

We got a pretty dreamy show happening here on Monday, August 22nd here at Black Sheep. First off at the top of the bill we have “Anybody But The Cops” from Kalamazoo, Michigan playing some type of “jazz punk” or something or other. You can check out some of their music streaming on the player below. Then we have a couple of familiar solo projects coming from Chicago. We have Liz Panella of the band Earth Girls. Earth Girls performed here for Dumb Fest 3-D a little over one year ago. We also have Mark Plant of the bands Military Police and Broken Prayer (both have also played at Black Sheep). Opening things up we have Springfield surf and slide band Shark Week.

This show will start at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. You can 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 will be coming up at Black Sheep in the near future.

Looks like we have little bit of a mixed genre show here, coming up quick on Thursday, August 4th just two days before the quickly approaching Black Sheep Fest. We have Providence, Rhode Island-based metal group “Absence of Despair” coming for us at Black Sheep. Check out one of their songs on that player streaming below. We also have a couple of local acts. One of these includes the hard metal band Abyss! Then opening things up we have the rock n’ roll outfit “Sammy & The Punk” mixing things up for us.

This show will start at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. You can find a facebook event for this one right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page where you can find what else is coming up at Black Sheep these next few months.