This one may seem like a little ways off, but on Monday, August 15th we have a pretty good alternative show going on at Black Sheep. This show will feature the very unique band from Chicago, Illinois called The Cell Phones (pictured above). The Cell Phones describe their own sound as dance-pop meets grindcore meets post-punk meets funk. Hmmm, that sounds like it just about covers it all! You can listen to some of their music on the player below. Also on this show and the headlining local act is the local alt-rock band The Complaint Line. We also have the treat of seeing groove-punk band Moondead. Possibly opening things up we have the spooky surf rock group- The Suction Cups.

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 a full list of shows coming up at Black Sheep this summer.

Oh, shoot! It’s going down! It’s another hip hop show happening at Black Sheep! This one is happening on Friday, July 22nd. There are a total of five acts performing on this bill, most of which we had on a show back in December. We welcome local hip hop artist Brandon Austin back to the stage. We also have “Shooz”! Then also “The MB” aka “The Mama’s Boy” aka Zach Raps. Before that is “Third L” and last but not least we have Roddrick Lemar, all talented hip hop artists from the area. Sorry we can not find any recorded music for any of those artists.

This show will start at 7:00 pm, and we thiiiink the show costs $5. No facebook event for this one, just the flier, sorry. You can find a list of what all we have coming up this summer on our shows page.

Is it too late to squeeze in another show announcement for this month? We hope not. We have a show happening here on Friday, June 24th it looks like to tell you about today. Just three acts on this one, including Our Lady who just got done headlining the first night of Dumb Fest 4-Ever, which was a memorable night. The touring band on this bill is Cellars from Nashville, Tennessee. You can check out a song of theirs streaming below. And then opening things up we have a solo acoustic performance by Austin Connelly of the band Wir Können. Come check that out.

This show will start at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. 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 else is coming up at Black Sheep this summer.

The weekend following Dumb Fest we have a few shows going on, most of them pretty short and sweet compared to this crazy weekend we have coming up. This is a four band rock show happening on Saturday, June 18th. Be sure to check out The Horse Show going on during the day at the Refuge Ranch as well. For this show we have a local band called “Trouveur” who have not yet performed at the Black Sheep. In fact, this whole show might be made of local bands performing at Black Sheep for the first time! Check out one of Trouveur’s songs streaming on the player below. For this show we also have the heavy metal group Dedwayte. Then before that we’ll be taking a trip over to 108th Street (to see the band 108th Street). Opening things up looks like we have a newer local metal band called Abolith.

This show will start a little bit earlier at 6:30 pm, and this time around admission is $10 unless you pick up a ticket beforehand from one of the bands for $8. Check out a facebook event for this concert right here. Also check out what else we are planning this summer on our shows page.

On Friday, June 17th we have an all-local show coming up that is going to be very “chill” and relaxed and just full of solo projects. None of these projects have any band links or any music online, sorry. At the top of the bill we have the newer mysterious industrial project called Ceiling Lust. And then pictured above and next on the list is the loud, ambient guitar project of B.J. Pearce called “Pretend I’m Not There.” Then we have a couple of solo acoustic performers. The first of those is Mario Cannamela (of bands Wir Können and Livin’ Thing), and then we have Blue Parks (of the band Pryss).

This show will start 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 what other shows we have coming up at Black Sheep this summer.

For the past few years we haven’t been too big on shows happening on the 4th of July at Black Sheep but looks like this year it’s happening. This show is happening on Monday, July 4th and it will be a real banger. We have the Decatur Illinois-based metallic hardcore band Capitol Offense playing. Then the touring act on the bill is Nequient from Chicago (pictured above). You can check out some of Nequient‘s music on the player streaming below. Also we have a couple of patriotic local bands on the bill, including Starlorde to represent those stars and stripes, and also Torture Trend.

This show will be another 7:00 pm, $5 show. It might get out in time for us all to catch the fireworks downtown. Check out a facebook event for this one right here. Also check out our shows page for a better look at everything else going on at Black Sheep this summer.

Here we have a show happening at Black Sheep at the end of this month on Wednesday, June 29th. This show will feature a couple of bands we haven’t seen in a minute, notably the once Central-Illinois pop punk project, now Chicago-based Horrible Things. Stream Horrible Things’s LP on the player below. We also have Springfield pop punk power band Hospital Job, who we have not seen on a show in a minute. We also have the grunge punk three piece SAP. And then looks like opening things up we have the newer feel good alternative rock band featuring members of Nephrons and Say Something, called Attic Salt.

This show will be a standard 7:00 pm, $5 show. You can find a facebook event for this one right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a look at what else is coming up at Black Sheep this summer.

We have another metal show coming up to tell you about. This one is coming up quick, happening Wednesday, June 15th and will actually be our first show after Dumb Fest 4-Ever is over with. This show features the metal/post-hardcore band from Cleveland, Ohio called “Along Came A Spider.” They will be coming here on tour with Roots Like Mountains from Colorado, who performed here at Black Sheep early just this year. Stream a track by Roots Like Mountains on the player embedded below. Then we have a couple of local metal acts on the bill, including local metalcore act Set Fire To Salem. Opening things up is the hard rock metal band Abyss.

That show is going to start at 7:00 pm and door admission is $10 this time around. Check out a facebook event for the show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page with a list of other upcoming shows right here.

Show announcement of the day right here, we have a show happening on Saturday, July 2nd which will be the new album release show for Fill In The Blank. The band has a new album dropping for this show being called I Heart Mom. We have another four bands on the bill, including “The Great Indoors” and “Tomorrowz End” neither of which have played at Black Sheep before from what we know of, so expect some new things! We also have Stereo Static on the bill, the new alternative/pop-punk project. Then opening things up for this show is the three-piece pop group The Locals.

This show is another 7:00 pm and $5 entry show. You can check out a facebook event for this show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a look at what else is coming up at Black Sheep in the near future.

Oh boy, now it’s time for us to catch up on those show announcements and get our shows calendar back up to date. This weekend a lot of the fun is going to be happening downtown at SOHO Music Festival, but we do have a show happening at Black Sheep on Friday night (in just two days) that is going to be a benefit for a stroke victim. We have a whole six bands on this one, of all different types of genres so it is sure to be a good time had by all. Top of the bill, (going first? or last? we are not sure) is Spooky Poo, who made a recent appearance at our last open mic. Check out some of their music streaming on the player below. We have another Decatur project related to Spooky Poo called “Gadget” playing for the first time at Black Sheep. Then coming from Peoria and also familiar to the Black Sheep stage is pop punk band Terribly Happy. Then we have the Champaign/Urbana area folk punk rocker band Old Fox Road. We also have Moondead. And last but not least is Sammy And The Punk.

This show is starting promptly at 7:00 pm and admission for this 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 what else we have coming up at Black Sheep this summer!