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October 24th at Black Sheep: HOBGOB 2015 with LEFTOVER CRACK, NIL8, Days N Daze, All Torn Up, The Incorporated

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With October just around the corner, it is finally time for us to announce our BIG plans for a Halloween show this season! This year we will not be hosting a show on Halloween, but instead exactly one week before on Saturday, October 24th we will be hosting the all ages Hobgoblinspookadelic! Each year’s Hobgob show features long running Springfield punk band NIL8. Hobgob hasn’t been hosted at The Black Sheep since a couple of years back in 2013. We are thrilled to be hosting the show this year and have QUITE the lineup of touring bands to go along with. We have the band LEFTOVER CRACK from New York on this incredible bill. Leftover Crack and previous band Choking Victim featuring members of the same band, could be described as pioneers of the “crack rock steady” genre of music, and are extremely heavy hitters in the world of crust punk and ska punk. Leftover Crack will be heading here on tour with two other bands as part of their “Cracktoberfest” tour. The other two acts are Days N Daze from Texas, and All Torn Up from New York. Opening the show is the Central Illinois band The Incorporated.

This show will start at 7:00 pm. For this one we are doing $10 for tickets purchased in advance, and tickets will be sold for $12 at the door. To purchase tickets in advance, you can do so online right here, or also pick them up from Dumb Records during store hours (12-8pm every day). Find a facebook event for this one right here! And check out our shows page to see what else is coming up at Black Sheep this fall.

September 26th at Black Sheep: Abyss, Fill In The Blank, Chemical Twin, 8th Street Ahead, Capitol Chaos

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Looks like on Saturday, September 26th coming up later this month we have another show for fans of metal and pop punk alike! This show will feature and is being put on by Abyss as the headlining band, who were also our winners for the crowd-voting portion of the battle of the bands earlier this summer. This show will also feature Fill In The Blank, who put on a great CD release show last month. Also on the bill is a band called Chemical Twin which we do not know much about! Before them is 8th Street Ahead who have also played here once before. And then the fifth band on the lineup is Capitol Chaos, which will be sure to be causing some chaos here in the capitol city.

This show will start at 7:00 pm and admission is $7. You can’t find a facebook event, sorry! You can however check out our shows page for a good look at everything coming up in Southtown this fall.

September 19th at Black Sheep: Benefit For Tom Alderson

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There are a lot of big shows coming up at Black Sheep this fall, including festivals, and today we have news of another big show that could also be considered a festival with a whopping ten bands. This one is happening on Saturday, September 19th the day after the Black Sheep 10 Year Anniversary Show and it is also a benefit show. The benefit is for Tom Alderson, who plays in hardcore bands Crosscheck and Drown and was recently hospitalized after an alleged incident at This Is Hardcore Festival in Philadelphia. The lineup for this show features many hardcore bands from all over the midwest. Let’s take a look at what we’ve got:

Diaper Rash
Undeserving
Sermos
ILL BLOOD
Lowered A.D.
Meth Dealer
JÏG
Spitback
Breaking Wheel
Terminal Nation

That’s 10 whole bands playing for an all around great lineup of a show. The show will start at 5:00 pm sharp, and admission is $8. More info on this show can be found right here on the facebook event. Also check out our shows page where you can find a long list of other shows coming up at Black Sheep this fall.

October 17th at Black Sheep: Black Ops Agency, The Avant National Guard, Flamingo, Blind Social

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It’s time for all of the spooky October show announcements to start rolling in, starting with this one on Saturday, October 17th called “Pumpkin Slack” happening at Black Sheep. This four band show will feature plenty of local jam and rock music. For this show we have a performance by the long running Springfield experimental rock band, Black Ops Agency. We also have a newer experimental project coming out of Springfield being called “The Avant National Guard.” Before that we will be joined by the Jacksonville experimental/jam band Flamingo. Check out some of Flamingo’s newer music streaming below. And then opening things up we will be joined by Blind Social, who also just put on a great show at The Radon Lounge last night.

This show will start at 7:00 pm and admission will be $5. You can find a facebook event for “Pumpkin Slack” 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.

5th Annual Southtown Jubilee This Weekend Saturday + Sunday

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Each year at the end of August, Bourbon Street Bar (1031 S Grand East, across from Black Sheep) puts on the Southtown Jubilee featuring live music, food, and other vendors. This year they are expanding the festival, moving it across the street to the open lot on 11th and Brown Streets and getting the Black Sheep involved. We have our own time slot on the outdoor stage this upcoming Saturday, August 29th where we have a few acts playing. The Jubilee will also be happening for the rest of the night Saturday and also all day Sunday.

Saturday:
3:20 – Sammy and The Punk
2:40 – Roofus
2:00 – Ryan Nance

This show features Pana, IL acts Roofus and Ryan Nance who are also a part of getting a new community space and venue in Pana recently going called the Rose City Underground – The Refuge. We are excited to see some of the things coming out of Pana, and are thrilled to have them as a part of the Jubilee! The Black Sheep stage is from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm on Saturday, August 29th. The event is free and there will be food! Check out a facebook event for the show right here. Also check out our Black Sheep shows page for a list of upcoming shows happening in Southtown.

October 3rd at Rock N’ Roll Hardee’s: The Coneheads, King Worm, Wolf Luv, Cal & The Calories

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There are some exciting things happening in Springfield coming up this fall, and one of them is this show happening not at Black Sheep but instead at the outdoor stage at Rock N’ Roll Hardee’s on Stevenson Drive. It looks like there is an incredible rock n’ roll/punk show there going to be happening on Saturday, October 3rd. For this show there will be a performance by the North-West Indiana punk group The Coneheads, who were recently featured on Pitchfork Magazine. You can find some of The Coneheads’ music streaming below. This show features one Springfield punk band, and that is the slimy five-piece hardcore group King Worm. Then the Hardee’s stage will be visited by a real wolf, from the Champaign/Urbana band Wolf Luv. And to top all of that off, if this show wasn’t cool enough for you already we have the rock group Cal & The Calories from St. Louis featuring Cal himself. What a show!

The Rock N’ Roll Hardee’s show will start promptly at 6:00 pm, and go until about 9:00 pm. There is no admission, instead there will be a box for donations for the out of town acts. There of course will also be food for sale inside Hardee’s. This event is all ages, and alcohol is not permitted. Find a facebook event for this right here. Also check out our Springfield shows page for a list of local shows going on outside of Black Sheep.

September 13th at Black Sheep: Southtown Poetry Slam

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Here at Black Sheep we’ve had poetry readings at our more recent open mics and art shows. Next month we will be hosting the “Southtown Poetry Slam” which will feature plenty of local poetry readings. From 7:00-8:00 there will be an open mic for poetry readings. Then from 8:00 – 9:00 the stage will be taken by some special guests who will be reading poetry. Those special guests are Scott Faingold (of the band Epsom) and also Aubrey Puyear of Honey/Suck. After that at 9:00 there will be a slam competition that you will not want to miss!

The Southtown Poetry Slam begins at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. Benefits from this show will be going towards the Sala Creative Association– which is just recently starting up in Springfield. Find a facebook event for all of this right here. Also check out our shows page for a good look at everything else coming up at Black Sheep this fall.

September 10th at South Town Studio: Baja And The Blasters, Soy Babies, Gush

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We are gearing up for our first studio show of the fall here in Southtown- this one is happening on Thursday, September 10th up in South Town Studio. We got three bands playing up in the studio- two on tour from Texas. The first of those Texas bands is the Mountain Dew themed “Baja And The Blasters.” You can find them pictured above and their music is streaming below. On tour with them is another Texas band called Soy Babies. They will be joined by the newer Springfield hardcore band called Gush, which features members of WARRS, Asthma, and Table Drama.

This show will start at 7:00 pm up in the studio 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 look at everything else coming up at Black Sheep in the near future.

September 11th at Black Sheep: Say Something, Come Out Fighting, The Purps, Fifty Year Storm, Panzys

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11824924_858392340918991_5187742542803300693_n-1Today we have a show announcement for a show happening here at Black Sheep on Saturday, September 11th. It is a five band punk show featuring a few touring acts. For this show we have Say Something– the frantic local punk band that rarely plays shows. Then from Detroit, Michigan we have the band Come Out Fighting. Stream some of their music below. Come Out Fighting last played here at Black Sheep back in January. This time around they will be on tour with a band called “The Purps,” also from Michigan. Then before them we have the Champaign hardcore punk band Fifty Year Storm. And opening things up straight from Springfield is the rowdy punk band, Panzys.

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 where you can find out what’s going on here in the coming months.

September 4th at Black Sheep: “The Very Very Very Coo Show”

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11731952_10203016921822749_1713779126391818109_oComing up at Black Sheep on Friday, September 4th we have our next show being put on by “Cooshit” – a collective of musicians and a clothing brand. This show is being called the “Very Very Very Coo Show” and will feature a good mix of hip hop, R&B, and more. Here’s a list of who will be performing on that night:

Freddie Old Soul
Nighthawk
PhilYoPhil Phil Bibbs
Fleetwood Jones
Dooblavey
D.b. Cooper
Dios
Black Matt

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 is coming up this fall at Black Sheep.