It is finally time for us to announce our big Black Sheep Holiday Show, happening this year on Saturday, December 20th (at Black Sheep of course). This holiday show we are going to get together and drink hot chocolate and cry because the feel-good rock group Big Storm will be playing their final show. We have been told that the band is calling it quits, but they plan on releasing all of their unreleased material they have at this show. Come out and listen to Big Storm one last time. Also on this show is the emo rock group Wir Können, which is now based out of Champaign/Urbana, and Bloomington, Illinois. In addition to that we have our battle of the bands all-star band, The Locals. Also going somewhere in the lineup will be one out of town band called Lamp from the Chicago area. They play experimental stuff that you can stream below.

This show will start at 7:00 pm and cost $5. You can find a facebook event soon, but in the meantime check out our shows page for a look at everything coming up at Black Sheep.

Looks like that on Saturday, December 13th Black Sheep has this monster of a hardcore show lined up and ready to attack. Get ready for some heavy stuff. For this show we have grind band Cloud Rat coming from Michigan and doing a collaboration set with other band Plagues. You can check out some of Cloud Rat’s music streaming below. The bands will be on tour with heavy sludge band Disrotted from Chicago. Then we have a performance by Springfield’s own wacky punk band Teen Freak. Also lined up and also from Chicago is The Wrong, who are coming back and making up for a show that they dropped here back in October. We are excited to have them. Opening this show up is a brand new Springfield hardcore band going by the name Diaper Rash. Who is in this band? No one knows.

This show will start at 7:00 pm and the door charge to support the touring acts is anywhere between $5 and $7 (we’ll let you pick). You can find a facebook event for the show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page where you can find a complete list of everything coming up in Southtown.

On Saturday, December 6th this year we have a show with a killer lineup made to get us through the winter months. For this show we have Dan Vapid & The Cheats coming to Chicago to play at Black Sheep. For those of you unfamiliar with Dan Vapid, he has played in punk bands for years including Screeching Weasel, Riverdales, The Methadones, Sludgeworth, The Mopes, and Noise By Numbers. Stream some music from Dan Vapid & The Cheats on the player below. Also coming from Chicago for this show will be Death And Memphis. For Springfield bands we have Looming lined up to play, which should be a real treat. We also have a performance by Springfield’s own Hospital Job, which will be their first local show since returning from The Fest in Gainesville last month. To top the show off it looks like The Seething Coast will be opening things up with a good start.

This show is going to start right at 7:00 pm and admission is $7. You can find a facebook event for this one right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page where you can have a look at everything else coming up in South Town.

This looks like a pretty cool show happening here at Black Sheep on Friday, November 28th right after Thanksgiving. This show is happening on Black Friday as a matter of fact, so make sure to camp out over night, catch some holiday shopping deals at Dumb Records, and then come to this show at Black Sheep. For this one we have the band Soul Resides coming from Staunton, Illinois. You can stream some of their music on the player below. Also on this show is a band called Blue Skies Beneath Black playing some metal core and coming from Wood River, Illinois. Aside from those bands, we have a shoegaze band from the area called Life Without, and also another metal core band called Noesis which will be opening things up for us.

This show starts at 6:30 pm and admission will be $5. You can find a facebook event for this show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a look at everything coming up at Black Sheep.

Hopefully you are all ready to hear about our next hip hop show at Black Sheep since the last one here on Halloween was a great success. This show will feature DJ Ryon Scoggins throughout the event. This show will feature the two-piece power duo, Evil Step Brothers, which features OM33ZY who we had on a more recent hip hop show here at Black Sheep. We also have the familiar face D.B. Cooper taking the stage. Will D.B. have candy this time around? Who knows. This show will also feature the electronic rap artist Y.K.G.T. Then lined up is the artist K.M.G. and opening the whole shebang we have an artist known as Y1$.

This show will start at 6:00 pm and admission is $5. Find a facebook event for the hip hop show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a good look at everything coming up at Black Sheep and South Town.

Looks like on Monday, November 17th we have this very slam-worthy punk show happening at Black Sheep. This show will featuring a couple of touring punk bands from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On that lineup is the one-man punk project The Holidays. The Holidays performed at Black Sheep back in June as a part of Dumb Fest 2. It was a fun time. Stream some of The Holiday’s music on the player below. The Holidays will be out and about on tour with other Philadelphia punk band, The Stasi. Then also on this show we have a performance by Springfield hardcore punk band King Worm. One more late addition is SAP– the band formerly known as “JAG” who changed their name recently.

The show will start at 7:00 pm and admission will be $5. You can find a facebook event for the show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a complete look at everything coming to Black Sheep and South Town.

November 15th is sure to be a very busy Saturday in South Town. We already have our very first South Town Record Fair happening from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm, and there will be a show on the ramp of Skank Skates happening during that. There was also a show announced to happen in the evening at Black Sheep that night starting at 7:00 pm with bands Inner Outlines, Built In A Day, and Flamingo.

That show will still be happening, but today we have some additions to that show. Masked Intruder from Madison, Wisconsin and also Springfield’s The Timmys will be added to the show to make it five bands. Many of you might remember the double header show we had this past spring where Masked Intruder played on the ramp of Skank Skates. We are excited to have Masked Intruder come back to play at Black Sheep next month. Stream some of their music on the player below.

The evening show will still be starting right at 7:00 pm and the admission price is now $8. You can find an updated facebook event very soon. Be sure to check out our shows page in the meantime to check out a complete list of what’s coming up in South Town.