Thanks to all who came out to the Dumb Records open mic night last night! We’ve got another one lined up tonight- this one’s a normal show at Black Sheep featuring four groups. This includes grunge rock group Master Bastard who released their album Mouth Breather earlier this year and you can find streaming on the player below. Also on the bill is an interesting group you will be sure to want to not miss called “Mr. Magenta” from Edwardsville, Illinois playing some jazz / math rock fusion. Then the hip hop trio and performance group Bermuda Triad is up before them to rock our socks off. Then looks like we have a brand new Springfield band on the bill called “Star Stuff” featuring members of Master Bastard.

This show starts at 7:00 pm and is $5. 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 is coming up at Black Sheep in the near future.

We hope you all have been having a good weekend – now it’s time to close off the weekend with this Sunday night show at Black Sheep! We can’t remember the last time we saw an event billed as a “metal and rap” show at Black Sheep if it’s ever happened at all, so we are excited for this one to be happening tonight featuring a mixture of half metal and half hip hop. This show features Springfield metal group Eyes From Above (pictured above). They have a new EP being released next month as well. On to the hip hop: we have artist Blakk Rose performing (for the first time at Black Sheep?) You can stream one of Blakk Roses’s songs on the player below. Also on the hip hop end of the spectrum is Nefarious Cloud, a familiar artist to the Black Sheep stage. Robot Army from the metal end will be joining us as well. Then looks like opening things up is a newer metal project from Pekin, Illinois called “Arkham Secrets“. Be sure to come out early to check out what they are all about.

This show starts a little bit earlier at 6:00 pm. Admission is $7. Check out a facebook event for the show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page to take a look at what else we’ve got lined up at Black Sheep this fall.

That fall weather is out and today and tonight in Springfield, as you may know, there is a lot going on. We had Bruce Williams on our radio program yesterday to talk about The Healing Arts Festival going on at Rock N’ Roll Hardee’s from 11:00 am to 11:00 pm. There is also a pretty huge show going on over at The Radon Lounge featuring touring artists Ratboys and Knotts, and it is the house venue’s return for this show season. There’s a show going on at Bar None, and even a show at a new Cafe in Edinburg, Illinois!

But we are here to tell you about what we’ve got going on at The Black Sheep tonight (roughly from 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm) – It’s a 217 Showcase show featuring plenty of hip hop and R&B from the area! The lineup tonight is as follows:

Brandon Austin Entertainment
Pytch
Shawn Push Freligh
Vinal Luciano
Meezy Killafield
Alex Whitehurst (YT)
Breed

Special guests:
Bethany Bantner
Kate Reynolds

Pretty cool! You can stream some music from Ptych on the player below. Admission tonight is $10, and things start at 7:00 pm. 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 in the coming months.

It’s the weekend! There are a bunch of things going on in town tomorrow night, and we have this show going on here tonight that is likely going to be a very short one. For the 21 and up crowd, there is this show going on at Bar None that will likely start not far off from the time our show gets over with. Believe it or not we hear that it is supposed to be the band Spell Breaker‘s last show or something like that (pictured above). Also on this show is Graveswitcher (is it their tape release or something? we don’t know). Opening things up is a solo set by Mike Butler, and that’s it! Stream Spell Breaker’s music on the player below.

This show will start at 7:00 pm or 7:30 pm and probably literally be over in an hour. Admission is $5. Check out 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 fall.

It’s Monday, but we do have a show happening tonight at Black Sheep! This one features three-piece rock group “Double Grave” from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Check out their newest EP streaming below to hear what they sound like. This show will also feature Springfield’s own home grown noodle rock emo group Bottom Bracket. And friends from Champaign/Urbana, the wonderful Nectar. You know you can’t go wrong with a lineup like that. Opening things up we have a solo set from local musician Kate Laine.

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

Tonight’s the night! Come out and help us celebrate a whole 13 years of Black Sheep being open as an all ages space in Springfield! We are now a teenager! Tonight is also going to be the drawing for Black Sheep Band Lotto 2018! Come out and experience this magic! At the top of the bill we have Jacksonville-based psychedelic rock band “The Dixie Narcos” who’s album we streamed on our site yesterday. We also have out of town friends Reaver from Alton, IL, who’s music you can find streaming on the player below. Up before that is a new Springfield punk project (this one you can mosh to, yes) called Uncle Sam’s Mutagenic Children. Opening things up we have two rare solo sets – one from Brandon Carnes and another from Jameson Bullock.

This show tonight starts (on time) at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. Check out a facebook event for the show right here. Names for Black Sheep Band Lotto will also be drawn at the end of the night so be sure to stick around for that! Also be sure to check out our shows page for a good look at what is coming up at Black Sheep in the near future.

Tonight! We have a Monday night show going on that will be short and sweet to kick off your work (or school) week. We just have three acts lined up, and all are great. This show features touring band from Hattiesburg, Mississippi (probably featuring members of some Hattiesburg bands that have stopped through before) – Stellatone. The band plays some “interstellar garage rock” which you can check out for yourself on the player embedded below. Also on this show is a new Springfield punk band “Final Order” which has played a couple of shows thus far. Opening things up is a brand new new Springfield project called Schedule One, we we have been told brings in some great noisy psychadelic madness.

This show will go quick! It starts at 7:00 pm and is just $5. 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 is coming up at Black Sheep this fall.

It’s one rainy weekend going on in Springfield, and we’ve got this show lined up! Slap on your boots, grab your umbrellas, and come out to this gig. Tonight we’ve got Lincoln, Nebraska post-hardcore band Better Friend. Let them be your better friend and listen to their music on the player embedded below. We’ve also got Springfield punk band Prowess on board, who also just played here last weekend. The other out-of-towner on the bill is Oversleeping from the St. Louis area. Opening things up may or may not be Hannah Heck… there might be a rumor that she is unable to play tonight and there might be a replacement artist opening things up.

All of that starts at 7:00 pm and admission is $7! 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 fall.

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There is a very different type of show going on tonight over at Dumb Records! Starting at 7:00 pm tonight there is a free event in the store which features musical performances from two acts, but also a special movie premiere of a new locally made fan fiction Star Wars film called “The Lost Sandwich.” The film is written and directed by Evan Mitchell: One Man Band of Taylorville, Illinois. As you can see in the movie poster pictured above it features characters played by Drew Carrher, Brian Galecki, Mrs. Doubtfire, Milk Tirehaus, Ramsey Miller, Carter Bibb, and more. We have been told the film itself has a run time of about twenty minutes. If you like what you hear, you can catch a sneak peek with this movie trailer right here. In addition to the film there will be musical performances in the store by Gary & The Omnichords and Imaginary Colours. Stream some music from Imaginary Colours on the player below.

This all starts inside Dumb Records (1107 South Grand Ave East) at 7:00 pm tonight and is FREE. There is a $1 all you can eat VHS buffet going on as well. Find a facebook event for all of this right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page right here where you can see what else is coming up at Black Sheep and Dumb Records this fall.

It’s the weekend!! We have some fun things lined up at Black Sheep and Dumb Records tonight and tomorrow, starting with this slick punk show going on tonight at Black Sheep. This one features a newer Chicago group called “Nightcrawler” featuring members of bands who have performed at Black Sheep in years past. You can stream a song by them on the player below. The rest of the show features a handful of punk and alternative home grown right here in Springfield. This includes Graveswitcher – the new up and coming powerful hardcore band featuring members of every Springfield band ever. It also features Prowess, a band rumored to have recently played where no other bands have dared to play before in Springfield. And opening things up is the grunge/rock group Master Bastard.

This all starts tonight at 7:00 pm. Admission is $5. You should come out. Find a facebook event for the show right here. Also check out our shows page which we are working on updating on our site.