We have a bit of a last minute show happening at Black Sheep tonight! Tell your friends and let’s come out and make it a good time. This show will featuring the touring band Fighting Friction (pictured above) coming all the way from Fallbrook, California. Check out Fighting Friction’s music streaming below. Also on the show is Peoria friends Tina Sparkle, who recently played at Black Sheep back earlier in November. Opening things up we have the three-piece local band The Locals.

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 look at what else is coming up at Black Sheep so far this year.

There’s all this snow outside, what are we supposed to do tonight? Come to the show at Black Sheep, that’s what! Tonight we have a stacked lineup, stacked like that flier of blocks pictured above. Tonight long time Black Sheep friend Run Forever will be returning from Braddock, Pennsylvania for the first time since the last Dumb Fest. We also have a couple other bands traveling from all over, including The Foxery from Louisville Kentucky who went on tour with Our Lady a few months ago. Stream some of The Foxery’s music on the player below. Speaking of Our Lady, they will also be playing this show! Then the third touring act on the bill tonight is Secret Stuff from Nashville, Tennessee. Completing the stack is emo band Krelboyne from Champaign-Urbana.

The show tonight starts at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. You can find a facebook event for the show right here. Be sure to also check out our shows page for a good look at everything else coming up at Black Sheep in the coming months.

There’s a show happening tonight at Black Sheep and it’s going to be a heavy one! Tonight will mark the return of Milwaukee Wisconsin’s Falter, who have played here a number of times in the past. You can stream some of Falter’s music on the player below if you are unfamiliar with the band. Also on the show we have the newer local sludge/doom project called Green Messiah. Before them is a guest appearance by the punk band Dry Heave from Champaign/Urbana. And kicking things off we have a performance by a brand new Springfield band called “Pryss” which features members of GUSH, Mouthsex, and Wilt Candy.

The show tonight starts 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 look at everything else coming up at Black Sheep this winter.

Yes, we have a show coming up at Black Sheep on Friday, February 12th. It’s just a nice and short three band show that we will be starting a little bit later than usual at 8:00 pm. For this show we have the grunge-pop three piece local group SAP, who just played our first show of the year a couple of weeks ago. This show also features the touring garage rock band The Minotaurs, coming from Madison Wisconsin. You can stream some of The Minotaurs’ music below. The third and final act on the show is brand new Springfield band Moondead! They played their first show at Black Sheep just a couple of days ago.

This show again starts at 8:00 pm this time around and admission is $5. Find a facebook event for the show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a look at everything coming up at Black Sheep.

It’s a Monday night but there is a metal show happening at Black Sheep! This show will feature the touring spoken word/indie act Roots Like Mountains coming all the way from Colorado Springs, Colorado. You can check out some of their music streaming below. Also on this show is Carlinville/Central Illinois-based metal band Noesis who are no strangers to Black Sheep. Before them is the newer Springfield metal band Set Fire To Salem. We also have the three-piece metalcore band Vacant Skies. Then it looks like things are going to kick off with “Through Burning Eyes“- a newer metalcore band from Alton, Illinois.

This show will start at 7:00 pm (doors at 6:30 pm) and admission is $7. You can find a facebook event for the show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a look at what else will be coming up at Black Sheep in 2016.

It may be a really cold Sunday, but the weekend starts tonight here at Black Sheep! We have a show tonight and tomorrow night so get ready. Tonight will be the return-from-tour show for local emo rockers Wir Können, who just made it out to the east coast and back. They were out on the road with touring solo act Farseek from Ohio, who’s music you can find streaming below. There have also been some slight adjustments to this show since it was first announced, we now have Paqui playing instead of The Suction Cups. Then we also have the first ever show for a new Springfield band called Moondead whose first song we had featured on our site yesterday.

The show tonight starts 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 see everything else coming up at Black Sheep this year.

Welcome to 2016!! It’s the first day of the new year and we are kicking the year off right with a killer show at Black Sheep. Come to this if you want to start your year off the “right way.” Tonight we have the band SAP– who’s release Maiden, Mother, Crone made it to the #2 pick on your list of favorite 2015 releases voted on our site. Very cool. We also have some friends coming from Champaign/Urbana who are no strangers to The Sheep. We have the poppy fuzz punk band Kowabunga! Kid here to stir up some waves in the new year. We also have the rock band Single Player who is on a short little tour. You can stream some of Single Player’s music below. Opening things up we have a performance by the new experimental project TANG.

The show kicks off at 7:00 pm tonight and costs $5. You can find a facebook event for the show 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 in 2016.