Thanks to everyone who came out and visited the pop-up shop Dumb Records had set up at the mall yesterday! We had a blast and a very successful day. Tonight will be the the only show of the weekend for Black Sheep, so let’s make sure to come out and support the touring acts. This one will feature the touring band Firestarter from Albany, New York. You can check out some of their music streaming on the player below. We also have another out of town band- Alone At Heart coming from Chicago. They play a type of melodic hardcore. Then we have two bands from the area on this show. We have Undeserving, who just released a few songs they recorded right next door at South Town Studio! Opening things up will be a performance by Lavender– the shoegaze band from the Springfield/St. Louis area.

This show will start at 7:00 pm and admission is a range of $5-7 whatever you feel is best! You can find a facebook event for this one right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a more complete list of everything coming up in Southtown in the next few months.

Tonight’s a big one happening at Black Sheep! It’s going to be a pretty happening night in Springfield because there is also a pretty big show going on at Bar None tonight featuring The Queers. Tonight at Black Sheep we have the big California grind act “ACxDC” (standing for “Anti-Christ Demoncore”). You can stream some of their music on the player below. ACxDC is touring with Florida band Sunlight’s Bane, who will also be playing tonight. It looks like this show also has a few surprises, one of them being that the band of wrestling heels- Table Drama will be coming back from the dead for this show! Come find out if they are back for good or if this is just a one-off slammer. Before them is the Carbondale metal/sludge band Lowered A.D. Opening things up we have the hardcore band GUSH.

The show tonight will start right at 7:00 pm and admission is $8. 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 everything else coming up this winter in Southtown.

Tonight it’s a Saturday night at Black Sheep, and we are gonna have a lot of fun at this hip hop show that is happening. This show will feature Sherman-based artist The MB, which is short for “Mama’s Boy”. Also on this show is Brandon Austin. The “opener” for the show is Roddrick Lemar- but there is a long list of special guests that we will also see perform. This includes DJ for the night, DJ Mayday. Other guest artists include Ashley Whitehouse, David Gottschalk of the band Set Fire to Salem, and Garth Whitehead.

For this show, doors will open at 7:00 and things will start at 7:30 pm. 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 everything coming up in Southtown this winter.

Tonight at Black Sheep we are going to get real heavy. There is a show happening tonight featuring some of the loudest and heaviest bands throughout Central Illinois! This includes Earth Witch from Champaign/Urbana, who will be playing tonight as they get ready to record at South Town Studio this weekend. Earth Witch will be bringing a couple of other C-U bands with them, including too-loud Resinater. The other Champaign act is the doom/sludge band Orator, whose music you can find streaming on the player below. We also have a couple of other bands added since the show is announced. One is a newer Springfield band called Green Messiah, who also played here last weekend. The other is metal band Noesis from areas in Central Illinois.

The show tonight 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 everything else coming up in Southtown this winter.

It’s our third show in a row this weekend tonight at Black Sheep and we have a fun lineup of all brand new bands from Springfield and Champaign/Urbana! We welcome in this new wave of bands. Tonight we have the band Dry Heave from Champaign which features some (or one) musicians formerly from Springfield. You can check out their new demo streaming below. We also have the newest Springfield spooky surf band The Suction Cups, featuring members of Bad Banshee, Fel Fae, and Ragna Rye. Up before them is a new Champaign/Urbana grunge project called Copper Blue. And opening things up it looks like a Black Sheep Band Lotto band is continuing! They are “Rows Of Teeth” also known as “Band Lotto Band #2.”

The show tonight starts at 7:00 pm. 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 everything else coming up at Black Sheep this winter.

Last night’s band lotto show was a heck of a lot of fun! There were plenty of surprises and many smiles to be shared. Tonight we are going to be back at Black Sheep for a last minute metal show. For this show we have the Los Angeles-based metal band on tour called Mothersound. Check out one of the band’s music videos right here. Also on this show is the Springfield metal band Set Fire To Salem. Opening things up we have the three-piece metal project called Vacant Skies, also from Springfield. And a last minute addition to the last minute show is Noesis from Central Illinois.

The show will begin at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. Check out a facebook event right here. Come out even thought the show is last minute to show support for the touring band. Also check out our shows page for a good look at everything else we have coming up at Black Sheep in the coming months.