Tonight at Black Sheep: SAP, Moon Hag, Fel Fae

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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 good look at everything else coming up in Southtown for the rest of the summer.

Tonight at Black Sheep: Until We Are Ghosts, WARRS, Threads, Vacant Skies, Nick Harlow

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There is a show happening tonight at Black Sheep! We don’t have any shows this upcoming Friday or Saturday so let’s come out and make sure this is a good one. For this show we have Rochester melodic hardcore band Until We Are Ghosts returning to Black Sheep for the second time this year. You can stream some of their music on the player below. We also have the local screamo/hardcore band WARRS going on before that and causing chaos on the stage. Touring with Until We Are Ghosts is another act called “Threads.” Threads are from Martinsburg, West Virginia and play emo/hardcore. Earlier on we have Vacant Skies from around the area playing metalcore, and opening things up is a solo set from Nick Harlow of the band Loses The Mighty.

The show tonight starts right at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. Check out a facebook event 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.

Tonight at South Town Studio: F///\\\M, Kevin Greenspon, Borealis

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Tonight is a very rare Monday night show up high in the tower known as South Town Studio, located right here in Southtown behind Dumb Records and Black Sheep. Tonight there will be three ambient/indie solo projects performing up in the tower. The show tonight will feature F///\\\M, solo project of Brandon Carnes of Diaper Rash and Looming. Up before that is a touring act, and that is Kevin Greenspon who is on tour from California. Check out some of Kevin’s music on the player streaming below. Opening things up is a rare performance by Borealis– the experimental ambient/noise project of Mario Cannamela.

The show tonight starts at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. Of course the show is all ages. Check out a facebook event for the show right here, and also our shows page for a good look at everything else coming up in South Town.

Tonight at Black Sheep: FAD, Garter, Gnargoyle, Gush

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This is a big weekend here at Black Sheep, with a four band punk show happening tonight and then Black Sheep Fest 2015 happening tomorrow. You probably won’t want to miss any of it, starting with the show happening tonight. Tonight we have the band FAD coming from all the way far South as Alabama! Check out their music streaming on the player below. Then we have a handful of punk bands from Springfield and around including the newer band Garter featuring members of Teen Freak and Nighthawk. Then from Champaign/Urbana is Gnargoyle, who will be playing tonight at Black Sheep for the first time (we have tried to get them a few other times but it hasn’t worked out)! Opening things up is a performance by a brand new Springfield band going by the name “Gush.” Make sure to show up early to catch what they are all about!

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 good look at everything else coming up in Southtown this summer/fall.

July 30th at Black Sheep: Until We Are Ghosts, Threads, Warrs, Vacant Skies, Nick Harlow

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We’ve got a really big hardcore show coming to the Black Sheep Thursday July 30th. Melodic hardcore band Until We Are Ghosts from Rochester, NY and screamo band Threads from Martinsburg, West Virginia are bringing their high energy tour to the Black Sheep stage. Also on board, fresh off of Black Sheep Fest, will be Springfield hardcore band WARRS featuring Black Sheep founder Kevin Bradford.

This is going to be a great chance to get in some mosh madness before the end of summer!!! Check out the Facebook event here and as always check out the other great Black Sheep shows happening on the show page here.

Tonight at Black Sheep: Big Baby’s Night Out

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Tonight we are mixing things up and have an interesting type of show going on at Black Sheep! This show is being called “Big Baby’s Night Out” hosted by none other than “Big Baby” of the hit punk/thrash band Diaper Rash. This show is going to be more of a comedy show happening at Black Sheep featuring Diaper Rash as a live band as well as a couple of other touring bands. This will definitely be something new worth checking out. For this show we have three comedians on board to do standup. One of them, Dan Allen, is on the road on tour as a comedian. Is this the right Dan Allen? Also taking the stage we have a couple of local comedians and those are Mike Tirehaus (also in the band King Worm) and Devon Fluelen. For bands, in addition to Diaper Rash we also have a couple of hardcore bands touring from Michigan. We have Eyesore and Breaking Wheel both from Michigan also playing the show. You can check out some of Breaking Wheel’s music on the player below.

This show starts at 7:00 pm and admission costs $5. You can check out a facebook event for this right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a look at everything else coming up at Black Sheep.

Tonight at Black Sheep: Estates, Our Lady, Derider, F///\\\M

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Hello and lookout for another show happening at Black Sheep tonight! It’s a Friday night and we have our good friends Estates coming once again from Milwaukee for us all. Estates recently just released a new album which you can stream some of on the player below. Also playing this show is Our Lady, who released a split 7″ with Estates last summer. Then we have another touring act, and that is Derider from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. They play post-punk/shoegaze. Opening things up tonight is a performance by the solo post-rock/ambient act known as F///\\\M (which stands for something else).

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 find a list of everything else coming up at Black Sheep.

Tonight at Black Sheep: Asthma, Posture, The Dingbats, Night/Hex

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Tonight is a Thursday night and we have the first of three shows in a row happening at Black Sheep this weekend! This show is going to be for the fans of hardcore, punk, and maybe a little bit of ambient/electronic music. This show we have heavy hitting Springfield hardcore band, Asthma. They will also be playing Black Sheep Fest on July 25th. For this show we also have a band called Posture coming from St. Louis. You can stream some of their music on the player below. We also have another band coming from out of town, and that is The Dingbats from Champaign, featuring members of the bands Wolf Luv, Commodity, and Chain’s Gang. Opening things up we have a performance from the gloomy atmospheric local project, Night/Hex.

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 good look at what else is coming up at Black Sheep in the coming months.

Tonight at Black Sheep: Doby Watson, Margo May, Jess Knight, Our Lady (Acoustic)

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It’s a Monday night and there is a show happening tonight at Black Sheep! This one will feature some great touring bands and also some acoustic versions of some of your Springfield favorites. Tonight show we have the experimental artist from New York Doby Watson. You can check out Doby Watson’s newest album (released on Error Records) below. Also on tour with Doby Watson and playing this show is a Kansas City-based artist called Margo May. Then we have a special solo performance by Jessica Knight of the band Looming, and also a rare Our Lady acoustic set. Be sure to come out early and catch both of those sets!

The show 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 good look at everything coming up at Black Sheep this summer.

Tonight at Black Sheep: Battle of the Bands

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Tonight at Black Sheep is our big annual Black Sheep Battle of the Bands! This is one particular show where we go out and try to find new and younger bands to perform at our space, and give new opportunities! This battle of the bands we only have four acts performing. They are:

Abyss
100 Acker Wood
Caleb Jefson
Very Good Surfer

The four bands will be performing tonight starting at 7:00 pm. With $5 door entry all of the show-goers will be given a slip of paper where they can vote for their favorite band. We will also have a panel of judges. At the end of the night we will count up tallies for the crowd voting and judges voting. The crowd voting winner will receive a time slot on Black Sheep Fest 2015 (happening July 25th) and the judges voting winner will receive a demo recorded for free at South Town Studio! Check out a facebook event for the battle of the bands right here.

There is also a lot going on in Southtown earlier in the day today. At 3:00 pm there will be a “vegan throwdown” happening featuring a potluck of vegan food, and everyone is invited. The throwdown will also feature two bands – SAP and Diaper Rash. We have been told that the Diaper Rash set might be acoustic? Come at 3:00 pm to find out what that is all about. Also this afternoon we will be working on some projects involving Project Southtown, including prepping a wall on the side of Dumb Records for a big mural.