In Springfield during the early 2000’s, there used to be a group of hardcore kids that formed a group to make a zine called “Know No Boundaries“. This zine featured band and album reviews, articles, interviews and news. In December of 2000, they put out a comp album of songs from bands both dead and alive to keep the musical culture in the scene circulating. Old Springfield bands like The Goofs, Ingot, Fagalonius P. Hector, Park, N.I.L.8 and the Timmys were featured. This comp album is titled 217 represent and thanks to our good friend behind the Springfield blog Some Things Can’t Be Ignored (bringing us oldskool tunes on the monthly), this whole album is completely accessible for us to listen to here in 2014. So if you love the 90’s as much as you say you do, definitely give it a listen.

Check out the full article here, you can catch a cool interview from one of the makers of Know No Boundaries and 217 Represent. To see other posts about Some Things Can’t Be Ignored, check out the rest of the blog as well as other Black Sheep website posts.

Here’s the most recent update from our favorite local music-history resource Some Things Can’t Be Ignored! Featured in this post is the band Herbal Flesh Tea, which was mainly active during the mid 1990’s. These guys weren’t exactly from Springfield- their residence was in Villa Park, IL. However, they played shows here ALL of the time to the point where they were definitely a local favorite for many people. Their shows were mainly executed in basements, local pubs and a few of the active venue spaces we had going during that time. This album in particular, “The Whole Nine Yards”, was under a label called Faithful Goat Records (which is no longer active). In terms of releases, these guys released a 4 song casette in the early 90’s, around three 7” records, and even a VHS tape! Apparently they still have reunions as well as a facebook page. Even better is the bandcamp with this entire release on it! Cool stuff, definitely check that out below- and don’t forget that we have band pages dedicated to purely local current and past bands, so utilize that reseource anytime you have a hunkering for some local tunes! Definitely keep your eyes peeled for the next update from Some Things Can’t Be Ignored.

Springfield music blog Some Things Can’t Be Ignored are at it again with yet another relic of Central Illinois music scenes of the past. This time they are unleashing a live recording from old Springfield band Back of Dave. The recording is from 1995 at The Red Herring in Urbana, Illinois. Here’s what Anthony of STCBI had to say:

You certainly don’t see live Back of Dave recordings pop up too often, so naturally I was extremely excited to get my hands on this one!  Even though the recording lasts a good 45-50 minutes, there are only 8 complete songs on here.  The reason why is because after they played “Digger”, a guitar amp pooped out on them.  Good ‘ol Friday the 13th luck, eh?  They tried to troubleshoot the problem, but eventually just ended up borrowing an amp from one of the other bands that performed that night, Spontane (which featured ex-Ostrich Syndrome members), and continued the set.  During this lull, the tape continued to run, but was only dedicated to one side of a 90 minute tape, so this is all that exists.

Very cool! Check out the full post and stream the live recordings right here.

It looks like we have another update from our very own local music historians at Some Things Can’t Be Ignored headquarters. The picture above shows 90’s emo band Braid played at Springfield’s very own Atrium (the space that is now Donnie’s Homespun) way back in 1996. This makes sense since these folks orignated in Champaign, IL and actually played Springfield shows all of the time! At this January 7th show, they played with local punkers NIL8 and The Urge. Something really cool is that we have the option of listening to some soundboard recordings of Braid’s set that night, so check those songs out below and read the full article on this here!

Some Things Can’t Be Ignored strikes again! Lucky for all of us, they make it super easy to access old, local music, and this week they have some freshly salvaged material for us! Thumper has now risen from the folds of time to greet us with their raw punk tunes once again. They were together during some point in the 90’s and featured multiple members, a few of whom were also in Ingot at one point. To read the full article, click here and also check out all of the other rad bands that Springfield has been home to in the past. Thumper featured Ladd Mitchell who now plays in the recently reunited band Park, who are currently recording a three-song EP.

It’s a real treat to have access to these older bands, especially through the Some Things Can’t Be Ignored bandcamp page, so make sure to check that out and get some history homework done to feed your hungry ears.

First and foremost, though, check out Thumper’s First EVER Recordings!

See that up there? That is Park performing at Skank Skates in the 1990’s. Springfield music blog Some Things Can’t Be Ignored has just released a very early demo that Park recorded when they were just starting out. From Some Things Can’t Be Ignored:

I obtained this rare gem from a kind gentleman a while back and am SUPER excited about sharing this with you all!  What we have here are what may possibly be the first ever studio recordings of Park!!  Yes…these songs pre-date the “Blue Screen” demo!!  I remember this tape getting passed around amongst friends and family back in the late 1990′s and actually worked with Eric Lipe and I think his cousin or somebody at Blockbuster Video shortly after these songs were recorded, but still never got a copy of this tape until about a year ago.  Needless to say, I was EXTREMELY excited to hear these songs again after some 17 or 18 years!!  These are amongst the first Park songs I ever heard and the songwriting that I immediately became a fan of.  The date I have listed above as 1995 MAY be incorrect.  It’s gotta be close, though!  I also don’t have any idea in which order these songs originally appeared on the tape.  When I received them, they were just in alphabetical order, but as I imported them to convert into .wav files, they adjusted themselves into another order, so I dunno.  I’m just gonna feature them here in the order they automatically put themselves into because I don’t know any better.

You can check out the full post about Park’s nine-song demo right here. And don’t forget to check the Some Things Can’t Be Ignored blog for plenty of cool old Springfield releases from the 1990s and earlier. You can stream the songs from Park’s demo below, and head over to the original post to download the demo. Park has recently reunited and just got done playing a ten-year anniversary show for their 2003 album It Won’t Snow Where You’re Going.

Historic Springfield underground music blog Some Things Can’t Be Ignored have recently featured a new post with a demo from an old Springfield band called Ostrich Syndrome. The band’s nine track demo was released in 1995, (eighteen year ago)! You can read more about the band and also find a short review on the demo at the original post right here. You can also head over to the blog to download the demo, stream it, or check out other old Springfield bands and releases that have made the history books.

And Some Things Can’t Be Ignored now has their own bandcamp! Check that out here!

Springfield music blog Some Things Can’t Be Ignored have added a new post featuring 1994 recordings from the old Springfield band Fagalonius P. Hector. From Some Thing’s Can’t Be Ignored:

Ok, folks…this one goes WAY back!  14 years this August, to be exact!  What we have here is an extremely rare piece of Springfield music history.  Most of you who visit this blog have never heard these recordings.  This is Fagalonius P. Hector rehearsing (at the Scanlan’s house I’m guessing??) back in August of 1994.  I’m guessing this was recorded through a 4-track or powered mixer or something because it sounds pretty damn good!  Those of you who weren’t around or just not old enough to have been attending shows back then and never saw these guys live can FINALLY experience what it was like to do so (sorta).

You can stream the songs below or you can head over to Some Things Can’t Be Ignored and check out the full post here.