This past week the Taylorville grunge punk band Stick People released a new recorded track called “No Fun.” The band has been working with new studio in Southtown – Southtown Sound on a new release, however this song was NOT recorded up in Southtown Sound. Instead it was recorded by Kevin Carman of Track 5 Productions. Stream that track on the player below.

Stick People will be performing next at Black Sheep in around two weeks at a show on July 22nd with RASH and Undone. They will also be playing at Black Sheep Fest 2017 on Saturday, August 5th. We’ll be sure to keep you all posted on new music recorded in Southtown Sound as soon as that is released!

Here’s your healthy dose of new Springfield music for the day. Today we are bringing you a fresh new track from solo artist Eric Marvel. The track is called “Soma” and comes from a brand new Disappointment! EP coming out later in August. Stream that track on the player below, or head over to Eric’s soundcloud page. Find more of Eric Marvel’s music on their bandcamp page. Eric released Spaces EP last year.

Eric doesn’t have any shows currently lined up but you can maybe expect to hear some info on a release show at Black Sheep at some point soon?

It doesn’t get much better than this folks, we tell you what. Today we are bringing you five hot tracks from the upcoming Food & Money (1979-1982) LP, which will be available for the first time ever at the show inside Black Sheep tomorrow night. The full record will be a collection of 21 songs from the band’s catalogue – some of which were recorded in 1980 and have never been released in any format. Below you can get a taste of the very first punk and new wave music to come out of right here in Springfield. Head over to the Alona’s Dream bandcamp page to stream all five songs that are currently available. Pictured above is a limited screen printed outer sleeve that will be going on the LPs available at the show. You can expect the record to be available at Dumb Records following this weekend of reunion shows.

The show tomorrow at Black Sheep kicks off at 7:00 pm and features two huge Springfield reunions – Food & Money and also Backwards Day. Check out the Illinois Times cover story this week on those two bands right here. More information on the show tomorrow can be found right here.

Today we bring you a brand new hit track from Eric Marvel– the newer solo project of Eric Rogers of The Luzhin Defense. Eric recently performed as this new project inside Dumb Records for cassette store day. The new song is called “Tom Fake” and you can find it streaming below. Also head over to the Eric Marvel bandcamp page to download the song for $1 and to check out more of his music. There are no live Eric Marvel shows lined up as far as we know.

Today we are bringing you new music from a newer Central Illinois-based metal band called Abolith. Abolith have debuted their first ever recorded song called “Idols” which you can stream on that youtube player below.

Abolith played one of their first shows at Black Sheep back in June. Currently they also have one show lined up at the Shumway Street Bar in Taylorville on November 19th, which does happen to be the same night as another show at The Radon Lounge and also the Black Sheep Band Lotto.

Springfield’s newer indie-punk / power pop band Attic Salt have finally debuted their first ever studio recordings earlier this week with two songs: “Hometown” and “Daylight Saving Time.” The band features members of bands Hospital Job, Nephrons, and Say Something and they started performing live around the beginning of this year. You can check out the two new songs streaming on the players below. Also head over to the Attic Salt bandcamp page to download the tracks for free.

Attic Salt doesn’t have any shows lined up in town right now as far as we can tell.

Looks like there is a newer Springfield band in town featuring members of Hospital Job, King Worm, and Lanny Durbin. They are called Starter Jackets and have two songs recently released out there for us all to here- one called “Outlets” and another called “I Suppose.” You can check out both of those songs streaming on the player below.

Looks like Starter Jackets will be playing their first show on Friday, November 11th at Bar None along with The Complaint Line and Dangerbird.

New Noise Magazine is premiering yet another single from Our Lady off of their new album Lure. The song is called “Sleep Study” and it is the third single to come from the album. You can also stream the song on the player below. Check out the New Noise article here.

Our Lady performed Lure in its entirety at Black Sheep last night, and they have left today to play a few shows out of town to celebrate the new album. Our Lady’s label Mayfly Records also did have some bad news to announce regarding the pressing of the new album yesterday:

BUMMER ALERT: It was brought to my attention earlier this week that the pressing plant was having issues with the masters for Our Lady’s LP Lure. The test presses sounded great, but as they started pressing the full run they experienced issues. The plant did everything they could, but ultimately they are going to have to re-cut one of the masters. I hate to break this on what was to be the record release date, but we really tried to make it work. We will have more information about this release soon, and we will ship presales the minute we have them.

Stay tuned for more on another Our Lady Springfield show very soon, and more updates on when the new album will be available on vinyl over at Dumb Records.