Today we are bringing you a video of Chicago hardcore band The Bug performing this past weekend at Black Sheep. The show was with Springfield bands Livin’ Thing, Pryss, and Moondead. You can check out the video of them playing one of their songs live below.
Also head over to our vids/pics page for a long list of local and touring band videos that we have collected from the past 10+ years at Black Sheep.
It’s a new and exciting week at the new-and-improved Southtown record store Dumb Records (1107 South Grand East Ave.). It’s hard to believe but in just a couple of days the man responsible for releasing the first few Green Day and Operation Ivy records will be stopping by our shop with his new book for a free event! That’s right, Larry Livermore will be at Dumb Records at 7:00 pm this Thursday and you have no excuse not to go. We also have news on Record Store Day coming up real quick! Of course on top of all of that, there are plenty of new items in the store this week. Let’s take a look at the store’s operating hours and then look at the new arrivals:
Tuesday (today): noon – 8:00 pm
Wednesday: noon – 8:00 pm
Thursday (Larry Livermore): noon – 9:00 pm
Friday (show): noon – 9:00 pm
Saturday (show): noon – 9:00 pm
Sunday (show): noon – 9:00 pm
Monday: noon – 8:00 pm
New LPs
Lume – Perennial Phase
Sin Motivo – El Desierto
Soma Coma – Dust
Used LPs
Aerosmith – Aerosmith
Andy Williams – Lonely Street
Chet Atkins – Music From Nashville My Home
Donna Summer – Donna Summer
Donny & Marie – New Season
Eddie Rabbit – Loveline
Eddy Duchin – The Eddy Duchin Story
Faron Young – Wine Me Up
Giordano Andrea Chenier – Highlights
Glen Campbell – The Glen Campbell Album
Glen Campbell – Somthin’ ‘Bout You Baby I Like
Jack Beeson – Hello Out There
Jack Teagarden – Original Dixieland
Joe Walsh – The Confessor
The Kawaiahao Church Choir – Sunday In Hawaii
The Lennon Sisters – Going Out Of My Head
Mary Turner – Off The Record Specials
Nat King Cole – When You’re Smiling
Olivia Newton-John – If Not For You
Olivia Newton-John – Greatest Hits Vol. 2
Passenger – Steal My Heart
Pavlov’s Dog – At The Sound Of The Bell
The Rascals – In Retrospect
Ray Parker Jr. – Greatest Hits
Robert Goulet – My Love Forgive Me
Smokey Robinson And The Miracles – Flying High Together
Spinners – New And Improved
The Statler Brothers – Thank You World
Tony Orlando – The Tony Orlando & Dawn Collection
Various – The Alamo Soundtrack
Various – Sentimental Journey
Various – When You’re Smiling
Village People – Crusin’
Wishbone Ash – Nouveau Calls
New 7”s
Butter Knifes – Soft Shoulder
No Babies – You No Soy Como Tú
Sin Motivo – Laberinto b/w Tierra Del Deseo
Sin Orden – Ha Llegado El Momento
New Cassettes
The Bug – What’s Buggin You?
The Bug – Room 44 Sessions
The Floor Above – The Floor Above
G.L.O.S.S. – Demo
Sputter Demo
The Wrong – Technology
Today we have yet another April show announcement, this one is happening on Sunday, April 24th. This show is going to be pretty indie-rock. We have the band Sea Cycles (pictured above) from Jacksonville, Florida to play psychedelic experimental indie rock for us. You can check out some of their music on the player streaming below. Also on the bill is The Stems– the second or third Black Sheep show for a new band coming out of Taylorville, Illinois. Up before that we have the poppier band The Locals coming straight out of Springfield High School. First up is another new band and that is the girl-power groove band Shark Week.
The 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 good look at what else is coming up at Black Sheep in the near future.
Today we are bringing you a brand new band page to add to our collection of current Springfield bands. This one is called Omni-Rat– they haven’t played any shows yet, but they do have some songs recorded. This band features members of Mystery Gift, Panzys, King Worm, Wir Können, and more. To read up more about the band, and stream some of the music they have recorded so far, go check out their band page right here.
You can also check out any of the 60+ band pages we have on our site over on our current bands page. Do you play in a Springfield band or are you a local musician who has not yet set up a page with us? We would love to hear from you! Email us at blacksheepspringfield@gmail.com and we will work with you to get something set up.
Surprise! You didn’t think another Dumb Fest announcement would come this fast, did ya? Well there are a LOT of bands playing the fest this year so we better get announcing them. Here’s another announcement with another whopping eight bands playing the fest this year on June 10th, 11th, and 12th. Yes, this year the lineup contains a band coming all the way from Australia! Check it:
MUFF DIVERS (New York/Chicago)
DISPARO! (Sydney, Australia)
OUR LADY (Springfield)
FALTER (Milwaukee, WI)
THE COWBOYS (Bloomington, IN)
SODA BOYS (St. Louis, MO)
FAD (Birmingham, AL)
PRYSS (Springfield, IL)
The band coming all the way from Australia is Disparo!, who will be doing a U.S. tour in June. Check out their music streaming on the player below. Go check out the Dumb Fest 4 facebook event for a closer look at which of those bands will be playing which days. Also check out our Dumb Fest 4-Ever page to view the what bands have been announced so far at all times. That brings us to 24 bands announced for Dumb Fest 4 so far, and we have at least two more announcements in the works! You can expect at least one more announcement before the month is over.
Remember the band Caterpillar Club? Well we barely do! Looks like the band which features former Black Sheep owner Kevin Bradford along with members of Our Lady will be playing again at Black Sheep on Saturday, April 23rd after over a year since they played their last show here. And even better news is that for this show it looks like they will have a new cassette of unreleased material! This show will also feature a touring band and that is Staghorn from St. Louis. Stream some of their music on the player below. In addition to those bands, we also have a couple more from nearby. We have the emo / melodic hardcore band Drained from Central Illinois. And opening things up we have the incredibly heavy band Orator from Champaign/Urbana.
This show will start at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. You can check out a facebook event for the show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a good look at what else will be coming up at Black Sheep in the next few months.
Yes, the April show announcements are still rolling in hard! This one is happening on Tuesday, April 12th at Black Sheep. This show will feature the band Free Kittens & Bread from Austin, Texas (pictured above). You can check out some of their music streaming on the player below. Also on this show we have everyone’s favorite Champaign/Urbana alternative ice cream pop band Nectar! Then we have a couple acts local to Springfield. The first of which is pop punk goodness Fill In The Blank! And then opening things up we have the second ever show for Springfield’s newest space-themed hardcore super villain band called “Starlorde.”
This show will be another 7:00 pm, $5 show. 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 in the near future.
There is a show coming up at South Town Studio coming up in exactly one week on Saturday, March 26th. There is a chance that this will be one of the last shows up in the studio before Brandon Carnes moves away, so be sure to come check it out! This show will also be happening right after the art show happening at Black Sheep from 5:00 to 7:00 pm that night at Black Sheep. For this show we have a couple of noise projects coming down from Michigan. The first of those is Pillars of Ash playing some black metal from Grand Rapids. Stream some music from them on the player below. They will be coming with Apostate also from Michigan. Then we have local act AuÞumblusurt bringing the industrial noise electronics. And opening things up we have a rare noise set from local solo artist Gazeebo.
This show will be starting up in the studio at 7:00 pm. Admission is $5. No facebook event for this one, but check out an event for the art show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a good look at everything else coming up in Southtown in the next few months.
Wow, a spectacular punk show will be happening at Black Sheep tonight. It will sure to be very loud and very fast. For this show we have Chicago-based hardcore band The Bug coming through for the first time since they played here at Dumb Fest 3-D. You can check out some of their music streaming on the player below for those of you unfamiliar. Aside from The Bug, we have a good handful of Springfield bands all of which have started this year. We have the new Ooey Gooey hardcore band, Pryss, who dropped their new hit demo late last month. We also have the rock n’ roll hardcore fusion band Livin’ Thing, who also released their demo online just a couple weeks ago. Opening things up is the three-piece weirdo punk band, Moondead.
The show tonight starts at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. You can check out 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 near future.
Time for another April show announcement! This one is happening on Wednesday, April 13th and it will be a rocker. We have the band Violence Creeps coming all the way from Oakland, California for this one. You can check out some of their music streaming on the player below. How neat. Also Livin’ Thing will be playing this show, we hear it will be the release show for their debut cassette and they will be kicking off a little 5-day tour. Opening things up for now is Springfield hardcore band Pryss, keep your eyes peeled for a possible fourth band added to the lineup!
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 good look at other shows coming up in the next few months at Black Sheep.
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