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Tonight at Black Sheep: Dead Zebbra, Strangefellas, Green Messiah

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It’s Friday! We have a show tonight at Black Sheep, which is currently nice and clean ever since our cleaning and yard crew did a great job with some new projects this week. This one is going to be a rocker. We have long time running Springfield hard rock band Dead Zebbra (possibly their first time playing Black Sheep at least in a while?) on the bill. The touring act on this show is “Strangefellas” (pictured above). Strangefellas comes from the other Springfield in Missiouri. You can stream some of their music on the player below. Opening things up for this one we have the Springfield doomy sludge band Green Messiah.

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 everything else coming up at Black Sheep! And it’s also Friday, which means we have a brand new episode of The Black Sheep Radio Show on from 4:00 to 6:00 pm on 88.3 fm!

Our Lady Ask For Help Fixing Van, Release New Song

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With SXSW coming up in Texas later this month, Springfield band Our Lady are planning on touring out to play a showcase as part of the fest, but need our help getting their van back in working condition! The band has launched a GoFundMe campaign with a goal of $2,300 to go towards repairs to their van (pictured above). To donate to that campaign, GO HERE. From the Our Lady facebook page:

Recently on our last out of town show the van started shaking uncontrollably before reaching a certain speed. Obviously we were terrified. We ended up having to be on the road for 8 hours as apposed to 5 because we couldn’t get the van above 55 MPH and had to get home. We took the van in to get fixed because we have a tour coming up down to SXSW and back. Its going to cost us about $2,300 to get fixed which is a ridiculous amount. Essentially everything that makes and helps the van’s wheels move straight is broken, or needing repair. We in no way were prepared to receive such a overwhelming estimate. The bill coming back as heavy as it did is beyond crippling to us. We are still in debt on the van and cannot get rid of it or trade it in. I hate to reach out and ask the most amazing people we know for help but, we need it. We never have been in this for personal gain and never will be. We payed for the recordings out of pocket and it broke our bank as a band. We recorded this latest album for everyone including ourselves. Its our attempt to connect with people who are struggling because we are struggling. We’ve been financially recovering ever since. Now with this its just a drop into an already empty bucket. We need your help. This page will only be up for one week because we leave for tour in two. So please, please share it around. Any amount helps. Anything helps. If you can’t afford to donate please share it around. We know some people are not going to agree with us doing this but we don’t have another option. Im sorry to ask any of you for anything but we need your help right now.

To offer some some thanks to fans, even those not donating, the band has released a brand new track called “Circle Around My Neck,” which you can find streaming below. Anyone who donates to the GoFundMe will receive a download to the song. The song is not from any release, but Our Lady does have a full length album coming out soon on Mayfly Records.

March 13th at Black Sheep: Lavender, Old Fox Road, Suction Cups, Undeserving

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We have a show coming up on Sunday, March 13th that we are a little late to the game on announcing! Hopefully that doesn’t stop you from coming out though, because it’s going to be a good one. This show will be the end of a four or five day run for Central Illinois bands Lavender and Old Fox Road. The two will be heading out on the road together and ending the run with this show at Black Sheep. Stream some of Old Fox Road’s music below. Old Fox Road also recently recorded in South Town Studio behind Black Sheep. Also on this show we have the surf-rock Springfield band, The Suction Cups. And opening things up looks like we have the hardcore/emo band Undeserving from Bloomington/Normal.

This show 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 at Black Sheep and Southtown in the near future.

Black Sheep Yard Crew Tonight

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It’s hard to believe, but Spring is pretty much here, so we are going to get the Black Sheep yard crew back together tonight to get some serious work done. One result of the Black Sheep roundtable meeting that happened at the beginning of last month was discussion of cleaning things up the best we can here at our space and in our neighborhood! Come out tonight and get your hands dirty and help us clean up our area! Bring your old clothes, gloves, and get ready to get dirty! We also have some stuff to move around inside Dumb Records once the Black Sheep related work is done, so there will be plenty to do! Everyone is welcome to come!

You can find a facebook event for cleanup day right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a full listing of shows and other events such as this one in the months coming up at Black Sheep. And check out our get involved page for more listings on roundtable meetings and things you can do to get involved with helping run our space.

New Arrivals This Week at Dumb Records

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There is a huge stack of top-notch used records hitting the shelves this week at Southtown record store Dumb Records (located at 1107 South Grand East Avenue). There are no new LPs or 7″s this week, but there is still a lot of exciting stuff going on around the store. You might notice some stuff being moved around this week, and we might need a hand or two doing that during the BXS Yard Crew Cleanup day happening at 6:30 pm tomorrow evening. We also got the Dumb/Black Sheep newsletter back up and running! If you were not signed up for that before, go here to enter in your email to get weekly updates from us on what’s new in the store and going-ons at Black Sheep. Let’s take a look at Dumb’s operating hours and then get into what’s new:

Tuesday (today): noon – 8:00 pm
Wednesday: noon – 8:00 pm
Thursday: noon – 8:00 pm
Friday (show): noon – 9:00 pm
Saturday (show): noon – 9:00 pm
Sunday: noon – 9:00 pm
Monday (show): noon – 9:00 pm

Used LPs
Ahmad Jamal – Jamal At The Pershing Vol. 2
Alice Cooper – School’s Out
The Babys – Head First
Billy Joel – Piano Man
Bill Haley And The Comets – Rockin’
Black Sabbath – We Sold Our Soul For Rock ‘N’ Roll
Blood, Sweat & Tears – 3
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band – Night Moves
Bonnie Raitt – Home Plate
Count Basie – Count Basie
Count Basie – The Best of Count Basie
Earl Bostic – For You
Edgar Winter – White Trash
Elton John – Here And There
Dire Straits – Love Over Gold
Flip Wilson – The Devil
Frank Sinatra – That Old Feeling
Frank Sinatra – All The Way
Jackson 5 – Third Album
Jazz Wave, Ltd. – On Tour
Joe Turner – The Very Best of Joe Turner Live
McGuinn, Clark, & Hillman – McGuinn, Clark, & Hillman
The Modern Jazz Sextet – Dizzy Meets Sonny
Mountain – Climbing!
Ozzy Ozbourne – Blizzard of Ozz
Ozzy Ozbourne – Live Mr. Crowley
Peter Gabriel – So
Phil Collins – Hello, I Must Be Going!
Pink Floyd – Animals
Pork – Pork Live!
Pork & The Havana Ducks – Pork & The Havana Ducks
Rare Earth – One World
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band – The Impossible Dream
Supertramp – Famous Last Words
Supertramp – Even In The Wildest Moments
Ted Nugent – Ted Nugent
Various – Concord Jazz All Stars At The North Sea Jazz Festival
The Ventures – Knock Me Out
The Ventures – Walk, Don’t Run Vol. 2
WAR – The World Is A Ghetto
Weather Report – Sweetnighter
Woody Herman – Lionel Hampton Presents

Black Sheep Open Mic Tonight

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It’s been a little while since we’ve done a regular ol’ fashioned open mic night at Black Sheep, and there is one happening tonight! Our last one was combined with the “Drag’s Ball” which was a success. Tonight we are just doing a regular open mic with 15 and 30 minute time slots. There are even a few full bands playing tonight, including Jacob Metcalf on tour from Texas. Here’s the schedule with a few open slots still left:

9:45-10:00 – Jacob Metcalf (the band)
9:30-9:45 – Jacob Metcalf (the band)
9:15-9:30 – Stereo Static
9:00-9:15 – Stereo Static
8:45-9:00 – (open)
8:30-8:45 – Sawhorse
8:15-8:30 – Rustocrat
8:00-8:15 – Rustocrat
7:45-8:00 – Mantis
7:30-7:45 – Kristin Walker
7:15-7:30 – (open)
7:00-7:15 – new band

For the last few open slots, show up to the show early to claim them if you are interested in performing! You can find a facebook event for Black Sheep Open Mic right here. We will also make sure to have a freshly brewed pot of coffee for this one this time around. Be sure to also check out our shows page for a list of everything happening at Black Sheep in the near future.

Dog of Panic: “…of All Ambition”

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Today we are bringing you a stream of the brand new EP by Springfield jam-rock band Dog of Panic. The 7-track album is called “…of All Ambition” and you can find it streaming below. You can also head over to Dog of Panic’s bandcamp page and download the whole album for $4.

It doesn’t look like Dog of Panic currently have any shows lined up in town, but we will be sure to let you know next time they are performing at Black Sheep. There may have been a rumor going around of them performing at The Black Sheep Cover Show coming up! We’ll see!

Videos: The Good Companions at Black Sheep

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Today we are bringing you a video of Springfield jam group The Good Companions performing at Black Sheep as part of our Valentine’s Day Dance earlier this month. Look at that beautiful disco ball! The ball was smashed later that night during an out of control Livin’ Thing set, but all was fine and dandy during The Good Companions, which you can see in the video streaming below.

Check out a ton of different touring and local band videos on our “vids/pics” page.

 

Tonight at Black Sheep: Stereo Static, Fill In The Blank, Sammy & The Punk, The Locals, Blind Social, Stems, The Incorporated

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Why would any body put seven bands on one show? Who knows, but tonight it’s happening at Black Sheep! This one might look a little like the “Winter Wreck” that happened last month except without the “wreck!” This one is being called “The Stereo Show” because it features new Springfield band “Stereo Static“. You can stream some of their music on the player below. There are seven whole bands on this show (wow). Two more of them include Fill In The Blank and Sammy & The Punk, who both also played the Winter Wreck here last month. They both rock. On the bottom half of the flier we have the local pop group- “The Locals.” There’s another band called “Stems” that we don’t know a whole lot about, and then we have a couple of other groups familiar to Black Sheep- Blind Social and The Incorporated!

This one will be kicking off a little earlier at 6:00 pm, and the cover charge is just $5. You can find a facebook event for the show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a good list of all the shows coming up at Black Sheep.

Tonight at Black Sheep: Wolv Luv, Pryss, GUSH, WLVES

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It’s time to let the wolves loose inside Black Sheep tonight! That’s right, we are having two wolf bands play tonight and it’s also the cassette release show for both Wolf Luv and Pryss. Pryss dropped their new 3-4 song demo online earlier this week, which you can listen to again on the player below. Wolf Luv will also be releasing a cassette at the show tonight, both being put out by Ooey Gooey Tapes. Also playing the show is Springfield’s own GUSH and a new Bloomington/Normal project which we don’t know a whole lot about called WLVES.

The show tonight will start at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. Bring a few bucks for a tape maybe. 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 at Black Sheep in the next few months.