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Looming Featured on “The Trundle Sessions”

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Springfield rock group Looming were out on the road at the beginning of this year. While they were out to the west coast and back they recorded a “Trundle Session” put together by Diet Pop Records based out of Arizona. The session is of the band performing an acoustic version of their title-track song “Nailbiter.” It features Brandon Carnes on the keyboards instead of drums.

Check out more of The Trundle Sessions right here on youtube. Looming just announced plans to play a SXSW showcase later on in March, but no plans right now for any Springfield or Black Sheep shows in the future.

Tonight at Black Sheep: “#TheNewClass2” Hip Hop Show

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We got something in store tonight at Black Sheep, it’s the only show we have going on this weekend too! Have you ever been to a hip hop show at Black Sheep? Well now might be the time to check one out! This one is the second round of “TheNewClass” being put on by Uncanny and 217 Hip Hop. It will mostly feature new up and coming hip hop artists from the area who are under the age of 21. Usually shows put on by 217 Hip Hop also end in rap battles, which are intense and an experience for all.

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 everything else coming up at Black Sheep this winter/spring.

March 9th at Black Sheep: Arson Party, Set Fire To Salem, Through Burning Eyes, Abyss

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Ready for us to tell you about our next metal show? The next metal show happening at Black Sheep is going to be on Wednesday, March 9th and it is sure to be a real hoot. For this show we have the band Arson Party from Kalamazoo, Michigan. You can stream a song of theirs on the player below. In addition to Arson Party we have a handful of local metal acts. The first of those is Set Fire To Salem bringing the metalcore for the night. We also have nearby metal group Through Burning Eyes from Alton, Illinois. We are pretty sure another addition to the show has been the local rock metal band Abyss, who just played a late set at the “Winter Wreck” this past weekend.

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 list of shows coming up at Black Sheep.

February 23rd at Black Sheep: Mysterious Skin, Garter, Starlorde

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Look at this gem of a show happening in just three weeks! It’s time to announce this show happening here at Black Sheep on Tuesday, February 23rd. This show will feature a band coming all the way from Seattle, Washington and that is Mysterious Skin. You can stream some of Mysterious Skin’s music below. We also have a couple of local bands on the show. One of the bands is Garter, who we have not seen at Black Sheep since November! The other band is a brand new Springfield punk band going by the name “Starlorde.” We have been told this new band features members of bands The Locals, Teen Freak, and GUSH.

This show starts at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. Things are sure to go by fast. Check out a facebook event for the show right here. Also check out our shows page for a look at what else is coming up at Black Sheep in the next few months.

New Arrivals This Week at Dumb Records

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It’s another week at Southtown record store Dumb Records (located at 1107 South Grand E. Ave). This week the store has plenty of used LPs, CDs, and cassettes in. Once again, there is truly something here for everybody. And our store has new speakers put in so we can blast some of our picks while you look around! How nice! Let’s take a look at the store’s operating hours for the week and then dive into the new arrivals:

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

Used LPs
Ancient Future – Natural Rhythms
Anne Murray – Snowbird
Barbra Streisand – Stoney End
Beres – Hammond
The Blue Notes – The Blue Notes
Bob Marley & The Wailers – Confrontation
Claire Bloom – The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Donny & Marie Osmond – Make The World Go Away
Doris Day – Day by Day
Duke Ellington – Will Big Bands Ever Come Back?
Erroll Garner – Concert By The Sea
Fred Locks – Black Star Liners
Hank Williams – The Very Best Of
Herb Alpert & Hugh Maskela – Main Event Live
Herbie Hancock – Futureshock

Illinois Jackquet – The Cool Range
Jack DeJohnette’s Directions – Untitled
Jazztone Society – Chicago Style
Jet W. Lee – Who Shall Remain Shameless
Jimmy G. And The Tackheads – The Federation of Tackheads
Joe Sample – Fancy Dance
The Kingston Trio – At Large
Krush Groove – Music From The Motion Picture
Lee Perry – Techno Party / Black Buster
L.L. Cool J – Jingling Baby (Single)
Los Lobos – How Will The Wolf Survive?
Mary Frances Crosby – Goldilocks
Mary Martin – The Sound of Magic
Mike Richmond – Dream Waves
Mister Rogers – A Place of Our Own
Mitch Miller – Party Sing Along With Mitch
Mitch Miller – March Along With Mitch
Mutabaruka – Check It!
Mutts – Object Performance
Naomi Shemer – Sings Her Own Works
Nas – Nas In Ya Area (Single)
Porter Wagoner – The Bottom Of The Bottle
Salif Keita – Ko-Yan
Sam Cooke – 20 Greatest Hits
Sonny Fortune – Awakening
Sonny Fortune – With Sound Reason
Stanley Clarke – Journey To Love
Stanley Clarke/George Duke – The Clarke/Duke Project
Steel Pulse – True Democracy
The Stills – Logic Will Break Your Heart
Tom Jones – This Is Tom Jones
Various – Hold Fast To Dreams
Various – Sounds of ‘76
WAR – Greatest Hits

New Cassettes
Bilirubin – Bilirubin
Dischaka – Terror Total
Ku-Jaat – Ku-Jaat

Used Cassettes
Asko – Me Das Asko
Auichines – Noda Que Hacer
Bailout – Adult Body
Botox – Demo
By Any Means – Bay Area 2013
ComexClean – You Don’t Know Me
Coordinated Suicides – Coordinated Suicides
D.O.A. – Bloodied But Unbowed
Future Disorder – Future Disorder
G-Spot – Real American Hero
Ghetto Girls – Ghetto Girls
Heart Attack Jizzers – Same Program Both Sides
Iron Maiden – Somewhere In Time
KCMO – XO Press
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – Question The Answers
The Punks – The Punks
Ratas Rabiosas – Ratas Rabiosas
Sex Snobs – Ugly
Social Distortion – Social Distortion
Solid Attitude – Tour Mixtape
Stay At Home Mom
Throaat – Bloodfucking Freaks
Tortura Sistematika – The Demos: Tolosaka Hardcore

Used CDs
Alanis Morissette – Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
Barbra Streisand – Songbird
Bush – Golden State
Counting Crows – Films About Ghosts: The Best Of…
Elvis Costello & The Imposters – The Delivery Man
Green Day – Warning
Henry Mancini – Instrumental Favorites
Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass – Whipped Cream & Other Delights
Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass – Greatest Hits
Incubus – Make Yourself
Justin Timberlake – Future Sex/Love Sounds
Marilyn Manson – Mechanical Animals
Ministry – The Land of Rape and Honey
Ministry – Twelve Inch Singles
Roy Clark – Great Picks & New Tricks
Silverchair – Neon Ballroom
Various – Back To The 50’s
Various – The Nature Company Music Sampler ‘94
Various – How Soon Is Now? (Smiths Tribute)

Springfield Pridefest Saturday, May 21st with Pansy Division

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Looks like annual downtown music and pride festival, Springfield Pridefest has some big things up their sleeves this year as they just announced their lineup for the next Pridefest happening on Saturday, May 21st. Looks like we had the same date penciled in for our cover show, but now we are going to go ahead and move that up a week earlier to May 14th! The big headlining band for Pridefest this year is the national touring act Pansy Division from California, which has been active since 1991. You can stream some of their music on the player below. In addition to Pansy Division, there are plenty more acts playing- a few of them familiar to the Black Sheep stage. Let’s take a look:

Pansy Division
Thornhill
“Black Queen” A Tribute to Queen
Venus Envy (Kerri Grant and Michael Sullivan)
Rocky Horror Show Revue
The Blue Ribbon Revival
Our Lady
SAP

It may be a ways off, but music at the fest will start at 1:00 pm. As far as we can tell, the fest is also free to the public and is all ages. You can find a facebook event for this right here. It needs to be updated- but you can check out our Springfield shows page where we try to keep a list of shows happening in town outside of Black Sheep!

Black Sheep Roundtable Meeting February 6th

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It’s been a little while since we’ve last had a Black Sheep Roundtable Meeting, and lucky for you all there is one coming up this upcoming Saturday, February 6th! Want to tell us why you stopped coming out to shows at Black Sheep? Have any ideas about what can be added to our space or how things can be ran differently? Just want to hang out and listen? Then come out to our roundtable meeting and let your voice be heard!

The meeting is at 7:00 pm inside of Black Sheep on Saturday. Of course everyone is invited to this. You can find a facebook event for the meeting right here. Also check out our get involved page for more ways you can get involved with our community.

February 5th at Black Sheep: “#TheNewClass2” Hip Hop Show

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You think there not enough genres of music being represented at Black Sheep show? Have you ever been to a hip hop show at Black Sheep? Well now might be the time to check one out, because there is one happening this upcoming Friday, February 5th! This one is the second round of “TheNewClass” being put on by Uncanny and 217 Hip Hop. It will mostly feature new up and coming hip hop artists from the area who are under the age of 21. Usually shows put on by 217 Hip Hop also end in rap battles, which are intense and an experience for all. If you are interested in participating in the show you can contact Uncanny.

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 everything else coming up at Black Sheep this winter/spring.

Tonight at Black Sheep: “Winter Wreck”

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The weekend fun just don’t stop, tonight we will be hosting a big 7-band “Winter Wreck” at Black Sheep! What is this about? It’s pretty much just a bigger show with a few more bands than normal being put together by Grow The Scene– a booking company based out of Chicago. This show will feature seven whole bands, all from the area. These include:

Streetlight Silverado
Sammy and The Punk
Wanna
Flamingo
Thirteen Crows
Fill in the Blank
Vacant Skies

Looks like a fun wreck! Bands this time around will start at 5:30 pm, and the show is $10 for 7 bands. There is a facebook event for this one right here. Also check out our shows page for a good look at everything else coming up at Black Sheep this winter. Stream some music from Flamingo (playing in the middle of the lineup tonight) below!

Today on Black Sheep Radio: 2015 Edition

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There will be a brand new episode of The Black Sheep Radio Show airing today from 4:00 to 6:00 on 88.3 WQNA. We haven’t heard a new episode from the radio boys in a minute due to Brandon being gone on tour, and now that we are back we have a special episode in store! This episode marks 3 years of us doing The Black Sheep Radio Show. It is also our Best of 2015 Episode! We will take you through the poll results on blacksheepspringfield.com and play songs from your favorite voted albums, songs, and shows of 2015. It will be a wild ride.

The Black Sheep Radio Show airs every Friday from 4:00 to 6:00 pm on 88.3 WQNA fm. You can also stream the show online during the same time right here. Also check out our radio page for a good chunk of old episodes from the past three years that you can download and listen to.