We are excited to announce that on Wednesday, April 9th we will be hosting a show for the singer/songwriter Koji from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Koji has released music through Run For Cover Records and No Sleep Records. He is also an activist and founded the organization “Colormake” as a collaborative effort between artists and activists from all over the country. Koji described this tour:

For this tour, I’ll be taping shows at alternative spaces and independent venues for the second installment of my Spring Song live series. I’ll be supporting my first full length Crooked In My Mind which came out on Run For Cover last April. Additionally, I’ll be promoting the first vinyl pressings of both Spring Song Volume 1 and Some Small Way EP. This will be the first KOJI solo tour of the states since last winter’s Acoustic Basement tour with Geoff Rickly and Vinnie Caruana.

You can find some of Koji’s music streaming below.  Koji will be touring with A.N. Palamara, who is another singer/songwriter from North Adams, Massachusetts. There will also be a performance at this show by local emo/hardcore band Our Lady. Opening things up is the newer Springfield acoustic project called Rella.

This show will be another 7:00 pm, $5 show. You can find a facebook event for this right here. Also be sure to check out what else we have coming up at Black Sheep this spring by looking at our shows page.

Welcome to Friday, we’ve got a show at Black Sheep tonight! Montagh will be playing, which is some fresh wheat midwest folk coming straight from the streets of Springfield. To continue the night we’ll have Good Times coming around again! The last time he played for us was way back in October so now is your chance to come hear these acoustic indie-movie lounge tunes. Also playing tonight will be our Santa loving friends in Old Fox Road. These fellas will definitely give us some down-home, feel-good, pop-folk songs to enjoy with some charismatic vocals to tie their whole set up, so come check them out if you didn’t get to catch them at the Radon Lounge a few months ago. To round off the evening will be Devin Williams! He’s from Florida and will have some cool reggae bluesy jams to give to us, so definitely check that out as well, holmes.

This show is TONIGHT. Here is the facebook event. Come at 7pm, bring $5 bux and do not forget to check out Dumb Records! Tonight is going to be an acoustic show and it’s cold out, so there is a good chance that this show will be getting moved to Dumb Records. Here are some other cool shows we have coming up so keep your eyes peeled for the ones that catch your fancy.

Check it out for tonight: we’ve got not only a few cool bands playing, there’s ALSO going to be a screening of the movie Repo Man playing this evening. As Mikey T. puts it, “Dumb young LA punk becomes repo man. Mysterious car kills cop. Stuff happens.” So if you haven’t seen it, that’s what that movie is about and it’s going to be pretty fresh. We’ll also be featuring the local love-bird band Worms, who will be play some midwest raw-folk tunes. The punkers in Mystery Gift will have some questionable video game inspired jams to play. Then make sure to stick around because a SUPRISE NEW PUNK BAND will be making their way into the thrill of the night. Their set should be cool so come out, watch this movie and listen to these bands!

This whole ordeal starts at 6:30 for real. Bring snax and trading cards, bring $5 and wear your Sunday best. Here’s the facebook event. Come to more Black Sheep shows and save the drama for the fashion scene.

We have a show announcement for a show happening on Monday, March 3rd! It’s going to be a fun Monday night and a mixed genre show. This show will feature the touring band called Polyphony from Maplewood, New Jersey. They are pictured above and you can find some of their tunes streaming below. Also playing this show is the newer Springfield metal band, Kharybdis! Then there will be another newer metal band from Taylorville called Animus playing. We do not know much about that one. Then to top that all off we have a pinch of The Science Of from Rochester. They have a few shows coming up at Black Sheep, including the one tonight with Ultra Bidé.

This show will be at 7:00 pm and $5, like most shows. There is no facebook event or flier right now, sorry. You can check our upcoming shows page for a look at everything coming up at Black Sheep this spring.

We have a show announcement for a show that’s coming up fast! So fast that it’s actually happening a week from tomorrow! How about that? This show will be the return of Chicago pop punk rockers Red Light Compliance. They played at Black Sheep way back in July, if any of you can remember that far (we sure can’t). We have some of their music streaming on the player below. Also playing this show is the crowd favorite local rock band Negative 17. Hopefully the temperature outside will be higher than -17 by the time of this show. We also have the second Black Sheep performance of Full Chroma, one of Springfield’s newer and younger pop bands. Kicking of the show is the two-piece heavy jam rock band Yogi Beara.

This show will start at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. Don’t forget that Dumb Records will be open until 9:00 pm this night, as they will be ever night there is a Black Sheep show. There is a facebook event for this show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a good look at everything coming up at Black Sheep.

Get ready for this very ghoulish show happening the day after Valentines day on Saturday, February 15th. This will be the tape release for new Springfield punk band Asthma, so come and check it out. Also playing this show is Springfield indie rock favorites Soap Scum. This show will also be the return of Champaign raw punk band Chain’s Gang, who played at Black Sheep last back in February of 2013. You can check out some of their tunes on the player embedded below. Chain’s Gang will be doing a short tour with St. Louis sewer punks Animal Teeth. Get ready to slime.

This show will kick off at 7:00 and admission will be $5. You can find a facebook event to this show right here. Don’t forget to also check out our shows page for a look at all of the upcoming shows at Black Sheep.

Springfield house venue and some of our best buds The Radon Lounge have announced that they will be having a killer indie-rock show on Saturday, February 1st featuring touring Toronto band The Strumbellas. The Radon Lounge site says that this is the show that you shouldn’t miss in 2014, so if you ever plan on going to a Radon show, go to this one! This is also the first Radon show to feature a band from outside of the country! You can check out some music by The Strumbellas below. Also playing this show is Alex & The XO’s– a pop band from Normal, Illinois.

This show will start at 7:00 pm and costs $5. If you head over to the The Radon Lounge’s show page you will see that they also have a open mic night and some sort of a cover show also lined up. The Radon Lounge has also done a neat little list of their 13 favorite things of 2013 that happened at the Radon this past year. Check that out here. Also check out our Springfield shows page for a better look of what is coming up around town outside of Black Sheep.

Today we are bringing you a brand new song by Springfield shock rock band Epsom. The song was released as a Christmas present to Epsom’s fans. From the band’s facebook:

Merry Christmas from Epsom!!! No matter what fabulousness you find under your tree this morning, we’re sure you’ll agree that it can’t hold a candle to the gift of a brand new Epsom studio cut (albeit one with “adult themes” and a few NSFW lyrics). “Animal” has been an audience favorite since the band’s very first show and this version marks the studio debut of the Sgro-Zander-Two-Guitar-Onslaught (patent pending). Download it or stream it here for free – unless you are filled with the spirit of giving, in which case, pay to your heart’s content! And never forget: Epsom loves you – at Christmas and every other god damn day of the year!

The song is called “Animal” and you can stream it on the player below. Head over to Epsom’s bandcamp to download the song at a pay-what-you-want price. Epsom released a 2 song 7″ last year that you will be able to pick up at Dumb Records once we are open in one week.

We have a crazy bunch of shows coming up! January is loaded with action and February is sure to follow suit, so here’s something to look forward to. On February 16th we’re going to host a show dripping with electric excitement. It will feature local wrestle mongers Table Drama, the band known for keeping the grimy gears of hardcore grinding. Then coming from Chicago will be the progressive Carnivores At Grace. They’re sure to give us a raw set, so come out and support them! Local power poppers The Science Of will have then some energetic tunes to make you want to jump around and local punkers The Oswalds are sure to give an exciting set as well, so this show should be rad.

Come at 7:00 pm, pay $5 and check out these bands! Here’s a facebook event for this and make sure to check out all the stuff we have coming up!

Welcome to 2014, year of the spooks. Tonight we’re bringing you an incredibly remarkable show to get things started off RIGHT. The local sewer punkers of Soap Scum are going to play a set so grimy that their songs will stick in your ear drums no matter how much you try to scrub them out. Thank goodness for that. Then the band Falter is coming all the way from Milwaukee, Wisconsin tonight to play some grinding riffs that are sure to rattle your bones harder than the brittle, midwestern winter winds. Local wrestle-heads Table Drama are also playing tonight! They’re sure to grind everyone’s gears- plus- rumor has it they have something new to offer this year, so come find out at tonight’s show. Nos Bos is a slimy punk band that will be slither crawling here all the way from Belleville to grace us with creepy ooze-grind jams. Asthma is a new local band featuring members of Mildred and Looming. Supposedly they’re going to get heated and heavy with some grinding grooves so check out these guys, it’s their FIRST show.

All these sets are going to be great. Come check them out at this show tonight- it’s going to be at 7pm, bring $5 to slam! Also try to support the touring bands with anything you can muster. Travelling in this clean, pure, snowy season can be really hard for slime balls so have a heart! Support the grime. Also make sure to check out other shows we have coming up in this fine, fresh month of January because we have A LOT of things happening this month that you won’t want to miss. Happy New Year!