Our all-ages sister venue Error Records is hosting the brutal Champaign Metal Fest coming up on July 13th. The line up includes For What It’s Worth, Slaughter Camp, Pit Fiend, From Cities Above, In Name Of Suffering, Øde Vinter, Empyrean, and Eminent Slaughter. The door is $7, and they open at 2:30pm. The event is all-ages.
Ten years ago in 2003 Springfield indie/rock band Park released their album It Won’t Snow Where You’re Going. Now it’s 2013 and Park have announced that they have reunited as a band and are currently working on a brand new album. When Ladd Mitchell came on to Black Sheep Radio a couple of weeks ago he talked to us about Park’s reunion and told us that Park will be playing SOHO Music Festival downtown this year and also a show in St. Louis on August 17th.
The Park show at the Fubar in St. Louis on Saturday August 17th and it will be a ten year anniversary show for the album It Won’t Snow Where You’re Going. Park will be playing their 2003 album in it’s entirety for the show. Bands also playing include Blackwater 64, Big Storm, and Clockwork. A facebook event can be found here. Tickets can be purchased for $12 each right here.
It’s Wednesday night and there is still snow on the ground but we think it is a good night for a good old-fashioned rock show! Don’t you? At the show tonight you can check out some sweet acoustic touring bands and some local feel-good rock. We have John Davey from Indiana playing. Picardy III from Autstin, Texas will also be performing. The two are touring together as a part of their “Men, Waves, and Savior Tour.” Local support will be provided by rock n’ roll band Big Storm featuring Brandon Carnes of Black Sheep Radio fame. We also have The Transatlantic playing some more feel good rock n’ roll.
The show starts at 7:00 pm and is $5. You can check out a facebook event right here. Can’t make it to the show this Wednesday night? We have a ton of other shows coming up!
The old Champaign (Springfield-related at one point) hardcore band Commodity have announced that they will be playing one reunion show for Skeletal Lightning Fest in Champaign on April 6th. The band called it quits in 2010 and played their last show in Springfield at Black Sheep. You can see some videos from that show right here and here.
Skeletal Lightning Fest will be happening at The Red Herring Restaurant in Champaign on April 5th and 6th. The main day of the fest is Saturday, April 6th. Some bands playing that day include Our Lady, Into It. Over It., The Reptilian, Northless, and Dowsing. For a complete list of bands, you can check out the Skeletal Lightning Fest website right here. You can also check out a flier for the fest done by Kamila Glowacki below.
There’s the Black Sheep Radio crew, working hard at doing what they do. Tomorrow is Friday, and that means it’s another episode of Black Sheep Radio! Tomorrow we will have Anthony Bollero of Springfield music blog Some Things Can’t Be Ignored coming in to talk about his blog and also play some tunes from some old Springfield releases he has featured on his blog. We also have Brian Galecki in to introduce some songs by some dumb bands that have been recently announced to be playing Dumb Fest on June 15th.
As always, the Black Sheep Radio show will be airing from 4:00 to 6:00 pm on WQNA 88.3 fm. You can listen on the radio or also online at wqna.org. If you head over to our radio page you can stream and download some old episodes that have aired in the past.
To properly celebrate this dumb party we’re throwing, we decided it was appropriate for it have it’s own little place on the internet. Okay, okay, it’s not a totaly new website but it who’s got money for that?? We added a new page under the “shows” tab (which you can find if you hover your mouse on where is says “shows”).
On the page, we will keep the updated line up and news along with all other info about the fest. CLICK HERE FOR THE DUMB FEST PAGE.
Be sure you keep your eyes out tomorrow for another DUMB announcement with another 5 dumb bands! If you missed the first Dumb Fest announcement, you can go here to check that out. A facebook event was also recently created for Dumb Fest.
UPDATE: The date for the Obi-Wan Kanblo Mi’s “Episode VI: Return of the Red Eyes” release show has been moved to April 19th. With this change comes a new, sweet line up! The line up is now Obi-Wan Kanblo Mi, Peoria’s Must Build Jacuzzi, 618 Punx Coward’s Way Out, Springfield owns Lovecow, and the new punkers RDNT. More info about the show is located on the Facebook event page.
ALSO BIG AWESOME SHOW TONIGHT AT HARM HOUSE!
Be sure to check out this really awesome house show tonight. It features Blood Red (ft. members of Pissed Jeans and Run Forever), the legendary Mother Leopard, local MTG Punx Emperor Norton, and Jessica Knight formally of Our Lady. The show starts at 7pm and is donation based. Don’t know where the Harm House is? Start here.
It’s time to get soft and acousticy! We have a great show coming up in April. Arizona’s Cottontail (ft. members of Ramshackle Glory) is finally bringing their brand of love punk back to Black Sheep, well…. one of thier members is. To get the party started we have the black metal-acoutic team Lovecow (whom recently release sneak peak tracks to their new album). To totally round out the bill we have the mysterious Montagh (formerly Austin & Austin). There may be some more bands announced later on, so stay posted.
The show starts at 7:00 pm and costs $5. The flier will be availble once the final line up has been announced. In the meantime you can find a facebook event for the show right here. Not looking for fun stuff to do? DON’T CLICK HERE THEN!
It has been quite a while since we have had a big metal show at Black Sheep. Tonight we are excited to say that there is one happening featuring some great local and non-local metal bands! The two bigger touring acts that are a part of the “For The Fans Tour” are The Convalescence, and Kleos. Those bands will be joined by local support from Skywalker, who have been working on new material recently. Another local band who will be playing is Scott Blacula. We do not think that there will be any battle sets between Scott Blacula and any other bands but you never know! Opening things up will be Elyse, who have recently released a ten song album.
You can find a facebook event for the show right here. Things start off at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. You can also check out what other shows are coming up at Black Sheep on our shows page.
It’s time to get acoustic-y and rock-y once again. Our long time pal John Davey is on tour with Austin, TX’s Picardy III. Each of this team put their unique spin on “music.” To round out Big Storm, will be playing “Break Out” for 30 minutes. This will be one not to miss.One more band is going to be added to this show, and will be announced accordingly.
The show will be $5 and start at 7pm. You can check out the Facebook event here, and the rest of the wild, whacky adventures of Black Sheep here.
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