A couple of months ago now thanks to your help and support – Brian Galecki and Dumb Records was able to purchase a life-sized elephant from Springfield Autobody in town and begin an incredible journey down a path of dreams. Operation Dumb Elephant was announced in July, raised enough funds to purchase the elephant in August – and then the big move took place on September 21st all of this year. Since then the elephant has been painted bright green and just yesterday we announced plans to take our new friend in the Springfield Jaycee’s Downtown Christmas Parade on Saturday, November 21st.

Somewhere in there some video footage was taken by our friend Jeremie Bailey of Lincoln’s Legends and he was kind enough to compile it all into this five-minute long film. Check that out below. Enjoy!

Today we are bringing you a video of Chicago-based rock band Lume performing at Black Sheep late last month. The show was Our Lady’s final show also with Estates from Wisconsin and The Foxery from Kentucky. You can check out the video of Lume performing one of their songs below (we are not sure of the song). Also listen to Lume’s recorded music on their bandcamp page right here.

Check out more of our many videos from local and touring bands taken at Black Sheep over the past eleven years on our vids/pics page.

Today we are bringing you another live video from a recent set inside Black Sheep. This time it’s from the band Sonic Avenues who came all the way from Montreal to play at Black Sheep this past Monday on their road to play The Fest in Florida. You can check out that video below, they are performing their song “Illusions: The System” off of their new album Diconnector out on Dirtnap Records. Stream the studio recording of the song and find their whole new album right here.

Check out more videos taken over the past ten or so years at Black Sheep on our vids/pics page.

New Springfield hip hop and R&B isn’t something we usually are ahead of on covering on our site (although we do host occasional hip hop and rap shows at Black Sheep). Today we are brining you a new music video by local Springfield artist and also Southtown resident Jayy Wills that is just too good for us not to share. You can check out Jayy’s new video for his song “Boulevard” on the player below. The video features shots from all over Springfield including some slo-mo action and some fancy drone footage.

The video was shot in collaboration with HISO Music.

Today we are bringing you a video of Springfield three-piece band Moondead performing at Black Sheep Fest 2016, which took place on August 6th earlier this month. You can check out the video below, and expect maybe one or two more videos from Black Sheep fest very soon. Check out a bunch of photos taken of the fest right here.

Moondead currently do not have any shows lined up at Black Sheep, but you can stay tuned for more September show announcements. Check out more videos and pictures taken at Black Sheep over the years on our vids/pics page.

Things are getting wild over at Dumb Records. Elephants are being bought, and the store is now set up with a more permanent PA system so loud and reckless punk shows can happen. Here is video footage of one- a video of the band GRINN performing there last weekend. This video has it all, including some good old fashioned pogo stick slam dancing. Check it out embedded below.

GRINN will be performing next at Black Sheep on September 16th as part of our 11 year anniversary show. More info on that coming later tonight. Also check out our vids/pics page for a look at more videos of touring and local bands playing in Southtown for the past 10+ years. Also thanks to Gordon Chang for filming this one, check out Macomb Events on youtube for more videos like these.

Today we are bringing you a video of Philadelphia rock group HOUND performing at Black Sheep last month. The show was on July 24th along with Livin’ Thing and Chili Mac and Undone. Check out a video of HOUND performing one of their songs below.

Check out more videos and pictures taken of local and touring bands over the past eleven years on our “vids/pics” page.