May 22nd at Bread Stretchers: Heavens Die, Shame Spiral, Thirty Nights of Violence, Capitol Offense, Final Order, Brute Force

Posted on April 22, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

Onward with more show announcements for shows at Bread Stretchers! Looks like we have a big whopper of a hardcore show happening there on Wednesday, May 22nd. Six bands on one show- three of them being a part of some big touring package. That includes “Heaven’s Die” at the top of the list, an incredibly crushing group from Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. Stream some of their music on the player below if you dare. Heaven’s Die will be on tour with Shame Spiral also from Virginia playing some powerful deathcore/metal. The third touring act on the bill is “Thirty Nights of Violence” also from Virginia. And as for the locals… we have the first time Capitol Offense from Decatur will be making an appearance at Bread Stretchers. We also have Brute Force from the St. Louis area who performed last in Springfield at one of the final Black Sheep shows. Opening things up is Final Order, who also just performed here last night.

All of this happens on May 26th starting at 7:00 pm right on the nose and admission is $7. Check out a facebook event for this one right here. Also be sure to check out our Bread Stretchers shows page for a look at what else is coming up there in the near future.

Midwest Punkfest 11 Happening June 13-16 in Bloomington, IL

Posted on April 22, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

Now that summer is quickly approaching we are trying to stay on top of all of these festival announcements that are happening! Especially the ones in downtown Springfield – but also those that are happening in nearby Central Illinois cities. Bloomington, Illinois is a little over an hour away from us and the annual punk music fest “Midwest Punkfest” is happening for the eleventh year believe it or not from June 13th through the 16th. This year the fest is mostly happening at the new and happening downtown Bloomington venue Nightshop. There is a total of over fifty bands playing over a course of four days. Find the full list of bands announced on the Midwest Punkfest facebook event here. Notable acts include Springfield’s own Park, Hospital Job, then also heavy hitters Brenden Kelly (of Lawrence Arms), Direct Hit, 88 Fingers Louie and many more.

Check out a facebook event fro Midwest Punkfest here. Ticket info can also be found there.

Vincent Sebatian: “Not Alone”

Posted on April 22, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

Good morning everyone and welcome to a brand new week. Here we are this morning bringing you some brand new music from Springfield/Chicago solo artist Vincent Sebastian who just dropped a brand new hit single called “Not Alone”. You can check out that song streaming on the player below, or head over to Vincent Sebastian’s bandcamp page to purchase the download of the track.

Vincent released “A New Rhode” back in 2017, and is also active playing in projects Foot and Kenyon DeShasier.

Tonight at Bread Stretchers: Gangstalker, Mister, Grave Switcher, Final Order

Posted on April 21, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

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Hey it might be Easter but guess what – there IS also a show happening at Bread Stretchers tonight!!! Is it a good idea to have a show on Easter Sunday? We’ll find out. For this one we have Milwaukee, Wisconsin touring act “Gangstalker” on the bill. Stream their seven minute long demo on the player below. They will be on tour with a group called “Mister“. Mister who? We are not sure. Local support on this show will come from local hardcore group Graveswitcher – playing their first Bread Stretcher gig. Opening things up is Final Order also local hardcore.

This show starts at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. Check out a facebook event for the show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a look at what else is coming up at… Bread Stretchers in the near future.

Tonight at The Radon Lounge: David Dondero, Nectar, Bottom Bracket, Night Night Boy

Posted on April 20, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

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It’s Saturday, what’s going on in town tonight? Well, we don’t have anything lined up at Bread Stretchers tonight, but there is this really cool show happening at The Radon Lounge that you should check out if you don’t have anything else going on! This is actually The Radon’s last show for the season! They’ll be back in the fall after this. For this show they’ve got some big NPR featured guy, David Dondero at the top of the bill. Where’s this guy from, Chicago? Stream some of his music on the player below. Radon has got a solid group of local acts this time around as well. This includes Nectar from Champaign and very familiar to Springfield – who just released their album “Knocking at the Door” on LP which we have copies of at Dumb. Bottom Bracket are playing, great. Night Night Boy are playing as well – the second show for the new Springfield supergroup lineup featuring members of Park, Looming, and Soap Scum!

This show starts at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. Check out a facebook event for the show here. We told Jeff that we’d be doing something as Dumb Records, so we’ll have a couple of crates of choice pick records for sale. Check out our Springfield shows page for other non-Bread Stretchers shows.

May 12th at Bread Stretchers: The Telephone Junkies, Big Loser, Loverboard, Dexter

Posted on April 19, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

Here is yet another show coming up at Bread Stretchers for us to tell you about. This one is happening on Sunday, May 12th over at the good ol’ Bread Stretch. We have the band “Big Loser” coming from Texas. Who is that? Well, actually they were a band called “Free Kittens And Bread” who had actually played Black Sheep a few times in recent years. They just recently decided that that name was dumb so they are “Big Loser” now. Sound good? Okay, listen to their music on the player below and hear how they sound! Also on this show is THE Telephone Junkies. The one and only. Speaking of great bands, Loverboard from over in Eastern Illinois are making a return to Springfield for this show! Opening things up is Dexter Anodyne local musician.

This show will start at 7:00 pm and cost $5. Check out a facebook event right here. Also be sure to check out our Bread Stretchers shows page for a good look at everything coming up at Bread Stretchers in the near future.

May 10th-12th near Virden, IL: “Mansion Musicfest”

Posted on April 19, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

What’s all this talk of some big music fest going on next month outside of Springfield over in Virden, Illinois?? There’s something going on out there called “Mansion Musicfest” and it looks like QUITE the spring/summer event. With an entire 44 artists announced so far taking place between FOUR different stages over a span of THREE days, and more artists still “to be announced” this is shaping up to be looking like quite the event!! This is taking place from May 10th through the 12th at a Mansion in Virden. Music going on at the event is described as “EDM / Hip Hop / Rock / Dance / Funk / Future / Glitch”. There are too many performers to list off all here on this post, but you can see everyone announced so far in that flier above. We got a track by one of the top acts, “Blastfome” on the player streaming below. Oh, and there’s camping???

There is a facebook event up for this Mansion Musicfest, which you can find right here. You can also follow their facebook page to stay updated on announcements and going-ons with the festival. Links to tickets for the festival are also available on the facebook event. We’ll be sure to make another post once the full lineup is announced.

Funmachine.exe: “All Our Friends Are Algorithms”

Posted on April 19, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

We need to get back on track with posting new Springfield music! And there definitely still is a lot of it being released all of the time! Here is a great piece of music released late last month from a project called “Funmachine.exe”? or is it X-E-A? Either way, from the same that brought you The Suction Cups, Bad Banshee, and other projects here is this project which is just recording-based as far as we know right now. The album is called All Our Friends Are Algorithms and you can find it streaming on the player below.

Head over to the X-E-A bandcamp page to pay to download the mp3 of this release right here. And yes we have this one added to our Springfield album archive, which we need to be keeping updated this year!

P.S. we will be playing this and many other local musics today on the Dumb Records Radio Show which airs on WQNA 88.3 fm from 4:00 to 6:00 pm today and every Friday.

May 2nd at Bread Stretchers: Grlwood, This Is A Stick Up, Night Night Boy, Dexter

Posted on April 18, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

Ah yes, yet another Bread Stretchers show for us to tell you about. This one happening on Thursday, May 2nd just a day after the show we announced yesterday. This show features a touring act called “GRLWOOD” playing some scream-pop-rock music from Kentucky. Check them out on that player below! We also have This Is A Stick Up from Decatur, coming out and playing their first Bread Stretcher gig. Also Night Night Boy, Springfield’s newest emo-indie supergroup. Last but not least is Dexter – some solo beautiful music that you will enjoy.

This show will start at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. Check out a facebook event for this one right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a good look at what else is coming up at Bread Stretchers in the near future!

April 20th at The Radon Lounge: David Dondero, Nectar, Bottom Bracket, Night Night Boy

Posted on April 17, 2019 by blacksheepspringfield

What’s going on this weekend coming up around town? Well, we don’t have anything lined up at Bread Stretchers Friday or Saturday (we do have a show Sunday), but there is this really cool show happening at The Radon Lounge on Saturday, April 20th that you should probably know about! This is actually The Radon’s last show for the season! They’ll be back in the fall after this. For this show they’ve got some big NPR featured guy, David Dondero at the top of the bill. Where’s this guy from, Chicago? Stream some of his music on the player below. Radon has got a solid group of local acts this time around as well. This includes Nectar from Champaign and very familiar to Springfield – who just released their album “Knocking at the Door” on LP which we have copies of at Dumb. Bottom Bracket are playing, great. Night Night Boy are playing as well – the second show for the new Springfield supergroup lineup featuring members of Park, Looming, and Soap Scum!

This show starts at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. Check out a facebook event for the show here. We told Jeff that we’d be doing something as Dumb Records but we are not completely sure what. We think our old man mascot is going to be handing out old 45s to show goers from his trousers, we’ll see. Check out our Springfield shows page for other non-Bread Stretchers shows here.