Tonight at Black Sheep: The Complaint Line, The Little Death, Our Landmark, Bottom Bracket

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It might be a Thursday, but did you know there is a show going on tonight at Black Sheep? This one features all types of alternative rock. We have The Complaint Line headlining the bill from right here in Springfield. We also have the indie-sad rock band from Springfield/Taylorville called The Little Death up before them. This show will feature one out of town act and that is a newer Champaign indie rock group called Our Landmark. You can stream some of their music on the player below. Opening things up this time around is hit #1 2017 album of the year band, Bottom Bracket.

Things start tonight 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 list of shows coming up at Black Sheep in the near future.

Friday at “The C.F.P.”: Spell Breaker, Stick People, Sorry Charlie

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There’s a show happening this weekend in Springfield at a brand new house venue!? Did you know that? And it’s not the Radon Lounge! (Instead The Radon Lounge is going to be taking over Black Sheep on Saturday). What kind of backwards weekend is this? On Friday night, February 9th there will be a show featuring an all local lineup of three bands at a new house venue called “The C.F.P.” (we do not know what this officially stands for but our best bet is Carter’s Friendship Palace). This show will feature hit Springfield rock group Spell Breaker, a band very familiar to our own Black Sheep stage. Taylorville’s secret band Stick People will also be making an appearance. Then (we are guessing opening things up) is the first performance of a brand new Springfield band that we know little about called “Sorry Charlie.” Those three acts.

The show starts at 7:00 over at this mysterious new house. To find out where it is, go check out the facebook event. Admission is donation based. Also check out our shows page for the best list of shows happening in town outside of Black Sheep that we could put together.

Best of Springfield Music 2017: Shows

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The further we get here into 2018 the more we should just get the end of our three part best of 2017 the heck over with!! Finally, here is the third and final part of of our three part series with your top voted shows that happened in Springfield in the year 2017.

1. 10-2 at Black Sheep: Looming (Seed Album Release), Screaming Females, Street Eaters, Choir Vandals 

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2. June 9th, 10th, 11th Dumb Fe5t (seven locations throughout Springfield, 50 bands from 17 different states)

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3. 9-16 Black Sheep 12 Year Anniversary Show with Bottom Bracket, Stick People, Prowess, Kate Laine

4. 4-7 at Black Sheep: Hippie Squishers, Vanilla Gorilla, Hood E. Klimate, Kabass

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5. 7-1 at Black Sheep: Food & Money (reunion), Backwards Day (reunion), Livin’ Thing, Spell Breaker

6. 11-18 at Black Sheep: Black Sheep Band Lotto 2017

7. 7-7 at Black Sheep: P.I.N.T., Leche, Say Something, Grady Drugg (“The Bouncehouse Show”)

8. 10-14 at Black Sheep: Battle of the Bands

9. 5-13 at Black Sheep: Black Sheep Cover Show Part 6

10. 12-22 at Black Sheep: Black Sheep Holiday Show with Vonne (reunion), Bottom Bracket, Rockford, Telephone Junkies

New Band Pages: Nefarious Cloud

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It’s been a minute since we’ve added any new band pages on our site, and there are certainly plenty of new bands and musical acts in Springfield that we have not yet covered on our site so we better get back on it! Today we have a page set up for independent hip hop artist who has been making a splash in our city for a minute – Nefarious Cloud. Check out the new Nefarious Cloud page on our site where you can read a pretty lengthy bio on the artist as well as stream some of his music. No Nefarious Cloud shows are lined up at Black Sheep at the moment.

Check out any of our 50+ current band pages on our site right here. Do you play in a band here in town that has not yet gotten a page set up with us? We would love to hear from you – send us an email to blacksheepspringfield.com and we will work with you in setting one up!

February 10th at Black Sheep: Radon Lounge Presents… Native Land, Moonglasses, Kneller, Arlin Peebles

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This upcoming weekend on Saturday, February 10th we will be handing over the keys to The Radon Lounge and letting them take over our space for one special show! Hold on to your hats! For those of you who are not familiar, The Radon Lounge is a basement venue right here in Springfield putting on shows roughly once a month in their own space featuring many touring and local acts, usually of the indie-rock varieties. They also do a lot to add to the show-going experience by featuring old arcade and pinball games for show goers to play and also feature local artists displaying works at shows. You can expect some of this to spill over into Black Sheep next weekend.

For this show The Radon has four acts lined up that we are very excited about. “Native Land” is headlining the bill is a husband and wife duo from Nashville, Tennessee. You can stream some of their music on that player embedded below. Moonglasses is the other out of town act on this bill, they are indie rock from St. Louis and were formerly known as “Skunkworks”. Then we have a brother and sister folk duo called “Kneller” from right here in Springfield unfamiliar to the Black Sheep stage. Opening things up is THE Arilin Peebles – from right here in town – you may know as the host of the popular local web series The Studio Show (now on a third season).

All of that starts at 7:00 pm on Saturday for just $5. You can check out a facebook event for this one right here. You can probably expect some free refreshments or coffee of some sort and at least one arcade game inside of Black Sheep. Find our list of other upcoming shows right here on our shows page.

Best of Springfield Music 2017: Songs

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Here we are with the second part of our three part Best of Springfield Music 2017 series with your top vote songs that came from Springfield bands and musicians in the past year! Nice! We had quite the time going through all of these and adding up the totals (there are a lot of songs out there). Once again, we do not have write-ups for all of these (sorry), just the straight forward results and the embedded songs on bandcamp players below. Enjoy! We’ll return tomorrow with the third and final installment of this series.

1. Bottom Bracket – Bottom Bracket

2. Telephone Junkies – Monday Morning

3. Looming – Queen

4. Stick People – Easier Said

5. Kate Laine – This Is Not A Test

6. Prowess – Rat Bastard

7. Livin’ Thing – Punch Line

8. Night Night Boy – Ginger Ale

9. Pryss – Goodnight Alt-Right

10. Spell Breaker – Superstar

February 8th at Black Sheep: The Complaint Line, The Little Death, Our Landmark, Bottom Bracket

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We have a nice Thursday night treat coming up this coming week at Black Sheep on Thursday, February 8th to get you all pumped for the Super Bowl. This one features all types of alternative rock. We have The Complaint Line headlining the bill from right here in Springfield. We also have the indie-sad rock band from Springfield/Taylorville called The Little Death up before them. This show will feature one out of town act and that is a newer Champaign indie rock group called Our Landmark. You can stream some of their music on the player below. Opening things up this time around is hit #1 2017 album of the year band, Bottom Bracket.

That one will start 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 list of shows coming up at Black Sheep in the near future.

Tonight at Black Sheep: Earthholder, Pryss, Stick People, P.I.N.T., Reaver, Glower

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The one show happening at Black Sheep is tonight, and looks like it is going to be good! For this one we have Danville, Illinois post-rock band Earthholder headlining the bill. Check out their music streaming on the player below. We also have hardcore band Pryss giving this show a nice mix. Before that is Taylorville heavy hitting grunge band Stick People. Then before we are going to close our eyes and Pretend I’m Not There. Before that is two-piece or three-piece new Springfield band Glower. And opening things up or going early on is another out of town band and that is Reaver from St. Louis.

This whopper of a show will start promptly at 7:00 pm and admission is $7. 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 Black Sheep in the coming months.

Best of Springfield Music 2017: Albums

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Here we are in 2018, already into February and we are just now getting you the results of our 2017 best of polls right now. We are really sorry, we really are. We don’t event have write ups for all of these. Today we are delivering the results for the top ten voted albums or releases that came out of Springfield in 2017, as voted for on our site in December. If you tune in to the Black Sheep Radio Show today from 4:00 to 6:00 pm, we will be featuring songs from this list. Find the list of top ten albums below!

1. Bottom Bracket – Dreamland EP
(recorded at Southtown Sound, self-released)


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2. Looming – Seed 
(recorded by Brandon Carnes, released by No Sleep Records)


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3. Telephone Junkies – Monday Morning
(recorded at Southtown Sound, self-released)


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4. Stick People – Lips
(recorded at Southtown Sound, self-released)


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5. Prowess – EP
(recorded at Southtown Sound, released by Prescience Tapes)


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6. Livin’ Thing – The Godhead EP
(recorded at Dumb Records, released by Rat King Records)


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7. Food & Money – 1979-1982
(recorded 1979-1980, released by Alona’s Dream Records)


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8. Kaite Laine – Recurring Dream
(recorded at Southtown Sound, self-released)


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9. Attic Salt – Attic Salt
(recorded at Capital City Recording, released on Dodgeball Records)


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10. Kabass – Warrior Within EP
(self-recorded, self-released)

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11. Pryss – Sisyphus
12. Spell Breaker – Spell Breaker
13. Animals With Human Names – The Basement Tape
14. Abyss – Dreadnought
15. Tom Irwin – All That Love
16. Lick Creek – EP
17. Vincent Sebastian – A New Rhode
18. Animals With Human Names – The Studio Tape
19. Eric Marvel – What A Disappointment EP
20. Nefarious Cloud – Resurrection 

The Little Death: “Concrete” Music Video

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New Springfield band The Little Death have released a new music video for their song “Concrete.” You can check that out on the player below. The band has also released four songs including this one on their bandcamp page all this month, which you can check out online right here.

The Little Death features members of former Springfield band Fill In The Blank. Their next show is coming up soon at Black Sheep on Thursday, February 8th! We will have a separate announcement post up soon for that show. Check out more music videos from Springfield bands of the past on our vids/pics page.