Tours: Looming

Posted on February 2, 2017 by blacksheepspringfield

Former-Springfield, now all-over-America band Looming have announced their next big tour, which includes a trip around the midwest, south to Florida, and then to Texas for South by Southwest Festival in Texas this March. Springfield is included as a stop on this tour- you can expect more details about a Looming show on Wednesday, March 8th to come from us very shortly! The band is also currently working hard in the studio on their next release to follow up Nailbiter released in 2015 on No Sleep Records. Check out those tour dates below:

3-3: Pittsburgh, PA
3-5: Cleveland, OH
3-6: Chicago, IL
3-8: Springfield, IL
3-9: Cincinnati, OH
3-1o: Columbus, OH
3-11: Nashville, TN
3-12: Tallahasee, FL
3-13: TBA
3-14: Austin, TX
3-15: Austin, TX
3-16: Austin, TX
3-17: Austin, TX

Tonight at Bar None: Two Houses, Attic Salt, Starter Jackets

Posted on February 1, 2017 by blacksheepspringfield

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Looking for something to do tonight on the first night of February? For the 21 and up crowd there is a show happening at Bar None downtown which features the touring act Two Houses from Chicago. Stream some of Two Houses’ music on the player embedded below. This show features a solid lineup of Two Houses and a couple of locals – hit Springfield band Attic Salt will also be playing. They will also be joined by newer Springfield pop punk band Starter Jackets from some of the same people that brought you Hospital Job.

This show will start at 9:00 pm and we are guessing the door charge is $5. This one is ages 21 and up, sorry! Check out a facebook event for that right here. Also check out our Springfield shows page for a list we are working on of shows coming up in town outside of Black Sheep.

February 10th at Black Sheep: Single Player, Nagasaki, Bottom Bracket, Kenyon Deshasier

Posted on January 31, 2017 by blacksheepspringfield

Look at this, we have a bit of a last minute show coming up to tell you about in a little less than a couple of weeks happening on Friday, February 10th! This show will feature Champaign/Urbana band Single Player (possibly their first show here since the very first show of 2016 last year). Check out a hot new Single Player track that just dropped today right here at New Noise Magazine. Also stream some of their earlier tunes on the player below. Also on this show we have the rambunctious Springfield high school punk band Nagasaki on board tearing up the dance floor. Before them is “Bottom Bracket” aka “Christmas Cannamela” aka “The Roman Candle Drive Guys”. Opening things up for this show we have the solo ambient act Kenyon Deshasier.

This show 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 good look at what else is coming up at Black Sheep this winter/spring.

Forest Saints: “Sun/Hand”

Posted on January 31, 2017 by blacksheepspringfield

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Today we bring you a second music video released in recent times by “Forest Saints” (3rd video overall) -the solo recording project of Mark Schwartz based right here in Springfield. The video (which you can find below) is for the song “Sun/Hand” which comes off of Mark’s fourth album under Forest Saints, Bitter Pill. The other music video was for the song “Stock in Misery” off of the same album, and you can find that right here.

Mark also performs in the freeform jazz band End Times Trio along with Frank Trompeter and Richard Gilman-Opalsky who just gave a talk at Black Sheep this past weekend. There are not plans for any Forest Saints live shows, but we have been told that there is a fifth album for the project in the works! Check out all of Forest Saint’s recorded music on their bandcamp page right here. Also check out our vids/pics page for a bigger collection of Springfield music videos shot over the years.

New Arrivals This Week at Dumb Records

Posted on January 31, 2017 by blacksheepspringfield

Wow what’s this!? There has been an explosion of new inventory over at Southtown record store Dumb Records (1107 South Grand Ave East), particularly in the used rock categories! Today we are coming at you with a list of just some of the new arrivals that are hitting the shelves at Dumb Records this week. Snatch up some of those goodies while they are still hot. Let’s take a look at the store’s operating hours of the week and then check out what’s new:

Tuesday (today): noon – 8:00 pm
Wednesday: noon – 8:00 pm
Thursday: noon – 8:00 pm
Friday: noon – 8:00 pm
Saturday: noon – 8:00 pm
Sunday (show): noon – 9:00 pm
Monday: noon – 8:00 pm

Used LPs
Alan Parsons Project – Stereotomy
Andrew Gold – All This And Heaven Too
Art Garfunkel – Breakaway
Bessie Smith – The World’s Greatest Blues Singer
Billy Preston – Everybody Likes Some Kind of Music
Boz Scaggs – Hits
Carly Simon – Hotcakes
Chaka Khan – I Feel For You
Crystal Gayle – Somebody Loves You
Earth Wind & Fire – I Am
Earth Wind & Fire – Spirit
The Electric Flag – A Long Time Comin’
Emerson Lake & Palmer – Love Beach
Eurogliders – This Island
The Firm – Mean Business
Genesis – Seconds Out
Genesis – Nursery Gryme
Genesis – A Trick of the Tail
Grateful Dead – Shakedown Street
Grateful Dead – From The Mars Hotel
Grin – Gone Crazy
The Guess Who – Famous
The Guess Who – The Greatest of The Guess Who
The Guess Who – The Best of The Guess Who Volume II
Harry Sukman Orchestra – Song Without End
James Lee Stanley – Live
James Taylor – Flag
Lou Rawls – A Man of Value
Lou Reed – Mistrial
Narrow / Arrow – Middlechildren
Neil Young – Trans
No Strings – Original Broadway Cast
Ohio Players – Fire
Paul Simon – One Trick Pony
Paul Simon – Graceland
Pete Townshend – Empty Glass
Poco – Under The Gun
Prince – For You
The Psychedelic Furs – Forever Now
R.E.M. – Document
Robert Palmer – Pressure Drop
Robert Palmer – Sneakin’ Sally Through The Alley
Rod Stewart – Blondes Have More Fun
Rod Stewart – Camouflage
Rod Stewart – Tonight I’m Yours
Rufus – Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan
Rufus & Chaka – Masterjam
Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan – Ask Rufus
RUSH – Hemispheres
RUSH – Hold Your Fire
RUSH – Permanent Waves
Santana – Borboletta
Seals and Crofts – Down Home
Spandau Ballet – Parade
Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic
Sweathog – Hallelujah
Ten Years After – Stonehenge
Todd Rundgren – The Ever Popluar Tortured Artist Effect
Todd Rundgren – A Wizard, A True Star
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Long After Dark
Tomita – Pictures at an Exhibition
Toto – The Seventh One
Toto – Isolation
Traffic – John Barleycorn Must Die
Tubes – The Completion Backward Principle
Utopia – Oops! Wrong Planet
Utopia – Todd Rundgren’s Utopia
Various – Dreamin’
Various – Welcome To The Canteen
Wang Chung – Points On The Curve
Wet Willie – Drippin’ Wet!
The Who – Magic Bus
The Who – Face Dances
Wild Cherry – Wilf Cherry
Willie Nelson – Greatest Hits (& Some That Will Be)
Yes – Close To The Edge

February 5th at The Radon Lounge: Von Strantz, Good Companions, Arlin Peebles, David Rokos

Posted on January 29, 2017 by blacksheepspringfield

Looks like The Radon Lounge are going to be having their next show very soon – one week from today on Sunday, February 5th. We also just announced our next show happening at Black Sheep also on that very same night unfortunately, so you will have to choose between shows or try to show-hop to both. This show over at The Radon Lounge features Nashville touring artist Von Strantz, who is no stranger to the lounge. Check out some of her music streaming on the player below. Also on this show is the big time hippy-punk band Good Companions featuring Danny Kerwin. We love the Good Companions. Before that is one of the stars off of the hit Springfield web series “The Studio Show” – Arlin Peebles performing solo. Before that The Radon Lounge has Chicago singer/songwriter David Rokos on board to perform. Looks like things will be opening up with some baked goods by Emma Wilson.

This show will start over at the Radon Lounge at 7:00 pm for just $5. (Same time and cost as the Black Sheep show). Check out a facbook event for this one right here. Also be sure to check out our Springfield shows page for a list of shows coming up in town outside of Black Sheep (we are working on it).

Heptanes: “Demon Stratus”

Posted on January 29, 2017 by blacksheepspringfield

We might be a little late to the game on this one, but new Springfield project “Heptanes” put out their debut release online late last year it looks like. You can check out the band’s six-song release Demon Stratus on the player embedded below. Heptanes a new Springfield duo featuring Scott Faingold (Epsom) and Jason Perry (Seething Coast). The band is an interesting take on poetry written by Joseph Kallinger while in prison. The band’s description from facebook:

Heptanes dare to answer the never-posed musical question: What if notorious murdering psychopath Joseph “The Shoemaker” Kallinger had submitted his awful prison poetry to one of those “We’ll Turn Your Poem Into A Song!” ads that used to run in the back of magazines?

Hetanes do not have any shows lined up as of right now as far as we can see! Be on the lookout for shows in the future.

February 5th at Black Sheep: Dumb Vision, Lincoln’s Tomb, Stereo Static, Weeping Iniquity, Can Ka No Rey

Posted on January 29, 2017 by blacksheepspringfield

What’s up people, here is a show announcement for a show happening in exactly one week on Sunday, February 5th. Actually, it’s the next show happening at Black Sheep! Wowzers! This one features touring act from Madison, Wisconsin called “Dumb Vision.” Check out some of their tunes streaming on the player below. What do you know, we also have the presidential themed rock band “Lincoln’s Tunes” aka Lincoln’s Tomb on board for this one. We also have the grunge-y alternative rock group Stereo Static taking the big stage. Before that there are a couple of noise projects – we have the local noise/industrial project Weeping Iniquity and also a newer noise project from Champaign-Urbana called Can-Ka’ No Rey.

That is five acts all starting at 7:00 pm and for just $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 Black Sheep this year.

Southtown Sound Studio Update!

Posted on January 28, 2017 by blacksheepspringfield

After finishing their kickstarter champaign with an amount surpassing their original goal at the beginning of this month, Southtown Sound– the new recording studio coming soon to Southtown has been hard at work making magic happen in their new space. Last night the new studio gave an update along with some photos on how the studio is coming along. From the update:

If everything goes according to plan, we will hopefully have everything moved in at the end of February – early March. We will be spending a week or so troubleshooting our system and gear and making sure everything is running smoothly.
Once we get closer and we have a more concrete opening date, we will start reaching out to Kickstarter artists to get you booked and in the studio!
We are also looking to have a “studio warming” or christening of sorts when we open the doors, so be on the lookout for that and come on by and check out the space!
Thank you all so much for your patience and support throughout this project. We are so thrilled to see the excitement surrounding this project and we have a lot of great plans in store and cannot wait to start working with you all.

You can follow along more of Southtown Sound’s progress with the new studio here on their facebook page. We will also be sure to continue to give out updates on their progress as well, and also give updates on the first recording projects they take on as soon as the studio space is complete.

Tonight at Black Sheep: “Specters of Revolt” Book Release with Undone

Posted on January 28, 2017 by blacksheepspringfield

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We are once again mixing things up at Black Sheep with a thought provoking book release and discussion tonight. Tonight we will be joined by UIS Professor and also jazz drummer Richard Gilman-Opalsky. Richard is releasing a brand new book which is also the fourth he has written called Specters of Revolt. Richard will be talking about the book as well as leading a discussion and will be also joined by an opening performance by Springfield punk band Undone. From the event description:

A night of subversive thinking with UIS Professor and political philosopher, Richard Gilman-Opalsky — focused on the publication of his new book, “Specters of Revolt.” We will discuss recent social upheavals and the necessity of radical politics today…now more than ever! The event opens with local noise resistance from the band Undone, followed by a book presentation and conversation with Gilman-Opalsky.

All of that begins tonight at 6:00 pm, and the event is free. Check out a facebook event for that 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 near future.