August 4th at Black Sheep: Absence of Despair, Abyss, Sammy & The Punk

Posted on July 28, 2016 by blacksheepspringfield

Looks like we have little bit of a mixed genre show here, coming up quick on Thursday, August 4th just two days before the quickly approaching Black Sheep Fest. We have Providence, Rhode Island-based metal group “Absence of Despair” coming for us at Black Sheep. Check out one of their songs on that player streaming below. We also have a couple of local acts. One of these includes the hard metal band Abyss! Then opening things up we have the rock n’ roll outfit “Sammy & The Punk” mixing things up for us.

This show will start at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. You can find a facebook event for this one right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page where you can find what else is coming up at Black Sheep these next few months.

August 21st at Black Sheep: Looming, Euriah, Vonne

Posted on July 28, 2016 by blacksheepspringfield

It’s been a minute since we’ve gotten to say this, but here’s a show announcement featuring Looming! For those of you unfamiliar, Looming is an indie/punk band originally based out of Springfield that has had two of their four members move far across the country within the past six months. Last time they played a show here was… in March. Now they will be playing at Black Sheep at the end of a tour recently announced with Lemuria. The show will be happening on Sunday, August 21st. Sorry but Lemuria will not be playing the Springfield show. We do however have a good lineup aside from Looming featuring Champaign-Urbana’s own Euriah. Also on the bill is the recently name-changed band “Vonne” (we’ll let you guess what this band was formerly known as).

Mark your calendars for this one, this show will start at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. You can check out a facebook event for this show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a look at what’s coming up this summer, we are updating things!

New Arrivals This Week at Dumb Records

Posted on July 27, 2016 by blacksheepspringfield

It’s another new and exciting week over at Dumb Records (1107 South Grand E. Ave) and there are plenty of new arrivals hitting the shelves. Don’t forget that we are also in the middle of “Operation: Dumb Elephant” an ambitious mission for Dumb Records to acquire a life-sized elephant and put on the side of our building. This week the store has a good chunk of used records including a nice selection of jazz that has come in. Let’s take a look at the store’s hours for this week and then jump into the arrivals:

Wednesday (today): noon – 8:00 pm
Thursday: noon – 8:00 pm
Friday (sh0w): noon – 9:00 pm
Saturday: noon – 8:00 pm
Sunday: noon – 8:00 pm
Monday (show): noon – 9:00 pm

New LPs
Tenement – Tenement
Thee Fine Lines – Splittin’ Time

Used LPs
Alleluia – A Praise Gathering For Believers
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – Soul Finger
The Association – Insight Out
Batdorf & Rodney – Life Is You
Ben Webster – For The Guv’nor
Big Bands Forever! – Four Kings Of Swing
The Big Top Five – Real Circus Music
Bonnie Raitt – Takin My Time
Cannonball Adderley – Live Session!
Chuck Berry – Chuck Berry’s Golden Decade Vol. 2
The Dave Brubeck Quartet – In Europe
Don Shirley – Piano Perspectives
Dusty Springfeidl – You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me
Emitt Rhodes – Emitt Rhodes
Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush – Live
Frankie Yankovic and His Yanks – Greatest Hits
George Benson – Take Five
Grover Washington Jr. – Live At The Bijou
Harvest – It’s Alright Now
The Incredible String Band – Earthspan
J.J. Cale – Okie
Jethro Tull – Minstrel In The Gallery
John Lee Hooker – Original Folk Blues
Juice Newton – Greatest Hits
Kenneth Copeland – I Give You Jesus
King Pleasure – Mr. Jazz
Linda Ronstadt – Canciones De Mi Padre
Living Strings – Rhapsody In Blue
Loretta Lynn – Fist City
Mahogany Rush – Child of the Novelty
Noel Paul Stookey – Real to Reel
Mark Almond – The Best Of
Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays – As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls
Quincy Jones – Bossa Nova
Rick Wakeman – The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Robby Duke – Come Let Us Reason
The Searchers – Meet The Searchers / Needles & Pins
Stanley Turrentine – The Sugar Man
Supertramp – Crime of the Century
Turley Richards – Therfu
Various – The Best of Spinners
Various – The Giants of Jazz
White Witch – White Witch
William Ackerman – Childhood and Memory

Used 7”s
Acidic Tree – Dead On Our Feet
Anodes / The Story Changes / Gas Up Yr Hearse! – Split
At Our Heels – At Our Heels
The Beatles – Yesterday b/w Act Naturally
The Beatles – Hey Jude b/w Revolution
The Beatles – Old Brown Show b/w The Ballad of John And Yoko
The Beatles – Rain b/w Paperback Writer
Elvis – Steamroller Blues / Fool
Madonna – Papa Don’t Preach
Madonna – Live To Tell
Madonna – Like A Virgin
Madonna – Like A Prayer
Peter Frampton – Shone On / Show Me The Way
The Recluse – Summer Showers
Sting – If You Love Somebody, Set Them Free

Black Sheep Fest 2016 T-Shirt Voting!

Posted on July 26, 2016 by blacksheepspringfield

The time is finally here to vote for your favorite Black Sheep Fest 2016 t-shirt design! This year we only had six submissions (maybe the least we’ve ever got…) but that should make choosing for your favorite extra easy! Go ahead and check out what has been submitted below (we’ll keep the artists anonymous for now). Then when you are ready, click this link to vote and tell us which design number you would like to see as the next Black Sheep Fest t-shirt. We’ll keep the polls open for exactly 48 hours, and close them at 9:00 pm on Thursday night. Here are those submissions:

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Very cool! Again, go here to vote! And also don’t forget that Black Sheep Fest is happening in about ten days on Saturday, August 6th. There are 15 local bands playing starting at 2:00 pm – we’ll be posting the schedule for the fest very soon!

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OPERATION DUMB ELEPHANT

Posted on July 24, 2016 by blacksheepspringfield

Okay, we’ll admit it we’ve had some pretty crazy ideas at Black Sheep and Dumb headquarters. We’ve had some pretty dumb ideas before too, but that’s okay. This one might be pretty crazy and also dumb, but we are moving forward with it! We are calling this one “Operation: Dumb Elephant.” That photo right up there ^^ isn’t 100% real just quite yet but it is the end goal of this operation. We are trying to work towards buying a giant fiberglass elephant to give a new home right next to Dumb Records on South Grand Avenue. We need your help though. It is looking like the elephant and trailer with the state it is currently in will cost us anywhere from $1,000 to $1,800 to purchase, repair, and paint.

From now until Saturday we will be collecting donations for this operation. You can drop those off inside Dumb Records (we will have a jar). We aren’t doing an online kickstarter or anything like that this time around. You can donate inside Dumb Records, or paypal us to our account at dumbrecs@gmail.com. If you are looking for a little gift in exchange for a donation, we will be printing *exclusive* elephant tees, and taking pre-orders for those over the next six days in exchange for donations of $15. We can also ship the tees for those of you outside of Springfield. Find the link to those RIGHT HERE. Check out a pic of those below!

Videos: Statues of the Dead at Black Sheep 7-9-16

Posted on July 24, 2016 by blacksheepspringfield

Today we are bringing you a video of what was one of the most anticipated sets at this year’s Black Sheep Battle of the Bands which happened a couple of weekends ago. That would be Statues of the Dead – a new group featuring members of Say Something and also a five year old rocker. Statues of the Dead were not the winner in either of the voting categories, but they did get a great response from the crowd. You can see our Battle of the Bands recap post right here. Check out that video below. Also be on the lookout for another Statues of the Dead show being announced really soon.

Check out our vids/pics page for more videos taken at Black Sheep over the past 10+ years.

Tonight at Black Sheep: HOUND, Livin’ Thing, Undone, Chili Mac

Posted on July 24, 2016 by blacksheepspringfield

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We are excited for this one tonight. We’ve had a couple of last minute lineup changes but looks like what we’ve ended up with tonight is still one solid rock show happening for you all. Tonight we have the mighty HOUND coming from Philadelphia to rock our socks off (featuring members of Bad Side and Ted Leo & The Pharmacists). Check out some of their music playing below. We also have the out of control hardcore bar band, Livin’ Thing shaking things up tonight. What will those boys come up with this time? We also have a last minute switchup to the lineup- and that is now Undone is playing in place of Copper Blue who are unable to make it. Opening things up is a new Springfield project called “Chili Mac”, also just performing as a two-piece tonight because things didn’t go exactly as planned. Everything should still be great though!

The show tonight starts at 7:00 pm. Bring $6 for the show! Check out a facebook event for this one right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a complete list of everything coming up at Black Sheep the next couple of months.

August 24th at Black Sheep: Selector Dub Narcotic, Epsom, SAP

Posted on July 23, 2016 by blacksheepspringfield

Time for another exciting show announcement. On Wednesday, August 24th we have a special guest coming to perform at Black Sheep, and that isCalvin_Johnson. Calvin Johnson (founder of influential Olympia-based indie label K Records, and also various bands and projects such as Beat Happening) is making a return to The Black Sheep as Selector Dub Narcotic. Calvin performed a solo set at Black Sheep here last in 2009, close to seven years ago. Check out what Selector Dub Narcotic’s all about on the video embedded below. Also on this show is the “acid-reflux” rock band from Springfield, Epsom. And then opening things up we have a performance by our very own SAP. It’s a three band show, and that’s it!

This one will kick off at 7:00 pm and admission this time around is $6. You can find a facebook event for this show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page where you can see what all is coming up at Black Sheep these next few months.

Tonight at South Town Studio: Black Bloc, Gazeebo, Ceiling Lust, Emasculate Regression, Invertabit, Citizen 2-13

Posted on July 23, 2016 by blacksheepspringfield

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There are no shows happening tonight at Black Sheep, but we do happen to have this now six-act noise show happening up in South Town Studio. Sounds like there will be tacos for in exchange for donations for the touring acts starting at 7:00 pm tonight, and the true noise will kick off at 8:00 pm. For this one we have noise/drone project Black Bloc coming from New York. You can stream a track from that project on the player embedded below. Then we have three local acts, including a rare set from the Springfield noise project Gazeebo. We also have the newer industrial project Ceiling Lust, and opening things up looks like we have Emasculate Regression. In addition to this, since the show was announced a couple of bands have been added. Those are Invertabit and Citizen 2-13 from Wisconsin.

This show will be kicking off at 8:00 pm, looks like there might be food available a little before then- but bring donations if you want to eat! Donations be likely taken for the touring act as well. Check out our shows page for a list of upcoming shows at Black Sheep and in Southtown.

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The Junior Varsity Announce Reunion Tour, Springfield Show with Park

Posted on July 22, 2016 by blacksheepspringfield

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Popular indie-rock band formerly from Springfield and mainly active from 2002-2007, The Junior Varsity have announced plans for a short reunion tour this September. This includes a Springfield show on Saturday, September 3rd to be held at Boondocks along with other heavy hitting Springfield indie-rock group Park. A website has been set up for the reuion which you can check out at thejuniorvarsityreunion.com. Park will also be playing the St. Louis show with The Junior Varsity at The Firebird on September 9th.

Ticket info for the Junior Varsity / Park show at Boondocks can be found right here. You can also stream a newly released demo recording from “the vaults” of The Junior Varsity below.