Tours: Pryss

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Looks like a new crop of Springfield bands are starting to head out on the road to make it to the big times. We’ve got our pretty recently-formed hometown hardcore punk band Pryss planning a tour this August. Here are the dates:

August 5th – St. Louis @ Bonerville
August 6th – Black Sheep Fest @ Black Sheep
August 7th – Kansas City
August 8th – Oklahoma City @ The Shop
August 9th – Little Rock @ the Sk8 Park
August 10th – Murray @ Terrapin Station
August 11th – Champaign @ Blips and Chitz
August 12th – Chicago @ TAZ

Find a facebook event for the tour right here. Don’t forget this includes August 6th right here at Black Sheep as part of Black Sheep Fest 2016. The fest is sure to be a fun time. Pryss is also playing a show here on July 29th along with Menthol from North Carolina, which we haven’t officially announced yet. Check out Pryss’s demo streaming below.

July 18th (Tomorrow) at Black Sheep: Above The Mendoza, Amora, Fill In The Blank, Abyss, Terribly Happy

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The show announcements don’t get any more last minute than this! We apologize for not getting this one up on our site until just now- we have some catching up to do! Today we are letting you know about this show happening tomorrow- featuring five bands happening at Black Sheep. We have a couple of bands coming from Pennsylvania- one of them being “Above The Mendoza” pictured above, and music streaming below. They will be on tour with another Pennsylvania band called “Am0ra” for their “Road to Famfest Tour.” Then we have a lineup of three bands from the area as supporting acts. We’ve got the poppy pop-punk band Fill In The Blank. Then we got the hard-rockin’ metal band Abyss. And looks like opening things up we have Terribly Happy– the pop punk band from Peoria, Illinois.

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 (we are catching up!) for a good look at what else is coming up at Black Sheep for the rest of this summer.

Black Sheep Battle of the Bands 2016 Recap

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Whoops, our little recap of the Black Sheep Battle of the Bands that happened one week ago from yesterday is a little bit overdue! We are sure some of you have been waiting to hear about the results from the battle. Well, this year we definitely had the most bands participating in the battle- seven whole bands, and all of them showed up and played! We have nothing bad to say about any of the performances- all of them were great! And our judges loved them all too! Let’s take a look at our winners:

First place in the crowd voting contest went to Stems! Looks like they will be playing Black Sheep Fest 2016 on August 6th as a result.

First place in the judges voting went to Skunkworks! Looks like they will receive a free recorded demo by Mario Cannamela.

A third place prize was awarded to Kail, who will be getting a guest spot on Lincoln’s Legends Podcast.

Thanks again to everyone who came out and participated in the battle this year! See you all at Black Sheep Fest 2016 if not before then!

Tonight at Black Sheep: Odds of an Afterthought, Of Brighter Skies, Set Fire To Salem, Torture Trend, Flamingo

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It’s a Friday night, and there is a show happening tonight at Black Sheep! This one is mostly a metal show, but it does have a few twists looks like. We have the alternative metal band “Odds of an Afterthought” coming from Minneapolis, Minnesota. You can stream some of their music on the player embedded below to find out more of what they are about. Also on tour is a band called “Of Brighter Skies” and they come from somewhere up in Wisconsin. Then we have three local bands on the bill, including the solid metalcore act Set Fire To Salem. Then a couple of surprises- we have the new hardcore/grind three-piece Torture Trend on this bill. Then opening things up looks like we have the Psychadelic rock band from Jacksonville- Flamingo.

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 else is coming up at Black Sheep in the near future.

Today on Black Sheep Radio: Springfield Illinois Music History

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We actually have a VERY new and exciting episode of The Black Sheep Radio Show lined up today! We have a very special guest! It’s a special episode! This episode is special because we have Nereida and Bob Littrell coming in, who happen to run the very interesting Springfield Illinois Music History page on facebook. The page has been constantly wow-ing us with photos and videos of Springfield bands from as far back as the 1930’s, including much of the 1960’s, 1970’s, and 1980’s. Nereida and Bob will be coming in to talk to us about the project, and we will likely be talking about plenty of bands from our town’s past. We also have quite the playlist lined up, mostly of music from Springfield bands of the past. You can pretty much expect most of it to be from ten years ago and earlier. So buckle your seat belts in this afternoon and get ready to learn!

The Black Sheep Radio Show airs today and every Friday from 4:00 to 6:00 pm. There were some problems with the signal from the CACC studio last week, if there are problems again this week you might need to stream the show on wqna.net online also from 4:00 to 6:00 pm!

New Band Pages: Attic Salt

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It’s been a minute since we’ve brought you a brand new band page on our site. That doesn’t mean there has been a shortage of new Springfield bands forming though. We’ve got some catching up to do, and we are starting today with the new fuzzy power-poppy punky band Attic Salt! Attic Salt do not have any recorded music yet, but you can check out their new band page on our site and read more about them on their new page right here. Also check out a video of the band playing live at their last show right here. Attic Salt currently does not have any more shows lined up, but we will make sure to let you know when they do!

Check out any of our 60+ current band pages we have set up right here. There are even more past band pages you can check out right here. Do you play in a Springfield band we have not yet gotten a page set up for? We would love to hear from you! Send an email to blacksheepspringfield@gmail.com and we will work with you to set something up.

One More Week to Submit Black Sheep Fest Shirt Designs

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Would you look at that! That up there is the only T-shirt design submission we have had so far for Black Sheep Fest 2016! We announced our T-shirt designing contest for the fest a few weeks ago and haven’t had a whole lot of responses since then. Yes, everyone is welcome to participate! This is just a reminder that we will be collecting submissions by midnight on next Tuesday, July 19th. You can submit your designs to us through email at blacksheepspringfield@gmail.com. From there we will have a poll going on our site so you can vote for your favorite designs, and one will be chose to be printed as the official Black Sheep Fest 2016 t-shirt!

Again, Black Sheep Fest 2016 is happening this year on Saturday, August 6th. It is our ninth Black Sheep Fest since we started having them in 2008. You can find a facebook event for the fest right here, and a Black Sheep Fest 2016 page on our site.

Tonight at Black Sheep: Panzys, Lower Automation, TANG, Sweet Bippy

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After the Black Sheep Battle of the Bands last weekend and dancing wolves on our stage, it’s time to get back into the swing of things a little bit with a regular ol’ show tonight. This one features the youthful and rowdy punk band Panzys, who we have not seen in quite a minute at Black Sheep. Make sure to make it out to their spectacular return. The touring / out of town band on this bill is Chicago’s own Lower Automation. They play an experimental type of punk, and you can find their music streaming on the player below. Starting this show off we have a couple of wacky Ted Keylon projects. The first of which is TANG (The Avant National Guard), who will be bringing the noise and the weirdness. Opening things up is the electric ukulele-driven rock band, Sweet Bippy.

This show will start at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. You can find a facebook event for this one right here. In the meantime you can check out our shows page for a look at what all is coming up at Black Sheep this summer.

Videos: Torture Trend at Black Sheep 7-4-16

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Today we are bringing you a fast an intense video of new Springfield band- “Torture Trend”. The video is of the band’s full twelve-minute set on the fourth of July at a show along with Capitol Offense, Nequient, and Starlorde. You can check it out below. Also thanks to Gordon for taking the video! Torture Trend’s next show is actually happening this upcoming Friday at Black Sheep along with Odds of an Afterthought and Of Brighter Skies.

You can find more videos and pictures from over the years at Black Sheep on our vids/pics page.

Black Sheep Battle of the Bands Tonight

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This is a great and fun weekend at Black Sheep! Last night we all danced and watched robot wolves play keyboards, and tonight is the annual Black Sheep Battle of the Bands! Tonight we have seven whole bands lined up, starting at 6:00 pm. All of these bands are newer and feature younger members who are high school or college age, or even younger. We are kicking things off with the five-year old dream punk band, Statues of the Dead. Let’s take a look at that lineup and set times:

SPOOKY POO (9:20)
BRING ON THE FALL (8:45)
SKUNKWORKS (8:10)
STEMS (7:40)
KAIL (7:15)
GADGET (6:40)
STATUES OF THE DEAD (6:15)

For those of you attending, you will get a voting slip along with admission. At the end of the night there will be a winner announced for crowd voting (to receive a slot on Black Sheep Fest August 6th) and a winner announced for judges voting (to receive a free recorded demo). Our judges panel tonight includes Jeremie Bailey, Ayo Abitogun, Clare Frachey, and Kat Tuttle.

The show tonight starts at 6:00 pm and admission is $6. You can check out a facebook event for this one right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a look at what else is coming up this summer at Black Sheep.