Dumb Fest ONE MONTH AWAY, Gold Passes On Sale Now

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Wow could you believe it, Dumb Fest 4-Ever is now ONE MONTH AWAY, happening June 10th, 11th, and 12th this year all over Springfield. We are scrambling to get ready over at Dumb/Black Sheep Headquarters and today we are putting DUMB FEST GOLD PASSES up for sale. You can purchase a Dumb Fest Gold Pass online right here or anytime during store hours at Dumb Records (open every day from noon-8pm). What goes a gold pass do? It gets you into all of the Dumb Fest shows except the aftershows, which are $5 each. Gold passes are $25, for a $35+ value. Sounds like a pretty good deal to us. We don’t anticipate any of these shows being sold out, so don’t sweat it too much. But if you do decide to get a gold pass now it will make us feel a whole lot better about this fest coming up and will make us more prepared!

Again Dumb Fest 4 is happening June 10th, 11th, and 12th at Black Sheep, Skank Skates, Dumb Records, and Rock N’ Roll Hardee’s in Springfield. You can find a facebook event for Dumb Fest right here. Also be sure to check out the Dumb Fest 4-Ever page we have set up for a closer look at each band playing the fest. There are 50 bands total this year from 16 different states, and even one from Australia!

New Arrivals This Week at Dumb Records

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Plenty of new stuff again this week at Southtown record store Dumb Records! (Located at 1107 South Grand East Ave). This week we have a handful of new LPs and new cassettes, and also a good stack of used LPs. You can check those out below. Don’t forget everything in the store is also 15% off during the Black Sheep Open Mic which is happening coming up on Sunday. Let’s take a look at what hours the store will be open and then get into those new arrivals:

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

New LPs
All People – All People
Caddywhompus – The Weight
Matt Wixon’s Flying Circus – About Time
Woozy – Blistered

Used LPs
Paula Abdul – Forever Your Girl
Herb Alpert & The T.J.B. – Coney Island
Herb Alpert & The T.J.B. – Greatest Hits Vol. 2
The Brothers Four – The Big Folk Hits
James Brown – I Got You (I Feel Good)
Petula Clark – Color My World Who Am I
Patsy Cline – Always
Nat King Cole – Love Is The Thing
Ray Conniff – Turn Around Look At Me
Ray Conniff – Bridge Over Troubled Water
Jackie Gleason – Music For Lovers Only
Merle Haggard – Mama Tried
Hudson and Landry – Hanging In There
Andre Kostelanetz & His Orchestra – Today’s Golden Hits
Kris Kristofferson – Border Lord
Jo Jo Gunne – Jo Jo Gunne
The Ramsey Lewis Trio – Hang On Ramsey!
Ramsey Lewis – Dancing In The Street
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Gold & Platinum
Roy Orbison – His Golden Collector’s Treasury
Charley Pride – There’s A Little Bit of Hank In Me
Ray Price – For The Good Times
Professional Baseball – The First 100 Years
Jeanne Pruett – Honey On His Hands
Johnny Rivers – Original Hit Recordings
Cat Stevens – Cat’s Cradle
James Taylor – James Taylor And The Original Flying Machine
Randy Travis – Always & Forever
Uriah Heep – The Best Of
Various – The 50’s: Greatest Love Songs
Various – Senior Prome
The Voices of La Salle – Expedition II
War – Outlaw
Dottie West – Country Sunshine
Tammy Wynette – Tammy’s Greatest Hits Volume II

New 7”s
Innards – The Caution Children

New Cassettes
Caddywhompus – Feathering A Nest
Donovan Wolfington – How To Treat The Ones You Love
Glad – Neurotica
Sharkanoid – Have A Great Summer
Various – Community Records Compilation Volume 5

15 Acts Announced For Horse Show 2016

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Springfield house venue The Radon Lounge are hard at work on their annual big festival called “The Horse Show” happening this year on Saturday, June 18th just one week after Dumb Fest. The festival is a free event that happens not at The Radon, but instead over at The Refuge Ranch which is a a non-profit organization that rescues horses in desperate situations and offers a mentoring program for kids to teach them how to take care of these rescued horses. Band announcements have been coming in for the festival, and there are now 15 bands announced of what will be a 20 band lineup happening throughout the day on 2 different stages. You might also get to see a setup by Dumb Records at some point during the day! Let’s take a look at what bands have been announced so far:

Keyoung
Trouper
The Locals
Arlin Peebles
Bonnie and Lance
St. George
Il Neige
Vacant Skies
Blind Social
Stereo Static
Von Strantz
Mocklove
Brandon Austin
Like… With Jetpacks
Pretend I’m Not There

You can find more info and more links to all of the bands for The Horse Show on The Radon Lounge’s website right here. Also check out the Horse Show facebook event. And hopefully we get things more updated, but here’s our Springfield shows page where we try to keep track of shows going on outside of Black Sheep in town.

Friday, May 13th at Black Sheep: Pytch Wyte, RTJ

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It’s been a minute since we’ve had our last hip hop show at Black Sheep and now it’s time for us to bring some of them back this spring/summer! We have one coming up as soon as this Friday, May 13th. It will feature the new up and coming local hip hop artist known as Pytch Wyte in what is being callded “The Pytch Wyte Show”. If you are unfamiliar with Pytch Wyte’s music you can check it out on the player below. This show will also feature the artist RTJ who is associated with HISO Music Entertainment.

This show will begin at 7:00 pm (doors at 6:00 pm) and admission is $5. No facebook event for this one, sorry! You can check out our shows page (which has been recently updated) for a list of other upcoming shows on our site right here.

Benefit Show Tonight at Black Sheep: Garter, Moondead, Shark Week, The Suction Cups, Hannah Tolan

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It’s a beautiful Saturday, we have one show happening at Black Sheep that weekend and that is tonight! This show is being set up by some friends as a benefit to help Luna with transitional funds, which more info can be found on this GoFundMe page. We have quite the lineup of local bands for this. First off we have Garter, who have not played a show since a couple of months back. Check out their music streaming on the player below. We also have the official Illinois State Capitol band- Shark Week. Before that we have the three-piece experimental punk band Moondead. And just in case you can’t get enough of those Suction Cups after they just played last night, they will also be playing this show, and it looks like Hannah Tolan of The Stuction Cups will be doing a solo set as well.

This show will start at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. You can find a facebook event for the show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a complete list of all of the shows coming up at Black Sheep this spring and summer.

Today on Black Sheep Radio: The Studio Show

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It’s Friday and there are no shows lined up at Black Sheep tonight! We heard a rumor there might be some noise coming from South Town Studio upstairs but that’s about it. We do have The Black Sheep Radio Show happening from 4 to 6 pm, and today we have a very special episode lined up for you all. Our guests this week will be Arlin Peebles and Keil Isham of the new Springfield youtube series / TV Show – The Studio Show. We will be joined by Keil and Arlin at least in the second half of our program to talk about how the show has been going and what their plans are for the future. The show is also getting ready for its season finale.

The Black Sheep Radio Show airs from 4:00 to 6:00 pm on 88.3 WQNA fm. You can tune in on your radio dial or listen live online at wqna.net. Also check out our radio page for more info and some downloadable episodes from the past.

New Arrivals This Week At Dumb Records

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The new and used records are all pouring into Dumb Records (1107 South Grand East Ave.) this week and we have stacks upon stacks of new records- too many to even list here! This week our new selection comes mostly from Topshelf Records based out of Boston, Massachusetts and Grave Mistake Records. Aside from all of those new releases, we have a very good stack of used records hitting the shelfs this week. Let’s take a look at those store hours and then get into what’s new:

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

New LPs
Arctic Flowers – Weaver
Bloody Gears – Landscapes of Disease
Boys Life – Departures and Landfalls
Brutal Knights – Living By Yourself
Daylight Robbery – Accumulated Error
Diamond Youth – Nothing Matters
Infinity Girl – Harm
Institute – EP
Marvelous Darlings – Single Life
Moving Mountains – Pneuma
Pianos Become The Teeth – The Lack Long After
Prawn – Kingfisher
The Saddest Landscape – Darkness Forgives
Slingshot Dakota – Break
Special Explosion – The Art of Mothering
Solids – Else
Sorority Noise – Joy, Departed
Suis La Lune – Distance/Closure
Tancred – Tancred
Tenement – Bruised Music Vol. 2
Toe. – Long For Tomorrow
Toe. – The Book About My Idle Plot
Total Abuse – Excluded
TV Freaks – Bad Luck Charms
The Varukers – One Struggle One Fight
The Velvet Teen / The Veil Between – All Is Illusory
Violent Minds – We Are Nothing
Waveless – Spirit Island
Weatherbox – The Cosmic Drama
White Lung – It’s The Evil
Wild Ones – Heatwave

Used LPs
ACDC – Flick of The Switch
ACDC – High Voltage
Barbara Mandrell – Looking Back
Bill Nelson – On A Blue Wing
Bill Nelson – The Love That Whirls
Bo Donaldson And The Heywoods – Farther On
Bread – The Best of Bread Volume 2
The Buggs – Beetle Beat
Chet Atkins – It’s A Guitar World
Earl Klugh – Living Inside Your Love
Eric Clapton – Another Ticket
The Doors – The Doors
The Flying Lizards – The Flying Lizards
The Fugs – Golden Filth
Fun Boy Three – The Fun Boy Three
Fun Boy Three – Waiting
Grace Jones – Living My Life
Grace Jones – Warm Leatherette
Howard Jones – One To One
Howard Jones – Human’s Lub
Howard Jones – Dream Into Action
Jerry Lee Lewis – Roll Over Beethoven
Julia Fordham – Porcelain
Kenny G – Duotones
Kris & Rita – Full Moon
Loretta Lynn – Entertainer of the Year
The Moody Blues – Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
The Neon Judgement – General Pain & Major Disease
The Neon Judgement – Blood & Thunder
The New Ventures – Rocky Road
Paul Kelly And The Messengers – Under The Sun
Petula Clark – Down Town
Ricky Lee Jones – Ricky Lee Jones
Ricky Lee Jones – Pirates
Smothers Brothers – Two Sides Of The…
Steve Fobert – Jackrabbit Slim
Steve Forbert – Alive On Arrival
Tina Turner – Tina Live
Tommy Keene – Back Again (Try…)
Tommy Keene – Places That Are Gone
Various – Great Hits of the Fantastic 50s
Wazmo Nariz – Things Aren’t Right
Wazmo Naris – Tell Me How To Live
Willie Nelson – Stardust

Tonight at Black Sheep: All People, SAP, The Suction Cups

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You remember the New Orleans based band All People who played on the ramp of Skank Skates back last year in April? Well they are going to be back tonight and are playing a show here at Black Sheep! You can stream some of All People’s music on the player below. Also on this show is the Springfield three-piece sticky grunge pop band SAP. This is just going to be a three-band show it looks like, and that magical third band is the surf rock project called The Suction Cups, who have new music being released very soon.

The show tonight starts at 7:00 pm and costs $5. You can find a facebook event for this one right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page right here for a good look at everything else coming up at Black Sheep in the next few months.

The Illinois Times: “Making Springfield Look Cool” [The Studio Show]

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New Springfield TV show and youtube channel “The Studio Show” continues to go hard into new episodes and is getting more and more coverage as they go along! You may have noticed the show made it to the front of The Illinois Times this week with the article “Making Springfield Look Cool” by Scott Faingold. From the article:

Comedy is only part of the reason “The Studio Show” exists. The program, described memorably by Isham in one episode as “something special and unique and heartfelt and community-oriented,” is indeed a one-of-a-kind showcase for the city of Springfield as a place where creativity flourishes. The first several episodes feature interviews with a variety of area artists, including painters Jeff Williams and Amanda Greive, sculptor Michael Dunbar, cartoonist Brett James Freeman and poet Shatriya Smith. In addition, musical guests have included regional talent ranging from the close-harmony folk-pop of the Deep Hollow to the raw garage rock of SAP to the hip-hop stylings of Deezy Da Paperboy.

You can check out the full article in this week’s copy of The Illinois Times or head over to the Illinois Times website where you can view the full thing right here.

In addition to the article, The Studio Show also released their tenth episode last week, which you can find streaming below. The episode features local artist Michelle Smith and a new musical duo called “Cri8” (featuring one member of NIL8). Also head over to The Studio Show’s youtube page for a good look at all of the episodes and videos released so far.

New Band Pages: Rustocrat

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We just got a new band page up on our site, not really for a “band” this time around, but for a new electronic artist from the area going by the name of “Rustocrat.” Some of you who were at the last Black Sheep Open Mic might have caught some of Rustocrat’s Black Sheep debut and you just might have danced along. You can check out Rustocrat’s new page right here where you can read up more on the artist and also stream his brand new album.

Check out any of our 60+ band pages for current and active Springfield bands right here on our current bands page. Do you play in a band or are a musician in the area and have not yet set up a page with us? Shoot us an email at blacksheepspringfield@gmail.com and we will work with you to set something up!