New Arrivals This Week At Dumb Records

Posted on July 7, 2015 by blacksheepspringfield

This week is another week at Southtown record store Dumb Records (located at 1107 South Grand Avenue East). There are plenty of new items in the store this week including new and used LPs, 7″s, CDs, and cassettes! Surely there is something in the store for everybody. We have those new arrivals listed below, but before that let’s take a look at what hours Dumb Records will be open this week:

Tuesday (today): 12:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Wednesday (show): 12:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Thursday: 12:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Friday (show): 12:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Saturday (show): 12:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Sunday: 12:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Monday: 12:00 pm – 9:00 pm

New LPs
And So I Watch You From Afar – All Hail Bright
Boards Of Canada – Trans Canada Highway
Cave In – Creative Eclipses
Death Cab For Cutie – Something About Airplanes
Elliot Smith – Roman Candle
The Ergs! – That’s It… Bye
Estates – It’s Great To Be Alone
FaltyDl – Straight & Arrow
Hound – Out Of Time
Mylets – Arizona
Peach Kelli Pop – Peach Kelli Pop
Peach Kelli Pop – Princess Castle 1987
Screaming Females – What If Someone Is Watching Their T.V.?
Tenement – Predatory Headlights
Toh Kay & Sycamore Smith – You By Me Vol II

Used LPs
Life In Vacuum – Commander Clark
Off With Their Heads – Home

New 7”s
The Locust – Flight Of The Wounded Locust (7”x4)
Scalped – 1^st EP
Scalped – 2^nd EP
Vadoka – Vadoka

Used CDs
ABBA – Number Ones
The Beatles – Let It Be… Naked
Chicago – The Very Best Of Chicago
Genius Entertainment – Connect With Nature
Eagles – The Very Best Of
Elton John – Greatest Hits 1970-2002
Fleetwood Mac – The Very Best Of
George Harrison – Let It Roll
Jim Brickman – The Gift
Joe Cocker – Ultimate Collection
John Mellencamp – Words & Music
Lionel Richie – The Definitive Collection
Neil Young – Greatest Hits
Norah Jones – Come Away With Me
Norah Jones – Feels Like Home
Rod Stewart – Collector’s Edition
U2 – The Best Of 1980-1990
Various – Uplifting Classics
Various – Timeless: The Great Romantic Standards

New Cassettes
Hound – Out Of Space
Hound – Out Of Time

New CDs
C Is For Cadaver – Tales Of Muerdaria, Volume One
Kamikaze Kush – Kamikaze Kush

Project Southtown Update 1.1

Posted on July 6, 2015 by blacksheepspringfield

Welcome to the very first of hopefully many monthly updates on Project Southtown – a new revitalization effort for our corner of the world located at 11th and South Grand streets in Springfield.

This past month the Project Southtown Kickstarter campaign ended with a successful $7,100+ raised. Yesterday we held an open Black Sheep roundtable meeting to talk about some immediate projects we felt need to be taken on to get the ball rolling on Project Southtown and many more projects to come. Some of those immediate projects included:

– Prepping the recently demolished wall on the side of Dumb Records (pictured above) and getting ready for a new Southtown mural.
– Purchasing new outdoor ashtrays to use instead of buckets to clean up cigarette butts.
– Purchasing new woodchips to go underneath benches behind Black Sheep.
– Building new signage for the front of Dumb Records.
– Purchasing a bike rack for public use.
– A tab on our site for Project Southtown (a separate site will come later).

We agreed on having a workday to start prepping the wall (pictured above) this upcoming Saturday. We plan on being outside working from 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm, and there will also be a vegan potluck at 3:00 pm, so anyone is welcome to come out and help us work, and enjoy some free food!

Incentives for Project Southtown are also already being gathered and shipped out. We will be contacting individual donors this month to hunt down shirt sizes, and Brian Galecki is still working up a t-shirt design for Project Southtown.

Digitizing of the Skank Skates VHS tapes are already underway, with one full half hour clip already done and up online right here. Other clips are also being worked on, as well as a website where we can host all of the video tapes in an organized fashion. Some paperwork has also already been submitted for Project Southtown’s new non-for-profit status- a process which may still take up to six months to go through. However while we are waiting for that the project will still be continuing at full speed.

October 17th at Black Sheep: “Slamfest”

Posted on July 5, 2015 by blacksheepspringfield

We are already gearing up for big things this upcoming fall in Southtown. For those of you who are fans of metal, rock, and other sorts of music, it looks like Black Sheep will be hosting a new festival called “Slamfest” on Saturday, October 17th. Slamfest will feature seven different bands, and will start just a little bit earlier than a regular show. Here is the lineup of seven bands performing at Slamfest:

Kharybdis
M-102
The Faded Truth
Noesis
Abyss
Through Burning Eyes
The Incorporated

The fest will kick off at 5:00 pm and doors will open at 4:30. This event is just $8 for seven bands. You can find a facebook event for Slamfest right here. Also check out our shows page for a good look at everything else coming up at Black Sheep this summer/fall.

Roundtable Meeting Tonight at Black Sheep

Posted on July 5, 2015 by blacksheepspringfield

There are no shows this weekend at Black Sheep (next show is Wednesday, July 8th), but tonight we will be hosting our one monthly roundtable meeting. The meeting will be at 7:00 pm (and go roughly until 8:30 pm), and everyone is welcome to join. Here are some of the things we will be going over at tonight’s meeting:

– Where we are at on Project Southtown
– Making sure all of the incentives are going out
– What important projects we need to take on right away
– Big events coming up and what we can do to better plan for them
– Black Sheep Fest 2015
– Black Sheep Battle of the Bands
– Black Sheep Art Show
– Other brainstorming / ideas we can come up with for improvement and making our space better

If you can’t make it to tonight’s meeting check out our get involved page to read up on more you can do to help out!

Boof City Skate Shop Featured On Lincoln’s Legends Podcast

Posted on July 4, 2015 by blacksheepspringfield

Some people behind the skating end of Southtown are doing cool things. The Southtown skate shop located just right above Dumb Records, Boof City Skate Shop, has recently been featured on the newer Springfield focused podcast- Lincoln’s Legends Podcast. Collin Eigenmann of Boof City spoke with Jeremie Bailey of Lincoln’s Legends about the shop, skateboarding, and upcoming projects in the Skanks and Boof City skate community. Collin is also currently working on starting up a new skate park outside at Iles Park (located at 5th and Ash streets). Check out the two-hour long podcast to hear more about that project as well as plenty of other things going on in the Springfield skate scene.

Check out the episode of the podcast right here.

August 14th at Black Sheep: Looming (Album Release), Park, Choir Vandals, Hidden Hospitals

Posted on July 4, 2015 by blacksheepspringfield

There are still plenty of big shows being announced at Black Sheep this summer! On Friday, August 14th Black Sheep will be hosting the LP release show for Looming and their new album Nailbiter coming out on No Sleep Records. Get a sneak peak of a song from the new album here. This is a very exciting show for Looming, and also exciting because also taking the stage for this show at Black Sheep is Park– an older Springfield emo band that announced their reunion on our radio show a few years back. This will be Park’s first time playing Black Sheep since reuniting. Check out some of their music streaming below. In addition to those two bands this show will also feature Choir Vandals from St. Louis and also Hidden Hospitals from Chicago.

This show will start at 7:00 pm, and tickets will go up on sale soon for $8 in advance. Admission the day of the show will be $10. Find a facebook event for this show right here. Also check out our shows page for a look at everything that is coming up at Black Sheep this summer.

Sunday, July 28th at Brewhaus: Memorial Benefit For Lindsey Sharp

Posted on July 4, 2015 by blacksheepspringfield

Here is a Springfield show happening outside of Southtown that we think is very much worth checking out and mentioning on our site. It is happening on Sunday, July 28th at Brewhaus Bar downtown and it is a benefit for Lindsey Sharp who recently passed away last month. The show is a benefit for Lindsey’s son. For this show you can expect a performance by Springfield’s Pyscho Fight, as well as The Timmys who are also playing Black Sheep Fest on July 25th. Also playing is the local rock group Jukebox Casanova.

The flier lists the event as happening from 5:00 pm to 1:00 am. Brewhaus Bar is located at 617 E. Washington, and this show is likely for ages 21 and up. Check out our Springfield shows page.

August 2nd at Black Sheep: Moon Hag, SAP, Fel Fae

Posted on July 3, 2015 by blacksheepspringfield

In about just one month we have a show at Black Sheep on Sunday, August 2nd. It has been a little bit since we have any bands come play from outside of the country, and for this show we have Moon Hag coming from Ontario, Canada to play for us all! Moon Hag plays a type of psychedelic punk, and you can stream some of their music on the player below. Also on this show we have the Springfield dream-grunge three-piece group SAP, here to make you dance. And opening things up is a performance by the instrumental full band called Fel Fae, who will also be playing at Black Sheep tonight.

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

Black Sheep Roundtable Meeting This Sunday

Posted on July 3, 2015 by blacksheepspringfield

With the completion of the Project Southtown kickstarter campaign just a little over one week ago, and all of our summer events coming up, we are ready for next open roundtable meeting at Black Sheep. We will be holding our next meeting this Sunday at 7:00 pm inside of Black Sheep to discuss recent projects including Project Southtown and brainstorm new ones. Anyone is welcome to join us for the meeting, even if you feel you do not have much to contribute.

Don’t forget we also have a t-shirt design contest going on for Black Sheep Fest 2015! Submissions are due to blacksheepspringfield@gmail.com by 8:00 pm on Monday, July 6th.

Tonight at Black Sheep: Forrister, Fel Fae, Mario Cannamela

Posted on July 3, 2015 by blacksheepspringfield

Tonight at Black Sheep we have a little bit of a last minute three-band show, and it is also our only show this weekend so make sure to come on out! Tonight we have a band called Forrister coming on tour from Memphis, Tennessee. They play a type of ambient/indie rock and you can check out their music streaming below. We also have the newer instrumental act Fel Fae, which is now a three-piece project. Opening things up will be an acoustic solo set by Mario Cannamela, who also plays in the band Wir Können.

The show tonight starts at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. After the show at Black Sheep is over, there is a show starting at Bar None featuring Looming, SAP, and Nick Murphy for those ages 21 and over. You can check out a facebook event for the Black Sheep show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a good look at everything coming up at Black Sheep the rest of this summer.