Tonight at Black Sheep: Hospital Job, Broadside, Old Again, Lifewithout, Rebuild & Rebound

Posted on July 10, 2015 by blacksheepspringfield

We have a killer show happening tonight at Black Sheep featuring all types of pop punk. For the show tonight we have the local pop punk band Hospital Job. We also have a pretty big touring package featuring the Victory Records band Broadside from Richmond, Virginia. Broadside is also the featured band of the week in The Illinois Times! They will be coming here on tour with a band called Old Again from Orlando, Florida. You can stream Old Again’s new hit single on the player below. Then we have a couple of other acts from the nearby areas. There is Lifewithout coming from Alton, Illinois playing shoegaze and post-hardcore. Then opening things up and a last minute addition to the show (The Locals ended up not being able to play) we have Rebuild & Rebound from North Indiana.

The show tonight will kick off right 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 good look at everything coming up at Black Sheep in the new few months!

July 18th at Black Sheep: Big Baby’s Night Out

Posted on July 9, 2015 by blacksheepspringfield

We have an event coming up at Black Sheep in just less than ten days on Saturday, July 18th. This show is being called “Big Baby’s Night Out” hosted by none other than “Big Baby” of the hit punk/thrash band Diaper Rash. This show is going to be more of a comedy show happening at Black Sheep featuring Diaper Rash as a live band as well as a couple of other touring bands. This will definitely be something new worth checking out. For this show we have three comedians on board to do standup. One of them, Dan Allen, is on the road on tour as a comedian. Is this the right Dan Allen? Also taking the stage we have a couple of local comedians and those are Mike Tirehaus (also in the band King Worm) and Devon Fluelen. For bands, in addition to Diaper Rash we also have a couple of hardcore bands touring from Michigan. We have Eyesore and Breaking Wheel both from Michigan also playing the show. You can check out some of Breaking Wheel’s music on the player below.

This show starts at 7:00 pm and admission costs $5. You can check out a facebook event for this right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a look at everything else coming up at Black Sheep.

Tonight at Black Sheep: The Easy Mark, Panzys, Routine

Posted on July 8, 2015 by blacksheepspringfield

Are you looking for something to dance to tonight? Well, there is a three-band Wednesday night show happening at Black Sheep! Who knew!? Tonight we have the pop punk band The Easy Mark from Quad Cities, Iowa coming to play for us. Surely they will be great. You can check out some of their music streaming below. We also have the jumpy and nasty punk rock band- Panzys. Opening things up tonight was supposed to be a set by a new surprise band, but it looks like instead we have another newer project called Routine. Come early to find out what that is all about.

The show tonight starts 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 good look at everything coming up at Black Sheep in the coming months.

Black Sheep Fest 2015 T-Shirt Contest Voting

Posted on July 7, 2015 by blacksheepspringfield

Black Sheep Fest 2015 is coming up fast. The festival is happening in just less than three weeks on Saturday, July 25th. It is time for us to get our t-shirt order together for the fest, and we need your help choosing a design! We’ve collected a total of 13 great t-shirt design submissions from this year’s t-shirt designing contest, which is more than we have had the past two years! This year it’s harder than ever to chose! Let’s take a look at those 13 different designs!

There you have it, folks! As you can see, we have a submission number at the top of each design. Now you can go take the survey and put in your vote RIGHT HERE. You can vote for multiple designs on our survey, but you can only submit one survey response, so make it count! Voting will continue for the next few days, ending on Thursday night at midnight. Check out the facebook event for Black Sheep Fest 2015 right here.

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.