WUIS: “Art Beat” With Scott Faingold And Rachel Otwell

Posted on January 9, 2015 by blacksheepspringfield

Today Springfield radio station WUIS based on the campus of the University of Springfield is launching a new weekly segment called “Art Beat.” The segment is of Scott Faingold (The Illinois Times, Epsom) and Rachel Otwell (WUIS) going over music and art events that are happening around town in the upcoming weekend. From the WUIS website:

With my focus also being on the arts world here in Springfield, and Illinois – we’ll tell listeners about our favorite things to check out in the area. We’ll be learning about new artists and musicians right along with you.

You can check out the very first segment streaming on the WUIS site right here. In the segment the two touch up on a good handful of events coming up in Springfield this weekend, including the big Dumb Records one year anniversary show happening tomorrow. You can also listen to 91.9 fm on your radio dial every friday to catch WUIS’s “Art Beat.” Don’t forget The Black Sheep Radio Show also airs every Friday on 88.3 WQNA fm from 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm. Today there will also be another episode of The Black Sheep Radio Show airing at its usual time.

Tonight at Black Sheep: Wir Können, Bad Banshee, Single Player, Nectar, Old Fox Road

Posted on January 9, 2015 by blacksheepspringfield

We have a wonderful show happening at Black Sheep on this cold, cold Friday night and you should all come out. This show is the return-from-home show for Springfield emo band Wir Können, who have been out on tour for a week. Come listen to Wir Können play and hear how their tour went. We also have Springfield ska band Bad Banshee playing tonight. They won your vote for the best album/release for 2014 with their hit CD “Skitter/Skitter.” Up next we have a couple of Champaign bands who are going out on tour for a week or so. The first of those is Single Player, who’s music you can find streaming below. The second is Nectar– the pop band featuring members of Kowabunga! Kid that played here last in June. Opening things up we have Central Illinois folk punk project Old Fox Road, who is also returning from a short tour.

The show tonight starts 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 look at everything coming up at Black Sheep in 2015.

New Arrivals At Dumb Records

Posted on January 6, 2015 by blacksheepspringfield

This week is another week at Springfield record store Dumb Records, and it’s a big one because the store is going to be celebrating it’s one year anniversary this weekend. That’s right, on Saturday January 10th there will be a big one-year celebration for Dumb Records. There will be a 15% off sale for all items in the store for that day, and there will also be a show going on at Black Sheep at 6:30 pm that night to celebrate. To see who’s playing that show and for more info on that, you can head over to the facebook event right here. Let’s also take a look at Dumb Records’s hours of operation this week, and then we will get into the new arrivals.

Tuesday (today): 3:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Wednesday: 3:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Thursday: 3:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Friday: 3:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Saturday: 10:00 am – 9:00 pm
Sunday: 3:00 pm – 8:00 pm

New LPs
Antonio Vivaldi – Cllegium Areum
Bernstein New York Philharmonic – Sibelius Fifth Symphony
Boulez New York Philharmonic – Bartok Concerto For Orchestra
Enrique Grandados – Twelve Spanish Dances For Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach – Magnificat / Missa
Manuel De Falla – El Amor Brujo
Ormandy Philadelphia Orchestra – Brahms Violin Concerto Isaac Stern
Philadelphia Orchestra – Orff: Carmina Burana Ormandy
Szell Cleveland Orchestra – Mahler’s Fourth Symphony
Szell Cleveland Orchestra – Prokofiev: Lt. Lije Suite Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite
Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Stern / Schneider – Bach “Double” Concerto
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Concerto No. 4 / Concerto No. 3

New 7”s
Latex – Latex

Cassettes
Blank Spell – Tour Cassette

February 11th at Black Sheep: Until We Are Ghosts, Household, Loses The Mighty, Krelboyne, Hope For Now

Posted on January 4, 2015 by blacksheepspringfield

Hold onto your socks because on Wednesday, February 11th we have a show coming up at Black Sheep with five great bands. The first of those is a band called Until We Are Ghosts playing melodic hardcore on tour from Rochester, New York. You can even stream some of their music at the player on the very bottom of this post. Until We Are Ghosts will be hitting the road on tour with another Minneapolis, Minnesota project called Household. Now on to the local bands that will be playing. We have Loses The Mighty, who recently just released a new EP at the end of the year, recorded at South Town Studio. We also have the return of sad post-hardcore band Krelboyne from nearby areas of Central Illinois. Opening things up on this one is the indie/post-hardcore band Hope For Now from Morton, Illinois.

This show will start right at 7:00 pm and admission will be $5. You can find a flier for the show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a good look at everything coming up in 2015 at Black Sheep and Southtown.

Some Things Can’t Be Ignored: Ingot Unreleased 1994 Demo

Posted on January 3, 2015 by blacksheepspringfield

Looks like Springfield music blog Some Things Can’t Be Ignored are at it again in 2015, this time bringing us an unreleased demo from 1994. The demo is from the old Springfield band Ingot (pictured above playing at Skank Skates in the early 1990’s. From the blog:

When I met up with Ben Jacob a couple of years back to discuss music and borrow some of his recordings from what can only be described as an unbelievable and immaculate collection of 1990’s Springfield and regional music, he provided me with something that simply blew my mind — an ingot demo from 1994 containing 4 unreleased songs!!! I had heard some folks speak of the song, “Dad, The Evil Clown” in recent years, but I never recalled ever hearing it played live and it certainly wasn’t on either of the two cassettes the band released in 1994 and 1995. When Ben pulled out this cassette and I saw “Dad, The Evil Clown” scribbled on the j-card along with 3 other songs that I didn’t recognize, I nearly jumped out of my skin with excitement! IT STILL EXISTS!! …and Ben still has his master copy!! Needless to say, I took great care with this one to be certain to preserve the recording exactly as it was captured over 20 years ago!! The version you have here has been “touched up” a little bit to improve the overall sound and “beef things up”, but in no way takes away from the original recording.

You can head over to somethingscantbeignored.wordpress.com and stream or download the full 1994 demo.

The Radon Lounge’s “14 Things From 2014”

Posted on January 3, 2015 by blacksheepspringfield

Springfield house venue The Radon Lounge posted their “14 Things From 2014,” a list of 14 things that happened there that made 2014 a special year. From The Radon Lounge website:

One of our basic human needs is to obtain some top 10 list of things at the end of a calendar year. Do not fret, as I will not disappoint you. My spin is to provide 14 memorable moments of 2014. I’m not saying any of these moments are better than others, or are in anyway all the great moments of 2014, these are just 14 awesome things that happened at the Radon Lounge

The Radon Lounge has also already set the date for their big Horse Show happening in the summer and that is Saturday, June 20th 2015. No bands have been announced so far, but you can head over to their Horse Show Page for a better look at what that is all about. If you head over to The Radon Lounge’s shows page you can also have a look at what other shows the venue has coming up in 2015.

January 29th at Black Sheep: The Copyrights, The Timmys, King Worm

Posted on January 3, 2015 by blacksheepspringfield

We are all in for a treat at the end of this month on Thursday, January 30th. We have Carbonadale, IL pop punk band The Copyrights coming up to play at Black Sheep. The Copyrights features Luke McNeil of Hospital Job and last performed at Black Sheep as part of the first ever Dumb Fest in the summer of 2013. We will be excited to welcome them back. Also stream some of The Copyrights’s music below. Also on this show is long running Springfield punk band The Timmys. That and they will be paired up with another local band King Worm, who won #1 song and #3 album of the year on our Best Of 2014 list.

This show will begin 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 upcoming shows page for a good look at everything coming up in 2015.

January 26th at Black Sheep: Our Lady, Paqui, Krelboyne, Looming

Posted on January 2, 2015 by blacksheepspringfield

Earlier we told you that Springfield emotional hardcore band Our Lady are hitting the road with No Sleep Records band Aviator at the end of the month. Today we have the info for Our Lady’s tour kickoff for that show, which is happening right here at Black Sheep on Monday, January 26th! Our Lady will be playing this show, as well as Springfield acoustic songwriter “Paqui.” Other than that, we also have Chamapaign/Urbana post rock band Kreylbone returning to Black Sheep- they were just here last month for the Loses The Mighty EP release show. To top off this great show we have Looming.

This show will start at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. Find a facebook event for the show right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a good look at what else is coming up in 2015.

Today on Black Sheep Radio: “Best Of 2014 Episode”

Posted on January 2, 2015 by blacksheepspringfield

Today the Black Sheep Radio Show will be airing at its normal time of 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm, and it will be a very special episode. First off, the radio show will be hitting it’s two-year anniversary episode, which started at the very beginning of 2013. Second, this is a special episode because our hosts Brandon Carnes and Mike Tirehaus will be taking us on a wild ride going through all of the results of our recent best of Springfield Music 2014 poll. This means they will be playing all of the songs from your top voted shows, albums, and songs of this year.

The Black Sheep Radio show airs from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm on 88.3 WQNA fm. You can tune in on the radio or online during that time at wqna.org. Also head over to our radio page where you can download a good chunk of episodes from the past.

Tonight at Black Sheep + South Town Studio: Moonassi, Family Hearse, Knives, Gas Up Yr Hearse, Latex, Blank Spell

Posted on January 2, 2015 by blacksheepspringfield

The new year is going to start of with a bang here in Southtown as we kick 2015 off tonight with a double-header of a show featuring four bands at Black Sheep and then a two-band aftershow at South Town Studio. Things are sure to get wild. The show at Black Sheep features the band Moonassi coming from Texas. You can stream their music on the player at the very bottom of this post. Also coming from Austin, Texas is the group Family Hearse. They play experimental music. Before them is the one Springfield band out of the bunch and that is the new screamo project called Knives. We also have an appearance from Bloomington Illinois screamo project Gas Up Yr Hearse!.

Round two of tonight is happening upstairs at South Town Studio, right after the first four bands are done playing inside of Black Sheep. This show will feature two Philadelphia female-fronted hardcore bands, and those are Latex and Blank Spell. Everyone and anyone is welcome to join.

The show tonight starts at 7:00 pm and admission for the whole shebang is $5. You can find a facebook event for it all right here. Also be sure to check out our shows page for a good look at what else is in store for 2015.