This Weekend In Urbana Illinois: AudioFeed 2014

Posted on July 3, 2014 by blacksheepspringfield

Those are a LOT of band names on one flier. You see that up there? That’s AudioFeed Music Festival happening this weekend in Urbana, Illinois. The festival has actually already started over at the Champaign County Fairgrounds- it will be going on from July 2nd to July 6th. Take an even closer look at that enormous lineup right here.

Like last year, Kevin Bradford (Black Sheep owner) will be running a special Black Sheep stage at AudioFeed. If you are at AudioFeed be sure to say hi to Kevin and check out some great band! Just a few bands playing the Black Sheep stage include My Epic, Flatfoot 56, War Of Ages, and The Skies Revolt.

Check out more info on AudioFeed Music Festival on their website right here. If you are stuck in Springfield this weekend, we do have a show at Black Sheep on Saturday!

Photos: Dumb Fest 2

Posted on July 2, 2014 by blacksheepspringfield

Dumb Fest 2 was a few weeks ago and we have been slowly gathering the tons and tons of photos and videos that resulted in the awesome and crazy weekend. Today we are bringing you a lot of those photos, and more will probably be on the way. We’ve gathered a collection that you can find below, but you can also head over to the Dumb Fest 2 album on our flickr for all of the photos (there are hundreds of them).

Thank you to all of our photographers at Dumb Fest 2 this year including AJ Francis, Lisa Marie, Ben Smith, Priten Vora, and Franklin Wallace!

Half Way To Black Sheep Band Lotto

Posted on July 2, 2014 by blacksheepspringfield

Remember that fun Black Sheep Band Lotto thing we did back in May, where any volunteer could put their name into a box and then we drew bands at random from the box? The names were drawn at the end of this year’s Black Sheep Cover Show, and if you can believe it we are at the half way point between the names being drawn and the Band Lotto Show happening on Saturday, August 16th.

Now would be the time to start getting together with your band lotto band and start getting serious if you are one of the 53 names that are on that list above! We have a facebook event created for the band lotto show right here. Let us know about your band lotto progress there! And if your band lotto band isn’t going to be able to pull things off in time, shoot us an email at blacksheepspringfield@gmail.com and let us know. We are suggesting set lengths be 15-25 minutes, and that should include mostly original music (maybe one cover is okay). Good luck out there, and see you August 16th!

8/7 at Black Sheep: Mouthsex, Swamp Rat, King Worm, Pregnancy Test and Ski Mask

Posted on July 1, 2014 by blacksheepspringfield

Holy Hardcore Batman!!!

There’s a totally dumb show happening at Black Sheep on August 7th!!! Local hardcore antagonists Mouthsex, Swamprat and Kingworm are joining forces with Pregnancy Test and Ski Mask from Columbia, Missouri to bring a little grime and mayhem to the Black Sheep stage!!!

As usual it’s only $5.00 to join in on the slamfest so mark your calendars and bring your frenemies. Show starts at 7:00pm!!!

Facebook Event

Follow the link to check out other upcoming shows!!!

New Arrivals This Week at Dumb Records

Posted on July 1, 2014 by blacksheepspringfield

It’s another busy week at Dumb Records, and this week we have quite the load of new and tasty arrivals to lay on you. You can find that list at the bottom of this post, and you might want to look over it once or twice because there are some hidden gems in there. Dumb Records is also open today from 3:00 pm to 8:00 pm if you want to run in and have first dibs on a lot of these sweet new arrivals. Let’s also run down what times Dumb Records is going to be open this week:

Tuesday (today): 3:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Friday: 3:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Saturday: 10:00 am – 9:00 pm
Sunday: 11:00 am – 8:00 pm

New LPs
2PAC – Live
Agnostic Front – Victim In Pain
Bad Brains – I Against I
The Beatles – Revolver
Bikini Kill – Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
Black Sabbath – Vol. 4
Bob Marley – Exodus
The Cramps – Smell of Female
Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Droughts / Frameworks / Kittyhawk / Prawn – Split
The Flaming Lips – Oh My Gawd!!!
Flesh Born – All The Pain I Built Up / Han
Hüsker Dü – Flip Your Wig
Jaw Breaker – Unfun
Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
Life In Vacuum – 5
Masked Intruder – M.I.
Minutemen – Buzz Or Howl Under The Influence Of Heat
Pixies – Come On Pilgrim
Ramones – Rocket To Russia
Sex Pistols – Nevermind The Bullocks Here’s The Sex Pistols
Shaggy – Boombastic LP
Sham 69 – Set List: The Anthology
The Smiths – Mean Is Murder
Snoop Doggy Dogg – The Doggfather
Various – Andy Smith’s Southern Soul
Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes

7”
Atom & His Package / Har Mar Superstar – Split
Kittyhawk / Cherry Cola Champions – Split

Cassettes
Bad Catman – The Cat’s Out Of The Bag
Enabler – Fin Arsole Du Monde
Lyed Between My Claws – Crooked Arrows / Letter #48
Nectar – Nectar
Statuette – Live From The Office, July 2013
Various – Skeletal Lightning Charity Cassette Compilation Vol. 1

Tonight at Harm House: Dan Potthast (MU330), boon, Insomniac Folklore, Kat Jones, Dustin Sendejas

Posted on July 1, 2014 by blacksheepspringfield

Tonight we have what looks like has turned into a pretty big deal of an acoustic/folk/ska show happening at Springfield house venue The Harm House. Tonight Dan Potthast of the band MU330 will be performing in Springfield as a part of his Living Room Tour for the first time since the 1990s. MU330 were an old St. Louis ska band which played Springfield a few times with bands such as The Timmys and NIL8. On top of Dan playing the Harm House, there are also a number of other great acts playing. There will be a performance by the three-piece band boon. Also there will be performances by two other touring guests and those are Kat Jones and Insomniac Folklore, both on their way to Audiofeed Festival happening this weekend in Champaign. Opening things up will be a rare full-band performance by Dustin Sendejas formerly of The Transatlantic.

The show tonight at The Harm House kicks off right at 7:00 pm. There will also be food for everybody at the show so come early. Don’t have the address to the house? Ask a friend or email bggalecki34@gmail.com. Check out a facebook event for the show right here, and see our Springfield shows page for a list of shows happening around Springfield outside of Black Sheep.

New Band Pages: Blind Social

Posted on June 30, 2014 by blacksheepspringfield

Today is Monday and we are bringing you a brand new band page for a new Springfield band! This time it’s the “psychedelic blues alternative” band Blind Social! You can stream some of the band’s music and find out more about them on their new band page right here. If you want to catch Blind Social live, they will be playing at The Black Sheep battle of the bands on Saturday, July 12th which is coming up fast! More info on that show right here.

Check out any of our 70-something band pages for current Springfield bands right here. Do you play in a Springfield band that has not yet set up a band page with us? We would love to hear from you! You can email us at blacksheepspringfield@gmail.com and we will work with you to set up a new page.

July 20th at Black Sheep: Mama Linda Benefit Show

Posted on June 30, 2014 by blacksheepspringfield

For those of you who didn’t read the post about Mama Linda, her house burned down in May. Mama Linda is a very good friend to the Black Sheep, and almost all of the food our beloved punk mom Apryl brings to shows to feed show-goers and touring bands is because Mama Linda gives it to her, thanks to her access to overstock. We want to help Mama Linda out and show her as much generosity as she shows us!!

Therefore, there’s going to be a benefit show in July and everyone who is anyone should come! Why? This show will not only be helping Mama Linda, it’s a Mother Leopard return show. Holy crap, come see the locals in Mother Leopard exhibit all their glory once again! You can hear some of their songs in the bandcamp player below if you need your memory to be refreshed. A really cool band named In Exile will be coming down to play as well in order to bring the love and the hardcore punk to the stage. The rug bugs in Soap Scum are playing too and should bring a horridly killer set as usual, so come see them!! We have even more locals on the bill too, this show will feature the dream-punk tunes of Mystery Gift as well as the emo jamz of Wir Konnen. Check it out, this show should be rad!

It will be held July 20th at 7pm. All donations will go to Mama Linda so save up your change and extra dollars! There’s also a whole Help Mama Linda page! Check that out for sure, and here’s the facebook event for any other information. Keep it real.

Borealis: “Healing Process”

Posted on June 29, 2014 by blacksheepspringfield

Springfield solo noise/ambient project Borealis has recently released a new hit single to the world titled “Healing Process.” You can find that seven-minute long single streaming on the player embedded below. Borealis is a solo project of Mario Cannamela of Soap Scum, Meredosia, and Slam Dinner.

Want to catch Borealis live? Borealis does have a show coming up on Thursday, July 10th at Dumb Records along with Adam Balbo, Austin Connelly, and Like… With Jetpacks. Find more info on that one right here.

July 18th at Black Sheep: Kickstart, The Moms, Deviant, Fill In The Blank

Posted on June 29, 2014 by blacksheepspringfield

Our summer wouldn’t be complete without that Friday night hot and sweaty pop punk show (although things won’t be as sweaty inside Black Sheep with our new heating/cooling system). On Saturday, July 18th we have a show for local pop punkers Kickstart. The big time touring band on this bill is called The Moms from New Jersey. They are on punk record label Paper + Plastick Records and you can find some of their music streaming below. Other than that we have the mighty Central Illinois-based melodic hardcore band, Deviant. It has been a little while since they have taken the stage at Black Sheep. To complete the lineup we have a performance by pop-punk band Fill In The Blank.

This show will start at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. You can find this show listed along with many more Black Sheep shows on our shows page.