Koji at Black Sheep on April 9th

Posted on March 2, 2014 by blacksheepspringfield

We are excited to announce that on Wednesday, April 9th we will be hosting a show for the singer/songwriter Koji from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Koji has released music through Run For Cover Records and No Sleep Records. He is also an activist and founded the organization “Colormake” as a collaborative effort between artists and activists from all over the country. Koji described this tour:

For this tour, I’ll be taping shows at alternative spaces and independent venues for the second installment of my Spring Song live series. I’ll be supporting my first full length Crooked In My Mind which came out on Run For Cover last April. Additionally, I’ll be promoting the first vinyl pressings of both Spring Song Volume 1 and Some Small Way EP. This will be the first KOJI solo tour of the states since last winter’s Acoustic Basement tour with Geoff Rickly and Vinnie Caruana.

You can find some of Koji’s music streaming below. Koji will be touring with A.N. Palamara, who is another singer/songwriter from North Adams, Massachusetts. There will also be a performance at this show by local emo/hardcore band Our Lady. Opening things up is the newer Springfield acoustic project called Rella.

This show will be another 7:00 pm, $5 show. You can find a facebook event for this right here. Also be sure to check out what else we have coming up at Black Sheep this spring by looking at our shows page.

Tonight at Black Sheep: Diarrhea Planet, Dino Bravo, Mouth Sex, RDNT

Posted on March 2, 2014 by blacksheepspringfield

Hey everyone, here’s what’s happening: we’re having this rad show tonight! Check it out. Diarrhea Planet is coming all the way from Tennessee and they’ve got some super energetic tunes to play. Dino Bravo from Champaign will be coming around too, and their wrestle-core music will be sure to create a whirlpool of bodies in the pit. That’ll be fun, and Mouthsex will be giving a brutal punk set that will be out of this world. Local Danger Rock band RDNT will be giving a cool set as well, maybe at the beginning of the night, so this is sure to be a good show.

This is happening tonight at 7pm, bring $7. Here is the facebook event. Check out the other shows we having coming up as well as one of the bands that will be playing tonight! Creep it real.

Dumb Fest 2 Facebook Event, First Announcement Tuesday

Posted on March 1, 2014 by blacksheepspringfield

A facebook event might hardly be news, but all of you Dumb Fest enthusiasts out there might be happy to heat that one has been created for Dumb Fest 2, which means we are even closer to the first wave of bands being announced. Check out the facebook event right here.

Aside from the facebook event being created, we are also excited to say that we will be announcing the first wave of bands for Dumb Fest here at blacksheepspringfield.com on Tuesday at 3:00 pm.

Dumb Fest 2 will be happening on Friday, June 13th and Saturday, June 14th this year. It will be taking place at Black Sheep, Skank Skates, and Dumb Records. You can find our Dumb Fest 2 page right here. Be sure to check back here on Tuesday for the first announcement of bands.

Tonight at Black Sheep: Battalion, Your Phobia, Loses The Mighty, Deviant, Shahman, Old Fox Road

Posted on March 1, 2014 by blacksheepspringfield

It’s a Saturday and we have a stacked show happening at Black Sheep tonight! Tonight there are going to be six bands playing. Headlining things is the mighty Central Illinois metal band Battalion! If you like heavy music then Battalion is the band for you. Check out some of their music streaming below. This show will also be the return of another metal band from Litchfield, Illinois called Your Phobia. We will also have the return of Central Illinois post-hardcore band Loses The Mighty, who have played at Black Sheep a number of times in the recent past. Then we will have Central Illinois hardcore band Deviant. A last minute addition to this show is the two-piece band from Canada, Shahman. They played at Black Sheep back in May. Opening things up we have Old Fox Road, who actually just performed at Dumb Records last night!

The show tonight is starting at 7:00 pm and admission is $7. You can check out a facebook event for the show right here. Don’t forget to also check out our shows page for a look at everything coming up at Black Sheep this spring.

March 12th at Black Sheep: Runaway Brother, The Ground Is Lava, Slam Dinner, Looming

Posted on February 28, 2014 by blacksheepspringfield

Our March show announcements keep coming in. It is looking like March is going to be full of great shows at Black Sheep and this one on Wednesday, March 12th is no exception. We have the band Runaway Brother coming from Cleveland Ohio. They are pictured above and you can find some of their music streaming below. Runaway Brother will be on tour with The Ground Is Lava, who are also from Ohio. They play emo-type music. This show will also feature a new Champaign band called Slam Dinner. We have been told that this band features one member of Springfield mysterious punk band Soap Scum. Also on this show will be Springfield all-star pop rockers that you know and love, Looming!

This show will begin at 7:00 pm and is $5. You can find a facebook event for the show right here. Take a look at the hundreds of other shows coming up at Black Sheep on our shows page.

Today on Black Sheep Radio: Mike Tirehaus

Posted on February 28, 2014 by blacksheepspringfield

Today we have another episode of Black Sheep Radio airing, and it is going to be a good one. This episode our main guest is local artist Mike Tirehaus. Mike will be talking about his newest comic “Cartoon Girlfriend” released on Rat King Records and available at Dumb Records. We will also be talking to Mike about his more music-related projects including fliers, album art, and maybe even a band that Mike is going to be involved with in some way. We also may or may not be having another surprise guest representing a new Springfield punk band going by the name “Mouthsex,” who will be playing at Black Sheep on Sunday along with Diarrhea Planet.

The Black Sheep Radio Show airs every Friday from 4:00 to 6:00 pm on 88.3 WQNA fm. You can stream the show online at the same time at wqna.org. You can also check out our radio page to find downloadable episodes of the past.

Tonight at Black Sheep: Montagh, Good Times, Old Fox Road, Devin Williams, Honey/Suck

Posted on February 28, 2014 by blacksheepspringfield

Welcome to Friday, we’ve got a show at Black Sheep tonight! Montagh will be playing, which is some fresh wheat midwest folk coming straight from the streets of Springfield. To continue the night we’ll have Good Times coming around again! The last time he played for us was way back in October so now is your chance to come hear these acoustic indie-movie lounge tunes. Also playing tonight will be our Santa loving friends in Old Fox Road. These fellas will definitely give us some down-home, feel-good, pop-folk songs to enjoy with some charismatic vocals to tie their whole set up, so come check them out if you didn’t get to catch them at the Radon Lounge a few months ago. To round off the evening will be Devin Williams! He’s from Florida and will have some cool reggae bluesy jams to give to us, so definitely check that out as well, holmes.

This show is TONIGHT. Here is the facebook event. Come at 7pm, bring $5 bux and do not forget to check out Dumb Records! Tonight is going to be an acoustic show and it’s cold out, so there is a good chance that this show will be getting moved to Dumb Records. Here are some other cool shows we have coming up so keep your eyes peeled for the ones that catch your fancy.

New Arrivals at Dumb Records

Posted on February 27, 2014 by blacksheepspringfield

This weekend will be another magical one at Dumb Records and we have plenty of new arrivals in at the store for this crazy weekend coming up packed with shows. This weekend there will be five shows in a row (Thursday-Monday). Here’s a quick recap of what’s coming up:

Thursday: Hank., Capys, Meredosia, Austin Connelly
Friday: Montagh, Good Times, Devin Williams, Old Fox Road
Saturday: Battalion, Loses The Mighty, Your Phobia, Deviant, Old Fox Road
Sunday: Diarrhea Planet, Dino Bravo, Mouthsex, RDNT
Monday: Polyphony, Kharybdis, Animus, The Science Of

Wow that’s a lot. If you want to find out more about those shows you can always check our shows page. Dumb Records will be open from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm during all of those shows and also from 10:00 pm to 8:00 pm this Friday and Saturday. In March we are switching our hours up a little bit, which you can find out about here. For those of you who do not know, Dumb Records is located at 1107 South Grand Ave, close to Black Sheep. Check out some of the new arrivals that we will have in this weekend below.

LPs
Districts/Regret, The Informer – Split
Gorilla Biscuits – Start Tocay
John Coltrane – Coltrane
King Tubby – Roots of The Dub
King Tubby – King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
Lee Perry – Rare Dumbs 1971-1974
Mighty Diamonds – I Need A Roof
Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue
NOFX – War on Errorism
Pavement – Slanted & Enchanted
Run, Forever – Settling
The Queers – Grow Up
The Skatalites – Play Ska
The Skatalites – Man About Ska-Town
Sonic Youth – Sonic Youth
Spazz – Crush Kill Destroy
The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico

7″
Treehouse/Knowing We’ll Never Grow Up – Split
Regret, The Informer – Less Than Three
Run, Forever/Adventures – Split

Tonight at Black Sheep: Hank., Capys, Meredosia, Austin Connelly

Posted on February 27, 2014 by blacksheepspringfield

Tonight will be a special little Thursday night treat. We are having a show at Black Sheep and it is going to be great. We have the band Hank from Champaign/Urbana, Illinois. They are in the middle of their tour which you can view the dates for above. Hank features recent bassist Darwin who has recently been performing with Springfield band Our Lady. You can check out some of their music streaming below. Also playing this show and on tour with Hank is the three-piece band Capys also from the Champaign/Urbana areas. Those bands will be joined with local support from Springfield post-rock band Meredosia. Opening things up we have Austin Connelly (of Montagh and Wir Können) playing some acoustic tunes for us all.

The show tonight begins at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. You can find a facebook event for the show right here. Also don’t forget to check out our shows page where you can have a good look at everything coming up at Black Sheep.

March 26th at Black Sheep: Stuck Lucky, Say Something, Muldoon’s Clever Girls, Akaname

Posted on February 26, 2014 by blacksheepspringfield

Ready for another great March show announcement? Here we go! On Wednesday, March 26th we will be hosting a show that will be packed with all the ska and punk that you can handle! Time to pick it up! This show will feature Stuck Lucky from Nashville, Tennessee. They play punk rock with trombone. The last time Stuck Lucky played our venue was seven years ago in 2007. You can check out some of their music streaming on the player embedded below! Also playing this show is hardcore punk madness Say Something. They will be bringing the circle pits hard. Then we have Muldoon’s Clever Girls from Iowa. They are a two piece bass+drums project that played at Black Sheep a little last minute as a part of The End Is Here Fest last year. You don’t want to miss them. To top this show off, this will be the very first performance by a brand new Springfield ska band called Akaname. You can check out their brand new hit single “Bird Girl” right here.

This show will be at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. You can find a facebook event for the show right here. Also don’t forget to check out our shows page for a look at the large number of shows we have coming up this spring.