March 21st at Black Sheep: Honeysuck, The Seething Coast, The Half Truths, The Luzhin Defense, Epsom

Posted on March 5, 2014 by blacksheepspringfield

This is going to be a pretty wicked show we have coming up on Friday, March 21st. The local spoken word vomit band Honeysuck, featuring members of JAG and Our Lady, will be giving off a super expressive set to start the night out. The Seething Coast will then be punking out in a rad way so be sure to check them out because they’re one of the veteran local bands we still have circulating in Springfield. Another band coming around at this show will be The Half Truths. They’ll be giving us some downright Texas pop-punk so if you don’t know what that means, come find out. The Luzhin Defense is another local band playing this show that will have some deliberate, eerie spy-techno tunes for us to jam to so that will provide a cool facet to the genres of the evening! Tonight we’ll also be featuring some local punkers that have been around Springfield for awhile as well, and ladies and gentleman and its they are called Epsom. Their tunes are what I’d like to call oldschool goof-slam tunes, so if you’re a fan of newschool slime at all you really shouldn’t miss these guys.

So the doors will open for this show at 6:00 pm so come on around and hear some cool tunes. This show will also be $5. It’ll make you cultured. Here’s the facebook event. Make sure not to miss the Satanic ritual in the alley behind the studio. No potlucks.

Photos: February 23rd at Black Sheep

Posted on March 5, 2014 by blacksheepspringfield

This February our biggest show at Black Sheep ended up being the one on Sunday, February 23rd. The show featured Our Lady, Run Forever, Cloakroom, Looming, and even had a wild and unexpected set from a new Springfield band called Mouthsex. Thanks to a few photographers that were at the show, we have gathered an album of photos from the show which we now have on our flickr page. Extra special thanks to out of towner photographers AJ Francis and Adam Brumback for taking photos of the show.

You can check out our 2/23/14 at Black Sheep flickr set and see all of the photos right here.

DUMB FEST 2 Announcement #1

Posted on March 4, 2014 by blacksheepspringfield

Today we have a big dumb fest announcement all of you kids, punks, freaks, burgers, and mutants. It’s the first ten bands that we are announcing for Dumb Fest 2, which will be happening on June 13th and 14th this year at Black Sheep, Skank Skates, and Dumb Records. The purpose of this fest is to highlight punk and hardcore DIY music happening in Central Illinois and the surrounding areas right now. We also want to highlight all of the cool things happening in Southtown this year. Ready for those bands? Here they are:

LIPSTICK HOMICIDE from Coralville, Iowa

SHAVED WOMEN from St. Louis

CHUD from Bloomington, Indiana

LOOMING from Springfield

WOLF LUV from Champaign

DISTRACT from Chicago

COMA REGALIA from Lafayette, Indiana

THE VALENTEENS from Chicago

LIFE LIKE from St. Louis

ASTHMA from Springfield

Wow very cool. Are those all of the bands that are going to be playing Dumb Fest 2? Oh no no no no no no. Expect about three more announcements throughout the month of March here on this site. Ticket info and set times will be announced later on. Check out a facebook event for Dumb Fest 2 right here. Also follow everything going on with Dumb Fest 2 on our Dumb Fest 2 page.

New Arrivals This Week At Dumb Records

Posted on March 4, 2014 by blacksheepspringfield

Today is our first ever Tuesday open at Dumb Records so it’s time to celebrate! Make sure to stop by after you are done with work or school today, Dumb Records will be open from 3:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Dumb Records is located at 1107 South Grand Ave, for all of you dummies that didn’t know. From now on here are our official store hours:

Tuesdays from 3:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Fridays from 3:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Saturdays from 10:00 am to 8:00 pm
Nights there are shows at Black Sheep from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm

And here are some new arrivals that we will have in our shop this week!

LPs
Cuban Missiles – When They Come For Us We’ll Be Gone
Diarrhea Planet – I’m Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams
Humanoids – …Are Born
Shahman – Sounds That Look Like Us

10″
Spruce Bringsteen – Game On

7″s
Bunny Grunt/The Winchester – Split
Chill Dawgs – Oh Okay
Cool Mutants – Buzzhogs
Humanoids – Year Of The Snake
Kentucky Knife Fight – Misshapen Love
Rad Company/Tight Bros. – Split

CDs
Black For A Second – About The West
Humanoids – Humanoids

March 14th at Black Sheep: Kickstart, Tie Affair, Cold Wind Calling, Doggystylez

Posted on March 3, 2014 by blacksheepspringfield

Hey people! Join us for another rad show at Black Sheep on March 14th. Springfield/Rochester pop punk band Kickstart is headlining! They are releasing a 10 track album soon, this summer or late spring. Also playing at this show will be: The Affair, Cold Wind Calling (listen to their bandcamp below), and Doggystylez. The show will be on Friday, March 14th at Black Sheep. Show starts at 7:00, and is $5, be there, mixed genre shows are really cool!

Cold Wind Calling is an Ambient Spoken Word group from Normal IL, they released their debut EP: Tired Eyes, this Febuary! As promised, here is their bandcamp stream, free to download (You should do that!):

Tonight at Black Sheep: Kharybdis, Polyphony, The Science Of, Animus

Posted on March 3, 2014 by blacksheepspringfield

Check it, we’ve got a heavy show coming around this evening. Local rockers Kharybdis will be pounding out a brutal set that is sure to make your eyeballs fall out. Polyphony will be coming around from New Jersey to bring out some progressive mathcore jams so get ready to pit. Then, the local dudes in The Science Of will then add some cool dimension to the evening with their technical, power-pop tunes. Animus will also be coming around with some dynamic and aggressive heavy stuff for us tonight, so get your stomping shoes on because this show is sure to be a fiasco.

Doors are at 7:00 pm and the fee will be a whopping $5. Come out, have a good time and check out the facebook event here for further details. We also have some other cool shows coming up at Black Sheep so be on the lookout for ones that might catch yer fancy!

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.