The Black Sheep Cafe

Last week we had fun at the Jack White album release party at Jack White Oaks Mall This Friday we are hosting a benefit metal show for the new WQNA local radio station, made up of real people who are not robots and making original radio programs in the community. Saturday we are hosting an extremely rare one-of-a-kind matinee folk show downtown, featuring The Gordons. Some vinyl record…

Tonight, Jack White Oaks Mall, send it Here are all the releases coming out this Friday: – ROLLING STONES have a NEW album out called “Foreign Tongues.” We should have copies on green vinyl, black vinyl, and CD. You all already know that this is the oldest band alive.– INSANE CLOWN POSSE with a limited pressing of their 1997 album “The Great Milenko” on clear vinyl. (Whoop whoop)– A deluxe,…

Vault 66 Pinball has been hoppin’ downtown this week as we slightly expanded the operating hours. Hopefully in a few weeks we’ll be ready to expand the hours further. TMNT and D&D pinballs have just recently been added as well! Last week we held our 3rd official pinball tournament, here’s a glance at our winners for the evening. Here are those new vinyls coming out this Friday that you’ve been…

If you’ve been reading the news lately, you might have seen where we are now best buds with the new pinball spot downtown, Vault 66. Working together we hope to keep this place open more hours during the week and perhaps further expansion, more games, leagues, tournaments, all the fun stuff down the road. Regular admission to the Vault also gets you access to the Dumb Records arcade, just a…

Sorry I’ve been out for a week or 2 and we have not been updating this site. Well that ends now. This Sunday we have a show downtown. One of those hardcore things Here’s all those new vinyls dropping this Friday!– A bunch of reissues from rapper CHANCE THE RAPPER. This includes his albums “Coloring Book”, “Star Line”, and “The Big Day” – all being pressed to colored vinyl.– More reissues from…

Time to get on those black duds and come on downtown tonight! Also this Friday at the Mall we’re having a listening party for the new Paul McCartney album along with giveways, drawing and special color variants of the album only available during the party! These are all the new records releasing this Friday! – PAUL McCARTNEY “The Boys Of Dungeon Lane” ! We will have copies on black and pink…

This Saturday is our next Pinball Tournament featuring Peppeorni Pizza’s Hardbody. Come out for prizes and boost your standings with all the official pinball orgs. Also this Friday we got a heavy show happening Downtown. Here are all the fresh hot vinyls coming out this Friday! This week Pepperoni picked Otis Redding “My pick this week is Otis Redding’s classic album “The Dock of the Bay.”…

There’s a big weekend coming up with Pride Fest and the Old Capital Art Fair all happening downtown. We’re also hosting a show in our downtown space in support. Here are the hot new vinyls coming out this Friday: – THE BEACH BOYS “The Pet Sounds Sessions” – compiling tracks from the band’s 1966 album and its recording sessions onto a double black LP release!– YUNGBLUD with his fifth studio…

See here for a show coming up this Friday at the downtown record store Here’s all the new titles coming out on vinyl this Friday– THE DEAD MILKMEN “BIG LIZARD IN MY BACKYARD” – this one was previously scheduled for later in the month but at some point the release date was bumped to this Friday!!! We ordered a ton!!!– WEEN has TWO reissues coming out, and we also ordered a ton!! Their 2000 album…

It’s another week at the record store(s) and we have plenty more things a’happening. Including this hardcore show happening Friday. Then Saturday we’re getting a helping of free jazz from UIS, happening at the downtown Dumb Record store. But if you’re just here for the records, then here are all the new ones coming out this Friday – KACEY MUSGRAVES is back with her seventh studio album “The…

We just had a great Record Store Day. The biggest one yet. I know we say that every year, but it is true People lined up at both stores and were not stopped by the overnight storms and the cold that followed We were happy to see many walk away with what they were hoping to get. People are learning the mall store is just as packed with the goods as downtown and the lines were almost equal.…

RSD is coming up quick, even the mailman is excited. We printed bags and shirts with our exclusive RSD 2026 design. Each store will have 50 of each for the first 100 people in line. We just published on Facebook all the titles where we only received 1 copy and which store to find those. Titles not on the list will be available at both stores. People can start lining up at the mall starting no…

Next week is the BIG EVENT, which of course is Record Store Day on Saturday April 18th. People can line up for a chance at over 350 exclusive titles coming out only on that day. First 100 people in (50 for each location), will have a chance to get this free exclusive shirt. Also a few of these will be for sale at the Pokemon Pinball Party this Saturday!! Speaking of that, this Saturday is our…

We’ve got 2 shows back to back Friday and Saturday this weekend downtown. The first one here features mostly acoustic and hip hop. The Saturday show is that loud hardcore stuff. Here’s what’s new this Friday: – There is a new THUNDERCAT album coming out, we will have copies on red vinyl and also black smoke vinyl.– American country artist CHARLEY CROCKETT comes out with like two albums every…

We had fun at the Mall last week with the new BTS album release! This Saturday we got a hardcore/punk/numetal show happening downtown This week Pepperoni picked Death “It’s time for an album SO metal that it will make your skin MELT off if you listen to it, and you will need a few band-aids. Of course I am talking about the death metal band DEATH, and their second studio album from 1988,…

We danced after midnight last week with Johnny Blue Skies. This week we’re gonna have a party with BTS at the mall. Here are this Friday’s hot vinyl releases – American country artist ZACH BRYAN is out with yet another album, “With Heaven On Top” and we will have copies on black 140g vinyl.– BTS have their fifth studio album out, “Arirang” and don’t forget we are hosting a release party for…

We had our largest show every last week with HAYWIRE. It was so big we had to split it into 2 shows. Also last week we had a great Harry Styles listening party at the mall. Here you can see we dimmed the lights for all the kissing. Tonight we have this death grind show happening downtown. Probably not much kissing happening at that one. Friday at the Mall we have our next new album listening…