New Band Pages: RDNT, IAMIAM

photoToday we are bringing you two brand new band pages of two new-ish Springfield projects. The first is the young punk band RDNT. You may have caught their set at Black Sheep Fest last month. The band has recently undergone a slight lineup change. You can read more about RDNT on their band page right here. The second page we have set up is for the new harsh noise project of Austin Connelly (Montagh, Wir Konnen, Worms) called IAMIAM. IAMIAM played his first show earlier this month at Black Sheep, and will also be playing again on Wednesday along with Soap Scum, Cross Me, Wolf Luv, and Gazeebo. Check out IAMIAM’s page right here, where you can stream some of the noise.

Check out our constantly growing list of current local bands here on our bands tab. Do you play in a band in Springfield that we do not have covered yet? We would like to hear from you! Shoot us an email at blacksheepspringfield@gmail.com.

 

New Band Pages: War Magic

warmagicA new band page has been created for the new Springfield acoustic/folk band War Magic. War Magic features Alistair Reynolds and Mark Lee Reynolds. The band played their first show at Black Sheep on Saturday. You can go here to check out their page here, which includes more info about the band as well as some of their music.

Find other band pages from our ever-growing list of current bands in Springfield on our current bands page. Do you play in a band in town that we have not yet listed on our site? We would love to hear from you! Shoot us an email at blacksheepspringfield@gmail.com and we will work with you to get a page together.

Our Lady Push Back Tour/Work On New Material

BXSFEST13_84Springfield heavy emo band Our Lady have announced that they have decided to push back their tour that they had planned out to the West Coast and back. Here is the official statement they made from their website:

So today we had some bad news come our way. As well as a bunch of dates falling through last minute, our bass player John has found out that he has some unexpected pending legal issues that have put a financial stranglehold on his money situation and his ability to tour at the moment. So unfortunately this tour is being pushed back.

Honestly we were all really looking forward to this tour and seeing some of the great friends we have met in the past couple of years, as well as making new ones so this is a huge bummer for us. This is something we do because we love doing it, we don’t make any money, nor do we expect to, and we pay for everything directly out of pocket. So when situations like these come up it can be really difficult to bounce back quickly financially. Just because of the cancellation of this tour does NOT mean we are any less to committed to touring as often as we can. We have been on a fair amount of tours this year and have no intentions of stopping.

With that being said we have some good news to take in with all the bad. We will be doing a very similar route as the west coast tour in November with our pals in a really freaking great band called GHOST KEY. So if you are bummed that we aren’t going to be in your area in August just wait a couple of months we will be there! In the meantime we will remain playing shows locally and regionally as well as working on new music. Thank you so much for all of your support, and another huge apology to everyone who was booking shows for this tour or supporting us in anyway. Also, anyone who booked a show that fell through, we will be hitting you up next time around and would still love to come play your town, we understand how difficult it can be to host shows and we don’t hold anything against you. You were awesome the entire time, we are just battling too many setbacks this time around.

The only show Our Lady currently has lined up in Springfield is September 29th at Black Sheep. We plan on keeping you updated once the November tour dates are announced, or on any new material from Our Lady. The band will also be releasing their Vessels 7″ later this month through Mind Over Matter Records.

New Band Pages: Douglass, Wir Können

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Today we are bringing you two more band pages from two brand new Springfield bands. If you were at the show at Black Sheep on Saturday you would have seen two new projects including Douglass and Wir Können. Today we have two new band pages for both of those bands!

Douglass is the solo project of Tara Tracy of Montagh and Worms. Tara started this new project recently and she already has recorded a new EP, which you can stream on her band page. Wir Können is a brand new emo band featuring members of Lovecow, Mildred, and Montagh. They played their very first show on Saturday and have plans to record soon.

You can check out any of the hundreds of band pages we have put together for past and present Springfield bands on our bands tab. Do you play in a Springfield band that we have not yet covered on our site? We would love to hear from you! Shoot us an email at blacksheepspringfield@gmail.com.

 

Mother Leopard Lineup Changes/Plans To Record

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Those of you who were at Black Sheep Fest 2013 towards the middle of the fest may have seen the chaotic and extremely fun set of Mother Leopard. The band usually plays as a three-piece instrumental project, but at the fest things took an unexpected turn with members of the crowd scrambling to take part in doing vocals for different songs. Since the fest the band posted this from their newly created tumblr page:

Hello everyone! Mother Leopard has a Tumblr now! We just played Blacksheep Fest 2013 and it was absolutely amazing. It was inspiring to see so many people share the microphone during our set…totally unexpected. We all feel like a lot of people left their burdens on the stage that night and we hope to continue our journey towards claiming your souls at the next show! I hope everyone enjoyed themselves as much as we did. We have been a 3 piece instrumental band for a while now, with the recent addition of myself (Jess!) on bass…but BXS fest inspired us to take on a fourth member! Her name is Aubrey and she will be coming with us to Champaign, IL on Wednesday 7/31 for our first show with an official vocalist! (kind of?)

If you haven’t listened to our shit yet you can find it at http://motherleopard.bandcamp.com/

We have plans to record soon with our new lineup and with new songs. Keep in touch! Ask us questions! Message us on facebook or book us in your town jknight@capitolradiogroup.com

Love Always, Jess

The show on July 31st at Error Records in Champaign already took place and Mother Leopard played with new vocalist Aubrey. Keep your eyes and ears peeled for any new Mother Leopard shows in Springfield this late summer/fall. We plan on keeping you all updated on Mother Leopard’s plans to record and anything else going on with the band.

Lovecow: “Lovecow”

 

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Hey everybody, guess who has a tape out? Lovecow! That’s right, one of our favorite local folk punk bands Lovecow has a tape out titled “Lovecow”. Check it out below or head over to the band’s bandcamp page here! As they state on their page, this is their very first cassette tape! On it lingers 11 tracks, with some popular songs of theirs such as “They Say”,  “Do Something” and “Sorry I said fuck at the JSA show”. Mixed in are some new songs so make sure to check it out! It’s swell stuff. Recording was made possible by Sir Brandon Carnes and was released on the 27th of this month (at Black Sheep Fest). You can get it for $5 at any of their shows or download it through the link I inlcuded above. Do one or both and float on some folk punk tunes for awhile!

You can also pick up the cassette from Lovecow at their show at Black Sheep tomorrow (August 3rd). They will be playing along with Kowabunga! Kid, Wir Konnen, and Douglass.

New Band Pages: Aporia, Blank Gravestone, Good Times

Screen shot 2013-07-25 at 9.10.04 AMToday we are bringing you not one, not two, but THREE brand new band pages for three new Springfield bands. Our list of current Springfield bands keeps growing, and growing, and growing.

Our first page is for one of the main new harsh noise projects in this gigantic surge of noise that we have been recently seeing in Springfield and that is Aporia! Aporia features Jeff Brown of And God Said Dance. On the new Aporia page you can check out a bio and find links to music/noise of the project. Aporia will also be playing next at Black Sheep on Monday, August 5th along with Pound For Pound, Scott Blacula, Primitive Man, and Reproacher.

The next page is for a band that played their very first show at the Black Sheep Battle of the Bands earlier this month. They are called Blank Gravestone! On their page you can find more about them, and also see a video of them playing their first show at the battle of the bands. Keep your eyes and ears peeled for Blank Gravestone shows at Black Sheep in the near future.

The third page is for a new solo acoustic project of Battalion frontman Clint Kesinger. Clint calls his new project “Good Times” and you can check out his new page here. You might find the music of Good Times to be a little different than that of Battalion. On the page you can stream his new self-titled EP and read more about how the project came to be.

You can check out any of the 50-something band pages we have put together for current Springfield bands right here. Do you play in a band from Springfield  that is not on our list yet? We would love to hear from you! Shoot us an email at blacksheepspringfield@gmail.com and we will work with you to set one up!

 

New Springfield Noise

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Recently Springfield has been overtaken with a great influx of noisey projects. Eric Rogers of The Luzhin Defense has tried his hand at some far less melodic and way harsher electronic musings with his new project Block Shempe. The tracks are short, harsh, and right to the point.

Meanwhile a new noise project called Gazeebo has a new collection of tracks entitled “Forever”, as well as a previously released wall noise track. “Forever” features shorter songs that are just as angry.

Finally, IAMIAM, a noise project featuring Austin Connelly of Montagh, has released a few new songs recently. Most recently exposed to the world is a collaboration with Borealis (Mario Cannamela of Soap Scum), and is a thickly layered track with a great deal of guitar tricks and noisey bits. Also two singles have recently been released and there is talk of a new album coming off the belt soon! Be sure to check out all of these and come out to the show on August 21st to see IAMIAM and Gazeebo open up the show!

New Band Pages: The Seething Coast, Negative 17

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Negative17_fullWe have TWO new pages up on our site for two active Springfield bands! Isn’t that spectacular? The two bands are The Seething Coast and Negative 17. You can check out The Seething Coast’s page here and Negative 17’s page right here. On the pages you can find links to music, band bios, and more. Negative 17 recently won crowd voting for our Black Sheep Battle of the Bands earlier this summer, which means that they will be playing Black Sheep Fest on Saturday. The Seething Coast have recently finished up recording some new material, and they also have a show coming up at Black Sheep on August 11th with The Greek Favourites.

You can check out any of our 2,000 band pages right here. Do you play in a band in town that doesn’t have a page set up with us yet? We would love to hear from you! Shoot us an email at blacksheepspringfield@gmail.com and we will work with you to get one set up.

New Band Pages: Yogi Beara, Kickstart

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Today we are bringing you TWO whole new band pages of two Springfield bands. We have a new band page made for the garage rock duo Yogi Beara! Head on over to the band page to find a bio and a link to their Facebook page! Check it out here! The second band page is of the pop-punk group Kickstart! Kickstart played a great set at the Black Sheep Battle of the Bands on Saturday and they will also be playing again at Black Sheep on Friday, the 19th along with Withershins, Dibiase, Werepire Day, and boon. You can check out their new page right here.

You can check out our constantly growing list of band pages here on our current bands page. We are all the way up to 45 current bands! Do you play in a band or know of one from Springfield that we do not yet have a band page for? Shoot us an email at blacksheepspringfield@gmail.com and we’ll set one up with you!