Springfield emo/rock band Our Lady has been a very busy band in the past year, and we have an update on what they’ve been doing (as you can see by the posted photos of their recording session in the studio above). After the band pushed back plans for touring through most of August, they decided to start working on recording new material and planning their next releases. Our Lady released their Vessels 7″ through Mind Over Matter Records earlier this year and also “Dawning” on cassette through Turn of The Century Records. Rumor has it there will be updated versions of old songs and maybe even another one added on to Dawning thanks to this recent recording session, so make sure to check out their new and perfected releases!

Our Lady will be playing in Springfield next on November 5th at Black Sheep along with Two Knights, Wir Konnen, and Jessica Knight. Make sure to check that show out, hear Our Lady’s new stuff, get a fresh Wir Konnen tape and listen to the good show.

It’s already Friday and we almost forgot that Friday means that it’s another episode of The Black Sheep Radio Show! We are excited to announce that our guest on the radio this week is long time musician and writer of the music section of The Illinois Times, Tom Irwin. Tom is bringing a lot to the show this week. He might fill us in a little bit on how the Illinois Times’s Best Ofs are going for 2013. He is also bringing his guitar and might perform some songs on air. He also is bringing in some of his older recorded music and some of his favorite Springfield songs from as far back as the 1980s. All that plus we will be playing more of your current favorite Springfield hits as well as plenty of music from bands coming through Black Sheep very soon.

That all happens on The Black Sheep Radio Show, airing Fridays (today) from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. You can listen to our show on 88.3 WQNA fm or online at wqna.org. All of our old episodes are also up for download over on our radio page!

On Saturday a few of us met for our Black Sheep roundtable meeting. We talked about some stuff and then went around town and hung up some upcoming show fliers. Here are some of the things that were done/discussed:

– We now have fliers for our radio show! Plenty have been hung up around town.
– More people need to come to roundtable and street team meetings. We could really use more help in a lot of areas, and you can help us!
– Plans for our new heating and cooling system inside of Black Sheep were discussed. We are still looking for leads to electricians and roofing contractors so get at us!

Don’t worry, that was not the last meeting that we will be having. You can make it to the next one on Saturday, October 5th at 1:00 pm. Everyone and anyone is welcomed to come to these meetings! And if you can’t make it to that, there are always things you can do to help out and volunteer around Black Sheep! Check out our get involved page for more info on that.

Tonight is the beginning to a very long wave of shows at the end of the September for us at Black Sheep! There are shows on the 21st, 22nd, 24th, 25th, 27th and 29th! Wow! Make you don’t miss any of those shows because there are going to be some GREAT bands playing. Tonight is going to be a great kick off to this long run of shows! We have local punk band The Timmys headlining the bill. Tonight will also be the very first show for the brand new Springfield band Looming! We streamed their brand new EP on our site earlier this week. Are you a fan of ska music? Do you like to skank? Well you will probably like the band Skank, who are coming from Carbondale, IL! Check out some of their music streaming below. Opening the show up we have Built In A Day, who will also be on Black Sheep Radio today.

The show tonight starts at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. You can find a facebook event for the show right here. Also check out all of the many many shows we have coming up on our shows page! If you are not doing anything before the show today, don’t forget that we have a Black Sheep roundtable and street team meeting at 1:00 pm!

Today is Friday. That means we are having another episode of Black Sheep Radio! Today our guests are… engineer Greg Harvey, who will also be joined by engineer Greg Harvey. It looks like our regular radio show hosts Brandon Carnes and Robbie Kording are both sick so it looks like we are leaving the whole show up to Greg! Will he be able to pull through and deliver us a good lineup of local music? We will find out!

Black Sheep Radio airs on Fridays (today) from 4:00 to 6:00 pm. You can tune in at 88.3 WQNA fm or at wqna.org online. Miss an episode? We have them all up for download on our radio page!

Another September show announcement! This one is happening on Wednesday, September 4th. It features Endevour from Fredericksburg, Virginia. They play a melodic type of hardcore and you can stream some of their music at the very bottom of this post. Will they be facing the local villains Scott Blacula? We do not know. We do know that Scott Blacula will be playing this show and battling any band that step in their path. We also have Hometown Heavyweights from their hometowns spread out all over central Illinois. Opening things up is some sort of new project called Meth Dealer. We have no idea what.

The show will kick off at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. You can find a facebook event for that show right here and also don’t forget to check out what other shows we have coming up on our shows page.

Later on in September we have a great laid back and mostly acoustic show coming up! Local beautiful-voiced indie rock band, Brandon Carnes, will be playing at the Black Sheep for what feels like the first time in forever. Joining them will be local folk punk heroes, Lovecow, who very recently released a great tape that they have up their band camp for you to learn all of their lyrics with. And the folk punk sad boy/gal group Montagh will also be playing. The Battalion vocalist Clint will also be giving his two cents with his new solo acoustic act, Good Times. You can stream some of those songs on the player below.

The show kicks off at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. You can find a facebook event page for the show right here. We have a lot of shows coming up in August and September! Check out the full list on our shows page.