It looks like Springfield’s favorite instrumental/surf rock band Go!Tsunami have came out with a brand new eleven-track album entitled The Tsultry Tsounds of Go!Tsunami. You can find a link to buy the mp3s or CD of the new album here on the Deep Eddy Records site.
Right now it does not look like Go!Tsunami has any shows lined up in Springfield, but they will be playing “Fong Fest” in North, Riverside Illinois. You can find the flier to that with the list of other bands playing below.
New Springfield acoustic/solo project “Good Times” has released a new six-song EP on bandcamp. The EP is six-songs that are pay-what-you-want and you can can find them here on bandcamp or also streaming below. Good Times is the solo project of Clint Kesinger of Springfield/St. Louis metal band Battalion. Clint was recently in on Black Sheep Radio to talk about his new project and he also played a song or two for us in the studio. Below the bandcamp player you can find a short youtube video on Good Times.
Be on the lookout for upcoming Good Times shows in Springfield. Battalion will be playing at Black Sheep next at Black Sheep Fest 2013 happening this Saturday.
It’s hard to believe, but Black Sheep Fest 2013 is now only one week away. That means one week from now things are going to be pretty crazy inside of Black Sheep (see above picture of last year’s fest). With the fest being only one week away, we could use your help with some preparation!
– We could always use more help getting the word out about Black Sheep Fest and other shows! You can find fliers to print right here and here. It also helps to share the Facebook event around.
– Cleanup for Black Sheep Fest will be going on at 6:00 pm on Friday. This cleanup won’t be as intense as getting ready for Dumb Fest, but we could always use some help. Anyone who wants to come early the day of the fest to help us set up (around 11:00 am) is also welcome.
– We are having another flea market this year! This means feel free to bring stuff that you want to get rid of, or come prepared to take other people’s old stuff home with you!
Black Sheep Fest is on Saturday, July 27th and will be going on from 1:00 to 11:00 pm. Admission is $5. You can find a facebook event for the fest here, and a special page we set up for the fest right here.
Tonight’s the big one! (Of course Battle of the Bands last weekend was also the big one, and Black Sheep Fest next weekend is another big one). The show tonight should still be one of the biggest and most fun shows this summer! Why? Because we have really awesome bands playing! We have Off With Their Heads from Minnesota coming! They were supposed to play here back in March but sadly had to drop. Tonight they are going to make it back to Springfield with a great set filled with tons of fun. They will be joined by a great lineup of local bands! The Timmys will be playing the show before Off With Their Heads. Before that is long-running punk band NIL8! NIL8 have not played a show in Springfield since December. Opening up the show is the teenage punk band RDNT.
The show kicks off at 7:00 pm and doors are at 6:30 pm. Admission is $8 unless you have already pre-ordered tickets for $6. If you pre-ordered tickets online, just bring a photo ID to the show and we will have your name on a will-call list. A facebook event for the show can be found right here. Also don’t forget to check out what other shows are coming up this summer over on our shows page.
We’re a bit late on bringing you this news, but remember when we told about how Tara from Worms & Montagh was releasing a solo album a couple weeks back? Well, it’s out! It’s called Out of a Rut and features 8 tracks. You can pay whatever you want to download the album (You can even download it for free!)
Want a physical copy of it? Well, you’re in luck! Tara plans on handing them out to anyone who wants one at Black Sheep Fest!
Tonight at Black Sheep, we have a pretty exciting show for you all! We have 3 bands from out of town! First, we have Withershins, a Shoegaze band from Champaign, IL. You can check out their stuff down below! Then we have Werepire Day from Bloomington, IL, which plays what they describe as “90’s-leaning fuzz anthems”. Next, we have a hard rock group from Collinsville, IL, Dibiase. We also have local alt-rock group Boon, and Pop-Punk group Kickstart!
The show starts 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 what other shows are coming up at Black Sheep over on our shows page.
We are done with t-shirt submissions for Black Sheep Fest 2013! We had four submissions this year and they are all great! Thank you to everyone who contributed. To see the designs that were sent to us, scroll down. You can find the link to vote at the bottom of this page.
Those are your choices! Numbers one, two, and three are all anonymous contributors. The fourth design was done by Kristin and Cody of Lovecow. Thanks to everyone who contributed with these great designs! To vote on which design you want to see on the Black Sheep Fest shirts, go here. Voting will continue until 3:00 pm on Sunday. You can only vote once so make it count!
Long running Springfield hardcore band Pound For Pound have decided to call it quits after being a band since 1999. From Pound For Pound’s facebook page:
After nearly 14 years, we have decided to start winding things down as a band. It’s been a long time coming. We’ve got families and other projects and free time is becoming harder to come by.
We’ll be playing 2 final shows. Our show on August 5th is going to be our second to last show. Our final show is in the works now. It is going to be Veterans Day weekend, November 9th at Black Sheep in Springfield. We’re looking for 8 more bands to get a mini heavy music fest together. If your band is interested, contact us here or at poundforpound217@gmail.com and we’ll try to get something worked out. We’d like to get a few locals and a few out of town bands.
Let’s make this a rad fest and show everyone that heavy music is still alive and well. If this goes well, we’ll set up another heavy music fest every year and who knows, we might even play the next one too.
More info will be posted about Pound For Pound’s last show on November 9th once more details are known.
We have another show announced for August! I’m sure it’ll be quite the humdinger! We have a Punk band touring from Pennsylvania called The Greek Favourites! You can listen to some of their tunes down below. Next, we got the local indie/punk band, The Seething Coast. Then, we have local Feel-Bringers, Mildred. There’s also a TBA on this show. I wonder who it will be………..
The show starts 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 what other shows are coming up at Black Sheep over on our shows page!
This Saturday we met up at Black Sheep a little earlier than usual- at 1:00 pm. We made sure to print out plenty of fliers and have them ready to distribute. As a collective we updated our list of flier hang-up spots around town and categorized the spots into different parts of town. You can find the flier hang-up spot list here on our forum. We then split into groups and had a fun time going around town and getting fliers out! Then we got back in time for the Black Sheep Battle of the Bands, which was tons of fun.
Our next roundtable meeting will likely be getting ready for Black Sheep Fest, which is coming up very fast. Black Sheep Fest will be ten days from now, on July 27th. We will likely be meeting at Black Sheep to clean things up a bit the day before at 6:00 pm and also a few hours before Black Sheep Fest starts on the 27th. Did you know we will also be doing a flea market again this year at Black Sheep Fest? If you have anything you would like to sell then bring it!
Today is also the last day for our Black Sheep Fest 2013 t-shirt contest! To check out more info on that, go to our original post here. Designs can be submitted up to midnight tonight to blacksheepspringfield@gmail.com.
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