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.
We have a hardcore show coming up in August! It’s gonna feature only the scummiest of all bands, Soap Scum. Also playing, we have two bands not from around these parts. First, we have Cross Me which is a hardcore band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Then we have Wolf Luv from Champaign, which features members from Need. Opening up the show, we have two noise projects. One, named IAMIAM which features a member from Montagh, and another, named Gazeebo
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!
Springfield’s third annual Downhome Music, Beer & Art Festival will be taking place on August 2nd & 3rd this summer. The festival will be located on 7th and Washington streets and will feature two days of bands, art, and more. The full lineup for the festival was recently announced and you can check that out below:
Friday:
The Shenanigans
Brook Thomas & The Blue Suns
Whiskey Picts
Murder of Crowes
Blue Ribbon Revival
Saturday:
Gypsy Collabo
NIL8
The Station
MonDope
Josh Catalano & The Dirty Thoughts
The Timmys
Go! Tsunami
Owen & Dooley Present
The Blue G’s
Black Magic Johnson
Seething Coast
Jukebox Casanova
Tom Irwin
Agent Orange
That’s a lot of bands! On top of all of that there will be local art featured at the festival from artists including Adam G. Perschbacher, Ryan Sponsler, Keeley Mills, Jed Leber, Shannon O’Brien, Jess Black, Kathy Petitte Jamison, Chris Umhoefer, July 2, and Chris Umhoefer. There will also be a kids area featuring a bounce house and a 20 foot slide for all you kids out there.
For other Springfield music events and shows happening outside of Black Sheep, you can check out our Springfield shows page.
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!
Last night was the Black Sheep Battle of the Bands and we all had a BLAST! All seven of the bands that played were great, and we were able to see lots of new faces and sweaty kids running around inside of our space. A good time was had by all. Are you ready to find out who won the battle? Here we go…
-The 2nd place winner for crowd voting was HAIRCUT ACTUAL! They received a $25 gift card to Daddy O’s Music Shack!
-The 1st place winner for crowd voting was NEGATIVE 17! They will now be playing this year’s BLACK SHEEP FEST on Saturday, July 27th!
-The 1st place winner for the judge’s voting and also 3rd place in crowd voting was BUILT IN A DAY! They will receive four free new studio recordings!
Hopefully we will be seeing all seven of those bands play more at Black Sheep in the near future. You can also check out a video of the band Blank Gravestone playing at The Battle of the Bands (which was also their first show) below.
