Tonight at Black Sheep: Our Lady, Tiger Tank, Gospel & The Wolf, Jessica Knight

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There is a show happening at Black Sheep tonight! This may be our third Wednesday night with a show, so you all should have plenty of practice going to Wednesday shows. This one should be no problem! Tonight is a very special show because it is the first local show for touring emo/indie band Our Lady since January. They are back with a brand new lineup and a brand new sound. You can also find their brand new cassette, Dawning streaming below. Next on the lineup is Tiger Tank. Tiger Tank features Ladd Mitchell and Miles Parkhill of the indie rock band Park who just announced their reunion earlier last week. The touring act from Austin, Texas on this show is Gospel & The Wolf. Gospel & The Wolf is a solo acoustic act featuring an ex-member of the band Solace Before Sundown. Opening the show up will be Jessica Knight with some acoustic tunes for us all.

The show starts off at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. You can find a facebook event for the show right here. Don’t forget to check out our shows page for more updates on other shows coming up at Black Sheep.

Our Lady: “Dawning”

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Today we are bringing you a stream of the new Our Lady release, Dawning. From the Our Lady bandcamp:

The songs on this E.P. have served as very needed stepping stones for our band that we originally had no intention of taking. They exist as important milestones for us as a group. Emotions presented by the loss of people we truly love and miss in our band is what enabled these songs to exist as they do now. We are no longer the same band after the loss of these people and we can no longer obligate ourselves to songs that were written with different people and for different reasons. This E.P. is being considered the first release by Our Lady. This step has been very scary, and very emotional for us and it has also been very difficult to decide where to go from that position. We are so thankful for everyones support through this weird time for us. We feel very lucky to be able to continue doing this as a full time band, and continue to make new friends, and create music with our best ones. This E.P. is for all our friends, The Blacksheep Cafe, Kevin Bradford, Jessica Knight, Jordan Fein, Alistair Reynolds, Kylie “GUS” McCowen, Algernon Squires, Benny Dewitt, Brian Galecki, Milestshirts.com, Turn Of The Century Records, Mind Over Matter Records, everyone who books shows, goes to shows, put us up on tour, fed us, listened to our dumb jokes, followed us on any social media site, thank you so much. Everything you all do amazes us every day.

Dawning is being released on cassette by Turn of the Century Records based out of Chicago. The cassette will be available at shows during Our Lady’s upcoming tour from May 28th to June 4th. Our Lady will be playing at Black Sheep tomorrow night along with Tiger Tank, Gospel & The Wolf, and Jessica Knight. They will also be playing day two of Dumb Fest on June 15th. Our Lady will also be releasing a 7″ entitled Vessels later this year through Mind Over Matter Records. You can find Dawning streaming below.

Black Sheep Roundtable Recap 5-19-13

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milesclownAbove you can see that we finally fixed the moshing clowns problem at Black Sheep at our last roundtable meeting on Sunday. Clowns kept crawling up through the hole in our floor and moshing at shows, so we had to do something about it. Now there will never be any moshing clowns at shows ever again. Together we can keep Black Sheep clown-mosh free.

At Sunday’s roundtable meeting, we were also able to make some better shelves for the bookshelf in our back room, and we painted those shelves. We also moved some more equipment out of our back room so that we would have more room for other things.

Interested in coming to the next Black Sheep roundtable meeting? We decided to switch our meetings to every other Saturday afternoon. The next one will be on Saturday, June 1st at 4:00 pm. You can also check out our get involved page if you are looking for more things that you can do to help out!

 

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On Sunday we had another Black Sheep roundtable meeting, where we cleaned up our space a little bit and discussed plans for upcoming shows. Here are some of the things that were accomplished and talked about:

New Music From Bailout and Earth Witch

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a3817763777_10Today we have new music to bring you from two bands coming from outside of Springfield who are both playing Dumb Fest at Black Sheep and Skank Skates in June. The first of those bands is Bailout from Champaign and Chicago Illinois. Bailout play fast and aggressive hardcore punk. Their new release Adult Body is streaming below. Bailout is also currently on tour in the midwest. They will be playing at Black Sheep or Skank Skates as part of Dumb Fest day two on June 15th.

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The second band is Earth Witch from Champaign. Earth Witch features members of bands RVINS and Dino Bravo. They have just released a song entitled “Aggregate” on their soundcloud page. You can stream the song below. Earth Witch will be playing day one of Dumb Fest along with Renae.

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Dumb Fest is taking place on June 14th and 15th at Black Sheep and Skank Skates. You can find a Dumb Fest page with the full lineup right here. A facebook event for Dumb Fest can be found right here. And if you have not ordered Dumb Fest tickets yet, then you might want to click this link.

 

Tonight at Black Sheep: False Light, Emperor Norton, Kaworu, Bubblegum Octopus, Dusty Fingers, Aporia

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65100_641327865894224_488981208_nThere is quite the show happening at Black Sheep tonight! There will be six bands playing for only five bucks. That is quite the deal. The first band we have to tell you about that will be playing tonight is False Light. They come from South Carolina and play fast and intense hardcore. Next up we have Emperor Norton, Springfield’s finest hardcore punk band. And coming from Peoria we have the new Kaworu. Kaworu play “blackened hardcore.” A newer addition to this show is Bubblegum Octopus from New Jersey. They play noisy electronic/dance-y music. Now moving on to the noise. This show will feature St. Louis noise project Dusty Fingers. Opening the whole thing up will be the first show of a brand new Springfield noise project called Aporia. Aporia features a member of the band And God Said Dance!.

The show starts off at 6:30 pm so come early! Admission is five dollars. You can find a facebook event for the show right here. Interested in what other shows are coming up at Black Sheep? Then check out our shows page.

 

Big Eyes: “Almost Famous” / Tenement Sign To Don Giovanni Records

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a0618485110_10Big Eyes, who will be playing Dumb Fest day two, have released a new album entitled Almost Famous through Grave Mistake Records. You can find a stream of the album on bandcamp right here or also below. A link to purchase the CD or vinyl of the new album can be found here.

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Another headlining band from Dumb Fest day two, Tenement, have just signed to Don Giovanni Records for a new album to come out later this year or early 2014. From the Don Giovanni website:

We’re really excited to be working with one of our favorite bands of the past few years, Tenement, on a new album later this year.  Tenement, from Appleton, Wisconsin have toured extensively over the last 5 years and released two albums in 2011, Napalm Dream, and The Blind Wink.  They will be entering the studio soon for an album out by the end of the year or early 2014 on Don Giovanni and we couldn’t be more excited.

Tenement also recently released a few new singles, one being “Freak Cast In Iron” out on Cowabunga Records. You can find a few of those new songs streaming on the player below.

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Both Big Eyes and Tenement will be playing Dumb Fest next month at Black Sheep and Skank Skates. You can find the full lineup on our Dumb Fest page. You can find a facebook event right here. If you plan on going to either day of Dumb Fest, don’t forget to pre-order tickets right here!

New Music From Gas Up Yr Hearse and Dino Bravo

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dinobravogasupDumb Fest next month is featuring over twenty bands that are active right now in Central Illinois and the midwest. Last week we brought you news that one of the Dumb Fest bands, HeavyArms have released a new album. It looks like a few more of the bands playing Dumb Fest are releasing new music! Gas Up Yr Hearse and Dino Bravo have both recently put out cassettes.

Gas Up Yr Hearse from Bloomington/Champaign released their cassette “A Banner Year For The Sum of Our Losses” earlier this year. You can find that streaming below. Gas Up Yr Hearse is currently planning a tour around Dumb Fest, and they will also be on tour from July 12th through the 26th. You can check their facebook page for more info on those dates. Aside from the cassette, GUYH is also planning on releasing a split 5″ and a square-cut 7″ vinyl later this year.

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Next is a brand new cassette from the two-piece wrestle band Dino Bravo from Champaign. “Planet Madness” was released earlier this spring on Error Records and you can find those songs streaming below.

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Dumb Fest is happening June 14th and 15th at Black Sheep and Skank Skates. You can find a Dumb Fest page with the full lineup right here and a facebook event right here. Tickets are on sale (both two-day and single-day passes) right here.

Our Lady: “Buque”

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Springfield touring emo/indie band Our Lady have just released a new song up on their bandcamp. The song is called “Buque” and it comes from the band’s upcoming release Dawning out Turn of The Century Records. You can find the song here on Our Lady’s bandcamp or also find it streaming below.

Our Lady will be playing Black Sheep this upcoming Wednesday, May 22nd. They will be playing the show along with Tiger Tank, Gospel & The Wolf, and Jessica Knight. You can catch singer/guitar player Tim Williams perform an acoustic set at Black Sheep tonight. Our Lady will also be heading out for tour at the end of the month. Dawning will be released on May 25th on cassette through Turn of The Century Records. The band will also be putting out a seven-inch record called Vessels through Mind Over Matter Records later this summer. You can find a song off of that called “Tunnel Vision” right here.

Tonight at Black Sheep: Kirk Donely, Real Live Tigers, Dan Mariska, Tim Williams

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428615_10200805620210559_1873519476_nTonight we have a summertime acoustic show tonight at Black Sheep! The weather is beautiful so you have no excuse not to come! Tonight we have Kirk Donely of The Transatlantic doing a solo acoustic set. We also have the country/folk act from Austin, Texas Real Live Tigers doing a combined set with another solo act Julie Byrne. That should be fun! Also on the show is Dan Mariska from Minneapolis! Last but not least Tim Williams of Our Lady will also be doing a solo acoustic set.

Things start off at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. You can find a facebook event for the show right here. Don’t forget to check out what else we have coming up on our shows page!