SOHO Music Festival Announces 2013 Lineup

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537203_575171539189168_765272683_nIt looks like the annual SOHO Music Festival happening in downtown Springfield have released their lineup for this years fest happening on Friday, June 7 and Saturday, June 8th. You can see the full lineup with the set times on the picture above and we also have it listed below. One notable act includes Park on Saturday night, who just recently announced their reunion on Black Sheep Radio last week.

Friday, June 7th
4:30 Square of the Roots
5:30 Grocery Store Ninjas
6:00 Enamel
7:00 Joe Frew
7:30 Blue G’s
8:30 Owen and Dooley
9:00 Tom Irwin
10:00 Texas Trucker Speed Friends
10:30 The Station

Saturday, June 8th
1:00 Blake Stevens
1:30 Pattern Grey
2:30 Kamikazee Kush
3:00 Mojo Cats
4:00 Pete Sander & Chris Maxey
5:30 The Complaint Line
6:00 Hey Brother
7:00 Pet Names
7:30 Lowder
8:30 Dog Of Panic
9:00 Hot Bag O’ Donuts
10:00 Park
10:30 Dan Hubbard & The Humadores

For more info on shows and festivals happening around Springfield outside of Black Sheep, you can check out our Springfield shows page.

 

War Magic: “Cyclomancy”

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a3623696813_10A couple of new songs have mysteriously appeared from a new Springfield group calling themselves “War Magic.” Little is known about the band or who is in it, but you can find two new songs “Cyclomancy” and “Wooden Rings” on the War Magic bandcamp here or also streaming below. We do know that War Magic includes Alistair and Steve of Harm House Record of the Night fame.

Be on the lookout for any War Magic show announcements or new songs in the future.

 

Tonight at Black Sheep: Kickstart, Unfortunate Woman, The Howl, Sammy & The Punk

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Who’s ready for a fun weekend of shows? There are plenty of shows going on in and around tonight and we have a show going on at Black Sheep too! For this one we have Springfield pop-punk band Kickstart! You can also catch Kickstart on the radio today from 4:00 to 6:00 pm on 88.3 WQNA FM! Next we have Unfortunate Woman which is a newer band on tour from Chicago. Also from Chicago and on tour is The Howl. They play rock n’ roll/punk rock and you can check out some of their music below. Opening things up we have the local two-piece Sammy & The Punk.

The show starts off 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 our shows page for more listings on upcoming shows at Black Sheep.

June 18th at Black Sheep: Folk Y’All, Lovecow, Montagh, Jess Knight

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On Tuesday, June 18th we will all have finished recovering from a crazy weekend of Dumb Fest at Black Sheep and Skank Skates and The Horse Show. It will be a great time for a fun acoustic show and potluck! The touring band coming through for this show is “Folk Y’All“. They come from New London, Connecticut and play “old-timey folk-punk”. You can also catch Springfield’s own acoustic folk-punk band, Lovecow. Then there is the folk/acoustic duo Montagh. And to open things up we have Jess Knight playing some acoustic tunes and covers for us.

The show starts off at 7:00 pm and is $5. You can find the facebook event right here. Also don’t forget to check out what other shows we have coming up at Black Sheep over on our shows page!

Tomorrow on Black Sheep Radio: Kickstart, Yogi Beara

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973476_10200680537729970_462119091_nTomorrow is another episode of Black Sheep Radio! This time we have the pop-punk band Kickstart and the newer two-piece rock band Yogi Beara coming in to the studio to talk to us about band plans and upcoming shows. They might also go head to head and have some sort of band-battle while they are talking to us! Kickstart will be talking to us about their show tomorrow (Friday) at Black Sheep with Unfortunate Woman, The Howl, and Sammy & The Punk. Yogi Beara will be talking to us about their show Wednesday (May 29th) with Big Storm and Idly.

The Black Sheep Radio airs from 4:00 to 6:00 pm on Fridays on 88.3 WQNA fm. You can tune in to 88.3 FM on your radio dial or you can head over to wqna.org and stream the show live. We also have our lovely radio tab set up so that you can stream and download some past episodes of Black Sheep Radio.

 

Hospital Job Announce Tour Dates With The Copyrights

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945782_615106368518935_1670321884_nHospital Job will be heading out on tour with Carbondale pop-punk band The Copyrights at the end of June and beginning of July. The two bands will be heading out to Insub Fest in Baltimore, Maryland put on by Insubordination Records. You can check out those tour dates above.

Hospital Job will be playing next in Springfield on Friday, May 24th at The Poon Lagoon along with Nephrons, The Transatlantic, and Lanny Durbin. The band released their full length album Downer Downer Downer late last year. The Copyrights will also be playing in Springfield before their tour with Hospital Job at day two of Dumb Fest at Black Sheep and Skank Skates on June 15th. It is sure to be a blast.

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: