Roundtable Meeting 11/18 RECAP

Last Sunday a few of us met to discuss the upcoming Black Sheep Radio Show. We talked about what we want to have on the show and how we plan on organizing some of the music. Here is some of the things we are looking to have:

– interviews with bands
– new and old band recordings
– recordings from regional and national acts that will be playing Springfield soon
– bands play live in the studio
– funny segments highlighting the many personalities of Springfield’s music scene

Then a couple of days ago we started putting together music for the radio show. Right now we have a total of 64 albums and 568 songs, but those still need to be sorted through so we can determine which can be played on the radio. We really need the help from those of you in bands right now get music together. You can send us music in the form of mp3s to blacksheepspringfield@gmail.com or also give us CDs at any Black Sheep show. It would also be helpful if you told us which songs are radio friendly and which are not. Hosts for the show are also to-be decided.

The next roundtable meeting will be held at 7:00 pm Sunday December 2nd.

Some Things Can’t Be Ignored: Dead Zebbra Live in 2009

The Springfield-related music blog Some Things Can’t Be Ignored has featured a new post containing live recordings of a Dead Zebbra set at Music At The Mall in Iowa in 2009. From Some Things Can’t Be Ignored:

What we have here is a killer performance from the fellas on Halloween of 2009 at Music at the Mall in Keokuk, Iowa.  The lineup for this show was Nate on guitar and vocals, Todd Plummer on bass and Kyle Wells on drums.  Short, but INTENSE set!!  …and they even do a Nirvana cover, so watch out for that!  This recording was later taken to the studio for “cleanup”, so it sounds pretty darn good!

You can check out the full post and download the live recordings here.

 

December 21st: Brandon Carnes, Jessica Knight, Lovecow, Austin & Austin: The Band

Though no one knows the truth behind the Mayan prediction of what will happen on December 21st, but we all know that there is a 110% absolute chance that this show will be a fun time. This is a stacked show if I have ever seen one. First off, we got Austin & Austin: The Band fresh out of the music oven. Second is the beloved acousti-chaos group Lovecow. Next is Jessica Knight. That is right, THE Jess Knight of Our Lady. Will she be playing Our Lady cuts? You’ll have to come see. To close off the possible apocalypse we have the masterful Brandon Carnes, the mastermind of Big Storm and ever beloved Midnight Fall (never forget).

This madness costs $5 and starts at 7pm. You can find a facebook event for the show right here. Just in case the world doesn’t end, you can see what other shows are going on RIGHT HERE.

New Band Pages: Witchweed

It has been a little while since we added any new band pages to our ever-growing bands list. Today we bring you a brand new page for the band Witchweed! Check out the page and you can listen to some sludgy Witchweed tunes and read more about the band.

Do you play in a band that isn’t featured on our site yet? We need to hear from you! Shoot us an email at blacksheepspringfield@gmail.com.

Supersuckers at Bar None

On our ever longing quest of what is cool in Springfield, we have came across something pretty neat. It looks like the long running Arizona band Supersuckers is making a stop in Springfield! Since 1988, Supersuckers have been putting their on Southern spin on garage rock. Opening the show will be Springfield’s Two Trick Pony and Southern Illinois’ The Number Nine Blacktop.

The show is December 2nd and it starts at 8pm. The Facebook event for it is here. Looking for things we have discovered on our quest for cool? Check out this list.

Website Updates

Happy Monday, everyone. We have made a few small updates to our website and webstore recently.

The first is that we finally have a donate button! The donation jar is always set up inside Black Sheep, but if you want to donate towards our cause at any time you can now do it through paypal. The donate button is located on the right —-> if you are on our home page.

If you are on our home page, you may have also noticed that we added a couple of things to the side bar. There is a calendar so you can go back to any day and see the news posts for that day. Then there is also a “top posts and pages” feature that shows the most popular posts and pages in the past 48 hours.

In our store we have added some hand screen printed posters from the November 3rd show for $3. They are available at shows and will be up in our webstore shortly. We have also made the regular posters $1. What a deal!


Black Sheep Roundtable Meeting Tonight

Along with the announcement of the new Black Sheep radio show earlier this weekend, we requested some help gathering music from bands yesterday. With revolution winter upon us we need to organize and discuss what we need to do to properly launch our new radio show and stay on top of things this winter.

We will be meeting at 7:00 pm tonight (at Black Sheep) to discuss the new radio show and other things. Come if you have any ideas or even if you just want to sit and listen. Anyone is welcome to join.

 

Black Sheep Radio Show: We Need Music!!

Yesterday we announced that we will be hosting a new radio show on WQNA sometime in the near future.

Guess what. Before we can launch the new radio show we need to collect enough music from local bands to air! If you play in a band or have in the past and have recorded music then we need you! Here are a couple of things you can do to help us.

– send mp3s or links to downloadable music to blacksheepspringfield@gmail.com
– drop of CDs of your music at Black Sheep during any show

And if you want to be super helpful in helping us collect local music, let us know which of your songs are and are not radio friendly. We want to build an archive of all the local music we can get, and it will be helpful to know which songs we can play on the radio right away and which will need some editing later on.

The sooner we get enough music the sooner we can launch the new Black Sheep radio show! Thank you for your help!

Also, we will be having a roundtable meeting tomorrow (Sunday) at 7:00 pm to discuss the radio show and other things. Anyone is invited to come.