Uncle Bengine and the Restraining Orders

Shows this Weekend!

Thu, 31 May 2012 16:56:11 -0400

Once again, we have slacked on updating the website. We will continue to try and step up our game, but we have been slammed with a million things and our website continues to get shafted. Thanks for checking back, we will do better(hopefully!)

We had a great time two weekends ago, both the show in Harrisonburg and the show in Lancaster were great. It was wonderful to break Todd and Megan in with two fun, yet different type of shows. Lancaster friends hopefully we will see you soon! Harrisonburg friends we will see you tomorrow!

We have two shows this weekend. Tomorrow night(Friday) we are playing a house show in Harrisonburg VA with our good friends, Matt Woods, Who Are the Southern Baptist? and Brent Finnegan. The show is at a house that hasn’t done shows before, it is going by the name Up Stage. The house might be near some bikes, or you might see it when you are hungry. If you don’t know where it is, hit us up and we will make sure you find it unless you are a ding dong that wouldn’t treat a fine house with class, then you are out of luck.

Saturday we are heading to New Castle VA to play the Untitled Music Festival put on by our good friends at Vanish Records! The Festival is 3 days, starting tomorrow night. We are playing Saturday Afternoon, so if you are in the Roanoke Area take a trip over the mountain and come hang with us! More information about the festival can be found HERE.

Hope to see you this weekend, and website I hope to update you long before the eve of our next show (June 13th Blue Nile).

Shows! and More!

Wed, 09 May 2012 13:13:20 -0400

Well, we have continued to slack on updating the website…Sorry! The show at Vanish House was a blast! Thanks to Thom, Ricky, Alex and the rest of the Vanish House crew for having us! Thom snagged a video from our set, check it out below!

LINE UP CHANGES!
We have been going through a few changes within the band (could be why we have been slacking on the updates, but that is more likely due to laziness). Nicklaus is moving to Northern Virginia to start a new job, so he won’t be able to play with us full time anymore. We have had a blast playing with him over the past two years and we are sure that this isn’t the last time we are going to play music together.
Taking over the drum duties is our good friend Todd Yoder! We are exited to have Todd playing with us. Todd and I were in two bands together during high school (Waning Epoch, and WCWSIS), so I am thrilled to be playing with him again.
While we were changing things around we have added our friend Megan Tiller on upright bass. Megan is a killer musician, she teaches violin and owns her own music shop, Tiller Strings. Somehow we convinced her that she should learn the upright bass and join our merry mess of a band. We are glad our convincing worked, now we just need a big car!

SHOWS! SHOWS! SHOWS!

Wednesday May 16th - Blue Nile Harrisonburg
We are playing our first show with the new line up next Wednesday! The show is right after Jason finishes DJing Honky Tonk Happy Hour, so come out early and stay late!
Friday May 18th - Chestnut Hill Cafe - Lancaster PA
We are hitting the road to Lancaster PA for the weekend. Come out on Friday evening, we play around 6:30pm for some tunes and coffee. We will try to post more details about that show soon. But plan on 6:30 Chestnut Hill Cafe, Lancaster PA!

We are lining up shows for the summer, so check back soon!

Roanoke Saturday!

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:42:59 -0400

We are excited to be heading back to the Star City on Saturday for Down by Downtown, showcase presented by Bazaar Consignments. We will be playing at Kirk Ave Music Hall with The Missionaries(Roanoke) and the Golden Hour (NE), the show starts at 7pm ($5.00 at the door). More info on the Bazaar Consignment Showcase! If you are going to be in the Roanoke area check out Down by Downtown starting Wednesday, our friends American Aquarium are playing Kirk Ave. Music Hall on Thursday, so make sure to check them out. More info for the whole festival can be found at their website or facebook.

We have been slacking on the updates recently, but that doesn’t mean we have been slacking on real life! We just released our brand new split cassette tape (w/download card) with Prison Book Club. It is out on Funny / Not Funny Records, swing by and pick up a copy from their store! We are super excited to be apart of the tape with our great friends Prison Book Club, their side rips and we are really excited about our side as well! We recorded those tracks with our friend Thomas from Northern Virginia, if you need recordings done, hit us up and we will send you his way, trust us he rules! We have a show next weekend at Thom’s house in Northern VA, we will talk about that more next week. Also a few changes coming our way soon, so check back. Thanks!

Harrisonburg Saturday Night!

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:51:05 -0400

We are playing this Saturday night at My Mansion in Harrisonburg VA. If you are from the area you most likely know where that is, if you don’t hit our email for more information. We are excited to see you on Saturday!

If you are in the Harrisonburg area this weekend, also make sure to check out Rock Lotto at the Blue Nile, Friday is Acoustic Night, Saturday is Rock night. More info can be found on Facebook (Night 1 | Night 2)!

Honky Tonk Wednesday!

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:44:41 -0500

Our very own Jason Summer has been spinning country records every Wednesday at the Blue Nile in downtown Harrisonburg. Swing by from 7-9 to hear some classic country tunes and enjoy a whiskey drink. Tomorrow night Jason is pulling double duty. Ben and Jason will be playing a stripped down set with Battle Ave. and Grass is Green. Check out the Facebook event here! Come by early to hear Jason spin some records and stay for some rock jams!

Shows this Weekend!

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:43:34 -0500

It has been a crazy week, so I am running behind on updating the website. We are playing at Slaughterhouse on Friday with our friends Half Circles. The show starts at 9. Check out the Facebook event!

Saturday afternoon, Ben is doing two solo sets for the Ten Thousand Villages one year anniversary celebration. Music starts at 4pm, second set around 5pm hopefully there will be a guest. Check out the Facebook event!

Shows this Weekend! Lynchburg, Harrisonburg

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:59:01 -0500

Thanks to everyone who came out to see us in Shepherdstown and DC, we had a fantastic time at both shows. It was great to see family and old friends, and it was equally awesome meeting new people.

While in DC we spent some time mixing our new record at the Discovery Channel studios, we are very excited about these songs and can’t wait for everyone to hear them. We have made mention of it before, but the tracks are officially going on a split cassette tape with our good friends from WV, Prison Book Club. I just heard their side within the last week and I think it is going to be a solid release from a great pairing of friends. Their tracks are done, our tracks are being mastered this weekend, the artwork is almost finished, so we are getting ready to move forward. Once we contact the plant about doing the cassettes, we will have a better idea on release time, but it is coming!

This weekend we are busy once again. Tonight we are heading to the lovely city of Lynchburg VA to play at the White Hart with Maplewaves. This is Uncle Bengine’s first time in Lynchburg, although our old band, Mild Winter, played their a number of times. Check the facebook event from the last post for more details.

Saturday we are playing at Clementine for our first hometown show of 2012! We are opening for Prison Book Club, it is the last show of their two week tour, so come out and help celebrate one last night on the road. We are hoping to have a new song ready for the evening, so be on the look out.

Happy New Year! January Shows!

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 16:30:00 -0500

The haze that surrounds the holiday season is starting to lift as we begin our embark on another year. 2011 wasn’t an awful year but it certainly had worn out it’s welcome, so we are excited to start fresh with 2012. We are currently finishing up recording for a split cassette with our good friends Prison Book Club. We should have everything ready to send off by mid winter, so we should have the tapes ready to roll by late winter/early spring. We will make sure to keep you up to date.

January Shows

We are playing a handful of shows in January in support of our latest release, Comes in Nines. We have one hole on Friday January 13th if you are looking for a band to play your bedroom, kitchen, bar or bathroom, email us! The rest of the shows are pretty well finalized, check the dates below. We are also looking for dates throughout the winter and spring, email us if you have any ideas.

January 12th - Shepherdstown WV - The Shepherdstown Opera House
w/Prison Book Club and Matt Woods
http://www.facebook.com/events/282872045097759/

January 13th - HELP!

January 14th - Washington DC - The Paperhaus
w/Tereu Tereu, Bob Doto, Presto Bando
http://www.facebook.com/events/317981854890744/

January 27th - Lynchburg VA - The White Hart Cafe
w/the Maplewaves
http://www.facebook.com/events/197011380387940/

January 28th - Harrisonburg VA - Clementine Cafe
w/Prison Book Club
http://www.facebook.com/events/197024850381971/

See you soon!

Holiday Show! Farmers Market Video!

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:23:59 -0500

Love it or hate it, the holidays are rapidly approaching and we are celebrating this Thursday with our good friends Josh Moss and the Turlocks. The Turlocks are a new band from Harrisonburg that have a pretty sweet pedal steel player as well a line up that is filled to the brim with good friends of the Uncle Bengine gang. Along with celebrating the return of old friends, the show is also the two year anniversary of Funny / Not Funny Records. If you aren’t familar with F/NF, it is a Harrisonburg VA based record label that is run by Uncle Bengine frontman, Ben Schlabach, and Harper Holsinger (tons of bands, tons of show promotion, tons of awesome). F/NF has 14 releases under their belt and currently has more in the works. Check our their website!

The show starts around 9pm. There will be holiday drink specials, free food, and distro tables from Funny / Not Funny Records and Harrisonburg’s new record store, Wonder Records. Come down early and stay late…also I am pretty sure it is free cab season so make sure to take advantage of a safe ride home!

Farmers Market Video

Harrisonburg Farmer’s Market Promo from Josh Lee on Vimeo.

Check out this sweet new commercial for the downtown Farmers Market that was created by JMU students, Steven Chi and Josh Lee. We are very honored that they used our song, “College Home” for the background music. Take a look at the video, share it with your friends, and most importantly make sure to go check out the Harrisonburg Farmers Market.

It is already December?

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:02:05 -0500

December brings holidays, the end of the year and a handful of things for Uncle Bengine. This Friday we are playing a house show in Harrisonburg, if you are interested in coming hit up our email for the details. We are spending the rest of the weekend in Northern Virginia recording for our next release (more details soon). We are also putting together a Holiday Show for the week before Christmas, so stay tuned for that info.

Hope to see you soon!

Comes in Nines Out Today!

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 07:43:00 -0500

We had a fantastic time at the Artful Dodger on Friday thanks to everyone who came out. Special thanks to Paul and Jeff for setting up the evening and being a big part of the Harrisonburg Downtown Art scene.

Today is the big day, Pre-Orders are finished and mailed, the CD is on itunes and up at CD Baby. It should be in most other online stores later this week. If you have a gift card to any retailer that you don’t want, it might be a good excuse to check out the new Uncle Bengine CD. If you are wondering what the best ways/cheapest ways to get the tracks/CD, we would suggest downloading it from Bandcamp, it is $5.00 or name your own price, so you can pay $5.00 or $500.00. The best places to buy the CD itself would be at Bandcamp or at our online store they come straight from us with a thank you note and timely shipping.

CD Release Show Friday!

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:41:50 -0400

This Friday at the Artful Dodger Jeff Guinn is having an Art Opening and we are releasing our new CD, with artwork by Jeff Guinn himself. Make plans to come drink some tall boys, enjoy some good food, check out some awesome art and help us celebrate the release of our new CD “Comes in Nines”. We will try and remind you as the week goes on, but in the mean time, go like us on facebook and stream the entire album. Our Facebook Page!

Comes in Nines

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:23:00 -0400

Comes in Nines - CD | Pre-Order Here or Here
We are very excited to announce the release of our first full length album “Comes in Nines.” We started recorded the tracks in late February, finishing them up in the late Spring, since then we have been hard at work with some of our close friends getting the mastering and artwork just right, and we can legitimately say we are very happy with how this project turned out. The official release date is November 8th, that said, we have copies of the CD in our hands so there will not be any delays on that date. Currently you can Pre-Order at our store and on bandcamp. We are finalizing the details of getting the tracks on itunes and other such download sites, they should be up by November 8th.

Exclusive Stream of “Comes in Nines”
If you would like to hear “Comes in Nines” before the release date, you can stream the whole album at our facebook page. While you are there, make sure to hit “like” or “add’ or whatever it is you do with facebook, having new friends makes us feel a lot better about ourselves.

CD Release show in Harrisonburg

November 4th - Jeff Guinn Art Opening / Uncle Bengine CD Release
Our good friend and designer/layout extraordinaire Jeff Guinn is hosting an art opening at the Artful Dodger, since he did the artwork for the new CD, we thought it would be a great setting to host our Release Show. He is an amazing artist, so make sure to come out and support his work, along with our new CD. You can check out his artwork here.

Blue Nile tonight!

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:43:02 -0400

We are excited to be apart of a wonderful show tonight at the Blue Nile! Naked Gods a fantastic band from NC is coming through in support of their new CD “No Jams” which contrary to the title is full of great jams start to finish. In support of the Naked Gods are our Charlottesville friends the Invisible Hand and NC based Bronzed Chorus. Make sure to come out and support some great out of town bands.

In other news, I just got off the phone with the CD plant and the CDs are ready, so we will have them for tonight’s show! The official release date is November 1st, but if would like one early tonight is your lucky night! If you are unable to make it to the show, we will have them for sale in our store, and a few other places online in the coming weeks. We are beyond excited about this CD, and can’t wait to show everyone what we have been sitting on for the past 4 or 5 months!

See you tonight!

Show on Sunday! CDs in production!

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:59:40 -0400

I just finished listening to the Master CD of “Comes in Nines” and now I am about to hop in the car, drive to Northern Virginia and drop it off at the plant. Over the next week we are going to start posting tracks, and giving more details on the release date, release party in Harrisonburg, and hopefully finalize some up coming out of town shows. If you would like us to play your house, bar, coffee shop, back porch, show, or event, just let us know and we would love to work out a time to visit!

This Sunday we have our first show of the Fall. It is going to take place at the JMU Arboretum, starting around 3pm. Here is the facebook event! Come say hello, we are excited to play a show again after being off for 2 months.

We have more shows coming up, so check back soon for more details and new dates!

-Uncle Bengine

Rested and ready

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 19:08:40 -0400

If you haven’t noticed from the lack of updates since August, we have been busy with family, friends and weddings for the past month or so but we are getting ready to start playing again. We have two shows coming up in October and a handful in the works for November. The CD that we have mentioned a few times before, is nearing completion, soon we will have more details, artwork, mp3s and all those fun things that go along with a new release.

More on shows and the new CD later this week!

Roanoke Friday! New Track available online!

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:00:22 -0400

We are heading back the Bazaar in Roanoke this Friday, this time we are taking our good friends Elephant Child along for the ride. John (from John Jacob/Elephant Child) will be filling in for Nik on drums, this is only the second time he has filled in, the last time being our May Bazaar show in Roanoke. We are also playing with Schwervon! from NYC, so it has the makings of being an awesome show, if you are in the Star City come hang out!!!!!

In other news, Funny/Not Funny Records has just posted the F/NF 2011 Summer Mixtape, which includes tons of great tracks from tons of great bands. Our track is Bootleggers the lead off track for our upcoming CD, Comes in Nines. This is the first track we have posted from that recording session, more info and details on the release will be coming in the next few weeks.

See you in Roanoke!
Facebook Event

Funny / Not Funny Records: F/NF Summer Mixtape + Website Redesign!

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:46:00 -0400

Funny / Not Funny Records: F/NF Summer Mixtape + Website Redesign! :

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Funny / Not Funny Records is proud to present the Summer 2011 Mixtape. Our mixtapes are collections of songs from artists we work with and our close friends that we make available for free, for you, the listener! To listen to the mixtape utilize the streaming player in the right hand column…

Tomorrow night at the Blue Nile! We are excited to share the...

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:20:12 -0400

Tomorrow night at the Blue Nile!

We are excited to share the stage with our good friends, Who are the Southern Baptists and Snake Oil Salesman. The show will start around 9:30 and is $3.00 at the door. Come spend a lovely summer evening soaking up some alt-country, americana, folk punk jams.

We are busy working on new material and finishing up the artwork for the new album that should be out in September, look for more details soon.

This Saturday at Clementine! We play first, should start between...

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:21:13 -0400

This Saturday at Clementine! We play first, should start between 9 and 9:30. Come out early for drinks and hanging!