Uncle Bengine and the Restraining Orders

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! :

funnynotfunny:

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!

This Saturday! Clementine Cafe Harrisonburg

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:03:36 -0400

First off thanks to Steve and David for setting up the 1st Alt-Music Fest July 2nd in Warrenton. We had a great time, even though I almost died of heat stroke and Jason got scolded for snagging waters without asking. It was nice to meet a bunch of people and play with some new bands. We can’t wait to make it back up to the Northern Virginia area, hopefully sometime in the fall.

This Saturday we are playing at Clementine in Harrisonburg with two excellent bands, the Borrowed Beams of Light are releasing their brand new LP, Stellar Hoax (out on World Records/Speakertree Records), joining them on the bill is Roanoke’s Eternal Summers, they have a 7” coming out on Funny/Not Funny Records later this month. We are pumped they invited us to play the show, I think we are opening the evening. One thing I do know for sure is that we are going to get this show rolling and keep it rolling, so make sure to be there around 9pm. Here is the Facebook Event.

We recently got our mastered tracks back for our upcoming CD, Comes in Nines. We can’t wait for everyone to hear it, our friend Thom did a fantastic job. We are currently working with Jeff Quinn to finish the artwork and then we will send everything off to the plant. Hopefully in the next week or so we will start to preview tracks from the CD and come up with a time frame for it’s release, so please check back. If you do reviews or have other press ideas please drop us a line, we would love any help we can get.

Warrenton VA this Saturday!

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 21:54:02 -0400

We are playing tomorrow at the 1st Annual Warrenton Alt. Fest, check out the info here. We can’t wait to see some of our Northern Virginia friends again!

Roanoke Tonight at Bazaar Consignment

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 07:42:09 -0400

We are heading down to Roanoke VA for our third time at the Bazaar, this time we are playing with old band friends of Mild Winter;Birdlips and locals John Barry Conception. If you have seen us there before we would love to see you again and if you just happen upon the show we look forward to meeting you. Nik has to work this weekend, so we have John Hostetter filling in. Here is the facebook event link. Hope to see you tonight!

Clementine Friday, Manassas Saturday!

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:58:52 -0400

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am ready for some weekend time. We have two shows this weekend, which we have already posted about, but I figured we would lay it all out one more time.

Tonight, Friday June 3rd, at Clementine in Harrisonburg VA, we are opening for American Aquarium, the show is $8.00 and worth every penny. We will be playing a few new songs, we will also play some old songs we play all the time, and we still have a few whiskey tumblers left, so check them out while you still can.
FACEBOOK EVENT

Tomorrow, Saturday June 4th, we are playing a day long house show that is a benefit for Japan Earthquake relief, it is $6.00 at the door. According to the current schedule we are supposed to play around 5:30, we can’t wait to hang tomorrow afternoon and evening in Northern Va with our good friends Who Are the Southern Baptists?! If you are in the DC/NOVA area check out the facebook event and come hang with us.
FACEBOOK EVENT

See you this weekend!

Long Winded Post: Clementine Friday June 3rd!

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:44:14 -0400

This post got really long here is the cliff-notes version: The show tomorrow is going to be good, you should come!!!

If you haven’t heard me flapping about our show at Clementine this Friday you have come to the right place to play catch up.
Last summer I randomly went to a show at Clementine alone, I couldn’t find anyone to go with me and I wanted to check out the opening band, so I told myself “self you are 27 years old, put you your big boy pants and go to the show, bars aren’t scary, in fact you enjoy them, you like music, stop being a baby and go watch this band.” So I suited up in my summer wear, bid my lovely wife a good evening and started my walk down to catch the show, as I walked I continued to work on internally convincing myself that going to the show was what I actually wanted to do, finally as I skirted the Rose’s parking lot my internal argument (who am I kidding I am sure I was mumbling to myself as I walked) was settled. I compromised with myself deciding that I would go to the show, watch the band I forced myself out of the house to see and then check out one American Aquarium song, decide they weren’t good enough to keep me from sport shorts and TV time, and then I would turn around and head back to the house. That plan ended up having a flaw, American Aquarium hooked me at song one, and next thing I know, I am waiting for them to begin their encore. Since then I have done by best to catch them when they have come through town. All that to say, they are a solid band and are worth checking out, in fact we play with a lot of solid bands and I am sure if you read over our post archive I haven’t been this long winded about any of the other ones.
That is my story and plea to convince anyone on the fence that tomorrow’s show will be solid, we have some new songs, there are beers and great food there, some of your friends will be there, how can it be a bad idea to hang out on Friday night?