Monday February 8 7:00

Robbie Fulks

Mondays with Robbie
fresh show weekly
Robbie Fulks
this week featuring a duo with
Nora O'Connor
original and folk songs
Robbie Fulks Residency
in Ross Meyerson's Loud Loop Press
Daily Diversion - Robbie Fulks at the Hideout
in robbiefulks.com
next monday at the hideout
in Matt Harness' The Beachwood Reporter interview
Bloodshot Briefing: The Fulks File
in The A.V. Club Chicago's
Event - Robbie Fulks

$10 suggested donation

Robbie Fulks

Tuesday February 9 6:30

Funny Ha-Ha

Steve Delahoyde poster

Funny Ha-Ha
The best reading in Chicago. Ever.
featuring readings and performances by
author of The Order of Odd-Fish
James Kennedy
comedian, homo genius
Cameron Esposito
writer, editor, conspirator
Fred Sasaki
poet & author of Spiking the Sucker Punch
Robbie Q. Telfer
blogger and Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere author
Kate Harding
short films by man with a camera
Steve Delahoyde
hosted by
An Off Year Author &
TV Critic for The LA Times & A.V. Club

Claire Zulkey
proceeds benefit the
Neighborhood Writing Alliance
Funny Ha-Ha
in Gapers Block Slowdown
Funny Ha-Ha @ Hideout
in Marcus Gilmer's Chicagoist
Funny Ha Ha Returns… ~ previewing 11/5's show

$5

Funny Ha-Ha

Tuesdays February 9 9:30

Sanctified Grumblers

Eric Noden & Rick Sherry
Sanctified Grumblers

Sanctified Grumblers

more!

$5 donation

Wednesdays February 10 5:30 - 8:00

Soup and Bread

Soup and Bread
featuring this week's soup chefs
soup-savvy 2009 veterans
all published in the Soup and Bread Cookbook
Robin Linn Sound Opinions producer
Mike Sula Chicago Reader food writer
Hugh Amano Food on the Dole blogger
Susannah Kite Strang artist & high school teacher
Roger Greene Dinner is Solved personal chef
Kelly Reiss The Vegetarian Librarian
What will they make this time around? Can they avoid the sophomore slump? Attend and find out!
Soup & Bread links on the writeups page

more!

all soup is free
we will pass the hat each week

Wednesdays February 10 9:30

Matt Schneider

Matt Schneider


Nick Butcher

Nick Butcher

myspace/beeremoval

The Immediate Sound Series presents
set I
Matt Schneider solo guitar
set II
My Silence
featuring
Mike Reed drums
Jason Stein bass clarinet
Nick Butcher analog electronics & guitar
DJ sets
WHPK's Richton Thomas spins
From New Orleans to Chicago

Immediate Sound
in Howard Reich's Tribune My Kind of Jazz
Go hear Immediate Sound now!
in Bob Mehr's Reader
The Meter

more!

$6

Jason Stein

jasonsteinmusic.com


Mike Reed

mikereedmusic.com

Saturday February 13 9:00

Makeout Party 3

3rd Annual Hideout Makeout Party

If I Only Had A Blog

the Fourth annual
Hideout Makeout Party
an Evening of Aural Intercourse
featuring
The Makeout Party Orchestra
with members of
Mucca Pazza, Detholz!
Baby Teeth, Lamajamal
performing originals, arrangements of film music,
and classic love themes by

John Barry, Frank Zappa, Celine Dion,
Rimsky-Korsakov, The Ventures, Herb Albert,
Ennio Morricone, Mark Messing,
Jefferey Thomas
performers include
Justin Amolsch, Paul Brannon, Nick Broste,
Jim Cooper, Greg Hirte, Sam Johnson,
Gary Kalar, Ronny Kuller, Kent Lambert,
David Levine, Jim McBride, Mark Messing
David Smith, Jon Steinmeier, Jefferey Thomas
also performing
ssssnake
and
DJs Mistress of Sultry Sound and Mitch Cocanig

$12

Saturday February 13 11:30

DJs Forever BFF

Hideout Dance Party!
featuring
DJs Forever BFF
Cocanig and Jablonski
spin smaltzy booty shakers

$5

more shows and advance tickets on the calendar

Advance Tickets are on sale now at...
Ticketweb Hideout show page or by phone at 866.468.3401
Alana Bailey Brand Hideout calendar for February 2010 thumbnail

MusiCares in conjunction with The Chicago Federation of Musicians and Smile Illinois, is proud to offer Chicago area musicians and music industry professionals the opportunity to participate in our dental clinic. Services will include a dental exam, simple cleaning and bitewing x-rays. These services will be provided FREE OF CHARGE to pre-screened, pre-approved clients.

When: Thursday, March 4, 2010 from 9:30am to 5:00pm
Where: Chicago Federation of Musicians and Smile Illinois offices. Services provided by Smile Illinois (Mobile Dentists)
How: Call 877-303-6962 for more information and application materials. Completed MusiCares and Smile Illinois applications must be on file and approved by February 18th in order to confirm an appointment


Alana Bailey Brand Hideout calendar for February 2010 thumbnail

h/o February calendar featuring Ryan Hembrey!

an Alana Bailey Brand poster

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Greg Kot's Tribune Turn It Up Taylor Swift and the Grammys: Is that all there is? lauds actual singers Neko Case and Mavis Staples while lambasting the Grammys for not following their own stated guidelines in selecting the "best" recordings and featuring the artists responsible for them in "live performances" that leave actual music fans shaking their heads in wonder. Thanks for writing what we're thinking, Greg!
Johnny Cash 1986 Grammy award

Johnny Cash 1986 Grammy award


Jim DeRogatis' Chicago Sun-Times Grammy Time on Sunday... and the Hideout connection includes a nice Tim Tuten story giving well deserved props to Hideout artists whose work was nominated for Grammy awards.

Congrats to Judge, Neko, Hogan, Tom V Ray, Honeyboy & Mavis!

You're all winners to us no matter what happened last Sunday!

Tera Healy's Loud Loop Press Chicago artists hope to win at 52nd Annual Grammy Awards lists the many Chicago artists up for Grammies.


You can still help The Hideout help Haiti!
Please purchase the Judgeworks posters shown below online!
Proceeds go to Partners in Health and Doctors Without Borders!

Haiti poster by Judge

Judgeworks poster


The Hideout Haiti Benefit raised almost $8000 for Partners in Health!

It happened Monday evening, 1/18, and featured the
Waco Brothers and Eleventh Dream Day along with a poster sale by Judgeworks and a bake sale organized by My Vegetable Blog. Door and sale proceeds of almost $8000 will be donated to Partners in Health. Thanks so much for giving what you could to help those in Haiti recover from this tragedy!

Haiti poster by Judge

Judgeworks poster

from Katie Tuten...

Dear Waco Brothers, Eleventh Dream Day, SALLY, Janet, Elliot, Tony, Jeanine, Martha, Judge, Sheila, Jerome, Noreen, Tyler, Mike, Jim and Tim (and Joanna "the bake sale gal" and her assistants!)

(and of course our lovely Hideout patrons who attended and donated their time and money!)

Thank you to everyone for your generous donations of time, talent, money, cook books, posters, baking, etc.

Sally will be sending the check to Partners in Health!

This is so so great! Thanks to all who helped!

With Love,

Katie, Tim, Mike and Jim

Bob Gendron's Tribune Eleventh Dream Day, Waco Brothers raise a good ruckus for Haiti

Robert Loerzel's Underground Bee Hideout Helps Out Haiti

neph basedow's cheeky sounds Music Gives Back to Haiti: A Look at Benefits mentions the Hideout Haiti Benefit and lists many other Haiti benefits planned elsewhere

Kate Gardiner's Picture-Perfect: Waco Bros + 11th Dream Day @hideoutchicago (on @wbez)

Richard Giraldi's Loud Loop Press Hideout’s Haiti benefit a success, event posters still available


Jay Reatard
All our love to Jay Reatard (1981-2010)

Vancouver blog straight.com has the sad story and a movie showing Jay performing at The Hideout (& there are more searchable)


New & Updated Shows
Get advance tickets online or by phone at 866.468.3401

Mondays in February
Robbie Fulks and special guests
Thursday February 11
Brent Gutzeit, Mako Sica, Birth
Friday February 12
Vortis, The Cathy Santonies, Hot & Heavy Burlesque
Saturday February 13
Fourth annual Hideout Makeout Party ~ An Evening of Aural Intercourse featuring The Makeout Party Orchestra
Thursday February 25
Bobby Conn, Dylan Posa, Dennis Kane
Saturday March 6
Petty Theft album release party featuring Tight Phantomz, The Saps, B1g T1me, Pro Looks
Thursday March 11
Shapers LP release, Old Fake, Driftless Pony Club
Wednesday March 17
Immediate Sound Series presents Rova Saxophone Quartet
Friday March 19
Soft Speaker, Cains & Abels
Thursday March 25
Chicago Short Film Brigade
Friday March 26
Mar Caribe
Sunday March 28
Chicago Short Film Brigade

Get advance tickets online or by phone at 866.468.3401


Cardboard H/O

Cardboard Hideout

flickr/he_arthur


Lauren Viera's Tribune Entertainment Good visual art everywhere in 2009 starts right out by lauding the Kathleen Judge curated "The Exquisite City, City of Cardboard" exhibit shown last winter at the Chicago Tourism Center and the Viaduct Theater. The third paragraph is below, please click through to read the entire article and check out some great flickr photos of the exhibit and more press links below...

http://www.exquisitecity.com/
Strange Closets Gallery Tour… the Exquisite City
The Exquisite City | Viaduct Theater | Galleries | Chicago Reader
Favorite Chicago Sounds — Exhibits
ABC 7 Chicago: Exquisite City opens at Chicago Tourism Center
The Exquisite City | Arts & Culture | The A.V. Club Chicago
The Exquisite City @ Viaduct Theater - Flavorpill Chicago

"And, in some instances, cheap materials. One of the best group shows came at the start of the year, in the midst of an already interminably long winter. "The Exquisite City, City of Cardboard" at the Chicago Tourism Center exhibited a wonderfully wacky, three-dimensional metropolis made out of the stuff used for package parcels. Dozens of artists of all stripes — from printmaker Jay Ryan to musician Sally Timms — wrought houses and buildings, entire blocks, cars and telephone lines out of cardboard, transforming the otherwise banal Tourism Center into a minicity complete with sound and lighting effects. Initially, 40 artists were invited to participate. Seventy contributed. If that's not local solidarity, we don't know what is." --Lauren Viera, Chicago Tribune

Congratulations to Kathleen Judge and all of the artists who contributed! As Tim said... "What a highlight to our amazing year!"


Michael Orlove

Michael Orlove, front

Brian Cassella for Tribune


For over a decade Michael Orlove has supported, advised, attended, and promoted the Hideout. He has long been one of Chicago’s greatest visionaries! He is globally respected for what he has done for our city. The Hideout congratulates the amazing Michael Orlove for being named Chicagoan of the Year!


Anti- Grammy nomination congratulations ad

full size version


Published in the Saturday 12/12 edition of Billboard Magazine is this fine tribute to ANTI- Records Grammy nominees, including Mavis Staples for Live: Hope At The Hideout (Best Contemporary Blues Album) and Neko Case for Middle Cyclone (Best Contemporary Folk Album and with Judge, Best Recording Package)

Congratualations to all our of our wonderful Hideout friends who were so deservingly nominated for Grammy awards!


h/o before

Tom Lynch's NewCityMusic At Zeroes End: Music in Chicago 2000-2009 surveys changes to the Chicago music landscape over the last ten years, including quotes from Jim DeRogatis, Brian Peterson, Matt Rucins, Chris Baronner and the Hideout's Tim Tuten, who talks about changes at the Hideout and in the Chicago hip-hop scene's "more honest, thoughtful and inspirational direction."

the door leaving


In Ronan Leonard's 12/3 post Things I Keep Going Back To on Ireland's The Mutation blog, he writes that he thinks The Hideout "must be the best Independent Venue in the world" and goes on to laud "imaginative and brave bookings and in-house events."

Many thanks to Ronan Leonard for these very kind words!


The Slow Food Guide To Chicago

Published in 2004, The Slow Food Guide To Chicago by Kelly Gibson and Portia Belloc Lowndes has this to say about Hideout...

"The Hideout is one of those places that time and urbanization seem to have forgotten. Hidden away on Wabansia Avenue in the midst of decaying industrial sprawl, The Hideout draws a regular neighborhood crowd without the neighborhood. A small black-and-white handmade sign directs you in from Elston Avenue. The building allegedly dates back to nineteenth-century Irish immigrants who settled in this part of the city. Music and atmosphere are the real reasons to visit: The owners are enthusiastic music lovers and historians who are eager to preach the gospel of good music and the history of their unique establishment. The bar offers a standard range of drinks with some decent draft beers. If you want to explore local Chicago, The Hideout is a great place to start. You'll just have to find it first."

Thanks to Kelly and Portia for these kind words! For help finding The Hideout, please check the page Find Us


Looking for older press items which used to be here? On the press page you'll find plenty of stories and photos about recent shows & happenings, and entire categories for...

Big Shoulders Ball
Block Party 2008 ~ including Zombies!
Mavis Staples Live: Hope at the Hideout
John Hiatt Live at Studio X
and much, much more

Check out the press page!


Please check the calendar for a complete list of upcoming shows including more advance ticket links!

Thanks, The Hideout

Hideout Chicago 1354 West Wabansia Chicago IL 60642
773.227.4433 info at hideoutchicago dot com
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