Fair Herald unites five budding talents formed through years of garage-rocking in a downtown Chicago coach house, embracing a straightforward approach to roots rock that conjures both Neil Young and the Replacements. Behind a thick mesh of guitars, keyboards, and soaring harmonies, Fair Herald crafts a raw, organic sound that belies their urban surroundings. With the June '08 release of their self-produced Familiar Streets LP, recorded with Neil Ostrovsky of Chicago icons the Bon Mots, the five young lads have drawn favorable comparisons to both Whiskeytown and Counting Crows. Winning crowds with their textured sound and youthful enthusiasm, Fair Herald has established itself as a fast-rising band on the Chicago music scene.

The Audians - Chicago-based rock quartet The Audians will release its first full-length CD, titled "Aliens and Friends," in the summer of 2008, featuring new material written and recorded over the past year at Riverbend Studios with Jeff Oliver producing and engineering, along with six others recorded earlier at Engine Studios with producer Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Califone, Iron and Wine.) The band will release its new CD at a special all-ages Hideout performance on Sunday June 8th featuring two other local rock groups, Fair Herald and the Jesters.

The Audians, Sima Cunningham (piano, guitar and vocals), Dorian Gehring (electric guitar, violin and vocals), Jonah Geil-Neufeld (drums and vocals), and Jake Saner (bass), came together at Whitney Young High School in Chicago and have been performing together at Hideout, Metro and Uncommon Ground since 2005. Their songs draw on diverse influences ranging from roots rocks, Cajun, blues and country to folk, jazz, and classical.

Sima Cunningham has been writing and publicly performing her own material since the age of fourteen. She has studied piano for a decade and has been a member of the Chicago Children's Choir since 1996. In April 2006, Sima Cunningham, Gehring and Geil-Neufeld released a six-song CD also produced by Brian Deck, “Squeeze,” under her name. Saner joined the band just after Squeeze was recorded and they renamed themselves the Audians.

The Jesters - In the halls of Near North Montessori in Chicago, two kids named Lane Beckstrom and Andrew Rywak met in Rick Mosher's Junior High class. Lane quickly learned that Andrew played guitar and that his dad had just bought a drum set. They decided to have a little jam at Andrew's place. These jams continued and several different people (Harry Kuttner) came and played a little or just hung around. Finally we found ourselves rocking out with Brendan "Bellagio" Youngquist and Liam Cunningham. These "jams" turned into "practices" and The Jesters were born. Over the past year The Jesters have grown as a band as each individual continues to become more and more of a skilled musician.

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Come check out the famed acoustic blues/ragtime rockers during our Tuesday night residency!

"It's no wonder that Devil in a Woodpile draw a crowd each Tuesday at the Hideout, where they've been playing country blues for years; they've fine-tuned a rustic romp that's hard to beat without actually heading for the hills. Between rhythms tapped out on washboard, nimbly finger-picked guitar, a rumbling bounce of the upright bass, and vocals that swing from a gentle growl to a warm-blooded howl, the venerable Chicago outfit has genial, unassuming charm and talent in spades. The Hideout's usual drink specials only sweeten the deal" --Karsten Lund, flavorpill.com

Chicagoist says this in their Pencil This In
Music: Still going strong after all these years, Devil in a Woodpile still draws crowds to the Hideout on a Tuesday night. Their approach to "old timey" music is sincere, and the trio of Rick "Cookin'" Sherry, Joel Paterson, and Tom Ray have amazing chops. This is perfect music to thaw out on a cold night. If you need further enticement, maybe $3 bottles of Newcastle are the perfect tonic.

Old School but never old. Juke Joint, Honky Tonk. Rollin' and Tumblin'.

Devil in a Woodpile are the longest continually performing Bloodshot recording artists in the ten years of Bloodshot's history. Come and celebrate with this venerable institution.

Devil in a Woodpile is still pushin' it every Tuesday night at the Hideout. Every week they rock a crowded bar with no mikes and no amps, transforming the indie music venue into a modern-day barrelhouse.

Tuesdays at the Hideout continue to be warm and intimate nights. I love looking around the back room seeing people talking and laughing. Some people just meet every Tuesday. Devil is in the front just playing away, and folks either listen and drink, or go to the back and conspire and make plans. A time of no particular age, somewhere between the 19th and 21st centuries. It could be 1934, 1974, or 2004. Candles on tables, dreams on minds.

"Every Tuesday night they set up shop right in the middle of the main room. No amps or mics, just balls and bravado. They play blues, ragtime, jazz, everything you could ever want. These are the kind of hangout buddies you can count on to bring the fucking hangout. There is no cover and the PBR is cheap, meaning you'll have plenty of cash to put in the band's tip jar." -Fran Magazine

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Tim said...
This is a residency that I have dreamed about for 10 years. Ken Vandermark, Mike Reed and friends are coming to the Hideout this Wednesday and every Wednesday forever. The Immediate Sound music series will bring guests from around town and around the world. Ken, Mike, and their friends will either be here at the Hideout, or curating the shows.

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"Every decade or so a new group comes along that completely shakes up Nashville's dismissal of its hillbilly heritage and turns it upside down. Not since the phenomenon of the O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack has a Nashville project had so much potential to bring hardcore country music to a trendsetting, young, broad-based musical audience. Those Darlins completely inhabit the deepest, raw roots of country music. But with primal charisma, musical chops, and easy confidence, they make these roots seem jarringly modern." --BMI

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