Cool down with Hot shows this week at the Hideout!
Earlimart, Sonoi, Rachel Ries, Cameron McGill, plus more!
Hideout named Chicago’s Best Rock Venue and Best Dance Party!
Last Saturday the Hideout threw a (free free free) Appreciation Dance Party! for all of the fans that voted for us as “Chicago’s Best Dance Party” in a recent issue of the Chicago Reader.
To celebrate, we have finally installed a disco ball!
Other “Best Of” winners participated and provided free stuff. These winners included (best coffee) Intelligentsia (best restaurant) Lula Cafe (best wine selection) Cellar Rat (best record label) Bloodshot Records (best record store) Dusty Groove (best tattoo artist) Dawn Grace Russell and (best festival) Pitchfork.
Congrats to all our Pals for being the Best!
The Reader's Monica Kendrick writes "...I’m going to stand by the Hideout for its combination of bookings, friendliness, comfort, price point, and community involvement—and the fact that the barflies more in love with the sound of their own voices than the sound of the band get a room to themselves with a door that closes." - check out the entire article
Thanks to the Chicago Reader and the Reader’s readers who selected the Hideout as the Best Rock Venue, and Best Dance Party in Chicago.
We are really proud to be in the company of such other great venues.
Of course the secret to our success is not a secret at all. It is a friendly staff, made up mostly of musicians, and artists, that are not only concerned with our community but actually participate in civic minded activities. Add amazing bands and cheap beer and you’ve got a great party.
Just a brief explanation though.
The doors between the front and back rooms were added so that the “barflies” would not have to suffer through Tim’s arduous “introductions,” and at the same time the music fans in the back, would not be disturbed by Tim pontificating to the barflies in front about everything from the banality of cable television to the architecture of the United Arab Emirates.
Thanks for coming to our party for 12 years now!
Save The Date!
12th Annual Hideout Block Party
Block Party Line-up just announced! (more tba)
Tickets on sale NOW!
September 20th + 21st
Scott Smith's great TimeOut Chicago review of the Monday night Mavis Staples live album recording show at Hideout is now online for your reading pleasure, and here are a couple of photos taken by Ryan Sweeney.
Also check out additional great reviews from Dave Hoekstra in the Chicago Sun-Times, Mark Guarino in the Chicago Tribune, and Karen Zarker (with Sarah Zupko photos) on popmatters.com
Be sure watch for the amazing live album to be released soon on Anti Records!
photo © Ryan Sweeney
photo © Ryan Sweeney
photo © Ryan Sweeney
John Hiatt Live at Studio X photos posted on wxrt.com!
WXRT recently presented a "Live at Studio X" show with John Hiatt at Hideout, and now a couple dozen beautiful photos of the night taken by Will Byington have been posted on wxrt.com
Here's a favorite of ours! Click through to wxrt.com to see all the photos and listen for the show to be broadcast sometime soon, with lots of great John Hiatt music and Lin Brehmer interviewing. (We're hoping a bit of Tim Tuten's great introduction makes it in, too!)
Mavis Staples on why she chose Hideout to record her live album!
Time Out Chicago's Scott Smith wrote a nice The TOC Blog > Music post about the recent Mavis Staples show at Hideout, and then updated it with a quote on Hideout from Mavis Staples herself!
You know how every once in a while you hear about a show that from the sound of it will likely be one of the best shows of the year? Jon Brion’s show at Hideout comes to mind, and another upcoming show at the Hideout is giving me that "Must-see" vibe: Mavis Staples will record a new live album there on Monday June 23.
Update: As for why she chose the Hideout for this show, Ms. Staples - via her publicist - had this to say:
"I definitely wanted to do something in my hometown. I love playing at Symphony Hall, Millennium Park, Ravinia and places like that but for the live recording, I wanted to do something that was really intimate. I wanted to be able to feel the closeness of the crowd, see the smiling faces up close, you know, feel the spirit, and The Hideout is a perfect place for that."
Chicago is Fast Company's U.S. City of the Year!
Check out the wonderful article by Alex Kotlowicz that includes Hideout folks Tim Tuten, Kelly Hogan, Tony Fitzpatrick, The Struts, Poi Dog Pondering, Wilco, and a quote from a certain "punk rocker from Wales" you may know. There's also a nice quote from Tim saying...
"We're conscious of what made Chicago great. We have a historical reputation to uphold. This is the city of Sam Cooke, Curtis Mayfield, Lou Rawls. It's from the ground up."
It's a long loving article and very much worth the time to read. We'll bet you might find yourself forwarding the article link to friends and family!
Save The Date!
12th Annual Hideout Block Party
Block Party Line-up just announced! (more tba)
Tickets on sale NOW!
2008 is going fast and "Falling Slowly!"
Remember back in the Fall of 2006 when Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova stopped by the Hideout and casually performed some new music they were working on with their friends? They were trying to learn the music for a movie they were filming?
Yes, that was them again (though it's no longer "last night") at the Oscars performing the song with a full orchestra, and then accepting the award for “best original song.”
How about Jon Stewart breaking Oscar tradition, and letting Marketa come back to finish her acceptance speech?
Is this really happening?
What’s next? A Chicagoan sweeping the primaries and securing the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States?
Life is good!!!
Can we do this in America?
YES WE CAN!!!
Check out the calendar for a complete list of upcoming shows!
Advance Tickets are on sale now at...
Ticketweb Hideout show page or by phone at 866.468.3401
an Alana Bailey brand poster (large version)
complete show calendar
Thursday, July 24th at 6:30
Nicholas Tremulis
Little BIG Songs
record release party
with *special guest*
Rick Rizzo
come celebrate our July Record Release Residency
sponsored by XRT
Nicholas Tremulis
in Monica Kendrick's Reader The List
93XRT Presents the tandem releases of Nicholas Tremulis Orchestra's "Pinky" and Nicholas Tremulis' debut solo effort, "Little Big Songs" in a series of XRT free shows at two of Chicago's finest...
Pinky Party
Mondays at Schubas 9pm with special guests
June 30 Brad Peterson
July 7 Robbie Fulk,
July 14 Black and Blonde featuring Cliff Johnson of Off Broadway and Mimi Betinis from Pezband
July 21 Jon Langford & Skull Orchard
"An instant classic. Pinky is a fertile reminder of what made you love rock & roll in the first place." --John Farneda/WXRT Chicago
Little Big Songs Party
Thursdays at Hideout 6:30 pm with special guests
July 3 Ezra Furman
July 10 Deanna Davore
July 17 Gary Yerkins
July 24 Rick Rizzo
"I'm a sucker for the doomed singer-songwriter, and Little Big Songs slits its wrists with the best of them." --Lin Brehmer/WXRT Chicago
Nicholas Tremulis don't know small.
An orchestra, not a band. A five-year multi-artist, benefit concert series instead of a one-off.. A well-received collection of swampy, Robert Johnson inspired tunes recorded called "Napoleon", with performances playing with the likes of Los Lobos, The Neville Brothers and Steve Earle. Followed by the year-long digital download odyssey, "52 Reasons", where Nick penned and the band recorded a new tune every week for a year on internet label Reel to Reel.
Both new efforts come via Tremulis' imprint, 52 Reasons, inspired by the same. "Pinky" is the rip-rock yang to the story-telling yin of "Little Big Songs, Nick's first solo effort. The relentless rock & roll bravado that is "Pinky" couldn't be more a polar opposite to the silent and singular fury of "Little Big Songs". Even the ballads seem dangerous, ready to erupt at any moment.
Much of the material for "Little Big Songs" was conceived during Nick's marathon "52 Reasons" year. "A strange thing started to happen to me about a quarter of a year into that project. I began to dream songs while I was sleeping. I've always had wild dreams. The kind that can take more energy out of you than actually being awake. Only this time, they were coming with melodies and chords."
And "Pinky", the balls-out, straight ahead rocker?
"I guess after making a solo record I wanted to make something you couldn't possibly play by yourself. A real rock & roll album... that's the music that made me, man. It's what lives inside of me at every moment. It's why I'm alive. My oldest friends say this is the record I've been trying to make since I was fourteen years old!"
The seed was planted when Nick headed to Austin, to play with long time friend and collaborator Alejandro Escovedo, who at the time was writing for his forthcoming album, "Real Animal". "Alejandro suggested we might write some things together while I was out there for a few days. He said he wanted to make a real rock & roll record and for me to make a cd of all the music that got me hooked on it when I was a kid. The early, raw meat stuff of my childhood." So, Nick and his son hit the garage and started pouring through old albums and 45's. "It was a revelation! So wild and exotic! Without knowing it we both started playing air guitar!"
The perfect outlet and companion to Little Big Songs, a collection of folktales, the musical equivalent of the book "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" by James Agee, a book written about the small and honest lives of people living in the dustbowl during the great depression. Says Nick, "It's so easy these days to turn a single life into a fleeting Internet headline. These songs are all written about defining moments in an individual's life. They're short, just like the action they describe. I wanted them to feel as if they were in real time. Unfolding before your eyes. Fast and short... just like life."
Thursday, July 24th at 9:30
Cameron McGill & What Army
Rachel Ries & the Brawny Angels
Brian Wheat & Groggy Darlin'
Cameron McGill & What Army - After being expelled from high school, he worked in bookshops for several years--a usual occupation for budding Chicago songwriters. His first album, Stories of The Knife and The Back (2004), describes a youth who leaves his mountain village to become a poet. The lush instrumentation and beautifully crafted melodies, belie its dark nature. Mostly focusing on personal admissions of guilt and failure, the album's characters struggle with coming to terms with mortality. All throughout, they simply try to find a friend and fall in love. This was followed by Street Ballads & Murderesques (2006), the tale of a schoolboy totally out of touch with his contemporaries, who flees through different cities after his escape from home. The collection of songs on Streets Ballads...takes pop music to the dark libraries of your old house, inhabits a stark and desperate corner of the mind, and simply tells a good story.
Rachel Ries lives in Chicago where she is currently looking for new, divine digs. The necessary things are light, a good kitchen, and freedom to make noise. And that about sums it up. And by "it", I mean It.
Rachel believes that songs are like mountains; steadily, stubbornly forcing their way upwards until air is diminished and all to be done is tumble - on down the other side and not minding one bit the fall. But she can't forget this: the strongest, fiercest ones are those you must strain & stop shuffling to hear. If you're lucky, the drums'll slap you upside the head when they clatter in.
Helping out with the upward clatter & tumble are Ariel Bolles, Nathaniel Braddock, Jason Toth and even Cameron McGill.
Saturday, July 26th at 9:00
Earlimart
plus
Peter and the Rabbits
Earlimart
in vu's weheartmusic.vox.com feature
in Julian Hooper's flavorpill.com Music: Rock/Pop
Named after a small town located between their hometown and Fresno, California, Earlimart's dreamy and unconventional song writing resulted in many of comparisons to Elliot Smith and Sparklehorse. Favorites in the Los Angeles indie music scene, Earlimart have released a number of records and have toured successfully all over the country.
New drink special on Tuesdays! $3 Newcastle pints!!
Tuesdays, July 29th at 9:30
Devil in a Woodpile
Come check out the famed acoustic blues/ragtime rockers during our Tuesday night residency!
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.
New drink special on Tuesdays! $3 Newcastle pints!!
Wednesdays, July 30th at 9:30
Immediate Sound Series
presents
two sets of
Double Quartet Showdown!
featuring
Mars Williams saxophones
Jim Baker keyboards
Brian Sandstrom bass & electric guitar
Steve Hunt drums
vs.
Jeb Bishop trombone
Dave Rempis saxophones
Kent Kessler bass
Michael Zerang drums
DJ sets
Mitch Cocanig presents In The Townships - The Music of The South African Expatriates
Immediate Sound
in Bob Mehr's Reader The Meter
Closing out July in grand fashion - a Double Quartet Showdown that combines Mars Williams (saxophones), Jim Baker (keyboards), Brian Sandstrom (bass & electric guitar), and Steve Hunt (drums) with Jeb Bishop (trombone), Dave Rempis (saxophones), Kent Kessler (bass), and Michael Zerang (drums); two of Chicago’s most creative foursomes that work in the field of improvised music today. It was only logical that they meet on one stage to compare notes so to speak. Williams/Baker/Sandstrom/Hunt have been performing every Tuesday for over three years at Hotti Biscotti. In that time they have carved out a language that is extremely varied and flexible, as their record Extraordinary Popular Delusions (Okka Disk) demonstrates. Although Bishop/Rempis/Kessler/Zerang has not been together as long, they have quickly become one of the city’s most creative ensembles. This concert marks the last of their three monthly shows at The Hideout and it is sure to go down as one of the highlights of this year’s programming!
>>>>>DJ Sets: Mitch Cocanig presents In The Townships - The Music of The South African Expatriates
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.
Immediate Sound
in Bob Mehr's Reader The Meter
Please check the calendar for a complete list of upcoming shows including more advance ticket links!
Thanks,
The Hideout
"The Hideout is perfect for literature events,..." says Joe Meno in Jamie Murnane's "Get Lit - An inquiry into the current state of writing and drinking in Chicago" newcitychicago.com WORDS article
"Once" has been Nominated for an Oscar - yes an Oscar!
Once "Falling Slowly" Music and Lyric by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
http://www.oscar.com/nominees/?pn=film&film=OnceFilm
BTW - also nominated for two Grammys!
And there's a nice article in the January 11th Tribune called "Be It Resolved" that says...
New Year, new you, right? We don't presume to tell you what to do, but we know this: New Year's Resolutions were made to be broken. And now that you've messed up most of yours, we have some that aren't at all painful. You don't have to lose weight, join a gym, or drink less coffee. You just have to go out and have fun. Here are the On the Town's entertainment resolutions for 2008, from our staff and critics.
ROCK
* Support your local talent. The roster of incredible performances, that do their thing, regularly, right here in town, would boggle the mind. From Fred Anderson over at the Velvet Lounge, and Ken Vandermark at the Hideout, to honky tonkers the Hoyle Brothers and the innumerables Wilco, Sea and Cake, Tortoise...the list goes on.
* Take a chance. No, you don't know the band. So what? There are more than a few venues with impeccable taste; including the Old Town School, Empty Bottle, and the Hideout. They know even if you don't.
See the entire article
Lizz Kannenberg's "Spend 'Amateur Night' with a Real Professional" on chicagoist.com mentions Jon Brion's 2006 show at Hideout!
"We'd bet we're not the only ones who left the Hideout that night thinking we’d just seen the best live musical performance we might ever see." more!
Ellen Warren's Tribune Magazine "Just One Thing" feature article "Organ Transplant" includes Hideout bartender Sarah Staskauskas' successful Los Angeles based fashion design business, and how it changed in an "organic" way at the Hideout Holiday Sale in years past.
Mekons at Hideout on undergroundbee.com
more!
Hideout posters on gigposters.com
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Rod O'Connor's "Chicago Rocks" article in ATA magazine "Sights" mentions Hideout and Block Party along with Lollapalooza, Pitchfork, Jon Langford, Joe Shanahan and more!
"Jeff Tweedy's Sweet Home" article in American Airlines magazine "American Way" mentions h/o twice!
Chicago Tribune: "If you've done House of Blues, Try The Hideout"
on the front cover of the 5/24 At Play section, the Tribune had the following to say...
"You won't find flashy signage or beefy, uniformed bouncers at the Hideout, a rustic little music shack that sits on a gravel yard and glows warmly amid its steely industrial neighbors. You're more likely to find a pale hipster checking IDs at this bar and venue that hosts weekly lit-friendly performances and alt-folk nights, indie-rock up-and-comers and the occasional dance party or family event."
The New City Music 45 for 2007 lists the Hideout's Tim and Katie as #43, and mentions Mike and Jim as well...
43. Tim & Katie Tuten
Co-owners, Hideout
Along with the Hinchsliff twins, the Tutens operate one of the city's best bars with a grassroots mindset, dedicated the bands and artists first and the everything else much later. The result is a quintessential Chicago stop for live music, one that has recently harbored high-profile gigs like Touch & Go's anniversary bash last year...
Check out the entire Music 45 list of "Who rocks Chicago's music world" at newcitychicago.com.
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