Mondays = FUN!, and other stuff
Ok, so… I have to say, you missed it last night. No, we didn’t have Iron and Wine, no we didn’t have Billy Corgan, we just had a wonderfully regular night. Kelly Hogan and Scott Ligon attended to us with a solid two hours of suggested donation bliss, followed by Jacob Ross displaying his well […]
Oof da.
The last few weeks have swept me up into a potentially perpetual current of deadlines and and craziness in which the usual busy-ness has been multiplied by (everyone knock on some wood, cross a few fingers, and hold your breath) a possible last-minute trip to perform in Europe’s most picturesque still-politically-repressive state. [editor’s note: see […]
Back from SXSW… in 1999 & 2000
Back from SXSW… it’s real work to drag yourself back to your normal life, so after parties held by The Hideout in Austin at SXSW in 1999 and 2000, celebrations of making it through (and back from) SXSW were held at The Hideout, and our good friend Liz Strause took photographs (from a ladder) to […]
Win Neko's Middle Cyclone Car
The Mercury Cougar-Rama Muscle Car ‘Splosion could win you Neko Case’s car! This is pretty sweet – I think if I won it I’d have to figure out how to get it into my apartment which might involve some sort of crane, and removing all the walls, and maybe getting rid of my furniture to […]
Holy Moly, SXSW bands have been sent off
Boy, Saturday was a fun. Our president-in-exile (self-proclaimed) graced us all with more than a few band intros, loads of people came out, lots of beer was spoken for, and lots of fun was had. Here are a few echos of the event from around the interwebs… The Trib has a recap here if you […]
Judgeworks Studio Sale, tomorrow
Before you hit the Hideout for a day of bands at our annual ‘pat-on-their-tush’ SXSW send off party, Judge is opening her studio for a studio sale tomorrow. Judge is a beloved former h/o bartender, now preeminent printmaker. She has made some of the most memorable Hideout Block Party posters, show posters, and puppet shows. […]
(tomorrow!) SXSW … or bust!
It’s that time of year: Bands across Chicago are packing their bags and checking their transmissions for the annual 20 hour+ road trip to Austin’s SXSW music festival. And we at the Hideout are happy to see them go … Wait! We don’t mean it like that! We mean: tomorrow, Saturday, March 12, we team […]
MAVIS!, Jeff Tweedy, and The Hideout
Martha already posted here on the fabo Mavis Staples and the Grammy she took home for her most recent record, You Are Not Alone. Here is the full story on Cross Rhythms outlining how Jeff Tweedy came to produce that record… after seeing her play The Hideout in 2008. “I had a concert on the […]
Remembering Diane Izzo
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baROjTYHQoc[/youtube] Friends and colleagues are paying tribute to sublimely talented singer-songwriter Diane Izzo all over town today. Izzo, a regular on the meandering loop connecting the long-gone Lunar Cabaret and Lounge Ax and the Hideout, relocated to Albuquerque from Chicago a few years ago. She died of cancer Friday at the age of 43. Our […]
Neither here nor there
Last year about this time, I was preparing to return to Chicago after a winter-long stay in Louisville. It was splendid to spend time away from the few months that make me hate everything, even minus the tropical climate my chilled bones ache for every January or so. During that brief, lovely respite, I enjoyed […]
