Press For Diane Izzo Memorial Concert
Some great press has been coming though about Diane Izzo and our upcoming 1st Annual Memorial concert for her on Sunday with Califone, Souled American, The Friends of Diane Izzo Band, & Crooked Mouth String Band w/ Beau O’Riley & Jenny Magnus. Sun-Times • Califone and More Take the Stage for Late Singer-songwriter Diane Izzo WBEZ […]
Design Harvest This Weekend!
We got to curate the Design Harvest music stage again this year and hope you can join us on Saturday & Sunday on Grand Ave. between Damen & Wood. Saturday: Mar Caribe @ 2pm | Sanctified Grumblers @ 3:30pm | Califone @ 6:00pm Sunday: Black Willoughbys @ 2:00pm | Hoyle Brothers @ 3:30pm | Golden […]
Hideout Block Party Reviews
Chicago Tribune: • “Eclectic, Surprising, Fantastic!” Time Out Chicago: • “another laid-back and musically-rich Hideout Block Party.” Underground Bee: • “a day full of top-notch music.” Chicago Now: • “Seeing Mavis Staples in concert isn’t merely seeing music performed live, it’s witnessing history.” Chicagoist: • Hideout Block Party Delivers On Its Line-up WBEZ: • 15 years […]
Gram Parsons Lives
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfIBSb0Wk9o&noredirect=1[/youtube] Robbie Fulks channels Gram Parsons, with some adjustments approriate to theses modern times. So very fine.
Big Freedia Cancellation
We have just learned that Big Freedia has had to cancel all of her shows for the next few weeks. Unfortunately she will not be appearing at this year’s Hideout Block Party. Fortunately our amazing Chances Dances DJs are ready to go, and will send us home dancing on Saturday night! Also a quick reminder […]
Hideout Block Party Schedule
Doors @ 12pm Guitarkestra @ 12:15 White Mystery @ 1:00 Kids These Days @ 1:45 The Eternals @ 2:30 Booker T. Jones @ 3:30 Jon Langford & the Burlington Welsh Male Chorus @ 4:45 Mavis Staples @ 6:00 Dosh @ 7:25 Andrew Bird @ 8:00 Chances Dances @ 9:30 Opera-Matic all day long! General Rules […]
This week at the H/O
Here we go–another week of stellar shows. Friday brings another installment of the always fun Shame That Tune early in the evening, followed by Gypsyblood and Man/Miracle at 10 pm. Saturday we are proud to host one of the Permanent Records 5th Year Celebration shows with Australia’s garage rockers Royal Headache, making a rare stateside appearance, along […]
A message from Bloodshot HQ
Rob Miller says “thanks for coming to our party!“, concluding with the note that: “At 2 am, after we paid off all the bands, the soundman and all the production stuff, we were pleased to find out that we made $29 for the night. As I was working on spending my $14.50 right then and […]
This weekend at the H/O
Sooo … we’re having some parties this weekend. FRIDAY: Bloodshot Records celebrates the release of No One Got Hurt, the live album recorded two years ago during the label’s 15th anniversary celebration at the Hideout Block Party. The Wacos! Scotland Yard Gospel Choir! Danny Black and Nora O’Connor! Deadstring Brothers! YEAH. SATURDAY AND SUNDAY: The […]
Thanks to @ h/o tweeters!
Last night’s “Epic F***ing @MayorEmanuel Book Event” was great fun, and @soupandbread has already posted a nice summary review… The F***ing Epic @MayorEmanuel book release party Check out what @dansinker has posted at… quaxelrod.com There’s much more content covering the event all over the Internet, and you can find plenty of pointers to such items on […]