(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 […]
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 […]
Street Home Chicago
The Street Home Chicago show slated for March 3 has been moved to the House of Blues — but you should still go check it out! This is a groundbreaking showcase for some of Chicago’s best street musicians to perform together, and in a club no less. Deanna Isaacs featured the folks behind this concert […]
Ha ha, Hideout!
It’s been a long week, it seems, all work and rehearsals and now, for some reason, I’m in Indianapolis. OK, for good reason —to meet an old friend’s new baby and hang out with people I haven’t seen in far too long. Somehow, though, it feels as if the Hideout is much more than a […]
Press roundup 2/18
Little bit slow on the press recaps this week — sorry! Looking back, here’s Robert Loertzel on last Friday’s packed show by the Singleman Affair. And, looking forward, here’s a Gapers Block review of the latest from Save the Clocktower — complete with free download. The band celebrates the release of its second album, Carousel, next […]
Tavi Gevinson on the Interview Show
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEjxS5TwTT0&feature=player_embedded#at=788[/youtube] Oak Park fashion blogger/high school freshman Tavi Gevinson on the Interview Show this month! Best quote ever: “It’s good for creativity when you’re confusing people.”
Dil Pickled
This past Thursday, a lovely thing happened: The Dil Pickle Club plucked itself out of Chicago history (as it is wont to do from time to time) and materialized inside the Hideout. And so I hung out with an old friend on an evening free from work. At work. Funny how that happens. I sat […]
Robbie hearts Liz
Behold, the video proof (from Monday night’s Robbie Fulks tribute to the Liz Phair catalog, with Steve Dawson and friends): Whip-Smart [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nozKknBo8c&feature=related[/youtube] Fuck and Run [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnDQbZ5jBMY[/youtube]
The week that will be . . .
There was no Robbie show this past Monday, which meant I somehow got away with not coming to the Hideout once in a solid week. Left me feeling a little disjointed (and a bit too broke), which means I’ll be particularly enjoying the Robbie Fulks set — this week themed “I ♥ Liz Phair” — and […]
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