Friday we start off early with Jon Langford and Martin Billheimer’s Story Night.  They will be presenting Chapter 2: Sex Legends of Rock with special guest Cynthia Plastercaster.

Later on that evening is the highly anticipated record release show for the raucous Fake Limbs!  They’ll be joined by Blasted Diplomats, Blizzard Babies, and the one and only DJ Supreme Court spinning all the deep cuts in-between sets and afterwards.

Saturday we are happy to have the 3rd Annual Pickin’ For The Kids benefit for the Intonation Music Workshop.  This year’s bluegrass benefit includes Bubbly Creek, Hayward, and Trevor McSpadden from The Hoyle Brothers.

The dance party this week is helmed by DJ Jon Kirby from the Grammy nominated reissue label, The Numero Group.  Mr. Kirby hails from  North Carolina and will be  busting out some southern soul rarities for you to shake your ass to into the wee hours of the morning.

Monday is McMorial Day according to Robbie Fulks will be celebrating by playing Irish music with Kathleen Keane.

Tuesday it’s time for our favorite literary smack down with Write Club.  Later that evening Barehand Dixieland will be bringing their swinging sounds from the 20s and 30s to the front bar.

Wednesday the Immediate Sound Series presents In The Country led by Norweignen pianist Morten Qvenild.

Cheers,

The Hideout

Tonight one of our favorite guitarists in the city Bill MacKay will play a solo acoustic happy hour set in the front bar or possibly on the front porch if we can talk him into it.

Later tonight The Dirt Daubers are back in town singing a loud-and-proud eclectic mix of Appalachian, ragtime, hot jazz standards, and original music. They’ll be joined by the always smoking’ Lawrence Peters Outfit along with Angela James getting things started at 10pm.

Saturday night we have another Secret History of Chicago Music show presented by the Chicago Reader & Galactic Zoo.  This month they present synth extraordinaire Bil Vermette who wrecked people’s minds during Psych Fest this past January.  He”l be joined by Chandeliers who have a bunch of new tunes and Mr. 666 gets the madness started at 9pm.

Monday has Robbie Fulks  performing with The Pussycat Trio.

Tuesday we’ve got a fantastic co-headline bill with the always stunning Dark Dark Dark and Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside also returns after her stunning performace here last August hot off the trails of her performance on Letterman. Pillars & Tongues open things up at 9pm.

Wednesday the Immediate Sound Series presents Longberg-Holm/Reid Duo and Mythic Birds with DJ sets by Jim Dorling.

Finally, a quick heads up for all you actors out there.  

This is the audition announcement for HAIR – The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical, presented by The Hideout Players. HAIR, originally produced in 1967, is a rock musical that tells the story of “the tribe”: a group of bohemian, long-haired hippies opposing the Vietnam War draft during the Age ofAquarius in New York City.

We are casting all roles and seeking a diverse cast, though all auditionees must be at least 21years of age. Please refer to the following information when preparing to audition:

Audition Dates

Auditions will take place at the Hideout (1354 W. Wabansia, Chicago) on Saturday, June 2nd (1:00-5:00pm), and Sunday, June 3rd (12:00pm-3:00pm).

Rehearsal Schedule

Rehearsals will begin in late June, and performances will take place at The Hideout, August 24th, 25th,and 26th.

What To Prepare

Please come prepared to sing a piece of music from HAIR, as well as 32 bars from a song of yourchoosing. A pianist and stereo will be available for accompaniment. Please bring sheet music or abacking track for all non-HAIR songs.

Contact

For more audition information: contact@hairatthehideout.com

See you soon,
The Hideout

We couldn’t be more excited to announce that we are taking part in the TBS Just For Laughs Festival this June.

There’s still a couple of shows to be announced in the coming week, but here’s the bulk of them which are sure to sell out swiftly!

Pre-sale tickets with the passwords below go on-sale Friday @ 10am and Saturday at 10am to the general public.

Thursday June 14th

- The Eric Andre Show @ 7pm  | Pre-Sale Code: THEHIDEOUT

- Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura @ 9pm | Pre-Sale Code: THEHIDEOUT

- The Onion A.V. Club & The Hideout present [REDACTED] a benefit for 826 Chicago @ 11pm | Pre-Sale: 826CHICAGO

Friday June 15th

- The Delocated Witness Protection Program Variety Hour @ 7pm | Pre-Sale Code: THEHIDEOUT

- Matt Braunger @ 9pm | Pre-Sale Code: THEHIDEOUT

- TBA @ 11pm | Pre-Sale Code: THEHIDEOUT

Saturday June 16th

- The W. Kamau Bell Curve @ 7pm | Pre-Sale Code: THEHIDEOUT

- Pete Holmes – You Made It Weird Live @ 9pm | Pre-Sale Code: THEHIDEOUT

- TBA @ 11pm | Pre-Sale Code: THEHIDEOUT

The Chicagoist ran a sweet little preview about the Bike-In Movie Theater screening of ‘The T.A.M.I. Show’ taking place this coming Sunday May 13th at 8pm.

The T.A.M.I. Show was available only as a bootleg before being officially released on DVD a couple of years ago. Luckily The Hideout is offering an even better way to take it in, screening T.A.M.I. Show on their patio this Sunday as a bike-in movie. Presented with the Logan Square International Film Series, admission to the bike-in movie is free to everyone 21 and over. You can fill your messenger bags, panniers and saddlebags with all the snacks you want and enjoy beverages from the Hideout’s bar. Now in their second year, the bike-in screenings should accommodate 100 to 150 people. It should almost make being a Chicago grown-up in 2012 feel not just lucky, but “1964 Santa Monica Teenager”-lucky.

T.A.M.I. Show screens Sunday, May 13, at The Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia Ave, 8 p.m., FREE, 21+

Michael Slaboch, talent buyer at the Hideout, archivist and producer for the Numero Group, what he’s obsessed with. His answers are. . .

JC & Co., Music by JC & Co. It’s refreshing (and very rare) to hear an album for the first time and immediately want to have it on repeat from top to bottom for the entire day. This happened recently with the new self-released LP by Texas-based artist Jason Chronis. Parts of the album could easily be mistaken for Jon Brion outtakes, and it also has some really catchy Zombies-esque hooks—which made it the perfect soundtrack for our unseasonably warm March.

Mazzy Star, “Common Burn” b/w “Lay Myself Down” Hope Sandoval comes to terms with her identity crises and returns as Mazzy Star for the first time in 15 years on this self-released seven-inch. Both tracks exude all of the reverb-laden mysteriousness and sonic subtleties that made her earlier work so special. Now let’s just hope there’s a full-length getting finished sometime soon.

WFMU archives If you’re looking for an engaging alternative to the highly manufactured musical streaming world of Pandora this and Spotify that, look no further than the free-form radio archive of WFMU. A listener-supported FM station out of Jersey City, NJ, WFMU has DJs—yes, real human beings volunteering their time to choose and play music for you!—who are all over the proverbial map, exposing you to an endlessly vast array of tunes you never knew existed.

A quick note before we get into this week’s shows…

Tickets are moving swiftly for this ultra-rare solo appearance by Luther Dickinson (from The North Mississippi All Stars & The Black Crowes).

He’ll be playing “American Primitive-esque” instrumental pieces followed by a performance with his stellar new group, The Wandering.  This will be a partially seated show and we hope you get to snag some tickets before it’s too late!

Tonight we are super excited to have former member of The Good, Tony Rogers, in the house with an 11-piece band, and Sandman (aka Chris Sand) the country rappin’ cowboy getting things started at 9pm.

Friday is a stellar triple bill with the grizzled-rock sounds of Matthew Ryan, Hideout favorites The Sanctified Grumblers, and an acoustic set from Brandon Sampson of Six Mile Grove.

Saturday the post-rock group Prichard is back after years away and they’ll be bringing out a bunch of their dear friends to help them celebrate their new CD release.  Joining them throughout the evening are, Blasted Diplomats, The Thin Man, Dorain Taj, and Spearhead.

Later that evening it’s time for the Life During Wartime Dance Party & Social who will cure all of your dancing needs.

Monday has Robbie Fulks performing a duo set with Audrey Auld.

Tuesday it’s the first one of the month which means it’s time for the always eclectic sounds of Mar Caribe in the front bar.

Wednesday the Immediate Sound Series presents Abrams / Taylor Duo along with Mitch and Paz spinning a few tribute sets of music by the late Levon Helms.

See you soon,
The Hideout

Here’s a video from Gonzo Chicago taken at the sold out Willis Earl Beal show last week.  Thanks again everyone for packing the place and making Willis feel right at home.

Congratulations to our very own Martha Bayne for her 2012 Time Out Chicago Eat Out Award for, Most Palatable Evangelism!

It seemed like just another excuse for Blue Liners to drink and brood together. But in the three years since Martha Bayne started Soup & Bread, a weekly event that runs from January to April at the Hideout, she’s proven that a modest idea—serve free soup, collect tips for hunger charities—can morph into a movement for social change. This year, Bayne published the Soup & Bread Cookbook, a collection of recipes and essays about various organizations that use soup to achieve their missions. It was on her book tour, though, that S&B really took off. Bayne hosted one-off soup nights in cities such as New York, Nashville, Philadelphia and Detroit, and in some of those cities, it stuck. Now, we have a choice: Soup & Bread at the Hideout, or Soup & Bread in Madison, Wisconsin.

Thanks again to everyone who came out this year to Soup & Bread!

Click on the video to tune in and see out very own Martha Bayne on WGN-TV talking about Soup & Bread to the daytime television audiences of Cook County!