All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 12/19/2008
The Hideout is bringing Chicago musicians to Washington, D.C., on the eve of the inauguration. The Black Cat will be the site for "The Big Shoulders Ball: Chicago Celebrates Change." Performers will be a spectacle of Chicagoans: Tortoise, the Waco Brothers, Eleventh Dream Day, Andrew Bird, Jon Langf...
RVAjazz (Free subscription) | 12/19/2008
The Hideout is bringing Chicago musicians to Washington, D.C., on the eve of the inauguration. The Black Cat will be the site for "The Big Shoulders Ball: Chicago Celebrates Change." Performers will be a spectacle of Chicagoans: Tortoise, the Waco Brothers, Eleventh Dream Day, Andrew Bird, Jon Langford, Sally Timms, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Ken Vandermark, Freakwater, Icy Demons and Judson Claiborne....
AVANT/CHICAGO (Free subscription) | 12/17/2008
Chicago Musicians Unite To Celebrate Inauguration Straight from the Press Release - exciting news, great show in our capital. The Hideout and Interchange are thrilled to announce The Big Shoulders Ball: Chicago Celebrates Change. This celebration of citizen politics, independent...
Pitchfork (Free subscription) | 02/20/2008
The soundtrack to Devon Reed's movie musical, features songs written by the filmmaker and performed by indie all-stars such as Built to Spill's Doug Martsch, the Clientele, Eleventh Dream Day, Robert Schneider's Marbles project, Lisa Germano, Matthew Sweet, and Howe Gelb.
Pitchfork (Free subscription) | 11/01/2007
With: Califone, Sea & Cake, Fiery Furnaces, Trans Am, Arbouretum, Freakwater, ADULT. It's a Quinceañera for ! And, in the spirit of this fifteen year milestone, the beloved and venerated Chicago record-releasing institution has-- -- planned a massive hometown fiesta.With barely a month to recover from -- which goes down November 11 and 12, in conjunction with -- Thrill Jockey will host a homecoming...
Pitchfork (Free subscription) | 10/18/2007
Who doesn't love the circus? Dancing bears, trapeze derring-do, creepy circus people-- it doesn't get much better than that. And, in the grand tradition of, perhaps, Fellini's La Strada and Bergman's The Naked Night centers on life in the circus.In Reed's film, a man played by the director "runs away with the circus, only to become consumed by his desire for power and the love of a woman." But wait!...
