Hideout Block Party Returns!

The Hideout announced on its webpage today that its fantastic parking lot party will return this September 24th at noon after a 2-year hiatus. No details on bands yet, but if history is a guide, it'll be eclectic and surprisingly deep.

Record Releases - June 28, 2011

Here's what drops today. Stuff marked * should be good:

Jun-28-11	Anti-G - Presents Kentje'sz Beatsz	Planet Mu
Jun-28-11	Avi Buffalo - How Come*	Sub Pop
Jun-28-11	Beyonce - 4	Columbia
Jun-28-11	Black Vatican - Oceanic Feelin'	Locust
Jun-28-11	Bohren & der Club of Gore - Beileid	Ipecac
Jun-28-11	Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Haggard Harper Bonnie 7"*	Spiritual Pajamas
Jun-28-11	Brilliant Colors - Again and Again	Slumbeland
Jun-28-11	Curren$y - Weekend at Burnies	Warner Brothers
Jun-28-11	Dirty Three - Whatever You Love, You Are	Touch and Go
Jun-28-11	Eliane Radigue - Transamorem Tranmortem	Important
Jun-28-11	Handsome Furs - Sound Kapital	Sub Pop
Jun-28-11	Jill Scott - The Light of the sun	Blues Babe Records
Jun-28-11	John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves	Ribbon Music
Jun-28-11	Machinedrum - Sacred Frequency	Planet Mu
Jun-28-11	Nate Wooley / Chris Corsano / C. Spencer Yeh - Seven Storey Mountain	Important
Jun-28-11	Night Beats - Night Beats	Trouble In Mind
Jun-28-11	Paperhead - Focus On The Looking Glass	Trouble In Mind
Jun-28-11	SBTRKT - SBTRKT	Young Turks
Jun-28-11	Ssion - BENT	Danger Village
Jun-28-11	Taking Back Sunday - Taking Back Sunday	Warner Brothers
Jun-28-11	Tomorrow's Tulips - Eternally Teenage	Galaxia
Jun-28-11	Various Artists - Red Hot + Rio 2	Red Hot
Jun-28-11	Wax Museums - Eye Times	Trouble In Mind

This Week in Shows (TWIS) & New Shows

Lots of new stuff added to the SHOWcal this week, including all the Lolla after-shows (and pre-Lolla shows), street festival shows, and the jam-packingest days of summer festival watching. Here's what's going on this week:

	Saturday, June 25, 7:30pm		Matt & Kim/Thermals @ Vic
	Saturday, June 25, 9:00pm		Les Savy Fav @ Sub-T
	Saturday, June 25, 10:00pm		Puro Instinct @ Empty Bottle
	Sunday, June 26, 7:30pm		Matt & Kim/Hood Internet @ Vic
	Sunday, June 26, 8:00pm		Yo La Tengo @ Sub-T
	Monday, June 27, 6:30pm		Low @ Millennium Park
	Tuesday, June 28, 7:30pm		Eddie Vedder/Glen Hansard @ Chicago Theatre
	Wednesday, June 29, 7:30pm		Eddie Vedder/Glen Hansard @ Chicago Theatre
	Wednesday, June 29, 9:30pm		Times New Viking @ Empty Bottle
	Thursday, June 30, 9:00pm		White Denim @ Schubas

Pitchfork Festival Schedule Announced

Here it is y'all. Sunday is nearly sold out, so if you were waiting to see the schedule, get your purchases in soon:

Friday, July 15 (gates at 3 p.m.):
8:30 Animal Collective (GREEN)
7:30 James Blake (BLUE)
7:20 Neko Case (RED)
6:30 Das Racist (BLUE)
6:25 Guided By Voices (GREEN)
5:30 Curren$y (BLUE)
5:30 Thurston Moore (RED)
4:35 Battles (GREEN)
4:30 tUnE-yArDs (BLUE)
3:30 EMA (RED)
3:20 Gatekeeper (BLUE)

Saturday, July 16 (gates at 12 p.m.):
8:30 Fleet Foxes (GREEN)
7:40 Zola Jesus (BLUE)
7:25 DJ Shadow (RED)
6:45 Twin Shadow (BLUE)
6:15 The Dismemberment Plan (GREEN)
5:45 The Radio Dept. (BLUE)
5:15 Destroyer (RED)
4:45 OFF! (BLUE)
4:15 No Age (GREEN)
3:45 Wild Nothing (BLUE)
3:20 Gang Gang Dance (RED)
2:50 G-Side (BLUE)
2:30 Cold Cave (GREEN)
1:55 Sun Airway (BLUE)
1:45 Woods (RED)
1:00 Chrissy Murderbot ft. MC Zulu (BLUE)
1:00 Julianna Barwick (GREEN)

Sunday, July 17 (gates at 12 p.m.):
8:30 TV on the Radio (GREEN)
7:40 HEALTH (BLUE)
7:25 Cut Copy (RED)
6:45 Toro Y Moi (BLUE)
6:15 Deerhunter (GREEN)
5:45 Kylesa (BLUE)
5:15 Superchunk (RED)
4:45 Baths (BLUE)
4:15 Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti (GREEN)
3:45 Shabazz Palaces (BLUE)
3:20 OFWGKTA (RED)
2:50 Twin Sister (BLUE)
2:30 Kurt Vile & the Violators (GREEN)
1:55 How to Dress Well (BLUE)
1:45 Yuck (RED)
1:00 Darkstar (BLUE)
1:00 The Fresh & Onlys (GREEN)

Lolla Aftershows (and pre-shows) Announced

Lollapalooza announced its annual pre- and post-festival shows at various venues around the city. They've all been added to the SHOWcal for your planning purposes (tickets go on sale this Friday), or you can see the official list here.

Record Releases - June 21, 2011

A long list of nothing much worthwhile. Stuff marked * might be good:

Jun-21-11	1,2,3 - New Heaven	Frenchkiss
Jun-21-11	Ancestors - Invisible White EP	Tee Pee
Jun-21-11	Barn Owl - Shadowland	Thrill Jockey
Jun-21-11	Blanck Mass - Blanck Mass	MRI
Jun-21-11	Bobby - Bobby	Partisan Records
Jun-21-11	Bodies of Water - Twist Again	Secretly Canadian
Jun-21-11	Bon Iver - Bon Iver*	Jagjaguwar
Jun-21-11	Centro-matic - Candidate Waltz	Undertow Music Collective
Jun-21-11	Diamond Rings - Special Affections	Astralwerks
Jun-21-11	Ed Gein - Bad Luck	Black Market Activities
Jun-21-11	Father's Children - Who's Gonna Save The World	Numero Group
Jun-21-11	Forest Swords - Fjree Feather	No Pain In Pop
Jun-21-11	Gomez - Whateve's On Your Mind*	ATO
Jun-21-11	Grieves - Together / Apart	Rhymesayers Enterntainment
Jun-21-11	Grown Ups - Handholder 7"	Doghouse Records
Jun-21-11	Helms Alee - Weatherhead	Hydra Head
Jun-21-11	Howling Hex - Victory Chimp, A Book	Drag City
Jun-21-11	Iceage - New Brigade	What's Your Rupture?
Jun-21-11	In Flames - Sounds of a Playground*	Century Media
Jun-21-11	Jackmaster - Fabriclive 57	Fabric
Jun-21-11	JEFF the Brotherhood - We Are the Champions	Infinity Cat Recordings
Jun-21-11	Jim O'Rourke - Old News #5	Old News
Jun-21-11	John Paul Keith - The Man That Time Forgot	Fat Possum
Jun-21-11	Junior Boys - It's All True	Domino
Jun-21-11	KXP - KXP	Smalltown Supersound
Jun-21-11	Laurel Halo - Hour Logic EP	Hippos in Tanks
Jun-21-11	Liam Finn - Fomo*	Yep Roc
Jun-21-11	Lil Wayne - Tha Carter IV	Young Money
Jun-21-11	Matthew Shipp / Beans / William Parker / Hprizm - Knives From Heaven	Thirsty Ear
Jun-21-11	OK Go - 180/365	Paracadute
Jun-21-11	Paleo - Fruit of the Spirit	Partisan Records
Jun-21-11	Pontiak - Comecrudos	Thrill Jockey
Jun-21-11	Public Enemy - Bring the Noise: The Hits, Vids and Docs Box*	Rocket Science
Jun-21-11	Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly	Atlantic Records
Jun-21-11	Seun Kuti - From Africa With Fury: Rise	Knitting Facrtory
Jun-21-11	Sorry Bamba - Volume One 1970-1979	Thrill Jockey
Jun-21-11	Sugar - Copper Blue	Rykodisc
Jun-21-11	Teddybears - Devil's Music	Big Beat/Atlantic
Jun-21-11	Telepathe - Throw Away This 7"	White Iris
Jun-21-11	The Chain Gang of 1974 - Wayward Fire	Modern Art Records
Jun-21-11	The Get Up Kids - Simple Science (reissue)*	Flyover
Jun-21-11	The Japanese Popstars - controlling Your Allegiance	Astralwerks
Jun-21-11	The Parlotones - Live Designs	MRI
Jun-21-11	These Trails - These Trails	Drag City
Jun-21-11	Ty Segall - Goodbye Bread*	Drag City
Jun-21-11	Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Unknown Mortal Orchestra	Fat Possum
Jun-21-11	Weird Al Yancovic - Alpocalypse	Jive
Jun-21-11	When Saints Go Machine - Konkylie	!K7
Jun-21-11	White Hills - H-p1	Thrill Jockey
Jun-21-11	YACHT - Shangri-La*	DFA
Jun-21-11	Yes - Close to the Edge (reissue)	Atlantic Records
Jun-21-11	Yes - Fragile (reissue)	Atlantic Records

Record Releases - June 14, 2011

This week is kinda meh, but here it is anyway:

Jun-14-11	Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Live as Troubador	Important
Jun-14-11	Billy Squier - Don't Say No (reissue)	Friday Music
Jun-14-11	Bitches / Yuppies - Split 12"	Palmist
Jun-14-11	Blondes - Business / Pleasure 12"	RVNG Intl
Jun-14-11	Burning Itch - Burning Itch	Tic Tac Totally
Jun-14-11	Cian Nugent - Doubles	VHF
Jun-14-11	Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (reissue)	Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Jun-14-11	Deftones - Adrenaline	Maverick
Jun-14-11	Deftones - Adrenaline (reissue)	Maverick
Jun-14-11	Diskjokke - Sagara	Smalltown Supersound
Jun-14-11	Foo Fighters - Back and Forth DVD	RCA
Jun-14-11	Go Sailor - Go Sailor	Slumbeland
Jun-14-11	Herbcraft - Ashram to the Stars	Hello Sunshine
Jun-14-11	Idiot Glee - Paddywhack	Hip Hop Records
Jun-14-11	James Ferraro - On Air	Underwater Peoples
Jun-14-11	Marissa Nadler - Marissa Nadler	Box of Cedar
Jun-14-11	Matt Valentine - What I Became	Woodsist
Jun-14-11	Neil Young - A Treasure	Reprise
Jun-14-11	Niki and the Dove - The Fox	Sub Pop
Jun-14-11	No Surrender - Medicine Babies	ZerOKilled
Jun-14-11	Nurse with Wound - Who Can I Turn To Stereo	United Jnana
Jun-14-11	OBN IIIs - Mark On You / Heavy Heart 7"	Tic Tac Totally
Jun-14-11	Sebadoh - Bakesale (Deluxe Reissue)	Sub Pop
Jun-14-11	Sons and Daughters - Mirror Mirror	Domino
Jun-14-11	The Dear Hunter - The Color Spectrum	Triple Crown Records
Jun-14-11	The Mattson 2 - Feeling Hands	Galaxia
Jun-14-11	The Wonder Years - Suburbia I've Given You All And Now I'm Nothing	Hopeless
Jun-14-11	U.S. Girls / Slim Twig - Split 12"	Palmist
Jun-14-11	Woods - Sun & Shade	Woodsist
Jun-14-11	WU LYF - Go Tell Fire to the Mountains	LYF Recordings

This Weekend In Shows (TWIS) & New Shows

Pitchfork night shows are starting to show up in the SHOWcal now, for those of you who prefer paying to see individual bands indoors rather than all at once outside. We also have our first November show (Electric Six) and a few awesome free shows out at the Centennial statute in Logan Square. Here's what's going on this week:

	Friday, June 10, 10:00pm		Architecture in Helsinki @ Lincoln Hall
	Saturday, June 11, 7:30pm		Ezra Furman/Waco Brothers @ Northcenter Ribfest
	Saturday, June 11, 8:00pm		Antlers @ Metro
	Sunday, June 12, 5:00pm		Industrial Fest @ Abbey Pub
	Sunday, June 12, 7:30pm		Tapes 'n Tapes @ Northcenter Ribfest
	Sunday, June 12, 8:30pm		Cathy Santonies @ Double Door
	Monday, June 13, 6:30pm		TBA @ Millennium Park
	Wednesday, June 15, 7:30pm		Future Islands @ Sub-T
	Wednesday, June 15, 8:00pm		Art Brut @ Double Door

Record Releases - June 7, 2011

Big list this week. Stuff marked * should be good:

Jun-07-11	31 Knots - Trump Harm	Polyvinyl
Jun-07-11	Arctic Monkeys - Suck It and See*	Domino
Jun-07-11	Battles - The Gloss Drop*	Warp
Jun-07-11	Bikini - RIP JDS EP	The India Trading Company
Jun-07-11	Black Lips - Arabia Mountain*	Vice
Jun-07-11	Bole 2 Harlem - Bole 2 Harlem Volume 1	White Swan
Jun-07-11	Brian Olive - Two of Everything	Alive
Jun-07-11	Chris Mills - Heavy Years 2000-2010	Ernest Jennings
Jun-07-11	Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - It's a Corporate World*	Quite Scientific
Jun-07-11	Daniel Isaiah - High Twilight	Secret City
Jun-07-11	David Bowie vs KCRW - Golden Years	Virgin
Jun-07-11	Dawes - Nothing is Wrong	ATO
Jun-07-11	Depeche Mode - Remixes 2: 81-11	Mute
Jun-07-11	Dustin O'Halloran - Vorlben	FatCat
Jun-07-11	Esmerine - La Lechuza	Constellation
Jun-07-11	Ford & Lopatin - Channel Pressure	Software
Jun-07-11	Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones	Epitaph
Jun-07-11	Fucked Up - David Comes to Life*	Matador
Jun-07-11	Givers - In Light	Glassnote
Jun-07-11	Hail Mary Mallon - Are You Gonna Eat That?	Rhymesayers Entertainment
Jun-07-11	Holy Other - With U	Tri Angle
Jun-07-11	Hooray for Earth - True Loves	Dovecote Records
Jun-07-11	Ikebe Shakedown - Ikebe Shakedown	Ubiquity
Jun-07-11	Infantree - Would Work (Deluxe Edition)	Vapor
Jun-07-11	Jessica 6 - See the Light	Peace Frog
Jun-07-11	Johan Johannsson - The Miners' Hymns	FatCat
Jun-07-11	Jonsi - Go Out 12"*	XL Recordings
Jun-07-11	Karma To Burn - V	Napalm Records
Jun-07-11	Kendl Winter - At the Same Time 7"	K Records
Jun-07-11	Le Tigre - Who Took the Bomp?: Le Tigre On Tour*	Oscilloscope Laboratoires
Jun-07-11	Leyland Kirby - Intrigue & Stuff Vol. 1	History Always Favors the Winners
Jun-07-11	Love - Black Beauty	High Moon
Jun-07-11	Mike Bloom - King of Circles	Little Record Company
Jun-07-11	Nik Freitas - Saturday Night Underwater	Little Record Company
Jun-07-11	Okkervil River - Rider 7"*	Jagjaguwar
Jun-07-11	Oneida - Absolute II	Jagjaguwar
Jun-07-11	Peter Murphy - Ninth	Nettwerk
Jun-07-11	Radio Dept. - Clilnging to a Scheme (vinyl reissue)	Labrador
Jun-07-11	Radio Dept. - Lesser Matters (vinyl reissue)	Labrador
Jun-07-11	Radio Dept. - Pet Grief (vinyl reissue)	Labrador
Jun-07-11	ROB - Funky Rob Way	Analog Africa
Jun-07-11	Sondre Lerche - Sondre Lerche	Mona Records
Jun-07-11	The Appleseed Cast - Middle States	Graveface
Jun-07-11	The Coathangers - Larceny & Old Lace	Suicide Squeeze
Jun-07-11	The Ladybug Transistor - Clutching Stems	Merge
Jun-07-11	The Poison Control Center - Stranger Ballet	Afternoon Records
Jun-07-11	The Postelles - The Postelles	+1 Records
Jun-07-11	The Rosebuds - Loud Planes Fly Low	Merge
Jun-07-11	The Wooden Birds - Two Matchsticks	Barsuk
Jun-07-11	Tom Vek - Leisure Seizure	Downtown /CO-OP USA/ Island
Jun-07-11	Trentemoller - Late Night Tales	Late Night Tales
Jun-07-11	Various Artists - Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers Volumes 6-10	Past & Present
Jun-07-11	Various Artists - Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou: The First Album	Analog Africa
Jun-07-11	Various Artists - The Book of Mormon OST	Ghostlight Records
Jun-07-11	Vetiver - The Errant Charm	Sub Pop
Jun-07-11	Vin Blanc - Chroma Key	Polyvinyl
Jun-07-11	Vladislave Delay Quartet - Vadislave Delay Quartet	Honest Jon's

This Weekend In Shows (TWIS) & New Shows

Welcome back to 1994! We've got shows from Blind Mellon, Material Issue and the Lemonheads! WTF? Didn't the front-people in some of these bands die? Anyway, we've also added a whole host of FREE shows, including the incredibly bizarre Nobunny show in Chinatown, and all the Taste of Chicago shows. Below is what's on tap for the coming week. First, here's the lineup for this weekend's Do Division festival:


Saturday 6/4
1:00pm Tristen
2:30pm Mirah & Thao
4:00pm Nobunny*
5:30pm Javelin
7:00pm Dengue Fever
8:30pm Bonobo (DJ set)

Sunday 6/5
1:00pm Daniel Knox
2:30pm Royal Bangs*
4:00pm Omar Souleyman
5:30pm White Mystery
7:00pm A Place To Bury Strangers*
8:30pm Big Freedia & The Divas with Rusty Lazer

Leavitt Stage:

Saturday 6/4
4:45pm Moxie Motive*
5:45pm The Shams Band
6:45pm The Steepwaterband
8:00 pm Led Zeppelin 2 (Led Zeppelin tribute band)

Sunday 6/5

5:00pm California Wives
6:00pm Empires*
7:00pm Big Science
8:00 pm This Must Be The Band (Talking Heads tribute band)

As for the rest of the week:

	Saturday, June 4, 9:00pm		Moxie Motive @ Beat Kitchen
	Saturday, June 4, 10:00pm		Dengue Fever @ Empty Bottle
	Saturday, June 4, 12:00am		Do Division
	Sunday, June 5, 9:00pm		Oberhofer/Young Man/Netherfriends @ Lincoln Hall
	Sunday, June 5, 12:00am		Do Division
	Monday, June 6, 6:30pm		Iron and Wine @ Millennium Park
	Monday, June 6, 8:00pm		Dodos/Gauntlet Hair @ Metro
	Monday, June 6, 9:30pm		A Place to Bury Strangers @ Empty Bottle
	Friday, June 10, 10:00pm		Architecture in Helsinki @ Lincoln Hall