Ever since their epic partnership with Touch & Go Records to celebrate that late, lamented Chicago label’s legacy a few years back, the fine folks behind the annual Hideout Block Party has been having a harder and harder time with their annual outdoor end-of-summer celebration, competing with the glut of other festivals and street fairs in town, as well as all-around weekend-long music-overdose burnout.

This year, they’re down to one day. But what a day it promises to be! (more…)

The Hideout will celebrate its 15^th anniversary at its annual block party Sept. 24 with Mavis Staples, Andrew Bird, Jon Langford and Booker T. Jones.