Bloodshot Records. Hideout. Bands. Beer. Food. Why aren’t you there already? Bloodshot takes over Hideout for the famed Block Party to celebrate its fifteenth anniversary and, let’s face it, this is pretty much a guaranteed good time and you got nothing better to do this weekend anyway. There’s a kids area, some races or something and a drunk spelling bee. Plus…The Waco Brothers, Alejandro Escovedo, Deadstring Brothers, Scott H. Biram, Scotland Yard Gospel Choir, Moonshine Willy, Bobby Bare Jr., The Blacks, Jon Langford & Sally Timms and Sanctified Grumblers. The Hideout September bash has been my personal “say goodbye to summer” event for the last few years now, and I can’t think of a better way to prepare for the wrath of fall and winter. (Tom Lynch)
September 12 at Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia, (773)227-4433, Noon. $10.
For “Want” of a Change: A Preview of Rufus Wainwright at Ravinia Park Rufus Wainwright isn’t the first singer-songwriter to reinterpret earlier work through an orchestral lens. And much of Wainwright’s third and fourth albums, “Want One” and “Want Two”—whose twentieth anniversaries are the prompt for this new tour—is fully scored. But when Wainwright hits the Pavilion stage at Ravinia tonight, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra will be behind him.
Cooling It: A Preview of Colleen Green at Cole’s Bar When Green strums power chords or chiming notes on top of her backing track, you might think you’re at Ramones karaoke night and Madonna is taking her turn.
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