Exploring our addiction to the live music experience |
After we began our tour tour rider experiment last week, I’m excited to tell you I have some excellent evidence to share that we discovered at the Hideout Block Party on Sunday just before Mavis Staples’ set. As you can see by the picture above there was a large throne waiting for Mavis Staples. It [...]
When I posted my heartfelt thoughts about Michael Jackson and his London shows on Tuesday, I had no idea what would happen on Thursday afternoon. (See my Facebook trail from Thursday afternoon, bottom to top). And over the last three days I’ve felt a wave of different emotions ranging from happy and nostalgic to guilt and sadness. It’s not [...]
Time often tells me why strange things happened at a show. Such was the case with the odd moment I mentioned when Chicago Rapper Rhymefest abruptly left the stage during the Hideout Block Party in September. In an October interview with SOHH, Rhymefest explained that he was battling with suicidal thoughts stemming from the struggles [...]
This interview originally appeared in Ink19. He gave out free watermelons and rocked the show. During his performance at this year’s Hideout Block Party in Chicago, Brooklyn-based hip hop/folk artist Tim Fite made his set a little sweeter — with the help of his DJ, Dr. Leisure — by handing, flinging, and tossing out watermelons [...]
I was stunned and shocked. And most of all disappointed. A few songs into his set at the Hideout Block party last night, Chicago rapper Rhymefest abruptly stopped his set and walked off the stage, leaving the crowd hanging and wondering why. I wanted to post this blog last night because I was so stunned [...]
