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Bloodshot Sketchbook Brewing Defiant Roots Beer Release

Sketchbook Brewing to Release Bloodshot 'Defiant Roots' Beer Aged in FEW Bourbon Barrels

January 21st, 2020 by bsradmin

Last summer our best drinking buddies at FEW Spirits in neighboring Evanston, Illinois used their magic boozy powers to cook up an out-of-this-world Blue Corn bourbon whiskey for Sarah Shook & the Disarmers. At the release party we made friends with FEW's neighbors across the street, Sketchbook Brewing, good folks making unique, varied, and delicious beer. And the...Read more

Bloodshot Records FEW Spirits Two Barrel Bourbon

We Made Another Bourbon with FEW Spirits! Release Party January 8th at Delilah's in Chicago

December 20th, 2019 by bsradmin

Our next collaboration with the mad scientists at FEW Spirits is the Bloodshot Two-Barrel Bourbon Whisky! Handpicked by the Bloodshot Records crew and Chicago’s favorite Welsh whisky enthusiast Jon Langford for our 25th anniversary.

We will celebrate its release on Wednesday, January 8th at our birthplace Delilah's with Mr. Langford himself. DJ sets, tastings, cocktails, and more.

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Bloodshot Records Jon Langford WTTW Chicago Tonight PBS

Bloodshot Records Profiled on WTTW Chicago PBS

November 7th, 2019 by bsradmin

In case you missed it tonight (or you don't live in Chicago), here is the segment about our 25th anniversary on WTTW's Chicago Tonight, featuring interviews with Jon Langford and our fearless leader Rob. They discuss the history of our label, our first-ever compilation album which inspired our new 25th anniversary compilation of local Chicago roots music, and...Read more

ROOKIE New Noise Head Over Heels Tears For Fears

Hear Chicago Rock-N-Rollers ROOKIE's Rippin' Tears For Fears Cover for Our 25th Anniversary Album

October 30th, 2019 by bsradmin

For our 25th anniversary album Too Late to Pray: Defiant Chicago Roots, new school rock-n-roll guitar heroes ROOKIE recorded a fuzzed-out, swampy, T-Rexified version of a beloved new wave classic from Tears for Fears. Hear it now via New Noise Magazine.

Too Late to Pray is out next Friday on digital, CD, and limited edition double vinyl LP....Read more

Joel Paterson Plays the Beatles on the Rooftop! Watch via Guitar Player Magazine

October 29th, 2019 by bsradmin

We had Joel Paterson & his rippin' Chicago band play their Beatles covers on the rooftop of Smashed Plastic Record Pressing, just like the Fab Four did at Apple Records in London!! It was a gas! Watch two live performances, for "All My Loving" and "And I Love Her," right here via Guitar Player Magazine...Read more

Too Late to Pray Defiant Chicago Roots Album Art

Bloodshot to Release 25th Anniversary Album 'Too Late to Pray: Defiant Chicago Roots.' Hear the First Track on BrooklynVegan

October 3rd, 2019 by bsradmin

Bloodshot Records is releasing its 25th anniversary compilation, entitled Too Late to Pray: Defiant Chicago Roots on Friday, November 8th. The album is a modern-day redux of our first-ever album For a Life of Sin: Insurgent Chicago Country. 22 Chicago artists running the spectrum of classic country, bluegrass, rockabilly, folk, and rock-n-roll! All never-before-released tracks.

Pre-order now on...Read more

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