Special Events

So, every year I do the Letters to Santa charity thru the Chicago Sun-Times (and so should you!!). I get a few letters from kids asking for Barbies, trucks, cars, Hot Wheels, and the like. I make a harrowing run to Toys R Us or wherever, wrap them up, and send them away.

In 2008 (kind of a bad year,...Read more

We'll see you in Nashville, Tennessee on Friday September 14th for the 3rd Annual Bloodshot Records Backyard Bash! It's free and open to the public, all ages, all are welcome: fans, friends, industry bigwigs and smallwigs, hangers-on. No fancy badge or wristband required. Just mosey on up to the backyard at East Nashville's finest record store The Groove and catch perfomances by...Read more

THANK YOU to the hundreds (we think?) of folks who came through our 2nd annual Holiday Pop-Up Shop this weekend! Thank you for supporting independent music and art and for eating all the Tano's Pizzeria pies and drinking all the Dark Matter Coffee! 

If you...Read more

We're celebrating the release of Jon Langford's Four Lost Souls with a pop-up shop right here at Bloodshot HQ (3039 West Irving Park Road in Chicago)! Jon will perform an intimate acoustic set and sign copies of the new album. We'll have Langfordian art for sale as well as plenty of Bloodshot music, merch, signed items, out-of-print...Read more

What you've heard is true... Our own Murder By Death has opened a restaurant and bar in Louisville! Noisey has the scoop (or the twirl) on LUPO!

The restaurant hosted a soft opening for MBD fans where Adam & Sarah performed while fans partook in LUPO's pizza, pasta, and cocktails, and now it's open for your eating and drinking pleasure!...Read more

Record Store Day 2017 is Saturday April 22nd! And this year Bloodshot's Chicago HQ storefront pop-up shop will be open for business! An oasis in the chaos! No two-hour lines for a special boxed set that contains a vial of Eddie Vedder's sweat! No mob scenes! No elbow-throwing! We'll have free refreshments and maybe even some snacks so you can rest between your...Read more

Hi-ho Silver! Bloodshot Records is saddling up for its 22nd SXSW excursion to Austin! We're wrangling up seven of Bloodshot's rootin-est, tootin-est musical gangs: Scott H. Biram, Cory Branan, Ha Ha Tonka, Banditos, The Yawpers, Sarah Shook & The Disarmers, and the undisputed, undefeated SXSW champions ...Read more