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Last week, I took a beer vacation to the California coast (kind of like “Sideways,” but with less of the middle-aged male angst), to tour some of its breweries and to taste its local liquid bread. On our first day, we toured the gardens of Stone Brewing—a 15-year-old upstart now known as one of the [...]

On a recent field trip on behalf of BAT-PRO (Bloodshot Architectural Treasure Preservation and Restoration Organization), Bloodshot Rob was responding to rumors that the Leaning Tower of Pisa was NOT, in fact, named after Giuseppe Leaning, but was indeed leaning: Leaping into action, he had his staff of hundreds quickly erect the patented Bloodshot Support [...]

Every year this thing called the South by Southwest Festival happens in Austin TX.  It’s a free-for-all of sleazy music industry hacks and ladder climbers, musicians by the freight car load chasing/living the dream, deadbeats cabbaging free energy drinks and designer vodkas at any one of a thousand corpo-life-style day parties, bloggers documenting every spontaneous [...]

For many years our label manager was one Steven Dube. He left the music racket in order to pursue his dream of being in the US Foreign Service.  We assume he is doing good. After cushy postings in Milan, Italy and Seoul South, Korea, Steve now finds himself in Chengdu, China. He recently sent the [...]

Could there a bromance brewing between Scott H Biram and Lydia Loveless bassist Ben Lamb? Both guys are currently on the road as part of the “Bad Machine Tour,” a double-shot of Bloodshot that has Biram and Lydia sharing a stage through Early February. Here, Ben shares some pics snapped from the road:

Love is in the air!  Or least in the aisles of the nearby Walgreens. They are jammed with animatronic heart shaped thingamajigs, cards that play “You are the Wind Beneath My Wings” when you open them, boxes and bags and crates of chocolates and lots of red.  And lace.  And five hour energy drinks. It [...]

It’s our own Nirvana baby, all grown up: Baby Owen—son of longtime Bloodshot designer Markus—was the diapered model with the pint-sized grimace on the cover of our 2002 award-winning children’s compilation, The Bottle Let Me Down. Owen is now 16 and about 6’3″.

Last month, we ran down the year’s highlights for the label. Here, the Bloodshot staff runs down its personal favorite moments, places and things of 2011: NAN WARSHAW, CO-OWNER Nan’s 2011 highlights and discoveries: Nearly New Bikes is a great scrappy bike repair shop at 3826 N. Broadway in Wrigleyville (neighborhood in Chicago). It ain’t [...]

‘Tis the season to acknowledge the Little Baby Jesus’ message of love, forgiveness, peace and generosity to the lesser among us by pepper spraying people to get at deeply discounted waffle irons or knocking old ladies out of the way to get an additional 25% off an iWhatever. Last year, we pressed the staff to [...]

Bloodshot has another great year under its belts, and we couldn’t have done it without folks like you! You packed our annual SXSW Day Party at Yard Dog once again; sold out shows from coast-to-coast for the likes of Justin Townes Earle and Ha Ha Tonka; and placed Scott H Biram on the Billboard Heatseekers [...]