The talented and highly-entertaining Kosha Dillz has just been added to the Cobalt & the Hired Guns show at Metro on 1/7/2011. See our Shows section for the full lineup, links to the other acts, and how to get tickets for just $6 (these are gonna go fast!).
A. Raber 2010
Details for our headlining show at Metro just announced! Check out our Shows section to see the lineup and how to get tickets for $6.
Cobalt is on FIRE.
After a successful benefit show at the Hideout and two days of recording at Tribeca Flashpoint Academy, we’ve just been confirmed at the Metro for January 7, 2011. Stay tuned for more details on that. In the meantime catch us at another benefit show, this time for Howard Brown. See our Shows section for more info.
Thank you Elbo Room, Chicago Roots Collective, all the bands and all the fans who helped make the Chicago Roots Collective Festival a great time last night.
That’s gonna be a hard show to beat, but we’re sure gonna try. Specifically, we’ll be trying at the Hideout on Nov 27 for The Big Tranny Hootenanny. It’s a benefit for our good friend, Owen, who is in need of surgery, but is also in need of the funds to go through with said surgery.
The Homoticons, Cobalt & the Hired Guns, Andrew Brown, and Kareem Khubchandani will heroically play sets starting at 9pm. Afterward, Ang Peoples DJ Collective provide music for the DANCE PARTY!! Yes. You read that right. Dance party. This is going to be awesome. And all to help a friend in need.
So, come, listen, dance and have fun, you won’t even realize you’re doing your good deed for the day.
This weekend is the Chicago Roots Collective Festival. Which means, 75 bands/musicians performing over two nights at the Elbo Room! All that music AND $2 Old Styles.
Cobalt & the Hired Guns performs the 2nd night, Saturday Nov 6, and shares the downstairs stage with How Far to Austin, Todd Kessler & the New Folk, Mike Mangione & the Union, and The Future Laureates. Upstairs, singer/songwriters Andrew Francis, Jeff Churchwell, Jane Thatcher, Shelley Miller, Bassel Al-Madani, Daina Lawrence, Matt Campbell, Michael Kostal, and Bobby Minelli showcase their, well, singing and songwriting.
The first night of the Festival, Friday Nov 5, features BandCalledCatch,The Shams Band, Goodbyehome, Molehill, and Jackpot Donnie on the downstairs stage, while Jack Brett, Rachele Eve, Brendan Losch, Katie Scrantom, Dan Price, Will Phalen, Jessica Robbins, Kevin Garvey, Nelken and Nathan Xander do their thang upstairs.
Tickets are $10 for Friday, $10 for Saturday, or $15 for a weekend pass. The music starts at 8pm, 21+ both nights.
Oh and did we mention the $2 Old Syles??? Yea. That.
We’re playing at Subterranean tomorrow (Tuesday 10/26/10) with Noise by Numbers (ex-Screeching Weasel) and The Magnificent. Doors at 8pm, Cobalt takes the stage promptly at 8:30.
Sure they say we’re going to be having the worst storm in the last 70 years, but if this city’s gonna go to hell, don’t you want to be at an awesome rock show with readily-available food and booze while it happens??
C’monnnnn. It’ll be fun. If the power goes out we’ll all snuggle.
Well, where to start?
There have been some big changes in the world of Cobalt and the Hired Guns since we last reported, and soon all those changes will be reflected in this here website. We’ve been cookin’ up some exciting stuff an’ the smell comin’ from the Cobalt kitchen is deeeelicious. We’re working hard on the new album, we’ve got some awesome shows coming up, new photos and videos are on their way, and there’s rumor of some Secret Weapons to be unveiled at our live shows and on the album, but shhhhhh! They’re seeeeeeecrettttttt. In fact, I may have already said too much.
Basically, we took a bit of a break over the summer, but now we’re back. Big time.
Hi everyone! A lot of BIG news:
1) Saying goodbye to Matt…
It’s with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to one of our founding members, Matt Hart, as he moves out to Seattle on April 30th. He’s got a hunger for salt water and topography, and will be broadcasting his experiences diving into a completely new music scene on a new music blog called Mid-By-Northwest.com. Please go check out the articles he’s already got up there, drop him a comment, and subscribe to keep up with him and his future musical adventures in the Pacific Northwest! He will also be retiring his @CobaltMatt twitter handle, so now you can follow him at @MidByNorthwest.
So Tuesday’s big show at Subterranean with Big D & the Kids Table will be Matt’s last big club show with the band for a while – until the enormous Album Release Show in the fall (more on that later) for which he’ll fly back. Also, in case you were worried, the newer songs Matt sings, like “Uptown” and “Wreckage,” WILL be on the new record! Matt will definitely be missed, but we also have a lot of excitement about the next musical chapter in the Cobalt story, and we’ve got some cool ideas brewing for what that’s going to look and sound like.
2) Announcing a new member to the Cobalt family!
As is often the case, as one door closes others open, and we are super-stoked to announce a new member to the band and Cobalt family – Amanda Raber on saxophone. She’s been playing with us at pretty much every show since last fall and we are smitten with her talent, energy, dedication, and general awesomeness. Now we’re making it official! We asked her to prom, er, to be in the band, and she said yes. We’ll be working her in on sax, kazoo, jumping around, and any other instrument she’s willing to try – plus she designed the sweet posters around Chicago for the Big D show! This is going to be awesome…
3) We’ve been making a new album!
If you follow us on Twitter you’ve probably been getting our weird, tired messages about amp-forts and and Lady Gaga. That’s cuz we’ve all been hard at work making the new Cobalt record! We’re adding layer upon glorious layer to six new tracks and we’re learning a lot by taking our time with it. Look for a HUGE release show in the fall. There is also something really special we want to do for a certain Cobalt Super-Fan across the Atlantic Ocean for this show, so keep a lookout for more info from us on that…
Thanks for reading, thanks for your support, and see you soon!
Love,
-Cobalt & the Hired Guns-
