Bloodshot Records

Though its fate seemed up in the air earlier this week, Chicago indie label Bloodshot Records has been acquired by investment company Exceleration Music...

"It is time for this phase of Bloodshot Records to come to an end," says Bloodshot co-founder Rob Miller.

”The amount of royalties we believe are due to artists and songwriters at this point in time is considerable,” non-ownership staff of Bloodshot wrote in a letter.

The new compilation is a ”redux” of the label's first release, the 1994 compilation For A Life of Sin: Insurgent Chicago Country, which captured the ever-changing Chicago country scene.

Label co-founder Nan Warshaw previously said "for the moment, I'm going to step away from Bloodshot," following allegations of sexual misconduct made against her domestic partner Mark Panick by Lydia Loveless.

”Not really at all surprising that a label who allowed a man to grope, paw at and mentally disturb me for over five years still touts Ryan Adams as a fucking genius,” Lydia Loveless writes.

"C'mon out to Brooklyn's Bell House on November 7th for a grand day. Carrying on the tradition of Bloodshot CMJ and SXSW parties...but now for serious local music fans...

We are saddened to announce that The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir was in a serious auto accident today . They are in hospitals receiving medical attention; most of them being treated for minor injuries...

A pair of reunions (Moonshine Willy, the Blacks), a local upstart (Scotland Yard Gospel Choir) and a staggering turn by the Texas-born Alejandro Escovedo highlighted Bloodshot Records' 15th anniversary celebration at a scaled-back Hideout Block Party on Saturday...