Rob Miller in Conversation with Rhett Miller at SPACE
- Event Type
- Social/Informal Event
- Sponsor
- Bookends and Beginnings and SPACE
- Location
- 1243 Chicago Avenue Evanston, IL 60202
- Date
- Dec 30, 2025 3:00 - 4:00 pm CST
- Speaker
- Rob Miller and Rhett Miller
- Registration
- RSVP
- Originating Calendar
- University of Illinois Press Events Calendar
Bookends & Beginnings is delighted to partner with Evanston's live music hall, SPACE, to present an afternoon with Rob Miller in conversation with Rhett Miller about Rob's new book, The Hours Are Long, but the Pay is Low: A Curious Life in Independent Music.
In 1993, while working as a house painter in Chicago, Rob Miller co-founded the Bloodshot Records label which featured independent artists that blended the spirit of punk and country music that he first discovered in dive clubs and oddball record stores, on flea market 45s and end of the dial radio shows. Rob’s new book tells the story of this music scene in what Neko Case describes as “a glorious, detailed landscape of how it feels to be transformed and elevated by music.”
There will be an opportunity to get a signed copy of the book at this event as well. This is a FREE ticketed event with limited seating: first come, first served.