Rapper, poet, and actor Mykele Deville will become the Hideout’s next program director in August! Deville says his fiancee (and Growing Concerns Poetry Collective bandmate) McKenzie Chinn recommended he apply for the job after the Hideout put out a call at the end of May, and he’ll replace experimental pop musician and Sooper Records co-owner Sen Morimoto in the position. “I love being able to be that person to help people get heard and get seen,” Deville says. “The Hideout, our views and ethos were very similar in that way.” Deville helped run one of Chicago’s most storied local 2010s DIY spaces, the Dojo, and Dojo cofounder Alex Palma helped him assemble posters and videos from old shows for his interview. The offer arrived just a few days later. Deville will spend the next month or so learning the ropes from Morimoto. “If I do have a goal, it’s to make sure to give space to people that you’ve never heard of,” he says. “I want to give space to the legacy players and the people that have been there and have developed a relationship with the Hideout, because that’s what we’re about: a strong community.”
Last week, Chicago punk four-piece Acid Mikvah dropped a ripping four-song demo, which opens with the track “Zionist Bullshit.” if they’re not already the city’s premier radical Jewish hardcore band, this wolf suspects they soon will be! v
