Glide Magazine wrote an article about the 30th anniversary of the band and the reissues.

2021 will mark the 30th anniversary for The Mother Hips as a band! To commemorate this landmark event, Blue Rose Music is pressing each of the band’s titles on limited-edition vinyl … some of which have never been pressed to wax before! Each title is limited to 300 hand-numbered copies on 180 gram vinyl. The first release will be in January with the band’s 1991 debut Back to the Grotto on double-vinyl with a new title to be released monthly. All of the reissues can be preordered now. Get ’em while you can!

Shot live on September 25, 2020 from the ancient towering redwoods of Big Sur, California. The Mother Hips perform a career retrospective set from the Henry Miller Memorial Library. Don’t miss this exclusive concert stream debut in one of the band’s only live sets of 2020.

Saturday, December 5, 2020
8pm PST (the stream will be available on-demand for 72 hours)

Ticket $15.00.

Get your costumes ready for the greatest rock and roll full moon Halloween show of the Apocalypse with The Mother Hips, featuring the Mad Alchemy Liquid Lightshow. The Mother Hips will perform a very special Halloween Cruise-In Concert featuring two rockin’ sets at the Solano County Fairgrounds, with The Mad Alchemy Liquid Lightshow. 

7-11pm – ALL AGES – $99/VEHICLE
FACE COVERINGS AND SOCIAL DISTANCING REQUIRED” THIS WILL BE A DRIVE-IN CONCERT!!

Tim Bluhm has released Hag Heaven,  a seamlessly performed 11-track tribute to Outlaw Country legend, Merle Haggard. Bluhm co-produced the album with Mark Adams and rallied session players: Dave Zirbel, Megan Lynch Chowning, Aidan Collins, and Daryl VanDruff.

Recorded at Tim Bluhm’s home studio with a dizzying array of vintage instruments, world-class microphones, and collectible gear, Hag Heaven is a carefully crafted and seamlessly performed collection of 11 of Merle Haggard’s greatest compositions.

“I was probably about 22 when I first really heard Merle Haggard sing. I had already been in a rock band for about 3 years. I was so attracted to his lyrics and the way he delivered them. He sang with such effortlessness and honesty, and he was good at humor too.”

Hag Heaven is available digitally as well as on limited edition vinyl.

JUST ANNOUNCED!

The Mother Hips at The Henry Miller Memorial Library in Big Sur on Sept. 25/26, 2020
Tickets are on sale today!

4 Very limited capacity / seated / socially distanced shows. Masks & temperature check required for entry (no exceptions).

These 4 unique shows & setlists will be recorded & filmed and compiled into one show that will be streamed at a later date.

If you’d like to make a donation to the Big Sur community in light of ongoing wildfires, please visit the Community Association of Big Sur (CABS) click here.

HIPNIC 2020 RESCHEDULED:

Due to the General Admission camping that is allowed specifically for HIPNIC weekend, we have concluded that it is not possible to proceed with HIPNIC in its current general admission, camping one big family, style set up.

HIPNIC is moving to May 21-23, 2021. All your weekend passes for HIPNIC 2020 will automatically transfer to HIPNIC 2021. If you choose to request a refund you have until Monday, September 14 th at 5PM to do so.

If you have a reservation for Thursday 9/24/20 at Fernwood, you need to call Fernwood 831-667-2422 to either extend into the weekend or move or cancel those reservations.

The good news is….If you choose to still come to Big Sur on September 25-27 you can book a specific campsite, room, tent cabin or cabin thru your friends at Fernwood.

In the spirit of the weekend, there will be four Mother Hips socially distanced ultra-low capacity seated shows at Henry Miller Library. These tickets are extremely limited and a temperature check and mask will be required for entry.

The four Mother Hips socially distanced seated show dates & times are:

Friday, September 25 at High Noon
Friday, September 25 at 4pm
Friday, September 25 at 8pm
Saturday, September 26 at High Noon

The two long-lost Mother Hips records Part-Timer Goes Full (1995) and Shoot Out (1996) go digital Friday, July 24th.  These two legendary records were released on Rick Rubin’s now defunct label American Recordings.

Now, over two decades later, Part-Timer Goes Full and Shootout are available to stream.

Tim has released the second single “Blood Orange Moon” from the upcoming album ‘Gone with the Windshield’ out March 27th!  Check it out the the single and pre-order the album.

Greg Loiacono has shared a new track called “Animal Clouds” from the full-length album ‘Mystic Traces’ coming in May on digital, vinyl and CD. Stay tuned for that, but for now, check out this great new track!

Loiacono tapped Scott Hirsch of Hiss Golden Messenger to produce the album which was recorded and mixed in Ojai, California. “Animal Clouds” features Little Wings’ Kyle Field on electric twelve-string guitar, Wilco’s Mikael Jorgensen on synthesizers, Erin Sydney on drums and Brendan Willing on bass.

“This was one of the first tracks that Scott and I laid down at the beginning of this project. And the last to be finished,” Loiacono said in a statement. “It was also one of the first songs that I wrote when starting the process for a new record a couple years back. It resonates with me more now then it did back then.”