Bloodshot Records, the influential Chicago-based alt-country indie label that started up in 1993, is shutting down. In a statement on the label’s website, co-founder Rob Miller writes, “It is time for this phase of Bloodshot Records to come to an end. I will no longer be a part of the label I started over 25 years ago as an impossibly ill-conceived hobby. It’s not the path myself, the staff or the artists wanted, but few get to write their final chapter.” A notice across the top of the site clarifies that the Bloodshot office “is PERMANENTLY closed.”