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The Ex and Ken Vandermark join forces at…the Sugar Maple

October 21, 2015

For those unfamiliar with the sort of experimental jazz and noise shows that take place in the tiny brick cube that is the Sugar Maple’s back room, the news that legendary anarcho-punks The Ex were kicking off ...

“You can’t go from zero to being Merge”: The end (?) of Latest Flame Records

DJ Hostettler

April 16, 2015

Latest Flame Records head honcho Dan Hanke is looking as relaxed as ever. He’s got a lot going on right now—he’s working on buying a house, his excellent band Like Like The The The Death is writing a new record...

Nato Coles returns home with Promises To Deliver

DJ Hostettler

December 3, 2014

It's been a good long while now since Nato Coles called Milwaukee home. Back in those days, Coles was one-fourth of the hard-touring Husker-esque Modern Machines, a four-person democracy where every band member...

What to listen for at the 2014 Milwaukee Noise Fest

DJ Hostettler

September 24, 2014

Of all the musical genres forced to endure willfully ignorant “it all sounds the same to me” comments, one would assume that noise would be the one for which it’s tragically apt. Of course, anyone who actually ...

Bob Mould turns back the clock and blazes ahead at Turner Hall

DJ Hostettler

September 18, 2014

There’s a 1985 Hüsker Dü live show from London on YouTube that will wind-tunnel your face if you sit through the whole thing. The band’s at the frenzied height of its powers, blasting through jams from New Day ...

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