Milwaukee Music Roundup: April 2020
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LPs AND EPs OF NOTE
CRLSS - 808's & A Lack Of Faith
808's & a Lack of Faith by...
Hear a new song by Tracing Mona, a “long distance recording collaboration” with Milwaukee roots
Given the band’s unconventional nature of making music, its limited output, and the fact that none of its members currently live in Milwaukee, we'll give you a pass if the name Tracing Mona doesn't ring a bell....
When life gives you an apocalypse, Xposed 4Heads make it a “New Wave Apocalypse”
There aren't many certainties in life right now, save for death, taxes, and the wisdom of staying inside. Oh, and the gleefully geeky and goofy sounds of long-running Milwaukee band Xposed 4Heads! Let's focus o...
Field Report’s ‘Brake Light Red Tide’ is an accidental masterpiece
"We weren't working toward a specific goal or deadline. We weren't trying to make anyone happy. We weren't trying to shoehorn a song or vibe into an album that asks for it. We made ships in bottles, one at a ti...
Heed the advice of Something To Do’s quarantine ska jam, “Stay Inside”
You simply won't find a longer-tenured or better ska band in Wisconsin (or the Midwest?) than Something To Do. The Milwaukee-Madison sextuplet has been playing out regularly and releasing music since 2003, surv...
Forward Music Festival gives listeners a way to watch Milwaukee musicians, support area venues
With all due respect to the countless musicians who are hosting live streams of performances in their own home or from their practice space in an effort to entertain folks (and hopefully raise a little money) d...
Watch the video for Devils Teeth’s new recorded-under-quarantine jam, “Drop Down Gator”
"We haven't seen each other or played together since our Man Or Astro-man? show on February 25, and our March 17 show was canceled because of the 'rona. We're each isolated for a variety of reasons, and we're d...
Please enjoy the debut album from one-man grindcore band Chopping Mall, ‘Mauled By A Magical Bear With Scalding Hot Liquid Cheese Spraying From Its Eyesockets’
Sometimes an email comes across our desks that needs no explanation. Sometimes that email is promoting a debut album from a one-man grindcore band that also needs no explanation. So, without any further explana...
Take the money and run with the cinematic video for Lorde Fredd33’s “Summer Breeze”
"It's put up or shut up time as far as I'm concerned."
That's Lorde Fredd33, speaking about his new song and video, "Summer Breeze." But he's talking about much more than that, of course. He's talking about ...
Enjoy the gloriously live, gloriously sweaty video for Hughes Family Band’s “Death Of Me”
Remember shows? Us too! Remember squeezing into a bar on a Saturday night and enjoying the sounds of a live band and the company of other human beings? Us too! Want to relive that currently on-hold experience v...
Dramatic Lovers premiere new single and release new video they shot while quarantined
Last year, Dramatic Lovers—a Milwaukee super group that boasts members of Decibully, The Promise Ring, Maritime, and Temper Temper in its ranks—officially announced its presence with You Talk Loud. The band's d...
Celebrate our city with a Long Line Riders cover of “Milwaukee, Here I Come”
If you've never had the pleasure of hearing Long Line Riders during the band's relatively short run to this point, the six-piece outfit—which features past and current members of Space Raft, Fox Face, Phylums, ...
The Grovelers’ “Sicko” gets appropriately sick stop-motion video
If you're looking for subtlety in your music—poetic and tender lyrics, intricate and feather-light instrumentation—The Grovelers are not the band for you. "When you wear your Sunday best / I tear you up and I e...
Vinz Clortho gives us the shoegaze cover of Sheryl Crow’s “If It Makes You Happy” we need right now
Feeling a little up and down these days? Have you been juggling pangs of soul-crushing dread with unexpected bursts of hope and joy? SAME. Need a perfect song (and video) to sum up those conflicting feelings? E...
14 Milwaukee-made quarantine/COVID-19 songs
They say "write what you know." Well, for a bunch of Milwaukee musicians, what they know at the moment is isolation, uncertainty, loneliness, lost income, and fear. As a result, a few local acts have taken it u...
Stream five songs from Will Rose’s new album, ‘Wilted’
When we last caught up with Will Rose in late 2018, the accomplished Milwaukee percussionist and rapper was putting the finishing touches on a Mac Miller tribute show he organized, which would also serve as a f...
We’ve moved our Tuesday Tunes concert series to fall. Here’s the new schedule
Early last month, we announced that Milwaukee Record would be joining forces with Crafty Cow to bring a spring concert series called "Tuesday Tunes" to the Bay View restaurant. The free weekly music series—also...
Fuzzysurf’s music video hot streak continues with “How Do You Decide?”
Way back at the end of January (which seems like a lifetime ago at this point), Fuzzysurf completed its album cycle for 2019's great Fuzzy & The Surfs in grand fashion. Following two impressive visual pairi...
“Quarantine brings clarity”: Stream Brett Newski’s empowering new “Fight Song”
"Quarantine brings clarity."
That's tireless Milwaukee troubadour Brett Newski, speaking (remotely, natch) about his forthcoming album, Don't Let The Bastards Get You Down. The album was written and recorded...
Hear Flat Teeth singer’s isolation-inspired song, “Comatose”
When we last checked in with Flat Teeth, the Milwaukee indie outfit—fresh off the release of its impressive debut full-length, Silent Seconds—was preparing listeners for its show with Cloud Nothings at The Back...