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S.S. Web plots its revenge with latest album

August 4, 2015

With wild eyes, a shaved head, and a silver front tooth, the heavily tattooed Henry Berger has the look of a hardened sailor of yesteryear. The S.S. Web lead singer delivers tales of drinking hard and loving wr...

Exclusive: Listen to the title track from Marielle Allschwang’s solo debut, Dead Not Done

Matt Wild

August 4, 2015

If Marielle Allschwang’s voice seems familiar, there’s a reason for that. For the past five years the Milwaukee musician has provided vocals—along with violin, guitar, and percussion—for some of the city’s best...

Sat. Nite Duets’ Andi Action goes solo on wonderfully ridiculous All Lit Up

Matt Wild

August 4, 2015

There are plenty of warning signs that All Lit Up, the debut solo album from Sat. Nite Duets’ Andrew Jambura, should be taken with a grain of salt. One, it’s the debut solo album from Sat. Nite Duets’ Andrew Ja...

Watch Pharaoh Mac & DMT’s “Same Time” music video

Tyler Maas

July 31, 2015

When we last wrote about Milwaukee rapper Pharaoh Mac and his producer partner DMT, they were easing us into summer with their airy, Greatest Lakes-featuring single “Drift,” the first song from the duo’s forthc...

Death From Above 1979 comes to life at Turner Hall

Tyler Maas

July 30, 2015

It's been a while since Death From Above 1979 played in Milwaukee. To be more specific, it's been 10 and a quarter years since the Canadian "dance-punk" duo dropped by Mad Planet for a weeknight performance tha...

Check out Fox Face’s short, sweet self-titled EP

Tyler Maas

July 30, 2015

Do you have 10 minutes to spare today? Of course you do. In the amount of time it takes to prepare an omelet, get through most of Marc Maron's "WTF Podcast" intro or watch your weathered 8-Minute Abs VHS approx...

The 15 best things my 14-year-old cousin said at Vans Warped Tour yesterday

Andrew Winistorfer

July 29, 2015

Vans Warped Tour rolled into Henry Maier Festival Park yesterday, and for the 20th year, it provided a place for teens dressed in ways that will embarrass them in 10 years to see bands no one over 25 has ever h...

METZ brings Monday night mayhem to Cactus Club

Tyler Maas

July 28, 2015

METZ isn't a particularly difficult band to understand. Amid a modern music landscape that's rife with clunky sub-genre descriptors and acts haphazardly piling 10 pounds of influences into five-pound bags, the ...

Craig Finn of The Hold Steady is coming to Cactus Club October 23

Tyler Maas

July 27, 2015

Whether it’s on account of budding music manager Ben Perlstein’s local roots, Partisan Records’ undeniable affinity for Wisconsin, or some combination of the two, Milwaukee has recently been privy to a great de...

Exclusive: Stream Tigernite’s larger-than-life self-titled debut

Tyler Maas

July 27, 2015

Before the modern era of music that finds it not at all unusual for a band’s first public outing to double as its album (or, more often, its digital download card) release show, there was a time when a record’s...

Watch Twin Brother’s “Fire Fire Fire” music video, filmed at Club Garibaldi

Tyler Maas

July 24, 2015

Last August, Twin Brother came to true local music consciousness with its second album, Swallow The Anchor. By years end, the emotional opus to adolescence earned lofty placement on nearly every Milwaukee publi...

Lineup, tickets for Dusty Medical 10th Anniversary Fest now available

Tyler Maas

July 23, 2015

Way back in 2005, long before everyone and their brother had their own record label, Mistreaters guitarist Kevin Meyer berthed Dusty Medical Records. Since the label's outset, Dusty Medical has released approxi...

Exclusive: Punctuate your summer with two songs from (ORB)’s Inside Voices

Matt Wild

July 21, 2015

Take one glance at the curious punctuation surrounding the name of Milwaukee/Chicago synth-rock duo (ORB), and you wouldn’t be blamed for dismissing the band as an aside, an afterthought. Both of the band’s mem...

Wisconsin punk bands take on Scott Walker with ‘Unintimidated’ project

Matt Wild

July 20, 2015

In case you missed it, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is running for President of the United States. The former Milwaukee County Executive officially announced his candidacy last week at the Waukesha County Fairgr...

Eaux Claires festival celebrates Midwest music, points to something greater

Cal Roach

July 20, 2015

The organizers of the inaugural Eaux Claires festival did their homework. The first year of a large-scale event like this is usually a logistical nightmare; who could forget the 12-hour interstate backup welcom...

Lady Lamb is gracious and great in Turner Hall return

Tyler Maas

July 17, 2015

Last April, Maine-based musician Aly Spaltro stood on Turner Hall's stage for the first time, as her project—then called Lady Lamb The Beekeeper—played in support of Typhoon. Just over 15 months later, the mayb...

Bleach Athletixx’s “Squatter’s Rights” is the druggy summer song you’ve been waiting for

Matt Wild

July 15, 2015

Back in March, Milwaukee got its first taste of Bleach Athletixx, the newest project from former Young Holidays mastermind Max Holiday. Debut single “California Future” was everything we’d come to expect from H...

Tommy Stinson is coming to Club Garibaldi on September 11

Tyler Maas

July 14, 2015

Those who missed The Replacements' sold-out May 2 show at The Rave are in luck. Well, they're sort of in luck, at least. Tommy Stinson, the bassist of the seminal Minneapolis rock band—and a little group called...

Exclusive: Stream The Grovelers’ delightfully trashy debut, Derelicts And Screw-Ups

Matt Wild

July 14, 2015

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...

Get run down by Awkward Terrible’s “Return” music video

Tyler Maas

July 14, 2015

Technology moves fast. Music inspired by, and that samples from technology, however, doesn’t always progress as quickly. Excluding Horchata, a joint-band split with The Glowing Stars in 2012, Milwaukee chiptune...