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Tagged Close Up Of The Serene

Stream the brooding, brilliantly bleak electronic sounds of Tarek Sabbar

Matt Wild
April 14, 2017
One of the best Milwaukee albums of 2016 was Heath Death's 9 Steps To A Happier Life. The brainchild of Kenneth Sabbar, 9 Steps was a noisy, post-punk assault that delved into the "unhappy aspects of existence,...

“This feels like something with longevity”: Close Up of the Serene, Precognition celebrate one-year anniversary

Matt Wild
November 4, 2016
Max Holiday has a hard time standing still. Since moving to Milwaukee from Appleton in 2010, Holiday has self-recorded a handful of lo-fi garage-pop songs as Young Holidays, created a band around that name, d...

Listen to the glorious debut single from Milwaukee’s Pharo

Matt Wild
February 23, 2016
// When he's not drumming for shimmering electro-pop juggernaut GGOOLLDD, Mark Stewart is busy making music of his own. What kind of music, you ask? Well, under his newly minted moniker Pharo, Stewart has j...
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