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Daniel James of The Daniel James Gang walks us through ‘Ghosts Of The Past’

October 20, 2026

It's been a few years since Milwaukee glam-punk stalwart Daniel James retired his long-running Indonesian Junk band and revived his long-dormant solo project, The Daniel James Gang. Twenty-twenty-four's Darknes...

Driveway Thriftdwellers return, take pop detour with “Dance With You”

Matt Wild

October 28, 2025

Has it really been seven years since Milwaukee/Madison rock/Americana band Driveway Thriftdwellers released new music? "So it's been seven years since we've released new music and we think that's long enough," ...

Tron Jovi’s electronic exploration continues on ‘Bass + Frequency Studies in Dub, Chapter Two’

Tyler Maas

June 16, 2025

In 2021, Tron Jovi—the producer moniker for ever-active Milwaukee music mainstay Martin Defatte—released the project's debut EP, Bass + Frequency Studies In Dub, Chapter One. The release was populated by compos...

Mari Mari gets cagey as hell on “Mile Wide”

Tyler Maas

May 2, 2025

At this point, it's possible (if not probable) you've yet to hear Mari Mari. In its relatively brief history, the band—which features past members of Flat Teeth, John The Savage, Those Royals, and Saebra & ...

Alley Eyes embrace the anthemic side of indie sleaze with excellent “No Good”

Matt Wild

April 30, 2025

Are we in the midst of an "indie sleaze" revival? You know, that pocket of 2000s-era music and culture epitomized by bands like The Strokes, The Killers, and LCD Soundsystem? That moment in time when everyone w...

The Daniel James Gang plumbs “Darkness Over This Town” in new maxi-single

Matt Wild

January 27, 2025

You know what we could go for right now? A hooky-as-hell glam-punk gem filled with bright and chiming guitars, sneering vocals, plenty of "whoa-whoa-whoa"s, and lyrics about being a kid trapped in a dead-end to...

Listen to Body Futures’ first record in six years, ‘Do Not Befriend The Reaper’

Matt Wild

November 21, 2024

"It's definitely our COVID record." "We're definitely a little more bummed out than we were the last time." That's DJ Hostettler and Dixie Jacobs, respectively, drummer/singer and keyboardist/autoharpist/sing...

Listen to Bunk Bed’s restless full-length debut, ‘Roughhousing’

Matt Wild

November 6, 2024

What's in a name? When it comes to Milwaukee indie-/art-/math-rock outfit Bunk Bed, quite a lot. The group emerged in 2022, releasing the two-song Top Bunk, Bottom Bunk. Both songs ("Crowd And Judgement," "B...

Get lost in the dream-pop goodness of Brief Candles’ ‘Unfinished Nature’

Matt Wild

October 22, 2024

In the final moments of David Lynch and Mark Frost's 2017 Twin Peaks revival, a puzzled and temporally adrift Agent Cooper asks "What year is this?" The same question comes to mind while listening to the music ...

Rat Bath reinvents itself, asks “Idk Guys…Does This EP Even Pass The Bechdel Test?”

Matt Wild

August 27, 2024

It's a question that has stumped scholars for centuries: How do you follow up a "murder country rock opera" concept album about a star-crossed vampire and a time-traveler—itself a follow-up to a previous concep...

Get down, get dirty, listen to new Devils Teeth record ‘The Key Of Dickie G’

Matt Wild

August 22, 2024

"The gritty, raw sleaziness that comes through in the record definitely was enhanced by where and how we recorded." That's Devils Teeth saxophone blower Caleb Westphal, talking about the recording of the gro...

Daniel James revives Daniel James Gang solo project, says hello to “Misery”

Matt Wild

April 29, 2024

Back in January 2023, longtime Milwaukee glam/punk/power/sleaze-pop group Indonesian Junk called it quits. "It's been a great 8 1/2 years playing with Mike, Johnny, and all of the other amazing people who have ...

Listen to the first new Chinese Telephones music in more than 15 years

Matt Wild

November 8, 2023

If it feels like it's been a minute since you read the words "new Chinese Telephones music," that's because it has. Oh, it has. The Milwaukee punk outfit formed way back in 2004, and released a self-titled full...

Ahead of new album, Rat Bath is “Calling All Monsters”

Matt Wild

November 7, 2023

If Rat Bath was a video game, it would be a video game loaded with (free!) DLC. The Milwaukee group's debut album, 2022's Rat From Hell, wasn't just an opening level of cowpunk, queercore, and self-described "y...

Hughes Family Band spends ‘One Last Night With Nathan Hughes’

Matt Wild

November 29, 2022

The title of Hughes Family Band's debut full-length, One Last Night With Nathan Hughes, is a somber hat-tip to its tragic backstory. Nathan Hughes, the band's co-founder and one half of its namesake (joining br...

Cozy up to the debut EP from Bunk Bed, ‘Top Bunk, Bottom Bunk’

Matt Wild

November 15, 2022

There's an old episode of Unsolved Mysteries about a family in Horicon, Wisconsin, who, back in 1987, claimed their house was haunted. Their story covered all the classics—demonic forces, hellish visions, terri...

Hear a song from all 3 of Gallery Night’s forthcoming 7-inches

Tyler Maas

March 28, 2018

If you're reading this article, it's probably for one of two reasons. Reason #1: You've mistakenly stumbled on this, thinking it had information about Bay View Gallery Night or another artsy event. Reason #2: D...

Get caught up in the scorching new Static Eyes EP, ‘Traps’

Tyler Maas

August 22, 2017

Boasting accomplished acts like The Mistreaters, Jaill, The Delphines, The Goodnight Loving, and so many more, Milwaukee's semi-recent garage rock history is quite impressive. Currently, the city's garage rock ...

Stream Nickel&Rose’s effusive European souvenir, ‘Oh Sweet Love’

Tyler Maas

April 18, 2017

When we last heard from Nickel&Rose, the folk duo composed of guitarist Carl Nichols (Painted Caves, RAS Movement) and upright bass player Johanna Rose (New Boyz Club, Ruth B8r Ginsburg, Thistledown Thunder...

Stream the new Midnight Reruns single, “Scorpion”

Tyler Maas

February 13, 2017

At the tail end of 2015, Midnight Reruns continued to show listeners they were a force to be reckoned with by releasing Force Of Nurture. Within months of putting out the outstanding sophomore record (which w...

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