Jon Mueller Archives - Milwaukee Record

Watch the hilariously deadpan Milwaukee-made feature film ‘The College Girl’

September 14, 2016

College is a thrilling gateway into adulthood and freedom, a means of declaring one's independence, and a shot at reinvention and discovery. Yes, a new school year comes complete with the promise of new exp...

We talk Death Blues with Jon Mueller and David Ravel in Episode 4 of On The Record

Milwaukee Record Staff

January 30, 2015

In Episode 4 of Milwaukee Record’s weekly podcast, On The Record, Matt sits down with the city’s most tireless drummer/percussionist/artist Jon Mueller, as well as Alverno Presents Director David Ravel to discu...

The big questions and simple answers of Jon Mueller’s “Death Blues: Ensemble”

Matt Wild

January 27, 2015

The story goes like this: In 2011, Jon Mueller was walking through the streets of New Orleans. The post-Katrina city was buzzing, full of life, optimistic—despite the fact that another hurricane was all but ine...

New Jon Mueller record will be called Initiation, won’t actually be a record

Matt Wild

January 13, 2015

It’s hard to overstate the raw power and beauty of Jon Mueller’s 2014 Death Blues album, Ensemble. We placed the haunting, otherworldly, and emotionally devastating instrumental post-rock record at no. 2 on our...

Watch the hypnotic video for Death Blues’ “Languaging”

Matt Wild

September 17, 2014

When we awarded a perfect five-out-of-five stars to Ensemble, the latest release from Jon Mueller’s sprawling Death Blues project, it wasn’t because it was necessarily better than any other Milwaukee album we’v...

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