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WMSE’s Local/Live: Piles (Live from Anodyne)

June 7, 2023

WMSE's local and live in-studio showcase, Local/Live, airs Tuesdays 6-7 p.m. You can find past episodes HERE. Beginning in 2023, we're also collecting episodes on a handy Soundcloud playlist. milwaukeerecord ...

Piles is back and better than ever on ‘5:53’

Tyler Maas

May 11, 2023

If you've looked at this website with any regularity these past few weeks, you've likely stumbled upon articles pertaining to the unexpected reemergence of Piles, an exceptional Milwaukee post-punk project we m...

Take a ride with Piles and watch the “Be The Way” music video

Tyler Maas

May 5, 2023

After what seems like a year of cold, wet, windy, rainy, snowy, and predominately gray conditions that were basically just a cruel continuation of winter, it seems as if spring is finally here...on the fifth da...

Listen to us talk about new Milwaukee music with WUWM’s Lake Effect (April 2023)

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 2, 2023

Once a month, Milwaukee Record's own Matt Wild gets his NPR on by sitting down with WUWM's Lake Effect and discussing some of his favorite new Milwaukee records and songs. Listen to the latest installment HE...

Piles return with soaring new single, “Ice Age”

Tyler Maas

April 7, 2023

As society continues to move on from a worldwide pandemic, we're now learning the status of various projects in the Milwaukee music scene. Most often, we've seen bands quietly call it quits as members either fo...

3 Milwaukee musicians tell us why they love the Cleveland Browns

Tyler Maas

December 6, 2017

The Cleveland Browns are bad. That's the no secret, though. Since returning to the NFL as an expansion team in 1999 (following a heartbreaking move to Baltimore after the 1995 season), the franchise has managed...

The second time is a charm for Piles on ‘Expeller’

Tyler Maas

March 9, 2017

Last winter, just a few months removed from the release of the locally-lauded Planet Skin, Piles returned to the studio with aspirations of knocking out a new batch of songs for another album over the course of...

Piles bassist lightens up with solo project, \\NASTOS\\

Tyler Maas

June 7, 2016

// Last May, a little-known trio called Piles forcefully announced its arrival with Planet Skin, its sophomore album and a near-masterpiece of Milwaukee-made post-punk that earned the No. 6 slot on our "25 ...

Behold Milwaukee’s latest supergroup, Dorth Nakota

Tyler Maas

September 2, 2015

Here in the age of the side project, it's not uncommon for new bands to be constructed from pieces that already (or at least recently) put to use in other acts. Bands like Whips, New Boyz Club, and Foreign Good...

Stream the new Piles full-length, Planet Skin

Tyler Maas

May 5, 2015

"The same actions, expecting different outcomes"—the pre-chorus croon in "Mude," partway through Piles' Planet Skin—is a strangely apt lyric for a band that hasn't changed much since its great introductory salv...

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