Scrimshaw Archives - Milwaukee Record

Revel in the public domain weirdness of Scrimshaw’s “Town Lazer” video

July 5, 2016

//There's no other Milwaukee band like Scrimshaw. Hell, there may be no other band anywhere like Scrimshaw. The delightfully weirdo art-rock band has been kicking it for more than a decade now, releasing alb...

Fudgy preps double album release show with “actual reality” videos, no live music

Matt Wild

March 29, 2016

//When we last checked in with Fudgy, a Milwaukee supergroup (of sorts) featuring members of Crappy Dracula 2 and Scrimshaw, the band that's "barely a band" was releasing a song called "Dispensational Trut...

Scrimshaw’s ‘Welcome To The Henry Herschel Commercial’ is wonderfully weird, just plain wonderful

Matt Wild

November 19, 2015

To enter the world of Scrimshaw is to enter a world where Dr. Demento rules the radio, Mad magazine is required college reading, and Don Knotts is People’s “Sexiest Man Alive” for the 10th year running. Milwa...

Robert Thomas recreates “Dropping A Han Dynasty Urn” by dropping a signed 50 Cent vodka bottle

Matt Wild

September 10, 2015

// Back in July, we made a pilgrimage to the Oak Creak Woodman’s and braved blistering temperatures, an endless line, and a runaway trash can to get a bottle of EFFEN Vodka signed by 50 Cent. We left feeling ...

Dance, dance, dance! (To new Scrimshaw and Heavy Hand videos)

Matt Wild

October 14, 2014

Music videos can be used to communicate many things: the meaning of a song, the subtext of a song, or an elaborate story that has little or nothing to do with a song. Then there are music videos like the new on...

Put on your (orthopedic) dancing shoes for Scrimshaw’s “Hoopula” video

Matt Wild

October 8, 2014

If there’s a more willfully weird and gleefully enjoyable Milwaukee band working today than Scrimshaw, we haven’t found it. For the past few years, the oddball trio of singer-guitarist Robert Thomas, singer-dru...

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