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Exclusive: Punctuate your summer with two songs from (ORB)’s Inside Voices

Matt Wild
July 21, 2015
Take one glance at the curious punctuation surrounding the name of Milwaukee/Chicago synth-rock duo (ORB), and you wouldn’t be blamed for dismissing the band as an aside, an afterthought. Both of the band’s mem...

Exclusive: Stream The Grovelers’ delightfully trashy debut, Derelicts And Screw-Ups

Matt Wild
July 14, 2015
If you’re looking for subtlety in your music—poetic and tender lyrics, intricate and feather-light instrumentation—The Grovelers are not the band for you. “When you wear your Sunday best / I tear you up and I e...

Exclusive: Get lost in the childlike psychedelia of Ravi/Lola’s 20-song sophomore album

Matt Wild
July 8, 2015
The psych revival currently sweeping Milwaukee and the rest of the country tends to lean toward a heavier, rock-inspired sound. Reverb-drenched guitars, reverb-drenched vocals, reverb-drenched...well, you get t...

Let your freak flag fly with D’Amato’s awesome “BPA Free”

Matt Wild
July 7, 2015
With modern home recording technology and this thing we call the Internet, it’s entirely possible to write, record, and release a full-length album in the span of a long weekend. Whip up a few songs, track them...

Exclusive: Listen to the Dashcam remix of Klassik’s “STAGESlayer”

Matt Wild
June 12, 2015
Klassik has always been a man ahead of the curve. Since bursting on the scene with 2012’s In The Making and 2013’s YRP (Young Rising Phenoms), the rapper/singer/musician/producer has continually raised the bar ...

Exclusive: Listen to a track from Hello Death’s upcoming album, Remnants

Matt Wild
May 12, 2015
Band monikers can often be random and arbitrary, but Milwaukee’s Hello Death is nothing if not aptly named. The experimental folk quartet—made up of members of Group Of The Altos—is both welcoming and morose, f...

Exclusive: Listen to Fudgy, featuring members of Crappy Dracula 2 and Scrimshaw

Matt Wild
April 28, 2015
Before we begin, let’s talk about that name: Fudgy. Yes, there is now a band in Milwaukee called Fudgy. As in, “These brownies are kind of fudgy,” or, “Put that fudge down, Steve, it’s getting too fudgy in here...

Exclusive: Listen to Surgeons In Heat’s excellent comeback album, Disaster

Matt Wild
April 9, 2015
For the past five years or so, Surgeons In Heat have had the distinction of being one of Milwaukee’s best bands and one of its most elusive. Following the release of two EPs in 2011 and 2012—both of which were ...

Exclusive: Stream Pay The Devil’s debut, Wrong Side Of The River

Tyler Maas
April 2, 2015
Wrong Side Of The River, the debut album by self-dubbed "shantygrass outfit" Pay The Devil, was three years in the making. Fortunately, the band's union of Appalachian folk, outlaw country, bluegrass and roots ...

Exclusive: Stream two songs from YLLA’s self-titled album

Tyler Maas
March 24, 2015
At least on paper, having members whose other projects land in the neighborhoods of psych, rock, jazz, and experimental R&B doesn’t make Milwaukee outfit YLLA (pronounced “E-Luh”) an easy band to pigeonhole...

Exclusive: Listen to two glam-tastic songs from Rio Turbo’s upcoming self-titled album

Matt Wild
March 10, 2015
Somewhere between a scuzzy basement party and a VIP champagne room resides Milwaukee’s preeminent party-pop outfit Rio Turbo. Led by the tireless, occasionally clothed Joe Peterson (who also does time as bassis...

Exclusive: Dive into Soup Moat’s 6-song EP, Enjoy Your Hobbies

Tyler Maas
March 2, 2015
For much of its existence, Soup Moat's name was routinely and understandably found in and around the term "sludge." However, in the 12 months since the band's most recent release, Inspirations, Soup Moat has un...

Exclusive: Make a deal with Devil Met Contention’s new EP, American Times

Matt Wild
February 24, 2015
Ehson Rad has lived in New Mexico, Texas, Michigan, and now Milwaukee. That mileage, and plenty more, permeates American Times, the new EP from Rad and his pitch-black southern gothic outfit Devil Met Contentio...

Exclusive: Listen to Group Of The Altos’ unhinged masterpiece, R U Person Or Not

Matt Wild
February 19, 2015
“No one shares, no one shares, no one shares anymore / Just the kids, just the kids, just the kids and the poor.” So sing Group Of The Altos on “Learning To Share,” the opening track of their second record, R U...

Exclusive: Listen to Midwives’ brief, blistering self-titled LP

Cal Roach
February 17, 2015
For their third release in under a year, Midwives don’t go with a radically different formula, but this self-titled LP still feels like a significant step forward for the band’s sound. In terms of two-minute ha...

Exclusive: Stream Breadking’s winter compilation, Coal

Tyler Maas
February 9, 2015
As anyone who was at Mitten Fest Saturday can attest, spring is on its way. Still, despite the slowly rising temperatures, the increased amount of daylight, and Brewers pitchers and catchers mere days from repo...

Exclusive: Listen to Whips’ undeniably awesome new album, Turn It On

Matt Wild
December 16, 2014
Midway through Whips’ swaggering, scorching debut LP, Turn It On, the band lets off the throttle and switches gears for an out-of-character surprise: a piano ballad. “I won’t forever glow / I won’t forever glow...

Exclusive: Stream Buffalo Gospel’s unreleased song “Here Lies Our Lovin’”

Tyler Maas
November 12, 2014
Last summer, Buffalo Gospel came out with its outstanding and emotionally wrought first full-length, We Can Be Horses, which straddled conventions of classic country and Americana whilst easily earning a spot i...

Exclusive: Listen to Drag, the debut EP from NO/NO (ex-Delphines)

Matt Wild
October 28, 2014
The Delphines were one of the best Milwaukee bands of the 2010s, firing forth a series of EPs and singles stuffed with jittery, sexy, reverb-drenched gloom-rock. But soon after the group finally got around to r...

Exclusive: Listen to Ladders’ excellent debut album, Suha

Matt Wild
October 24, 2014
In just five short years, the Riverwest-based Breadking collective has made its mark on the city’s music scene by nurturing a seemingly endless number of young bands, and by providing an informal support networ...
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