Tagged Stream

October 9, 2014

In a time when the number of bands on planet Earth rivals the amount of water on planet Earth, it’s rare to find a “band’s band.” You know, a band that other bands respect, regardless of style or genre. Milwauk...

Exclusive: Stream Grasping At Straws’ debut full-length

September 24, 2014

Riverwest is presently riding a wave of talented twenty-somethings who are pitching in oodles of enthusiasm, classical training, and a host of styles that are equally eclectic and inventive to forge an understa...

Exclusive: Stream Greatest Lakes’ self-titled debut album

September 22, 2014

We’re living in an age where an artist can conceivably wake up, write a song, record that song on a personal computer, and make the hours-old rendering available to listeners in any Internet-equipped nook of th...

Exclusive: Stream the new Old Earth album, A Wake In The Wells

August 26, 2014

Todd Umhoefer is that rare breed of modern artist who thrusts his work in front of everything else. Regular income, consistent housing, and any semblance of security be damned. It amounts to shit if the music i...

Exclusive: Stream Arctic Sleep’s heavy, gorgeous new album, Passage Of Gaia

August 18, 2014

Like rock, hip-hop, and nearly every other genre of music known to man, metal comes in a variety of subtle but recognizable flavors: classic, speed, doom, sludge, Norwegian death, etc. The metal embraced by Mil...

Exclusive: Hear Castle Thunder’s new single, “Singing Birds”

August 11, 2014

Ahead of Castle Thunder’s Friday night show at Linneman’s, the oft-overlooked outfit—one of the brightest spots of this year’s great Locust Street Festival—has decided to toss a musical morsel into the moat to ...

Exclusive: Listen to Body Futures’ terrific debut album, Brand New Silhouettes

August 5, 2014

Let’s take a moment to honor those bands that refuse to play the kind of music that typically gets streamed on NPR. Let’s take a moment to pay tribute to bands that stick to their noisy, straight-up rock-and-ro...

Exclusive: Listen to the putrid new Drugs Dragons album, II & I/II

July 24, 2014

Some albums instantly reward listeners with big hooks, sparkling production, and an eagerness to please. Other albums offer up complex arrangements and knotty lyrics, challenging listeners to unlock the rewards...

Exclusive: Stream the debut GGOOLLDD EP, $TANDARD$

July 23, 2014

Since the project played its first show just over nine months ago, GGOOLLDD has been privy to a wealth of positive local attention and cherry gigs ranging from beer-celebrating block parties, concert cruises, a...

Exclusive: Stream Bright Kind’s self-titled debut

July 18, 2014

The new self-titled album by Bright Kind is technically the indie-leaning pop project’s debut record. However, 75 percent of the quartet has played together since 2008. In 2012, Jeanna Salzer Trio subtracted th...

Exclusive: Stream Jay Joslyn’s new EP, Here! I Live Here!

July 14, 2014

Who is Jay Joslyn? Local music fans may better know this under-the-radar solo artist from his contributions as drummer of area folk fixture Ugly Brothers, or singer (sometimes into a telephone receiver) of oddb...

Exclusive: Stream Comedic Release Vol. 2

July 9, 2014

Believe it or not, Milwaukee comedy is in the midst of a renaissance. Besides area humorists landing opening gigs for noted touring acts like Michael Ian Black, Kumail Nanjiani, and Kyle Kinane at traditional v...

Exclusive: Hear two new songs (and watch one new video) from Heidi Spencer And The Rare Birds

June 10, 2014

Let’s talk about Heidi Spencer’s voice. It’s a voice like a waking dream: sleepy-eyed but lucid, lost in the wilderness but always in control. Over the course of four albums and more than 10 years, it’s a voice...

Exclusive: Listen to Calamity Janes And The Fratney Street Band’s debut, Easier, Better

June 9, 2014

The Calamity Janes have been a going Milwaukee concern for only a year or so, but they already feel as old as the city itself. That’s party due to the members’ deep ties to the local scene, but also because the...

Exclusive: Listen to the new Calliope album, ORBIS

June 2, 2014

On its 2013 self-titled debut, Calliope sneered at current musical trends and offered up a sleazy, unabashed slab of dirty roadhouse blues. It was the kind of record that felt willfully out of time, something t...

Exclusive: Listen to a new Sat. Nite Duets song, “On My Honor”

May 29, 2014

No Milwaukee band is better attuned to summer’s giddy highs and bittersweet lows than Sat. Nite Duets. The scrappy Riverwest outfit has grappled with the summer season on nearly all of its albums—hell, one of t...

Exclusive: Listen to Space Raft’s ridiculously great debut album

May 7, 2014

Few Milwaukee albums in recent history have drummed up as much pre-release hype than the self-titled debut from Space Raft. There are plenty of reasons for that: The band’s résumé is top-notch (members have don...

Exclusive: Listen to the debut album from Antler House, Through The Dirt

April 29, 2014

Don’t feel bad if the name Antler House doesn’t sound familiar. Though the Milwaukee trio has been kicking around Riverwest cafes and basements just shy of two years, the band has only recently upped its show s...

Exclusive: Listen to two songs from The Delphines’ upcoming album, Hush