Tag: The Fatty Acids

The glorious, not-so-messy return of The Fatty Acids

September 15, 2026

Time, they say, is an illusion. The '90s were 15 years ago, right? YouTube will be celebrating its 10th anniversary soon, and last summer was a Brat Summer to remember. Locally, The Fatty Acids have been contin...

MKE Music Rewind: The Fatty Acids, ‘Leftover Monsterface’

Tyler Maas

March 26, 2021

In our MKE Music Rewind series, we revisit notable Milwaukee music that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014. The local music scene seems to operate in cycles. When looking back ...

Meet OQ, the Milwaukee project that’s part of Justin Vernon’s new artist collective

Tyler Maas

December 5, 2018

Earlier this year, Justin Vernon and the Dessner brothers announced the creation of PEOPLE, an artist collective that—according to a statement on its website—functions as "a steadily growing group of artists, f...

What the hell, here are some more Milwaukee-made holiday songs

Tyler Maas

December 26, 2017

Almost every December of Milwaukee Record's existence, we've rounded up a mess of amazingly tolerable local songs that are helping to improve the predominately terrible holiday music genre. This year was no dif...

Public Domain: The Fatty Acids perform “Toyland”

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 21, 2017

Milwaukee Record is proud to present Public Domain. The monthly video series features Milwaukee musicians setting up at Colectivo Coffee to adapt some of the world’s best-known songs in ways they’ve never been ...

Hear Community Centaur’s cover of Radiohead’s “Idioteque”

Tyler Maas

August 31, 2017

Though our monthly music video series and our annual benefit concert might suggest otherwise, we aren't exactly the biggest fans of cover songs. Still, there's something to be said for an artist deconstructing ...

The Fatty Acids unleash long-awaited album, ‘Dogs Of Entertainment’

Tyler Maas

February 21, 2017

The year was 2013. A revitalized Milwaukee music scene was abuzz with activity, and a young synth-pop sextuplet called The Fatty Acids was helping to lead the charge with a steady diet of lively local shows, ...

Exclusive: Stream The Fatty Acids’ “Strangers / In Your House,” from the upcoming ‘Dogs Of Entertainment’

Matt Wild

January 10, 2017

There comes a point in every long-running band's career when listeners (and writers) start tossing around words like "veterans" and "fixtures." Ready or not, The Fatty Acids have arrived at that point. Over the...

The Fatty Acids’ Josh Evert embraces the environment in ‘Uncle Sam’s Club For The Agoraphobic’

Tyler Maas

August 10, 2016

// Though best known as the frontman of The Fatty Acids and drummer of Jaill, Josh Evert has ventured into unfamiliar territory and struck out on his own for his last two efforts. Seriously. In December, he...

The Fatty Acids take on beauty standards, reality TV in “Little Brother Syndrome” video

Matt Wild

August 5, 2016

// "Some people hatchet tree trunks / Some people wipe out brutes / None of these things describe what we do." So go the opening lines to The Fatty Acids' frantic, delightfully self-flagellating song "Littl...

Hear Jack Tell’s finger-tapping cover of The Fatty Acids’ “Flamingo Graveyard”

Tyler Maas

April 23, 2016

// One of the best byproducts of Arte Para Todos is the way the benefit brings musicians—oftentimes performers from entirely different ends of the music landscape who would otherwise never perform on the sa...

The Fatty Acids’ Derek De Vinney goes it alone as Lingerer

Tyler Maas

February 9, 2016

// After being at or at least near the forefront of Milwaukee's music scene since 2010's Stop Berries, Berries And Berries, Berries, The Fatty Acids have experienced some changes. Once relied upon to play a...

The Fatty Acids use best parts of old footage for “Worst Part” video

Tyler Maas

October 19, 2015

On top of The Fatty Acids' energetic live shows and steady wave of increasingly great records (including Boléro, which we called the third best Milwaukee album of the 2010s last year), the synth-pop outfit is k...

Sat. Nite Duets and The Fatty Acids rekindle b-ball rivalry for art’s sake

Tyler Maas

September 16, 2014

Wouldn't it be cool if music videos were real? Imagine a universe where a woman could be whisked away to an exhilarating animated world like the one in A-ha's "Take On Me", where Paula Abdul and MC Skat Kat cou...

My all-Milwaukee Mile Of Music

Tyler Maas

August 11, 2014

As I’m prone to sliding into posts from time-to-time, I grew up in the Fox Cities. For almost 20 years of my life, I had an Appleton mailing address. It’s a great place, but there always seemed to be a lack of ...

Dust off those headshots and audition for The Fatty Acids’ new video

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 19, 2014

In addition to making our third favorite record of the 2010s (so far), synth-y scene staples The Fatty Acids are also responsible for some of our favorite music videos. The canon of Milwaukee music videos is ri...

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