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Stream Ugly Brothers’ long-awaited album, ’16 Tiny Mountains’

August 8, 2016

//As ubiquitous has Ugly Brothers' name has become on show bills and festivals since the band's 2011 origin, the Riverwest folk project has released shockingly few songs. It's been two years since Ugly Bro...

Exclusive: Stream the pretty Ugly Brothers single, “Again & Again”

Tyler Maas

May 19, 2016

//By the time the first Ugly Brothers full-length, 16 Tiny Mountains, is released on August 13, close to two years will have passed since the Riverwest folk project put out its self-titled debut EP. To be ...

Johanna Rose lets New Boyz Club out of the house and onto the stage

Tyler Maas

November 14, 2014

As the upright bass player of Calamity Janes And The Fratney Street Band, Johanna Rose provides the rhythmic backbone and contributes one fourth of the gorgeous and formidable harmonic wave for which the buddin...

Exclusive: Stream the self-titled debut EP by Ugly Brothers

Tyler Maas

August 28, 2014

Founded in 2011 by brothers Alex and Palmer Shah—two Milwaukee transplants of debatable attractiveness from Green Bay—Ugly Brothers kept its original emo-meets-Delta-blues output confined to house shows and Riv...

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

Milwaukee Record Staff

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...

Bandsketball courts 32 Milwaukee music acts

Tyler Maas

June 19, 2014

When it comes to music, the title of “best” is almost always subjective. Try as writers may to remain impartial, it’s only natural for at least some personal preference to trickle into record reviews and year-e...

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