Tagged Stream

Get caught up in three gorgeous songs from Cairns’ latest, ‘Entanglement’

November 29, 2018

Back in March, Cairns released Cluttered Sky, a splendid sextet of songs that ranged from some previously unreleased "bedroom recordings" to intricate and vibrant new material with bandleader John Larkin (curre...

Stream The Zach Pietrini Band’s ‘Denver Sessions’ EP

Tyler Maas

November 27, 2018

Zach Pietrini loves to write songs.“I wrote a lot—mainly because it’s my way of making sense of my world,” Pietrini says. “As a result, there are tons of songs that I finish, but don't always feel like they...

Catch up with Saebra & Carlyle and hear new single, “Rabbit Hole”

Tyler Maas

November 23, 2018

Much has changed since we first introduced you to the "apocalyptic western" stylings of Saebra & Carlyle back in January. After officially starting out in late 2017, the duo consisting of longtime friends a...

Listen to the new Dramatic Lovers single, “The Comedown”

Tyler Maas

November 16, 2018

In 2017, Dramatic Lovers—the Milwaukee supergroup consisting of current or former members of Decibully, The Promise Ring, Temper Temper, and Maritime—spent the year playing out consistently and releasing a debu...

Vinz Clortho travels down a lost highway in “Endless Road”

Matt Wild

September 19, 2018

On paper, Milwaukee super-group Vinz Clortho sounds like a goof. Here are a bunch of musicians from bands like Calliope, Mortgage Freeman, Castle Thunder, and Mouse Corn playing in a group named after the Keyma...

Do the “Pierce Street Boogaloo” with the Hughes Family Band

Matt Wild

September 12, 2018

Milwaukee music is great, but there's something special about Milwaukee music that's about Milwaukee. Songs like Lorde Fredd33's "Reflections" can call attention to the city's ills, while songs like Maritime's ...

Listen to a new Nineteen Thirteen track, “Whistle Breath,” from the upcoming ‘Sci-Fi Romance’

Matt Wild

September 10, 2018

Victor DeLorenzo and Janet Schiff have invited me over to listen to their new Nineteen Thirteen EP, Sci-Fi Romance. Currently, however, more important matters are at hand. "I should have rescheduled after I rea...

C’mon and listen to the new Indonesian Junk EP, ‘Darkness Calling’

Matt Wild

August 21, 2018

Death. Taxes. Another snotty, glammed-up record from Milwaukee's Indonesian Junk. These are the three certainties in life, folks. One is grim, the other grimmer; happily, the third makes the whole thing worthwh...

Soup Moat gets sludgy, seedy, silly on terrific ‘Harvester Of Likes’

Matt Wild

July 10, 2018

The penultimate track of Soup Moat's third full-length album, Harvester Of Likes, is called "Porn In The Woods." A tribute to the small-town, pre-internet phenomenon of finding a stash of weathered Playboys und...

Rocket Paloma wonders if it’s the victim or the crime in “Ghosted”

Matt Wild

July 3, 2018

There's nothing simple about Rocket Paloma. Take the band's winding backstory: singer Joey Kerner played under the name as a solo act soon after taking a composition class at Cardinal Stritch, then remade the g...

S.S. Web steers into new water with ‘This Cold Soul’

Jared Blohm

June 6, 2018

After more than 10 years as a band, it was safe to assume what was coming on S.S. Web's fifth album—a dark, fast-paced blend of folk and punk with country and bluegrass influences tied together with lead singer...

Codebreaker unveils 26-track “best of” collection, plus unreleased “Sky Commander”

Matt Wild

May 22, 2018

Back in January 2017, Milwaukee's once mighty Codebreaker cracked six years of silence by releasing "When The Lights Go Down." The self-described "lost track" was a welcome reminder of the space-age future-disc...

Listen to Devil Met Contention “Take A Chance” with bold new sound

Matt Wild

May 18, 2018

Devil Met Contention needed a change."We'd been playing the songs off of our last album for a while," says DMC frontman Ehson Rad. "We did some small tours in the Midwest for them, and then we recorded them...

Listen to another single from Surgeons In Heat’s upcoming LP, ‘Bored Immortals’

Matt Wild

May 15, 2018

Back in February, we gave you a sneak peek of the upcoming Surgeons In Heat album, Bored Immortals. Here's what we had to say back then when we premiered the record's first single, "Why'd You Start?": This tim...

Smash that “like” button for Soup Moat’s “Navel Gaze,” from the upcoming ‘Harvester Of Likes’

Matt Wild

April 26, 2018

Soup Moat describes its sound as "heavy, silly sludge." Over the course of seven years, a pair of full-length albums, and a handful of EPs and demos (not to mention a host of lineup changes), the band has lived...

Calliope returns with psychedelic, end-of-the-world ‘Chapel Perilous’

Matt Wild

March 26, 2018

Early on in Chapel Perilous, the third psyched-out full-length album from Milwaukee's Calliope, things slow down. "The Dunes" is a three-minute-plus drone of noise and feedback, with wisps of riffs and hints of...

Stream three songs off Cairns’ splendid ‘Cluttered Sky’

Tyler Maas

March 8, 2018

While Cairns is less renowned than its members' other projects (Caley Conway, Temple, Calliope, YLLA, D'Amato, and Gauss, among them), the band has quietly managed an impressive catalog in its two-plus years on...

Meet Mini Meltdowns and stream a song from the band’s debut 7-inch

Tyler Maas

March 2, 2018

Even though Jon Phillip now lives in Nashville, he's still a notable figure in Milwaukee music. The former Benjamins and Trapper Scheopp drummer—who also kept time for nationally-known acts like Limbeck, Tommy ...

Listen to “Forest,” the first Greatest Lakes single since 2014

Tyler Maas

February 12, 2018

It's been a minute since we've heard from Greatest Lakes. Well, more accurately, it's been approximately a million minutes since we've heard from them. Back in 2014, the Milwaukee (by way of Kenosha) folk and i...

Stream No No Yeah Okay’s long-awaited sophomore EP, ‘Cabal’

Tyler Maas

February 9, 2018

No No Yeah Okay formed in 2014 and quickly endeared Milwaukee to its indie-leaning electronic style by way of 2015's Dual, which garnered its fair share of local airplay, streams in the hundreds of thousands, a...