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Exclusive: Hear Paper Holland make fresh prints on “Jazzy Jeff”

March 28, 2016

//If it seems like it's been forever since you've heard a new Paper Holland song, well, that's probably because it's been forever since there's been a new Paper Holland song. The indie-pop outfit's debut a...

Stream all three songs from Northless’ pummeling ‘Cold Migration’

Matt Wild

March 7, 2016

//There's a reason terms like "pummeling" and "heavy as fuck" get tossed around when talking about Northless—the band's music tends to be, well, pummeling and heavy as fuck. For nearly a decade, the Milwau...

Exclusive: Stream Slow Walker’s ‘Robert Plantain’s Grunge Lords’

Tyler Maas

March 2, 2016

//Milwaukee is hurting for rock and roll. Despite the positive state of local punk rock and (evidently) heavy metal, and there being no shortage of "indie rock" bands clustered beneath the catch-all classi...

Exclusive: Stream WORK’s new LP, ‘Doing The Lords’

Tyler Maas

February 24, 2016

//WORK is a tough band to pin down. With toes dipped in the divergent waters of punk, folk, and even on the surface country, the trio manages to subtly nod to a wide breadth of acts that range from Lucero ...

Exclusive: Stream the new Brat Sounds EP, ‘Gatorade’

Tyler Maas

February 12, 2016

//Following a solid self-titled debut put out under the name Brat Sounds in late 2014, former Dinny Bulca singer Scott Cary's new project really started to hit its stride last September with the release of...

Exclusive: Stream the self-titled Indonesian Junk album that’s going ’round

Matt Wild

February 2, 2016

//Genre labels can be maddening for musicians and listeners alike, offering little to no indication of what an artist actually sounds like. (Honk if the words "post-punk" always leave you with a blank stare....

Exclusive: Revel in the blues-rock goodness of The Young Revelators’ ‘All I See’

Matt Wild

January 13, 2016

//When one thinks of the sound of Riverwest, "earnest blues-rock" probably doesn't come to mind. Yet here are The Young Revelators, a young (natch) trio hailing from the ever-buzzing neighborhood, speciali...

Exclusive: Stream Hot Coffin’s new single, “Whistle, Hawk & Spit”

Tyler Maas

December 8, 2015

//It’s fitting that within 24 hours of rounding up what we consider to be the 25 best Milwaukee albums of 2015, Milwaukee’s Hot Coffin unveils a song that, if any indication of the caliber of the other sev...

Exclusive: Stream Greatest Lakes’ cover of The Beach Boys’ “All I Wanna Do”

Tyler Maas

December 1, 2015

//It’s a fine line, really. While most can agree there are few things in music that are more loathsome than watching a true blue cover band perform earnest bastardizations of other musicians’ material on s...

Exclusive: Stream Buffalo Gospel’s tragic EP, ‘Waiting For The Lights To Go Out’

Tyler Maas

November 30, 2015

//Buffalo Gospel possesses the uncanny ability of writing material that manages to be both immensely gorgeous and devastatingly sad. With an unmistakable nod to classic country and a penchant for bleary, b...

Exclusive: Stream GGOOLLDD’s new EP, ‘For The Night’

Tyler Maas

November 5, 2015

//It’s incredible to think that GGOOLLDD has only been around for two years. Originally intended to be a playful project that would dissolve after its inaugural show in an East Side attic three Halloweens ...

Exclusive: Stream HoneyBee’s gorgeous ‘The Hollow Tree EP’

Tyler Maas

October 23, 2015

Milwaukee music is in the midst of a renaissance. Much of the rapid growth, inarguable improvement, and increased national attention to which the city has been privy lately can be largely explained by the ongoi...

Exclusive: Revel (and wallow) in the old-school country of Doghouse Flowers’ ‘Cold Comfort’

Matt Wild

October 22, 2015

There exists a grey zone between radio-friendly mainstream country and critic-friendly alt-country. For all intents and purposes, let’s call that zone, well, “country.” Milwaukee’s Doghouse Flowers occupy that ...

Exclusive: Listen to Testa Rosa’s shapeshifting third album, III

Matt Wild

August 25, 2015

The word “pretty” gets tossed around a lot when talking about Testa Rosa. It’s easy to see why: Over the course of two full-length albums—2007’s I and 2011’s II—the veteran Milwaukee band has trafficked in lovi...

Exclusive: Listen to two songs from The Scarring Party’s final album, End Times

Matt Wild

August 6, 2015

It’s perhaps surprising that a band specializing in defiantly out-of-time music should make it to its 10th anniversary. But for The Scarring Party, standing apart from musical trends both locally and nationally...

S.S. Web plots its revenge with latest album

Jared Blohm

August 4, 2015

With wild eyes, a shaved head, and a silver front tooth, the heavily tattooed Henry Berger has the look of a hardened sailor of yesteryear. The S.S. Web lead singer delivers tales of drinking hard and loving wr...

Exclusive: Listen to the title track from Marielle Allschwang’s solo debut, Dead Not Done

Matt Wild

August 4, 2015

If Marielle Allschwang’s voice seems familiar, there’s a reason for that. For the past five years the Milwaukee musician has provided vocals—along with violin, guitar, and percussion—for some of the city’s best...

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...