As a Milwaukee-based music blog, it is our obligation to not only bring Milwaukee to the world, but bring the world to Milwaukee, as well. Five To Watch submissions are handled exclusively through ReverbNation. Click here to submit music to be one of next month’s Five To Watch. Welcome to our initial edition of Five To Watch for August 2016!
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While new hip hop artists seem to pop up out of the woodwork constantly in Milwaukee, the number of new collectives that emerge are few and far between. Enter Dirty Rotten Socialists, a new group consisting of emcees Will Static, Sunny Lou, $moov, and McNasty McNu. “Ways” is the first track from their upcoming EP, and they’ve enlisted the help of
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JV Harris is a newcomer to Breaking And Entering, but is a veteran musician in Milwaukee. The emcee has been around for the past seven years, but his latest release “The Unusual College Kid” is his introduction to Milwaukee on a larger scale. As Harris states on the project’s opener, “Open Up”, he’s “just a loner tryna’ open up”, and
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Milwaukee hip hop duo ZMBPCK (pronounced “Zombie Pack”) recently released the video for single “Mood” and they go straight up Office Space on their work space. With a pair of talented emcees, and some quality production, the group have a unique sound of their own. There’s elements of trap, but conventional hip hop prevails on this track, and ZMBPCK lay
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In the sea of Milwaukee music, another name has emerged with a solid project. Rudy Cobb took a two year hiatus from releasing music, but is back with the “Chris Farley” EP. The EP gets its name not only because Farley was a fellow Wisconsinite, but also because it discusses the issues of drug abuse, anxiety, and depression, some of
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Milwaukee’s favorite raspy voice emcee is back, as Lah-Kid recently released a new single, “I Got It”, featuring spitter Chevy Keyz. Backed by a trap-ready beat, Lah throws out bars with ease, in his signature sound and style that has become a fixture of north side Milwaukee rap. Both Lah-Kid and Chevy Keyz aren’t shy about their lives in the
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Sights from around the Milwaukee stop of the Vans Warped Tour, featuring Real Friends, Less Than Jake, Masked Intruder, Reel Big Fish, New Found Glory, Yellowcard, Sum 41, and more! Photography by Allen Halas and Lara Seeby.
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Tuesday afternoon brought the Warped Tour to Milwaukee. The traveling festival, now in it’s 21st year, is an annual gathering of all things punk, screamo, and whatever the hell the kids are into these days. This year’s lineup featured a lot of the bands that helped propel the tour to new heights, including Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish, Yellowcard,
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What do The Violent Femmes, Nine Inch Nails, and Dresden Dolls all have in common? At one point or another, all three have featured drummer Brian Viglione. These days, however, Viglione has taken on a new endeavor, along with his wife, Olya. Scarlet Sails is their project, and the band is hitting the road to make a name for themselves.
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The narrative of Penny Bridges as an emerging singer/songwriter continues. The 22 year old singer/songwriter from Wolverhampton, England caught our ear a while back, and her latest track, “Tomorrow”, has done the same. With a delightfully raspy voice and a healthy dose of percussion behind her, Penny is already showing improvements from the initial releases that we heard from her,
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The intersection of hip hop, indie, funk, and pop is a glorious one, with projects like Broken Bells, Gnarls Barkley, and more residing their comfortably, making tremendous music in the process. A new name that could feasibly added to that genre-blending intersection is False8o, the side project of NONOYEAHOKAY’s Colin Plant and LMNTlyst. The first release from the duo, “Zonin’”
Read moreThere are some moments when you turn on a song and instantly know that it will get the crowd extra hyped up if it was played live. The latest from N.A.P.P.Y., “Make A Way” is one of those songs. With some extra heavy production, this is one to jump around to. This track is in celebration of a previous single
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Drenched in a sea of autotuned vocals and trap production, Milwaukee artists B.C. Tha Hybrid and Tito The Scumbag recently released a joint EP, “Alchemy”. The EP is nothing short of a showcase for the two, with both eager to make a name for themselves in the Milwaukee hip hop scene. They don’t save the spotlight for themselves, however; Suki,
Read moreLast night, Icelandic rock group Kaleo made their sequel appearance to a sold-out Turner Hall in a glorious way. Kaleo shatters everything you think you know about Icelandic music by ditching all the weird shit that made Bjork famous and in exchange giving us good old American style rock/blues. It’s clear who this band draws their influences from by creating their
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As a Milwaukee based music blog, Breaking And Entering has two obligations: to introduce Milwaukee music to the world, but to also bring a world of music to Milwaukee. That being said, I am thrilled to announce that Breaking And Entering has worked with Reverbnation to launch our monthly “Five To Watch” series. Every month, we will bring you five bands
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Max & The Invaders have a been a staple of Milwaukee music, as the city’s premiere ska group.While the lineup of the band has changed several times over, the quality of the band’s live performances have not faltered since their inception decades ago. The band recently kicked off the 2016 Ayre In The Square concert series at Catalano Square in
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At this point, the narrative of NOFX as a band can’t avoid the fact that the band did copious amounts of drugs over the years. In fact, their book “The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories”, tells you a great deal about the band’s past. However, it’s time for the group to grow up, and put down the drugs. They say
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Coming straight out of Melbourne, Australia, rapper Allday has a banger on his hands with his latest drop, “Sides”, featuring Nyne. Produced by Nyne and Cam Bluff, the production is on point, to say the least. With the perfect canvas, Allday demonstrates his smooth flow on this beat, and Nyne provides a hook that will leave this song stuck in
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Queens emcee KingAce decided to slow things down a little bit and talk to the ladies on his latest single, “Think Of You”. Flipping the infamous sample of Ghost Town DJ’s “My Boo”, which you youngins might know from the Running Man Challenge videos, KingAce puts his own spin on things over production from Elias. His verses are nothing short
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The landscape of contemporary urban pop is saturated, to say the least, with a new crop of wanna-Beyonce’s and autotuned Instagram models coming out of the ether regularly. However, Aleicia Nicole is neither or the aforementioned categories. Her latest single, “Too Often”, is radio ready, with just the right amount of smooth bounce and a healthy dose of sex appeal
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The debut album from Minneapolis natives Falling has arrived, and it came in like a bull through a china shop. “Out Of Sight” is a harsh, noisy, experimental album that will pull you in. With a pair of lengthy tracks in “I Can’t See” and “Silence”, the group isn’t afraid to let artistic integrity take over, and in between are
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Claire Kelly is almost constantly playing out somewhere in Milwaukee. This summer alone includes appearances at the Newaukee Night Market, multiple shows at Summerfest, Bastille Days, and Chill on the Hill, amongst other various venues in the area. With big plans in the works, she’s recently released an EP, entitled “Farwell Avenue”. Kelly is nothing short of a natural talent, with
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You may have seen singer/songwriter Ben Wagner gigging around the Milwaukee area recently. With his unique blend of indie and folk, Wagner is earning a reputation for his songwriting, and that’s evident on tracks like his latest release, “Homemade Cookies”. Much like you would hope from the title, the song gives you all sorts of warm, fuzzy feelings that a
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The Milwaukee music scene finds is starting to break out to other cities, as evidenced by touring acts and breakout national artists. Many times, the city of choice, especially for hip hop, is located down south. Case in point: the latest release from Memphis, Tennessee’s Coldway, who recently put out his “Gold Cupid” project. Not only is the album solid
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Let me preface this by saying that in no way would I ever consider voting for Donald Trump, unless he were to start his GOP Convention speech by speaking of Hillary Clinton, saying “I made that bitch famous”. Then I would only briefly consider it, and subsequently slap myself back into reality. I’m usually never one to get political, and
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