Actor, comedian, and author Rhys Darby holds a band meeting about the day a pack of wild children nearly murdered him at a New Zealand Christmas parade.
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Chicago-by-way-of-Milwaukee act Kent Avenue Carpool dropped a new single last month. This bouncy guitar pop tune wears a jovial face but carries an anxious heart, lyrically touching on being unable to stop thinking about a love interest. There’s a palpable sense of urgency with “Arizona” that Kent Avenue Carpool tackle with a sweet swirl and restless anticipation. Check it out!
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Restraint Malfunction has his first new tape out since April. The prolific experimental noise artist delivers a grinding, buzzing, infernal composition that follows the arc of his previous work. There’s a sense of terror and apocalypse that oozes with static and voltage, shifting form from time to time. It can be listened to either as one single piece or as
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Indie rockers The Pulltops keep their ambitious year moving with a new single dropped at the end of September. It’s a tune about the love of your life and how the yearning for them never stops. Amending their style with an ambitious electronic approach that professes from the highest mountain, The Pulltops promise forever on “With You.” It’s a slow
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Veteran singer-songwriter Willy Porter has returned with a new album. It’s twelve tracks that carry folk pop sensibilities with a most affable presentation and knack for adventure. Porter and his band (Carmen Nickerson, Dave Adler, Eric Madunic and Dave Schoepke) embark into kaleidoscopic horizons on topics personal to him, taking bluesy and rootsy turns and evoking warm Midwestern imagery to
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Helado Negro has recently announced the impending release of his highly anticipated new album, titled “Phasor.” Scheduled to drop in February.
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Driven forward by timeless guitar tones, the song is about being on the road, and getting run down along the way.
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Cyrus Chrome is back with a new video, and he drops off his version of a summertime pop banger.
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The 12-track release features Parker with his signature confidence on the microphone, but he’s letting more feelings out than usual.
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Get the highlights of all of the music coming out of Milwaukee, featuring Klassik, Sarah Fierek, Pescatarian At Best and more!
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Tae & the Neighborly released their fifth single of the year. The soul-pop outfit take on a doo wop flavor here as Tae expresses sentiments of being your own best friend. You have to take care of yourself before you can take care of others, as they say, and “Self Help” drives such a notion home with cascading pianos, radiant
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YaYa Biggs are a new act to watch, bringing notes of soul and R&B to their tender flavor of indie rock. They released their sophomore single last month and it’s all about opening your mind and heart up to others. The song’s tender stride carries the weight of meeting one another as human, somberly conveying the hardships of emotional disconnect.
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Half Moon HideAway are a new band spearheaded by singer-songwriter Matt Froelich, and they’re out with their debut EP. These five songs represent moments of profound clarity akin to light piercing the darkness – hence the title. As such, it’s an indie rock record brimming with hope and effervescence, from the bright sway of “Bengal Tigers of the Crystal Shire”
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Indie pop artist Benny Koziol released a two-piece earlier this month. It’s his first new music in six years and arrives just in time for fall, as these songs have a brisk beachside feel to them. The lo-fi psychedelia brings imagery of chilly sunshine, brown leaves in the wind and crashing waters, all carried by the artist’s feathery voice. Benny
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Death is a Business are out with their long awaited, highly anticipated debut album. The nomadic ensemble recorded and produced these songs between Milwaukee, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Mexico City, Peru and Argentina. Fusing elements of jazz, soul and funk, the band marries groovy, zestful instrumentation with vivid storytelling from vocalist Sonia Erika, conjuring a magnificent sonic exhibition of companionship, liberation
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Garage rockers Orange Costanza released a new record last month. The band’s loud, rowdy style shines over six tunes, channeling arena-sized riffage and notes of pop punk with lawless vigor. This EP sums up the band’s creative exploits over the last five years…with a surprise hidden after the sixth track. Orange Costanza rip and howl with “Polyamorous Cactus.” They play
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“Midlife Crisis” is a strong return for an artist that took three years off between albums.
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A collage of downtime-driven beats make up a new EP from the producer.
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Dre1k starts a project talking about tough times but shakes it off halfway through.
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Falcon Bowl hosted a spooky Friday the 13th show put on by author and event organizer Tea Krulos this weekend. Vendors and artists tabled while bands Lavish Waste, Spidora and Delicious Monsters took to the stage for an exciting evening. Lavish Waste is the duo of Emily Evans (vocals, keyboards) and Steven Look (vocals, guitar, Vocoder, programmed electronics). Their style
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Samuel Huston, formerly known as LOVEPeso, is out with the debut single under his new name. The R&B song is driven by a palpitating rhythm that resembles someone panting under the sun, fitting for the tune’s title and cover art. Huston contemplates disconnects in a relationship and expresses what he needs from his love interest; she’s got to make the
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Choke Chain has unleashed a new record. The electro-industrial act goes full throttle with seven tracks of brutally agonistic vocals, clattering rhythms, gothic textures and horror-tinged atmospheres. Nihilistic themes of pain, fear, hatred and failure comprise the lyrics with unrelenting fury and anguish. Choke Chain channels visceral despondency through brooding electronica with “Mortality.”
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Punk rockers Lefty Luci have their debut album out. The trio blaze through fourteen songs laden with imperviously zany attitude, ironic humor, headbanging riffage and shoutable hooks that will summon any punk head up to the front, even incorporating some ska notes on a few. Lefty Luci make it abundantly clear that they write songs to have fun and blow
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Klassik mixes slick raps with harmonies on the track in his unique trademark style on the “SummerSkool” track.
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EricWithTheGlockInHisSock is running wild in the streets with his new video.
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