Jacob Slade released a new single and video at the beginning of the month. The visual shot by Olivia Grimm finds the singer-songwriter riding around town and visiting Lake Michigan on a rainy day, yearning for a lover’s comfort as the days go by. Jacob Slade’s “Impermeable” flutters through the fog with an ethereal guitar melody and shuffling rhythm, emboldening
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Hip hop artist C-Yonko enlisted JuGram for a new EP. The duo brings five songs of nonstop hustle, with Yonko handling the hooks and verses while Ju delivers a verse of his own for each song. Whether they’re securing the bag (“All I Want”), being the talk of the town (“Biggest Story”) or scoring shot after shot like Giannis (“How
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Garden Home have finally released their highly anticipated self-titled debut album. The screamo/post-hardcore act deliver eight tracks with their signature harmony of heaviness and atmosphere in full force. With exorcizing lyrics that deal with burdensome themes of self-hatred, losing control, relationship shame and existential dread, Garden Home build each song into ensnaring worlds of crushing anguish and voluminous texture, complementing
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Electronic producer Blaze Orange dropped a new single a few weeks back. It’s a stomping house tune that heats up the party with thumping synths and a repeating female vocal sample that makes for an undeniably fun cadence. There’s an extended mix of “Burning” as well. Check it out!
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Skramz band Riotnine recently announced that they are going their separate ways and playing their last string of shows, but they weren’t going to go out without releasing one last Bandcamp-exclusive banger! “Of Americana” takes Riotnine’s explosive screamo-hardcore proclivities in a country-tinged direction, powerfully channeling sentiments of fighting off despair in the face of late-stage imperial capitalism by rallying community
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Zay Hicks dropped a new single a few weeks back, and he wears his heart on his sleeve for this one. The hip hop artist brings melodic flow to express much a woman he loves has opened him up to God’s clarity. Now they got each other for life, and Hicks even thanks their exes for messing up so that
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Woods and Avey Tare made a stop at Lincoln Hall in Chicago on Monday as part of their spring tour together. The show brought a packed house that rode the high of the solar eclipse earlier in the day, brimming with joy and excitement. Originally from Baltimore, Avey Tare is a singer-songwriter known for being a member of seminal experimental
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Electronic/post-punk act Lavish Waste released a video for their song “No Joke Mama” at the beginning of the month. The scene brings a lo-fi aesthetic while involving a red glow, a retro Nintendo game, cigarettes and bacon-wrapped shrimp, which all accompanies a stomping groove that thumps with mysterious debauchery. The tune is off the band’s upcoming LP “Electric Beach” out
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Since releasing their 2022 album “The Drift”, experimental-jazz rockers Lovely Socialite have spent the last two years on the rambunctious music video for their song “Top Secret Jazz” which is finally out now. Working with the folks over at Simwig Studios (Tommy Simms and Joe Ludwig), the band takes us into the wild west rife with bandits and gunslingers alike,
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Singer-songwriter Jorge Vallentine’s latest single is about finding yourself worthy of love and appreciating the beauty of the road. With sincere conviction and gentlest touch, Vallentine croons of trust and safety he has found in the company of someone who’s chosen him after struggling to love himself for so long. With production from fellow artist Maximiano, “God in Everything” delightfully
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Ben Slowey sits down with DJ Nic Stokes, who has multiple residencies in Milwaukee, including as an official DJ for the Milwaukee Bucks and UWM men’s basketball.
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George Clanton played to a packed house at The Miramar Theatre Saturday night, presented by Cactus Club with Full Body 2 opening. The show was Clanton’s first time in Milwaukee. Full Body 2 hail from Philadelphia. Their electronic-infused shoegaze style is loud, textural and spacious, building vast soundscapes of distortion and psychedelia. The band’s most recent EP “Infinity Signature” was
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Kia Rap Princess dropped a new single a few weeks back. This one finds the artist speaking from the heart, invoking a tender, paradisical atmosphere where Kia expresses her yearning to keep a love interest company. The song palpitates with a thumping beat before erupting in the final stretch into a full-on party that demands hands going up. Love and
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Lunde released a new EP back in March. The jangle rockers bring five polished, dynamic songs here that marry their pop sensibilities with potently personal affection. Whether it’s the glowing yearn of “Havin’ You Here” featuring Ivy Ford, the piano-driven bounce of “Tomorrow” or the hard-riffed storm of closer “One Track Mind”, Lunde demonstrate with “Wisconsin’s First EP” their versatility
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Cripes are a new rock and roll band to watch! Their debut single is out now, and it rips with a modern rock edge while roaring with classic rock attitude. The song is fresh, forward and fun, kicking up dust like a muscle car doing doughnuts. Stay tuned for Cripes’ debut EP to follow soon!
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Tru West and T!ny teamed up for a new single. As the title suggests, the song touches on putting the darkness of the past behind you and moving onto greener pastures. With the powerful intimacy of West’s voice and T!ny’s knack for whimsical adventure, the two evoke a uniquely radiant chemistry that prepares your heart for a leap into euphoria.
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Ellee Grim of beloved pop punk act Honey Creek has breathed fresh air into her solo work with a new single, taking her songwriting in a totally new direction. Incorporating elements of glitch and dark pop while keeping the explosively angsty energy alive, “I Think I’m Afraid Of You” details being at odds with someone who keeps you bending backwards,
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Rainbow Cobra released their third EP in March. With three fresh tunes, the band once again delivers a dynamic platter of Americana-tinged rock and roll, stated by the band as their most collaboratively written material to date. The EP’s title comes from vocalist-guitarist Oli Smith’s repeating line in the first track that he tried to write the song “55 Times.”
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Experimental-electronic composer Wavefiler has a new album out. The artist describes these pieces as meditations on energy being stored and released by way of modular synth soundscapes. As such, the nine tracks here gently pulse like deep breaths and wander like critters exploring vast flora. It could very well be the soundtrack to a nature documentary series featuring time lapses
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Sleepy Gaucho released a new record a few weeks back. The band breaks new ground with their signature psychedelic indie rock flavor on this record by introducing more elements of funk, disco and folk into the mix. The result is a textural kaleidoscope that emanates brightly like multicolored rays of sunshine, powered by lovestruck lyrics and summery grooves. Peep the
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Sure Thing are a new Milwaukee indie pop act comprising Casey O’Brien and Stephen Strupp. Their debut self-titled album is out now, defining themselves with a playfully quaint pop sound over 12 songs. O’Brien’s idiosyncratic lyrics are rife with poetic humor while Strupp’s synth-heavy instrumentation is full of color and whimsy, organically meshing with one another like a bag of
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Twisted Truth are a new Milwaukee hardcore act to know. They just released their debut EP and it’s five tracks of brutality fully loaded with death-ridden beatdowns, diabolically vicious melodies and inconsolably bleak lyrics. Look no further than Twisted Truth’s “Aversion to Joy” for sharp, pugnacious Midwest hardcore. Catch their first show at JJ’s Bar & Grill this Saturday at
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R&B artist Starz Wint dropped a new single a few weeks back. She’s singing about living in the moment with someone she’s interested in here, feeling lustful and desirous for an intimate night. While R&B songs often take on a romantic, commitment-oriented approach, Starz Wint’s “Take Me Home” goes against the grain seeking pleasure with no strings attached. Check it
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Quisy Wita Y released a new album at the end of February. The Milwaukee hip hop veteran delivers a thematically potent album driven by themes of trauma responses relative to the Black community, the material conditions of Milwaukee County, never giving up on the hustle and keeping composure in the face of adversity. Features here include Juju Coleman (“414”), Duch
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Emo rockers Barely Civil have unleashed their third full-length album into the world. While the band’s previous albums were written with a heavy focus on posing existential and vulnerable questions, this album produces answers to some such questions. Much of the material here is inspired by mass radicalization and disillusionment brought on by COVID times. Recorded over the last year,
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