Singer-songwriter E.B. Albeit released his debut full-length album a few months back. With seven songs, this record finds Albeit continuing to bring an affable touch to reggae and dub flavored songwriting. Whether he’s singing about pushing through hardship (“Go Get Up”), he and a lover finding one another (“Make This Start”) or overcoming sadness (“At The Wheel”), E.B. Albeit creates
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Chloroforms is the experimental-electronic solo project of Michael Marchant, known for being in bands IfIHadAHiFi and Vile Bees. His latest album came out in November, consisting of twelve tracks that explore the territory of industrial synth beats. These tunes are variably frantic and whizzing with syncopation while nevertheless meticulous and precise with how they’re crafted, rife with hammering textures and
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Corey Pieper has the visual out for his song “Truly Do” with Sean Kingston, teaming up with DJ MAG X from India for a remix version of the track. Shot by PhillyFlyBoy, the production finds Pieper accompanied by backup dancers in a dark garage setting. Organically combining reggaeton and hip hop sensibilities, the song is an appeal to a love
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Protege and DarylAnne recently teamed up for the song “Either Way” off Protege’s new project “T.H.O.U.G.H.T.S.”, and they’ve got the visual for it out now. Shot by PhillyFlyBoy, the scene takes place in winter, with Protege counting his money and miracles (and confessing his sins) while DarylAnne is outside singing as the snow falls. There’s a robust dynamic between the
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Alternative rock act Saint Anyone dropped a new single earlier this month. It’s an infectious tune with a bubbly melody and magnetic chorus, written about struggling to get over a past love interest. Marrying pop punk, indie rock and hip hop sensibilities, Saint Anyones take us on the rollercoaster of back-and-forth romance with “The View.”
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Hip hop artist Richie Buz’s latest single is one about pulling through and persevering. The rapper takes on a conscious approach with this song, touching on the failure of our society to protect marginalized people and instead breeding a culture of exploitation and violence. The chorus delivers a culmination of such material conditions, detailing a woman finding her young son
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Indie rockers The Hatchets have a new record out, and it’s their first new music since 2019. There’s eight songs here, bringing a sunny, folk-tinged guitar pop style to themes of malaise, alienation, destructive cycles and yearning for liberation. There’s an underlying class consciousness to songwriter Justin Otto’s lyricism that endures the battle between despair and urgency, recognizing that capitalism
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Linneman’s Riverwest Inn hosted alternative-world supergroup Strangelander for a superb night of music on Friday evening, packing the neighborhood mainstay full.
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Starz Wint released her sophomore album earlier this month. The R&B songstress brings twelve songs with the project, and as its title suggests, there’s themes here of toxic love habits and navigating situationships. Wint is candid and convicted as she confronts trust issues, bitter resentments, unhinged emotions and protecting her mental health, channeling intense vulnerability with composure and ownership. Featured
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Jon Henry has kicked off his 2024 with a new single and video. Shot by Henry himself, the scene finds the eclectic artist using VR technology to project various Jon Henrys around his apartment. The song is all about loving on yourself and finding the style that makes you feel good, and Henry’s certainly doing that here as he radiates
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Night Ark are a new indie folk duo consisting of Port Washington natives Alex Quade and Louie Schurrer, bringing what they describe as a “world percussion twist” to their sound. They dropped their debut EP a few months ago, featuring six songs where they experiment with improvisation and orchestration by way of lush, tranquil compositions, mostly instrumental. It feels like
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KASE released a new album right before the New Year. The trio of Jamie Breiwick, Anthony Deutsch and Jordan Lee creates five improvisations of jazz and hip hop infused by electronics like turntables and Moog synthesizers as dreamy trumpet calmly soars above. Recorded live at the Saint Kate Arts Hotel, there’s an organic atmosphere conjured here where elated imagination and
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Linneman’s Riverwest Inn hosted Chicago-based post-punk act Oddysseys alongside Milwaukee bands The Nile Club, Glowingtide and North Warren on Sunday night. Although it was freezing outside, the cold never stops avid music lovers from showing out for a solid bill of rock and roll. Glowingtide consists of vocalist/guitarist Jack Leidel, bassist Dean MacKenzie and drummer/vocalist Brett Gooden. The band’s style
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Cactus Club hosted a third Palestine Benefit on Thursday evening, partnering with local activist group Milwaukee 4 Palestine and raising money for Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA)’s Gaza Emergency Fund. Ve9us, Dak DuBois, MIZZY and Delicious Monsters all performed, showing their solidarity with the Palestinian struggle. Ve9us incorporates elements of hyperpop and hip hop into her style. Born and raised
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Pop/hip hop artist Carson Taylor lets go of a burden with his latest single. “Bounce Back” was written after he’d moved out of state, as he began reflecting on personal growth and what he wants for himself from here. The song is raw, unrelenting honesty from Taylor over somber yet triumphant production, rapped with composure and conviction without the need
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Milwaukee-by-way-of-Brooklyn singer-songwriter Frank Gappa released his debut full-length album last week. With nine songs, Gappa incorporates garage rock and post-punk flavors into the mix, delivering catchy grooves and lyrical reflections of profoundly difficult life navigation. Trudging with intense conviction, Gappa balances ambling melancholia with polished pop sensibility on “Let Me Show You My Jean Jacket”, resonant with the modern adult
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Christopher Invisible released an album of ambient music on New Year’s Day. Consisting of four enduring compositions, the tracks are titled after regional scenery such as the Midwest Driftless Region and Porcupine Mountain of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. These soundscapes wander across the spectrum with meditation, curiosity, trepidation and steadfastness, much akin to the experiences of trekking across unfamiliar terrains. Christopher
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Je’love has kicked her 2024 off with a new single ahead of her upcoming album. “Top Off” finds Je’love leaning into her hip hop side as she drops fierce, provocative bars on dudes who think they can pull up on her with an ego. She’s unapologetic and unafraid in wielding her power here, having fun talking shit while serving up
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Genesis Renji and Maaly Napoleon teamed up for a new EP. Bringing a powerhouse cast of features with them, the dual Milwaukee hip hop greats trade off on five tracks of introspective lyricism and a diverse production palette from Dylan Graham. Touching on personal topics like relationship struggles, vicious cycles and trust issues, Renji and Napoleon take “The Heart Wants
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Psych-indie rockers Limber Brain released a video for their song “Some Beautiful Dream”, the final track off 2023 album “Everyone Else is Leaving.” Animated by frontman Riley Campos, this colorful, heartwarming visual moves from scene to scene in correspondence to the lyrics, involving flowers, roads, planets, a sunrise, a paper airplane and more along the way. Check it out!
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Hard rockers {Else} dropped a new EP last month. It’s three songs that return to the band’s industrial-progressive rock roots after they went in more of an acoustic direction on their previous record. With math-adjacent riffs and rousing choruses, {Else} take on grandiose lyrical themes of power, hope and hardship via “Seven So Few” in an electrical storm of metallic
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Producer Thane dropped a new single last month. This track is considered a sequel to “Brb (Scrolling)” from Thane’s previous EP “The Algorithm Isn’t Working” – an interlude serving as a commentary about how much we use our phones to mindlessly consume. The producer stretches that concept into a three-part leftfield electronic composition here, encompassing different movements and sonic textures
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Exit Statements are a new experimental rock trio who just released their debut single. Incorporating elements of noise rock and post-punk, “Letterhead” brings a dark, brooding feel with haunting vocal echoes, shimmering guitar and a rumbling bass line. We look forward to what Exit Statements have in store for 2024; in the meantime, catch their debut show at The Sugar
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Add Dead, Dead Swans’ latest EP to your toasty winter music selection. It’s four tracks written this past fall, bringing a most potently somber flavor of folk layered with banjo and fiddle (from Sheilagh Dandy Lyon) that puts you right in a remote Wisconsin cabin. Singer-songwriter John Swan hollers of losses, departures and hollowed memories with irrefutable conviction, intimately conveyed.
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Mookie Terremoto released their third EP last month. It’s five songs that belt out some zesty rock and roll, incorporating garage, psych and classic elements as they go. With an affable dynamic that rock lovers of many creeds will gravitate towards, these songs will have you jumping around and kick-dancing all over the place, but you might end up putting
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