Singer-songwriter Emmett Mulrooney’s latest single is about your childhood sweetheart becoming your life person. As childlike innocence fades, you went from young lovers to adults going steady so soon, and it trips you out. Emmett Mulrooney is feeling lucky that he’s had his life partner with him this whole time as “Kids” drives home with a summery pop melody.
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Klassik has returned with a new EP. Always one to do something different and push the envelope, the producer-rapper fusion artist brings four tracks of ethereal, textural atmospheres that showcase his layered lyrical and stylistic evocation fashioned by his spellbinding falsetto voice, kaleidoscopic song structures and influential pursuit of subject matter. What makes his music so powerful is how it
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Bruce Humphries and the Rockabilly Rebels have released a new album. If you’re ready for an old-fashioned rock and roll party, look no further – the Rebels are here for a good time, not a long time! Busting out the down-on-your-luck tales and boogieing riffs that you crave, the band are keen on having as much fun as the audience
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Alternative/pop rockers Secret Menu released their debut EP a few weeks back. The band showcase an ambitious stylistic edge over five tracks, incorporating hip hop sensibilities, piano-driven melodies and enchanting narratives to name just a few elements. There are prominent themes of searching for life’s answers and challenging the “what if’s” with these songs, presented with versatile pop appeal that
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Indie rockers Vacancy Chain are out with their long-awaited debut album today. It’s eleven songs, consisting of most of the singles the band released in the last few years plus many more. With that said, the band has a ton of pent-up energy to channel as they tackle relevant themes of adulthood, social crumble, existential crises and the oppressive political
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Indie-emo act Pasta Sauce released their third EP. The duo brings seven tracks to ponder existential questions about growth, faith, pain, life, death and purpose. The dialogue sampled in “Real, Random & Forever” sums it up pretty well; featured is a conversation between two people about what happens after we die, and how everyone has their own way of reckoning
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Singer-songwriter Danny Arcane’s latest single touches on loving the idea of someone or something more than that someone or something itself. This beachy pop tune tackles the self-consciousness of cognitive dissonance, struggling to reconcile the pursuit of happiness with conquests of self-defeat. Danny Arcane knows this scenario all too well, channeling such frustrating patterns with “No Remorse” – check it
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Metal band It Bleeds released their first new single in four years last week. Breathing fire for nearly five and a half minutes, this tune details the horrors of punishment and damnation through guttural roars, capricious riffage and unrelenting blast beats. If you like the more technical side of metal, It Bleeds’ “The Penance Stare” will be right up your
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Brandon Payton-Carrillo released a new EP at the end of June. Consisting of three songs, Payton-Carrillo’s EP incorporates elements of Afrobeat, Cumbia-funk and dreamy, soulful psychedelia to convey themes of the good and bad in relationships. Accompanied by his band Lakebeat Social Club, Brandon Payton-Carrillo marries texturally immersive atmospheres and rhythmic catharsis with “All Night”, warm and inviting yet poignant
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Pop star Kameron with a K dropped a new single and video recently. Shot by Andrey Frazao, the visual finds the artist flexing with the best of them and ready to show you how it’s done, bringing an elaborate blend of costumes, choreography and set design to the mix along with verses in Portuguese, English and Spanish. With seductive swagger,
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Racine-based pop artist RAYVEN is a new artist to be watching right now. She just dropped a new single a few weeks back and it’s one that dwells in both imagination and infatuation. This love for someone has a sense of immediacy and RAYVEN isn’t trying to wait things out; she likens this feeling to pleasant imagery of sunsets, white
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Oak You have returned with the sequel to their wonderful “Pangea” EP from last year. The indie pop collective deliver four tracks here that build upon the lush soundscapes, idiosyncratic melodies and ethereal harmonies from the first EP, meshing synthesizers and electronic manipulations with strings, winds and voices to create an immersive electroacoustic experience. Get lost in stunning textural bliss
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Breaking and Entering hosted a hip hop showcase featuring Mad Static and MoCity at Summerfest’s WAMI Stage on Thursday. It was both rappers’ first time performing at Summerfest; friends, family, and music lovers gathered to attend in numbers. Mad Static has been performing and releasing music since the 2000s. He is known as co-host of the podcast “Beats, Rhymes and
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Producer Docx released their third album at the top of the month. With ten tracks and a vast array of features, Docx continues to challenge conventional norms of pop sensibilities by means of structural, textural and thematic experimentation. While Docx has always embraced collaboration and stylistic defiance with their output, they never cease to push the envelope with each sonic
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R&B songstress BriJon released a new single and video recently. Shot by Pixel Visionaries, the visual finds BriJon in a sunroom lit up by the daylight where she sings tenderly of her self-worth. She requires a love interest to prove themselves in their relationship, showing that they’re it for the long run with her and will risk it all to
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Electronic pop artist Dora Diamond dropped a new single this week. The song is a love letter to Diamond’s community, illuminated by bright, empowering house sensibilities and her warm, heartening voice. She sings of her body being of royalty and divinity, reclaiming traditionally Christian language to be used for championing trans autonomy and liberation. It’s a powerhouse banger from Dora
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Electronic producer Travvy Trav dropped a new tune earlier this month. This one’s got a mellowed, chillwave-adjacent approach when compared to many of Trav’s previous tunes, captivates a magical escapism that brings imagery of the clear night sky against picturesque landscapes. Trav demonstrates that he’s a producer not to be put in any stylistic box with “To The Moon”, keeping
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Rob Knapp has returned with a new single. Bringing a soulful hip hop demeanor, Knapp takes this track to reflect on how blessed he is in life. The cover art of Knapp holding a basketball is a reference to a bar in the song – “nothing but net” – which serves as a metaphor for Knapp being ready to execute
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Micah Emrich’s latest EP dropped earlier this month. Consisting of two previously released singles, two remixed versions of tracks from his last EP and one entirely new tune, Emrich’s eclectic pop formula organically marries hip hop, electronic and psychedelic sensibilities while welcoming creative flare from other artists with open arms. His versatility extends to not only style but demeanor as
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Metallic hardcore band Killing Blow are a new one to watch; they’ve released two singles thus far – the second of which just dropped last week. “Shattered Reflection” is a brutal hitter that rages about your dignity being ripped away from you by someone; they made you feel worthless and unlovable but there’s now inescapable judgment that awaits them. It
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RUSTBELT has returned with his second single of the year. This one basks in peppy new wave sensibilities as the underdog pop artist takes on a nihilistic attitude about careers and dreams. Wondering if he’s been wasting time and going in circles, RUSTBELT still gets hooked on making a good song, and that’s what keeps him doing this whole music
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Experimental rock act Tidal released a new track last week. Spanning almost nine minutes, “Buzz O)))” opens with flickering whispers and oceanic distortion before building into a menacing guitar melody and stomping, dooming rhythm. There’s an overall fearsome atmosphere here that concludes with a noisy yet textural discombobulation. Brace yourself for a heavy psych wash from Tidal!
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Breaking and Entering hosted an afternoon of Milwaukee music at The Ground Floor Stage at Summerfest on Saturday, featuring an eclectic mixed genre bill of Hanna Simone, Dashcam, Eli $tones and Scam Likely. Dashcam is the electronic project of Donny Jankowski; he launched it in 2014 out of participating in a long-term creative challenge called WeeklyBeats. “You had to make
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Bremen Cafe was powered by rock and roll Friday night as solo punk act Gorilla Knifefight, alternative rockers Secondhand Souls and grunge-stoner rockers Toadskin took the stage.
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DarylAnne and King Kalumet teamed up for a new single out today; in fact, it’s King Kalumet’s debut release! He kicks things off to lay down bars about he and his woman pursuing their hopes, dreams and pleasures together; DarylAnne complements Kalumet’s verse expressing that she’s sick of the same old shit and only wants someone who’s all-in with her.
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