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AUDIO: Superglue – “Hate Me”

Alternative rock newcomers Superglue have released their debut single. It’s a jam about passionate love gone sour, turning to resentment and anger. With exciting garage rock sensibilities that make no compromise in raw emotiveness and confrontational ferocity, Superglue channel rage and bitter ends with “Hate Me,” complete with shouted group vocals and a bold instrumental finale. We’re excited about this

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AUDIO: Julia Thomsen – “Eternal Love”

Julia Thomsen

Julia Thomsen and Kirsten Agresta Copely’s latest release, ‘Eternal Love’, is a captivating musical journey that effortlessly enchants the soul. With its exceptional mellowness, the piece transports all to a realm of nature’s wonders and breathtaking beauty, evoking emotions that can be experienced even from a million miles away. At the heart of ‘Eternal Love’ lies a symphony of strings,

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VIDEO: Robot Witch – “Bad Dream”

Electro-psych rockers Robot Witch released a video accompanying their recent self-titled debut EP. The trippy visuals from Kam Jackson find the band performing the song at their record release show at The Cooperage a few months back. Vibrant colors adorn the band as they sound more punkish than ever playing “Bad Dream” – check them out at their next show

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AUDIO: Bruiseboy* & Shontrail – “Kill Bill”

We’ve been excited about the eclectic pop fusions of both Bruiseboy* and Shontrail for a while now. This past Friday they collaborated on a new single, and it’s got the dark, racing tension that both acts have become well-versed in. With a brooding, gothic atmosphere and watery textures, the song contains themes of just getting by, being on the go

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AUDIO: Asatta – “Deserve to Die”

Stoner metal band Asatta have unleashed their first new album in seven years. Considerably less drone-oriented than the band’s previous work, the record condenses the band’s heavy, distorted psychedelia into shorter songs. With nine songs, the trio deliver headbanging power with crushing guitar lines, pulverizing slow and mid tempos, dooming vocals and lyrical themes of judgment that all make for

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AUDIO: Delicious Monsters – “Freedom Plastic Realistic?”

Delicious Monsters are finally out with their highly anticipated debut album. The band draws their unique style upon gothic rock, post-punk and new wave music with exuberance, brazenness and imagination to get both one’s body and mind immersed with animation. The record is a lovely assortment of eleven songs that run through poetic and metaphysical lyrical passages, bouncy riffs, racing

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AUDIO: Restraint Malfunction – “Torrential Assault”

Restraint Malfunction unleashed a new album recently. The harsh-experimental noise act brings ten tracks that are meant to be listened to as one piece. Michael Jurek traverses a range of textural territories here from searing static to abrasive grinding to fearsome screeches to hellish clangor over nearly thirty minutes. Enter the power plant of auditory havoc with Restraint Malfunction’s “Torrential

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AUDIO: Ervin Munir Featuring Aeron Z. Jones – “Fall Apart”

Ervin Munir

Ervin Munir, the talented folk singer hailing from London and now residing in Norfolk, continues to impress with his latest single, “Fall Apart,” a worthy successor to his previous hit, “Carolynn.” The song immediately piques our curiosity with its bluesy, country-style acoustic guitar intro, exuding a bold and brazen energy that fills the room with a captivating depth. As Ervin’s

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AUDIO: Supertentacles – “The Road to Nowhere”

Indie rock project Supertentacles returns with a new single. As the title suggests, it’s a song about not knowing quite where you’re going but trusting your gut anyway. Sean Anderson sings about being ready for anything even if he ends up in the wrong direction; he craves the aimless adventure and is prepared for whatever’s out there. The psych-tinged pop

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AUDIO: PILES – “5:53”

Dreamy post-punk project PILES have returned with their first new record since 2017, out on Burgle Records. It’s seven songs, starting with the seven-minute long “Los Globos/Walk Em If You Got Em” which kicks things into high-gear with a rousing psychedelic odyssey of dancing guitar and bass lines that establishes the band’s merry return. This is sustained with the noisy,

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AUDIO: World in Action – “World in Action”

World in Action are a new Milwaukee punk band who just released their self-titled debut EP. Describing themselves as “anarcho-inspired peace punk”, the group right off the bat aren’t afraid to make their distaste for today’s increasingly bleak sociopolitical climate known. Through exciting buildups and a vigorous dynamic, these three tracks confront the evils and hypocrisies of capitalism and class

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AUDIO: Snag – “Invasive Species (Cop City)”

Emo/post-hardcore band Snag released a new single last week – their first since 2021 album “Death Doula.” The song protests Cop City, which is the proposed clearing of forests outside of Atlanta in order to build a police training facility. With the band’s shrieked anxieties about the horrors of environmental destruction and state repression combined with their prog-adjacent screamo sensibilities,

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AUDIO: Milorganaut – “Jones Island”

Grindcore band Milorganaut have returned with a new album out on Diseased Audio after a long hiatus. The boys are indeed back in town with ten tracks of destructive riffage, infernal tempos, vicious vocals and earsplitting distortion that adds up to some of the heaviest music we’ve heard from Milwaukee so far this year. Named after the city’s industrial-heavy peninsula

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