Hip hop poet DaveKevinAdam teamed up once again with producer Max Mroz for the third edition of their “Lonely Cactus” series. Mroz lays down a stylish variety of beats as DKA drops his smooth blend of clever flexes and unstoppable flows. Whether he’s in the company of women or sipping beverages or minding his own business chilling at home, DKA
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Punk rockers Billy Dreamer released a new album last week. Featuring several jams they’ve dropped over the last few months (“Fuck Snapple”, “Already Dead”, “Living Rooms”), this record is a sprint through blistering riffage, confrontational lyrics, and give-no-fucks attitude. Jump around, mosh, spill some beer…do what you gotta do. Billy Dreamer deliver an explosive blast of fun with “Ass Hotel.”
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Milwaukee bands Reality Check and Enervate played a sold-out show at X-Ray Arcade Sunday night alongside Boston hardcore band Vein.fm, Santa Cruz hardcore band Scowl, and Rockford metal trio Pains. Reality Check are a hardcore band consisting of vocalist Emilio Nunez, guitarist/vocalist JJ Kaiser, guitarist Nick Walloch, bassist Dereck Miles, and drummer Ben Skowronek. Kaiser said on the band’s formation,
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Hard rockers Scarlet dropped a video from their recent EP “The Violent Bewitching.” The band is found playing on a downtown Milwaukee rooftop as a storyline depicts a woman who clearly has the dream of becoming a successful musician. She receives an invitation to a studio, so she immediately packs her guitar and embarks. The song is about not living
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Low-calorie garage punks Diet Lite have the video out to their latest single “Stuck Again.” The boys are watching TV flipping through channels before they see a commercial for…Diet Lite Sodabeer. While these business cronies are getting filthy rich off this ridiculous drink, Max and Evan begin training to take these guys out. It’s a wild load of fun from
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Synth knights Immortal Girlfriend have the visual out for their song “Seeker.” In this Bash-directed video, Will and Kevin meet with a hooded figure who observes some kind of power within them. Eventually the two men battle the figure, using their lightning-like powers to prevail. There’s animated illustrations of these scenarios depicted between the real life shots, giving it a
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Adam Giles Levy is back and bolder than ever before with his new release, ‘Wild Earth’, which arrived on Friday the 25th of March. It is from the singer-songwriter’s upcoming new album, ‘Wake Of Disarray’. The voyage begins with a guitar riff, followed by a stadium-filling drum rhythm and Adam Giles Levy’s vocal delivery. His distinctive ear-pleasing vocal tones glide
Read moreWere just about anyone to happen to wander by you while you were being inundated by Pumpkin Man—the latest effort from Long Beach’s Heavenly Trip To Hell—via headphones, there’s little doubt as to what thoughts would go through their mind.
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A stacked bill of heavy music took place at X-Ray Arcade Friday night, featuring Milwaukee bands In Cursive, Graysea, Still Stayer, and After Hour Animals alongside Minneapolis-based “grungegaze” atmospheric rockers Comatose. In Cursive are an experimental emo rock sextet consisting of vocalist/guitarist Joe Brandt, guitarist Jake Arndt, guitarist Connor Nash, bassist Graeme Kostich, drummer Joey Koepp, and keyboardist Trent McClanahan.
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Some of the influences on Sickpay’s latest offering, the five-track Extended Player Pureocracy, are perfectly apparent.
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There are some true forces at work on “Nixon-Manson”, a hell of a single (pun intended), if ever there was one
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Allen Halas and Ben Slowey discuss how to get your music heard by people of influence.
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Amun El’s ‘Freedom’ is breaking into the scene with intensity! The British hip hop musician’s single is exactly what we need right now! The singer-songwriter has been producing quality music for a long time, but ‘Freedom’ may be his most engaging release yet. He also rises with passion, speaking for all those who may be fighting to be heard in
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Alternative act Tiqmmy are out with their debut EP. With a unique blend of hip hop, emo and pop punk sensibilities, Tiqmmy confront demons head on with “Joint Effort.” Themes of loneliness, anxiety, loss, seeing right through someone, and wishing so bad that someone was yours are all channeled through emotional performances. Despite the turmoil of the various subject matters,
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Hip hop artist JalenG’s latest single is – as the name implies – about fighting your shadows. G raps about being changed by having a kid, feeling the music in his veins, and not knowing who to trust these days. Produced by Miakel Plevva, this song finds JalenG aggressively asserting himself out of negative feelings and closer towards the top.
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Alternative pop artist Day Tvvo dropped a new single and video recently. This one strips things down to mostly acoustic guitar, finding Tvvo reflecting on a relationship’s downfall. He acknowledges that he’s got issues and needs a change of pace; he sits alone at a campfire in the woods as he ponders who he really is. We hope it’s the
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Your man Frank Cogliano has done a couple key things with his new album Computers of the World.
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R&B artist Clayton is out with two new songs that he spent the winter working on. Both are intensely emotional; “SOMEHOW BEAUTIFUL” finds Clayton eager to have a break from his anxiety while “GHOST” is about heartbreak and the subsequent onslaught of pain. The atmospheric production gives a “floating” feel, like Clayton is swimming his way out of an ocean
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Sarabi is the new project of Tori Yocum, who has played in projects such as SSAANN, Paper Holland, and Lucky Goat. Her debut single “Cold As Stone” has an electronic soul vibe, lyrically about love that got away. There’s a burning curiosity about what could’ve been, but time has passed and nothing’s changed so all you can do is store
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Reggae-soul rockers Eric Blowtorch and the Bodyguards’ latest single is a pro-immigration one. Featuring vocals from Cookie Johnson, Juli Wood and Lisvette Duran, the song is a love letter to the migrants at our southern borders coming here for a better life. It’s danceable while full of humanism, utilizing traditional band instruments along with cabasa, cowbell, and tambourine. Eric Blowtorch
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Indie rockers Nyx – formerly known as The Golden Grenades – are out with their self-tilted EP. It’s five tracks of fiery, punchy rock and roll that feels perfect for the warming weather. There’s plenty of excitement here, from the galloping riff of “Summer Girl” to the howls of love in “You” to the provocative touch of “Black Sheep.” We
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Latin reggae-soul band Pulpa de Guayaba’s latest single is your new favorite morning song. It’s a love tune about the person of your dreams that appears before you in real life; you like everything about them you see and invite them to come along with you for the ride. With a horn solo like a singing heart, “Talk to Me”
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Classical-improvisational string quartet Tontine Ensemble are out with a new album. Together the four musicians – violinist Allen Russell, violist Molly Lieberman, cellist Pat Reinholz, and double bassist Barry Paul Clark – explore planes of harmonic expression, communicating with one another through thematic determination. With a knack for discovery while also clinging to familiarity when necessary, Tontine Ensemble carefully and
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Linneman’s welcomed a charming night of live music on Sunday featuring Alyssia Dominguez, Ben Mulwana, and 7000apart. Alyssia Dominguez is a singer-songwriter based around the western Milwaukee suburbs, known for blending her Hispanic roots with country music. She’s been performing since she was a teenager, as she explains. “I was about seventeen years old when I started really performing out;
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Alternative R&B artist Bisca Rae’s latest single dropped on Friday, and it’s one about reclaiming your narrative. In an industry where you’re constantly being told what to do and how to be, Rae is determined to keep her truth and answer to no one but herself. With a catchy hook and swirling evening flare, Bisca Rae is saying what she
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