Category Archives: Milwaukee

AUDIO: Seven Cities Dead – “The Perfect Disease”

Metalcore band Seven Cites Dead are out with a new EP. It’s three raging tracks of awakened suffering, being forsaken, and hate being sown. There’s a recurring theme of being controlled and pitted against one another here, and that gets channeled through shrieks, smacks and slams. Rob Ellis is featured on the title track’s vocals. Seven Cities Dead deliver the

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AUDIO: Large Print – “In the Dark”

Art rockers Large Print are out with their companion EP to “In the Clouds” from earlier this year. Comparatively and fittingly so, this record takes things in a drearier direction with songs about feeling down and being in disguise. You get put right in a storybook with scenes containing imagery of gray skies, objects collecting dust, or a rose wilting

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VIDEO: Mere of Light – “The Wood Between the Worlds”

Psych-electrofolk project Mere of Light released a video for “The Wood Between the Worlds” off their new EP “Haptica.” Shot by Grace Mitchell, the scenes here find Elise and Eddie on the beach performing abstract movements as liquid trickles over their bodies like the elements of nature interacting with one another. Tranquil to the sensory while vast in textural imagery,

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AUDIO: Ricky Thump – “July Sun”

Psych-rocker Ricky Thump is out with his debut single. It’s summer, so there’s no better way to channel the heat than through liquid rock ‘n roll – that’s exactly what Thump brings here, incorporating elements of blues and reggae to get you moving. It explores a multitude of colors while traversing various landscapes. He’s only getting started; we hope to

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AUDIO: Violet Wilder – “Wait For Me”

Alternative folk trio Violet Wilder’s most recent single swells into dreamy splendor. It’s about being happy with someone and determined to make things work, trusting the road you’ve embarked together. Starting with gentle and ethereal harmonies before a violin assumes the melody, the song is guided into lush, crashing orchestration. Violet Wilder erupt with alluring fervor through “Wait For Me.”

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AUDIO: Frenia – “This Field is Required”

Improvisational noise collective Frenia are out with a new EP. Limitless art, not a point on the map their Bandcamp poetically states, so eloquently describing the fluidity of Frenia’s seamlessly collaborative nature. There’s string, wind and percussion instruments utilized here but also spoken word, friendly banter, hand claps and wordplay; an excerpt of “Madness of the Day” by Blanchot is

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