Dream pop artist Blacktop enlisted Jacob Slade for a new single. The two artists have worked together plenty in the past, weaving layers of guitar and vocals together into something palpably luminous. The song’s about never getting something quite right and doubting yourself as a result, so you wonder if you’re kidding yourself. Blacktop and Jacob Slade lay down the
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Dream pop artist Queen Quail released an album of tracks that didn’t make it onto her debut album “QQ.” There’s an ethereal, empyrean quality to these songs that feels like the blossom of a thousand flowers. There’s patience and subtlety but sprightliness and ambition, like Queen Quail’s shyness is slowing shifting into a grand presence. “Shy Gurl” is a graceful
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Two-thirds of A.D.H.D. link up for a new single.
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TRA is enjoying his time on the microphone and hungry for more.
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The gang is back together this week, and we talk to Paperstacks about “Living Different.”
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The Riverwest Sessions brings you a semi-acoustic set by Milwaukee-based rock & roll duo Hi/Jack.
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Scam Likely are a new indie rock band to keep an eye on, as they’ve played a slew of shows breaking into the scene. Their debut single is out, and it’s got a jangle pop feel to it tinged with pop punk sensibility. The song seems to confront not putting up with someone’s shit anymore, so, yeah – stop yelling.
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Hip hop mainstays Mudy and Chicken P teamed up for a new single. This one’s all about flexing and hustling; Mudy raps about always on one move to the next and getting what she wants when she wants, then Chicken jumps in about broke shit being not fun while having the plugs in the right places. Broke shit is, indeed,
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Hardcore punk bands Reality Check and Tr3y 5ive joined forces for a four-song split EP. With two songs each, both bands bring riffing rampage and brutal breakdowns; Reality Check rage about someone who’s fake and full of shit in “Counterfeit” while “Settle the Score” confronts worker exploitation and suffering under the system, and then Tr3y 5ive accost impending death with
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Ben Slowey talks to the electronic duo and Mid Coast organizers.
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Alan Ward is smitten on a recent single.
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LUXI gives us a visual from her upcoming “Dream Girl” project.
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Rahn Harper and Cam Will teamed up for a new single. With a warm trap flavor, this tune’s bound to be on your Milwaukee summer playlist. It’s about having ambition and keeping the real ones around you, being particular about the energy you surround yourself with. Harper and Will go in about wanting more than a mid lifestyle, and that
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Singer-songwriter Stephanie Joanna, known for fronting indie rock band LO/ST, is out with her debut solo single. With electronic and rock elements, this tune swells into a contagious modern pop melody about coping with the pain someone left on you. You keep getting reminders about this person and it’s driving you nuts, but at least “you both got a New
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Rock and roll band Mertles Acres have a new EP out. It’s six tracks full of punk-tinged power pop sensibilities. These songs confront feelings of collapse, loneliness, and losing control themed with the American Dream – being told you can do it all yourself when really you need others. The facade of American self-determination has been getting exposed – leaving
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Check out new tracks from GGOOLLDD, Rustbelt, Yo Dot and many more.
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The metalheads speed through a single from “Light The Fires.”
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Huey V is moving into the national conversation with his new project.
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Electronic pop artist Hurt Alwys’ latest single takes things in a synthwave gospel direction. Produced by Geezee, this song is about hope and prosperity to keep living for love with the life God has given you. With a wicked guitar solo from Cian James Radcliffe, Hurt Alwys demonstrates wide-eyed enthusiasm for building stylistic bridges between modern pop methods. We hope
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Singer-songwriter Graham Hunt has returned with a new album. It’s nine songs where Hunt conveys nihilistic feelings about endless cycles, getting your hopes up, being unable to win, and not seeing a point in engaging. With psychedelic dance-rock sensibilities and forthright lyricism, this album confronts the muddied realities that you thought would get easier as an adult, but they just
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Dark ambient project Noctilucant has returned with a new album. The story goes like this: you come across a city thinking it’d be utopian only to discover the exact opposite – a tyranny-ruled municipality of cybernetic overlords. You escape, but find that all that’s left of the world is desolation and destruction of what was once our planet. The story
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We go off-the-cuff style for an interview with host Mark Hubing’s good friend, Nuby Nuby!
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Denku takes it to Germany for a bilingual new track.
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A set of new tracks from their upcoming release absolutely rips.
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Kenny Kamz puts it all in perspective.
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