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Check out interviews with four up and coming acts from Cactus Club.
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AUDIO: Dubb Saq – “Dubb Lightyear”
Hip hop artist Dubb Saq has a new single out this week…and he’s become a space ranger. With the dark and mysterious production characteristic of Saq, he raps about falling in love with the pain of the grind, and never hitting the brakes as he goes. His verse touches on dealing with failure by working extra hard, applying even more
Read moreAUDIO: Lurk – “The Well”
Andrew Meier’s dungeon synth project Lurk recently created a new track for Lamp & Dagger’s “This Tape is Haunted” collection, which features Halloween-themed soundscapes from a number of dark ambient/dungeon synth artists. Beginning with samples of animal croaks and rain sounds, the track doesn’t take long to evolve into a horror-stricken cascade of thunder and spooks. It’s a rumbling composition
Read moreAUDIO: Live Tetherball Tonight – “Who Liked Who First?”
Emo-indie rockers Live Tetherball Tonight have a new EP out this week. It’s four songs that encompass the cycles of a teetering relationship. Everything starts with the hindsight about starting everything (“Ask You Out”), obstacles are dealt upon the road, and then the realization is made that you wouldn’t change anything about the other person but you’d change yourself for
Read moreB&E Weekly Jams Presented by Bublr Bikes: 10/26 – 11/1/21
Get new Milwaukee music from Sharrod Sloans, Valerie Lighthart, Avenues and more!
Read moreAUDIO: Wave Chapelle – “Top Down”
Wave Chapelle raps about his loyalty for the right girl on a new weekly single.
Read moreAUDIO: Key Bravo – “Pull Thru”
Key Bravo talks about the realities of the Milwaukee streets with a new drop.
Read moreAUDIO: Grace Weber – “Parachute”
R&B songstress Grace Weber’s second single since her album “A Beautiful Space” is out now. “Parachute” is about falling hard for someone and wishing to be let down carefully like the titular flotation device. Weber brings the romantic swagger, asserting that she deserves to be fallen for with the same intensity. She feels saved by this person and it’s a
Read moreAUDIO: HollowHecatomb – “Procession of Evil”
Industrial rock project HollowHecatomb released a new album on Virtues Label this past week. Incorporating elements of black metal and harsh noise and even hardcore punk, this body of work is dissonant and hellish. The cacophony of many creeds culminates into a truly brutal exhibition – in the best way. German punks Fliehende Sturme contribute on the third track while
Read moreAUDIO: Leechmonger – “Deathwish”
Deathcore band Leechmonger are out with a new record this week. The band brings some of the harshest and most animalistic shrieks we’ve heard all year, coupled with fierce and doomful beatdowns. Lyrics punch into living as a tortured soul, holding in rage, crawling towards death, and giving a huge “fuck you” to lying killer cops. It’s a scornful record
Read moreAUDIO: Jon Henry – “Young World Street”
Jon Henry invokes a multitude of sounds to his new album.
Read moreVIDEO: No Wake! Starring SistaStrings
SistaStrings take to the waters in the first installment of No Wake!
Read moreAUDIO: X Harlow – “Cathars”
Industrial-emo post-punk artist X Harlow has a new album out on Sweat Equity. It’s a dense, abstract record that contemplates the persevering human spirit through calamitous landscapes. Some pieces serve as meditative interludes of gothic waves juxtaposed with medieval chants (“Lost in Her House”, “Metempsychosis”) while other tunes contain more of a pop structure, finding Schmidt lyrically ruminating on secluded
Read moreVIDEO: Avenues – “Lights Out”
Punk rockers Avenues have a new single and video out today. It’s a spooky one; directed by Eric Arsnow and shot in black-and-white, the video finds the band rocking out while zombies and ghosts approaching from outside. The song itself is about the world chewing you up and spitting you out; you had no chance against it. Stay tuned for
Read moreAUDIO: Ben Harold & the Rising – “These Days”
Americana rockers Ben Harold & the Rising are out with their debut album today. It’s a painted picture of adult hardships and confrontations. Harold explores themes of powerlessness, cyclical heartbreak, escaping painful relationships, and departing from one’s former self among other difficult topics. He does so with brutal conviction that radiates across the room, to the point where you want
Read moreAUDIO: Valerie Lighthart – “Pt. II: The Witch”
Folk pop songstress Valerie Lighthart has the second part to her “By Moonlight” series out today. While “Pt I: The Goddess” carried a brightly shining aura with electronica elements, “The Witch” dwells within the shadowy underside of magical beauty, utilizing entirely acoustic instrumentation and slower tempos. Lighthart has spread her wings into the darker territories of imaginative storytelling, reveling in
Read moreAUDIO: LoBi LoBianco – “Listless”
LoBi LoBianco is the solo “folkgaze” project from one of the members of Howard Grove. LoBi’s got his first single out and it’s a solid dose of fall melancholia. With carefully-layered instrumentation of woodsy textures, LoBi blooms lonely sentiment into friendly charm. He’s got a full-length record coming soon; stay tuned for more from LoBi LoBianco in the near future.
Read moreAUDIO: Billy Dreamer – “Fuck Snapple/BYOG”
Theatrical punk rockers Billy Dreamer have a new two-piece out this week. The first track finds them really angry about the fact that Snapple is in plastic bottles instead of glass now, while the second track touches on blindly following a faith. It’s rock and roll that comes in blistering hot and right in your face, whether they’re tackling simple
Read moreVIDEO: Kashout Kenny – “Grit Talkin”
Kashout Kenny has everything for sale and it helped him get his money up.
Read moreVIDEO: Black Chris – “State Facts”
Black Chris was down but recoups what he needed to in a new video.
Read moreVIDEO: Illie Featuring Sofrito Rd. – “Mi Destino”
The pair of south side artists flex with their cars and family.
Read moreVIDEO: YBN Kenny Featuring OTS Eli – “Dub On Me”
The rappers harmonize about hustling in a new clip.
Read moreAUDIO: B. Justice – “Great”
B. Justice gets grittier with his newest single.
Read moreAUDIO: Wave Chapelle Featuring Cody Ray – “Trip”
Wave Chapelle sets the mood for a late night drive on his most recent drop.
Read moreVIDEO: Sharrod Sloans – “Off 1”
Sharrod Sloans returns to the microphone with a new single and video.
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