Category Archives: Milwaukee

AUDIO: Randal B – “Isthisgawd?”

Hip hop artist and producer Randal B dropped a new album last month. It’s a collection of abstract cuts and beats that B has uploaded across various SD cards over the years, pieced together in a way that makes the project feel like a fleeting, fragmenting dreamscape. With psychedelic and phantasmal elements, Randal B delivers a deeply introspective installment with

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AUDIO: Unpleasant – “Controlled Demolition”

Unpleasant, the solo endeavor of Curbsitter vocalist Brain Rott, is out with a debut album. Incorporating bass and drum machine in a lo-fi aesthetic, Rott brings anarcho-punk energy with this tape, channeling furious attitudes about systemic oppression, working-class despair and survival in dystopian capitalism. The rough crackles and pops as well as obfuscated samples serve as ideal complement to the

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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Want of Sin

Want of Sin comprises vocalist Bliss Baubas, guitarists Mark Curda and Xeion Cramer, bassist Jordan Steimke, keyboardist Trisha Peterson and drummer Adam Troyer. Formed in 2019, they are an experimental black metal band who incorporate elements of post-rock and shoegaze. Peterson played her first show with Want of Sin at Last Rites on Saturday evening, which also featured a stacked

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AUDIO: Breakup Tour – “All For Nothing (Forget It Piper, It’s Halloweentown)”

“Bubble grunge” supergroup Breakup Tour recently dropped their second single. This peppy tune touches on being stuck within the walls of your brain, but then letting your guard down just to get it thrown back in your face. “All For Nothing” accomplishes a lot in its just-over-three-minute runtime; it has a bright, glistening melody that shifts around the halfway mark

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AUDIO: KELCH – “The Gemini Chameleon”

KELCH dropped her debut EP on 4/20. The emerging hip hop artist comes with fierce energy on this five-song project, talking her shit with bombastic hooks, nimble flow and rousing flexes. Whether she’s stirring the pot by provoking the haters or assuring that she’ll make short work of her competition, KELCH is powerful and uncompromising in her demeanor, enlisting MoCity

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AUDIO: Haunter – “Mytharc”

Haunter released a new album last week. The progressive indie rockers bring 12 songs that they describe as about “introspection, self-improvement, and bumps along the way.” With their adept blend of dream pop, shoegaze and space rock, Haunter explore the everyday dichotomies between pervasive dissonance and little moments of fulfillment with “Mytharc”, incorporating surreal, often ominous imagery into vacillating themes

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AUDIO: MallBat – “TRASH GIRL”

MallBat released a new album a few weeks ago. With six tracks, the bedroom pop artist and producer brings a chromatic blast of sample-savvy electronica and emo-adjacent indie pop that prevalently features her vocals for the first time. The project is hyper and zealous at times while calm and glossy at others, showcasing MallBat’s proclivities to be simultaneously playful, mercurial

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AUDIO: Beauty Filter – “Beauty Filter”

Beauty Filter are a young new band to check out; originally from Johnsburg, IL and now based in Milwaukee, they just released a record in March. The band’s lo-fi rock style incorporates elements of shoegaze and dream pop, and each song here organically flows into the next, bringing lyrical imagery such as small-town disillusionment, infatuation and trying on smiles. Beauty

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