Folk rockers Chris Haise Band released two singles last Friday. Haise is known for his evocative yet affable lyrical approach, and this pair of tracks is him at his most emotionally raw and sincere. “Medusa” is a bouncy bluegrass tune about coming to terms with your personal shortcomings, complete with a radiant cello solo. “Breaking My Heart” is driven by
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The track lets you know that Chicken is up now, if you didn’t know that by this point, it’s time to catch up.
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Experimental-electronic act The Demix kicked off March with a new EP. Consisting of material he’s been playing live over the last year, “ARRIVAL” brings all the hyper-driven electronica you could need to get amped up. Whether it’s by way of a caffeinated bass blast or an ominously textural atmosphere, there’s a masterful, tried-and-true versatility to the artist’s attention to detail
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With an Afrobeat-infused sound, Kia raps about a late-night rendevous, not wasting time playing games.
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The mixture of the two artists’ styles feels like a miracle experiment that worked too well.
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“Nosebleed” is the new addition from the upcoming album “Yolk,” and it alternates between a poignant acoustic-driven verse to bursts of full emotion.
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Armed with a soul sample and plenty of bars, Blax returns with a new single.
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Sbowe released her debut full-length album on the 1st of the month. The cellist-composer brings nine tunes of robust orchestral instrumentation that incorporates everything from accordion to bass clarinet to tuba to a vast selection of auxiliary percussion. Thematically, the record is an eclectic rumination on the tumultuous yet organic human experiences of grief and impostor syndrome. Movements take breaths
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Scrimshaw released a record last week – their first new music since 2018. It’s got eight tunes that bring a wildly eccentric, absurdly fun take on rock and roll laden with meandering melodies, cartoonlike vocals, irreverent song titles and psychedelic-punk force. The album flows like you’ve stumbled into an animated dream and are wandering around trying to make sense of
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Indie/post-punk rockers Full Nude released their debut album on Friday. The band rips away with seven songs of snappy melodies, resounding riffage and lyrics that balance humor with vehemence. Madi Moon and Sarah Long trade off on lead vocals, taking us into imagery of Walmart parking lots, “The Golden Girls”, antinuclear utopias and more. Full Nude bring plenty of wonderfully
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With a spacey beat and plenty of layered synths, T!ny talks about being ok with where they’re at in life and in a relationship, and the rest of the world can take that or leave it if they please.
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Ian Ewing delivers another quality lo-fi atmosphere.
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Tru West has new music out today, and she seemingly reached back into the vault for a freestyle track.
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There’s a feeling of secrecy to the bars that Gen brings to the table this time around, and he’s definitely trying to move under the radar here.
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“Hole In His Neck” is the latest from Trapper, with all of his trademark tendenices present on the single.
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The grind is real for C’zo but the long days and busy nights certainly paid off on this record.
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Dare we say it, it’s starting to actually look like real spring in Milwaukee, and there’s lots to be excited about in the city.
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Embark on a rhythmic journey with Milwaukee’s own Dak Dubois on this latest episode of the Wisconsin Music Podcast, hosted by Zach Felt.
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Indie rockers Half Moon HideAway have followed up their recent debut EP “Sunbeams” with a new single dropped last month. “Wasting Time” is a sauntering tune about procrastination and living leisurely while avoiding the task at hand. It’s tempting to lay around the house and do everything except the one thing you need to do most, and Half Moon HideAway
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Midwest emo act Excuse Me, Who Are You? (EMWAY for short) released a new single on Friday. This tune laments a past relationship and wishing you could start all over again, but ultimately you learn to accept that life is short. Employing post-hardcore riffage and vociferous shrieks, EMWAY’s “Maybe That Trucks Hit Me…And This is All a Dream” is the
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Composer-percussionist Dave Schoepke released a new album at the beginning of the month. Schoepke has been known to use a drums-centered approach in his music to convey narratives and storytelling, and this record finds him incorporating synthesizers into his methodology as well. Such an addition unlocks a whole new realm of atmospheres for Schoepke, with the contrast between the two
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The Cooperage hosted a delightful trifecta of all-local music on Friday evening featuring Jacob Slade, Will Pfrang and the Good Land Gang, and Blacktop. Blacktop is the indie pop project of Austin Wood. His style incorporates elements of surf and folk with an abundance of dreamy, atmospheric textures. Tracing his origins of making music, Wood recalls, “In high school I
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ANDII has returned with her first new music since 2019, a single released on Leap Year. This breezy pop tune finds the singer-songwriter clownin’ around with love, expressing that she did what she could to make things work but ultimately getting in her own way. Love can be a real beast, but it’s great to hear from ANDII – stay
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Featuring a quick, poppy beat and an equally fast delivery of the exclamatory title, “oh my!” will have listeners amped up and ready to find what lies in the future for this MKE icon.
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Teasing this track with a ‘Gravity Falls’ clip on their IG a few weeks back, OGNA invites listeners of all kinds to come on an amicable Departure into this new single.
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