Psych pop band L’Resorts are out with a new record. The band continues their saga of sunshine-laden electric folk rock, with recurring themes of comparing healthy love to toxic love as well as making love last. These songs greet reverence with a smile and a song while also making distinctions between being in love and loving someone properly. It’s another exquisite addition the L’Resorts catalog; also, that cover art is pretty rad.
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AUDIO: L’Resorts – “Vacation”
Psych-pop band L’Resorts have a new record out. It’s a collection of playful, bright-eyed tunes that hearken to the salad days of frolicking in young love. They’re songs to dance in the rain and hold hands to. L’Resorts never miss with their sunshine-soaked duets and idyllic songwriting, marked by a retention of youthful enthusiasm. We hope to catch a show of theirs and see these songs live very soon.
VIDEO: Mr. Nice Guy with James Sauer
Our Music Director, Ben Slowey, is more than on top of the local music scene. In addition to his work for Breaking And Entering, he also hosts the Mr. Nice Guy podcast, an interview-based show that reaches out to Milwaukeeans for conversations about what motivates them. Many of these shows fittingly involve the local music scene, and we’ll be sharing some of them here as well.
Today, Ben talks to James Sauer, who currently plays in indie rock band The Hatchets, psych pop band L’Resorts, and with Mark Waldoch and the Hallelujah Ward. He’s also got a solo project of his own, Captain Beatty. We discussed James’ beginnings writing songs in his late 20s, his various bands, his new project, gaining the confidence to express emotions through music, and getting kept up by horror movies.
AUDIO: L’Resorts – “Sad Happens”
L’Resorts have a new record out for their annual holiday fundraiser, and it’s a kids album. They sing about making friends, eating vegetables, dreaming and hydrating in their signature Americana-pop-folk sound. It’s a sweet, syrupy collection of light-hearted ditties sure to crack some smirks. They’re raising money for Pathfinders, who provide resources for homeless and housing-insecure youth. We hope listeners choose to support.
AUDIO: L’Resorts – “Bad Love”
Electric folk-pop supergroup L’Resorts are out with a new record. There’s eleven tracks here, and most of them hover around the three-minute mark. These songs shimmer with warm romance as vocalists Martha Cannon and Vincent Kircher trade parts, singing of the comfort in nature and feeling complete with one another. It’s a friendly listen and one that feels like an idyllic summertime adventure. We really admire the pop fusion going on in L’Resorts’ music and look forward to having this record in rotation as summer’s in the air.
B&E Weekly Jams Presented by Bublr Bikes: 5/17 – 5/23/20
As we inch ever so closer to summer, and the world looks to start breaking open, Milwaukee’s music scene is firing all cylinders, and we get that in this week’s B&E Weekly Jams Presented by Bublr Bikes! Check out brand new music from LUXI, Browns Crew, Mo’City and more! Don’t forget that you can check out the archive of weekly playlists by following Breaking And Entering on Spotify, and check out this week’s playlist below:
B&E Weekly Jams Presented by Bublr Bikes: 5/10 – 5/16/20
We’re moving steadily through May, and as the world gets a little brighter, so does the music in this week’s B&E Weekly Jams Presented by Bublr Bikes! This week, we’ve got new music from Johanna Rose, Genesis Renji, L’Resorts and more! Don’t forget that you can listen to the archive of weekly playlists by following Breaking And Entering on Spotify, and check out this week’s playlist below:
AUDIO: L’Resorts – “Squeeze You”
L’Resorts are back with a new single, which is the second preview of their upcoming “Bad Love” album. “Squeeze You” made its unofficial debut as part of the band’s 88Nine Radio Milwaukee 414 Live session, but the recorded version captures the full camp of the song, a duet that feels like it could have been lifted from a 7″ out of a retro jukebox. The alternating lines from Martha Cannon and Vincent Kircher feel like the sound of an era gone by, and the two are perfectly complimented by bending guitars and xylophone plunks. “Bad Love” is set to be available in full later this month, and you can hear “Squeeze You” here below:
Forward Music Festival to benefit Milwaukee Venues Announces Lineup
Normally around this time of year, our website would be flooded with lineup announcements for summer festivals. However, as you’re probably aware, many of those events are up in the air right now given the national pandemic. Local musicians are itching to play, and venues are looking for ways to generate income, so Andy Kosanke of Paper Holland and Flat Teeth and Jason Ludtke have developed Forward Music Festival, and online streaming festival that will take place April 24th-26th on Instagram Live. Rather than physically hosting the acts, each venue’s Instagram account will broadcast at-home sets from the acts on their bill. We’re proud to be a part of this great event, we hope you’ll donate to this cause, and you can check out the absolutely stacked lineup of local acts below:
Friday, April 24th (Benefiting Cactus Club)
Instagram: @CactusClubMKE
Flat Teeth
OQ
L’Resorts
Klassik
Saturday, April 25th (Benefiting The Cooperage)
Instagram: @CooperageMKE
Fuzzysurf
Chris Porterfield
Shle Berry
Reyna
Sunday, April 26th (Benefiting X-Ray Arcade)
Instagram: @XRayArcade
Greatest Lakes
Graham Hunt
Dramatic Lovers
Telethon
Rose Of The West
VIDEO: Mr. Nice Guy With Martha Cannon
One of our contributors, Ben Slowey, is more than on top of the local music scene. In addition to his work for Breaking And Entering, he also hosts the Mr. Nice Guy podcast, an interview-based show that reaches out to Milwaukeeans for conversations about what motivates them. Many of these shows fittingly involve the local music scene, and we’ll be sharing some of them here as well.
Today, Ben talks to Martha Cannon, who fronts “Midwest softcore” band Lady Cannon and sings in psych-pop band L’Resorts. Lady Cannon’s record “Fortune’s Darling” and the self-titled debut L’Resorts record both came out this past year. They discussed Martha picking up music as a creative outlet once she moved from Washington state to Milwaukee, Las Vegas, writing songs about men, the many different vibrations on “Fortune’s Darling”, and quantity vs quality. You can check out more episodes of Mr. Nice Guy on YouTube, and check out this interview below:
B&E Weekly Jams Presented By Bublr Bikes: 12/22 – 12/28/19
In case you forgot to do your last minute shopping, or if you’ve taken a bump to the head recently, this week is all about Christmas, and we have a local take on that with a holiday edition of the B&E Weekly Jams Presented by Bublr Bikes! Check out a playlist of local Christmas tracks, including music from Tr3y, Gerald Walker, Tigernite and more. Don’t forget that you can check out more Milwaukee playlists by following Breaking And Entering on Spotify, and check out this week’s playlist below:
L’Resorts and Fox Face Play The Cooperage
A packed house occurred at The Cooperage Friday night as bands L’Resorts and Fox Face played along with acclaimed avant-garde noise rock band Deerhoof. Known for their bizarre fusion of pop melodies with noisy instrumentation, Deerhoof is a highly distinctive outfit within the American indie sphere.
L’Resorts is a relatively new fixture in Milwaukee’s catalog, playing tropical pop music and donning all-white outfits to give an “island” sensation. Martha Cannon sings, Vinnie Kircher sings and plays guitar, Stephen Streupp plays guitar, James Sauer plays bass, Austin Dutmer drums, Frank Martinelli plays keys, and Steph Lippert plays marimba. This marked their third show as a full band.
“Martha hit me up on Facebook and wanted to do a song and it kinda took us forever to get together and do it. We did the song and it snowballed into “let’s make a bunch of songs.” We started recording every week and it took off. Austin joined first; he plays drums on the recording,” Kircher said about the band’s conception.
“We’ve done a bunch of recordings. We basically have an album; we just have to put it out,” Kircher said.
“There’s no set release date but in the near future,” Lippert added. “We’ve got the momentum going and I think when it’s time we’ll do the thing. Summertime, maybe.”
L’Resorts plays The Sh*tty Barn in Spring Green on June 18th.
Fox Face is a punk band consisting of vocalist/guitarist Lindsay DeGroot, vocalist/guitarist Lydia Washechek, bassist Mary Hickey, and drummer Chopper Chioda. The band started in 2009 when DeGroot and Washechek wrote and played songs together, gradually adding on Hickey and their original drummer (Chioda replaced him shortly prior to their debut LP recording).
The LP, “Spoil + Destroy,” came out in 2017 and is full of liberal fury, touching on issues such as feminism and climate change denial.
“We have half of our next record done,” DeGroot said. “We have the second half written but not played out yet. We’re almost there.”
Fox Face embarked on their first overseas tour this time a year ago. They made stops in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, and Italy.
“We were on the last day of our tour a year ago today, exactly,” Hickey said.
“The experience of touring in Europe is so incredibly accommodating compared to here. We stayed in hotels every night…there was no sleeping on floors,” DeGroot said.
“They made you dinners every show,” Washechek added. “They’re very focused on hospitality. Then we went through a touring company too so we had somebody driving us and it was amazing.”
Fox Face cites Circle A as one of their favorite Milwaukee venues to play.
“It’s like going home,” Hickey said about playing there. “It’s like hanging out in the living room with all your best friends.”
Fox Face is outspoken about the challenges women continue to face infiltrating the music industry. Hickey gave a personal testimony.
“We played a street festival in Milwaukee last summer, but we showed up and we were having confusion with the sound people. We had submitted a stage plot ahead of time so they knew our input and asked who was in the band, and we felt we didn’t understand enough about sound and they kept telling us there weren’t enough monitors. It was because the whole they just assumed the three of us were backup singers. At no point in time did it cross their mind that we were the band.”
That being said, Hickey does have optimism about the scene.
“There’s been some progress. There’s more women, and we are collaborating more; we’re not isolated in specific scenes as much as maybe a decade ago. Things like Riverwest FemFest bring everyone together.”
She also spoke about the heroism associated with maleness in the music industry.
“When we were in SXSW last month, we saw a lot of our old nostalgic favorite bands, and I realized that all of our idols are men; there’s like no females onstage. I guess the difference is that a decade ago I was a person of the crowd never thinking I could do something like that, and here we are doing it. I don’t know if we’re anybody’s hero or if we’ll be celebrated like men are just for being men playing music. But we’re doing the best we can.”
Fox Face plans to finish their record and tour across the East and South US later this year. They play Riverwest Public House with Negative/Positive and The Lovebugs on June 7th.
