An e-zine for happenings of local culture in Milwaukee and elsewhere
I'm stepping on a thousand cigarette butts on the way in, it's not dark and smokey in the Cactus Club anymore, but still a little dank on the music side. Someone on staff managed to keep a VHS tape of an old Arsenio Hall episode featuring N.W.A from being magnetized after all these years and... Continue Reading →
Live original composition jazz meets experimental performance theater at the Marian Center for Non-Profits for one night only on Friday March 2. The Notes Milwaukee Area Composers & Artists (MACA) jazz collective, led by Milwaukee grown Jazz composers and saxophonists Steve Gallam and Blake Manning, will perform in tribute to their first CD Release of... Continue Reading →
Some roads serve their perfect purpose, along the way her's happened through Milwaukee. Most importantly her road is her road, and it has taken feet, shoes, wheels, tracks, wings, rudders, hoofs, whispers, screams and prayers to travel it, her music always in tow. Her road takes its next turn with the release of her latest... Continue Reading →
Oh yeah it's 2012! That means it's time to quickly look back at 2011 before speeding off into the night of the New Year. I've been blogging for about 3 years now, and the new year also brings us closer to Local Trolley's one year anniversary! Before I go on posting, I want to acknowledge... Continue Reading →
Creeping in crevices up and down Milwaukee's curvy strip of the Third Coast, for The Niama kicking-audiences' arses comes second to just kicking-arse. The duo that makes up The Niama reek of deep Milwaukee roots that span both sides of the Hoan, and rock like skinned-elbows and the stories that go with them. This dude Steve... Continue Reading →
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