An e-zine for happenings of local culture in Milwaukee and elsewhere
I'm standing in a small aisle between sets, voices buzz. Violinist Allen Russell just led us through a pleading progression accompanied by Pat Reinholz (Cello), Rick Aaron (flute), John Simons (double bass), Gabriel Hammer (drums), amazingly coherent for being unrehearsed, a quintet previously unacquainted. I hear a delicate voice behind me, comically high pitched and soft through the... Continue Reading →
Milwaukee clearly hasn't come close to setting the upper limit on its seasonal festival flux capacitor gauge. Summerfest and Cathedral Square's Jazz in the Park will welcome Catalano Square's new outdoor music series Arye in the Square to the turn of the Solstice revelry. Tomorrow Matt Davies and the Thriftones light up the evening at... Continue Reading →
She's crushing the drums relentlessly, not smashed in the back behind the amps, but on the front line. Accompanied by a guitar or two (Pat Boyce and Bill Grasley), bass (Brandon Domer), and sometime keys (Domer), Nichole Rae concusses the tension out of her drum heads while vocally exhuming all manners of their collective innards,... Continue Reading →
MC Mikal lumbered in the BBC upper room, tall, gangly, vibrating above it all. The scene, relatively modest by hip-hop standards, dropped like an ember that starts a wild brush fire. A performative charge present, highly concentrated energy burned the anticipatory material around it, not caring to be seen. In a benefit for Men of... Continue Reading →
I like the idea of a one block tour, it's the next best thing to traveling all over the country chasing your favorite bands! Keepers of the local ART Milwaukee are making it happen this Saturday on Brady Street all day with the Eastside Music Tour. They strung together an all day line up of... Continue Reading →
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