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Friday, August 22,2008

Decibully, The Championship and The Celebrated Workingman

Tonight @ the Turner Hall Ballroom - 7 p.m.

By Shepherd Express Staff
 
In a sign of the growing interest in the Milwaukee music scene, tonight’s most buzzed about concert is headlined by a trio of great local bands. Decibully, who write sprawling, richly textured indie-rock opuses, top tonight’s 7 p.m. show at the Turner Hall Ballroom, in advance of a recently recorded new album. They’ll be supported by the indie-Americana act The Championship and the chipper indie-pop group The Celebrated Workingman (who, incidentally, are celebrating the release of their engrossing new album, Herald The Dickens), and, curiously, Koufax, the lone national group on the bill. Without much love from the Internet, Koufax never found a scene to call their own, though the Spoon-with-horns formula of their upcoming album, Strugglers, could earn them a critical reappraisal.

 

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I had occassion to witness The Celebrated Workingman performance at Summerfest. They were unprofessional and unprepared. Their show started thirty minutes late, they struggled incessantly with their equipment between numbers for inordinant periods of time, and what spewed from the speakers between "F" bombs where children were present was more noise than music. Hardly what I'd expect from anyone lucky enough to be chosen to perform on any stage at Summerfest.

 

The preceding appears to be the work of "handsome" Dan.

 

I completely disagree. The Celebrated Workingman were incredible at Summerfest, and performed even better at Turner Hall tonight!

 

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I don't get this new wave of local bands who write and perform dull, mid tempo country tinged dirges and are lauded as the second coming of Jeff Tweedy. It's not that great folks and just because it is local, doesn't mean it's genius. I just wish that the local critics would hold local bands up to the same standard as national acts, it would make the music scene in Milwaukee much better.

 

 
 
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