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Red Knife Lottery

Punk From The Soul

Red Knife Lottery opened their debut EP, So Much Drama, with the plotted rape and torture of Travel Channel personality Samantha Brown, paving the way for five more tales of brutality and murder, penned in the vulgar literary style of Edgar Allan Poe and enacted by the terrorizing screams...


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Decapitado Makes Up For Lost Time

In 2003, Milwaukee-based Decapitado released their Blacked CD, a collection of ridiculously heavy (yet also surprisingly catchy) songs that instantly marked them as a band to keep a close eye on. But year after year passed, and next to nothing was heard from the band. Now, more than five years later, the group has emerged with a flurry of shows and an ambitious recording schedule. Perhaps wanting to make...


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For Michael Jackson, Vindicating Remembrances and an Approaching Storm

Michael Jackson music videos ran on a constant loop on cable this weekend, while radio recommitted itself to his songbook—at one point I caught three Milwaukee radio stations all playing different Jac...

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Ska Redux: Rancid and The Invaders Evoke the Spirit of 95

Rancid was modern-rock radio’s gateway in the mid-’90s from punk revival to ska, and it sometimes feels like they’re punished for that. While their contemporaries Green Day re-emerged as the improbabl...

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Conor Oberst Does One For Michael

"Our entire set tonight is dedicated to the memory of Michael Jackson," Conor Oberst announced at the start of his Summerfest performance last night, and sure enough, he periodically evoked the fallen...

Concert Reviews

Photos: John the Savage

June 28, 2009 @ The Cascio Groove Garage, Summerfest

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R.I.P. Michael Jackson, The Most Tragic Pop Star Ever

Michael Jackson died this afternoon, the Los Angeles Times has confirmed. The news marks the end of the singer's long, painful decline. Michael Jackson was, without a doubt, the most tragic pop star t...

Concert Reviews

Photos: The Celebrated Workingman

June 26, 2009 @ The Cascio Groove Garage, Summerfest

On Music

JSOnline Selling Shady Concert Tickets?

It is not, to be sure, the deal of the century: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Web site is selling a lone ticket to the Riverside Theater's upcoming Moody Blues concert for $690.  That price wo...

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Adam Franklin and The Church Dazzle at Shank Hall

I haven't followed Adam Franklin's many, many post-Swervedriver projects very closely, and the guitarist's gorgeous performance Tuesday night at Shank Hall with The Church made the case that I've prob...

Concert Reviews

Photos: The Trusty Knife

June 26, 2009 @ The Cascio Groove Garage, Summerfest

CD Reviews

Grizzly Bear

Veckatimest (Warp)

Remember when bands cared about albums as an art form? Instead of slapping together a dozen tracks because, hey, they'll just end up on everyone's iPod shuffle anyway, musicians considered how their songs might congeal as a whole or form some sort of dramatic arc. Allow Grizzly Bear to reintroduce you to...

CD Reviews

Elvis Costello

Secret, Profane & Sugarcane (Hear Music)

Elvis Costello's frequent collaborator T-Bone Burnett produced Secret, Profane & Sugarcane, an Americana-inflected album working with country and folk traditions for images of sawdust floors set to mandolin and fiddle. Costello intended one song, "Complicated Shadows," for Johnny Cash, but the Man in Black died before recording...

CD Reviews

Monks

Black Monk Time (Light in the Attic)

Dubbed the "Anti-Beatles," the Monks were formed in 1964 by five American G.I.'s stationed in Germany. 1966 saw the release of Black Monk Time followed by a quick slip into obscurity, their garage-psych-punk and chant call and response vocals remembered mostly by obsessive collector weirdos. Luckily, most of those weirdos started bands of their own. And the 35-page liner notes that accompany this lovingly...

CD Reviews

B. Reith

The Forecast EP (Gotee)

Brown Deer native Brian Reith has moved to Tennessee, but raps with such sweet soul that his hometown should be proud. Fellow white R&B crooners such as Justin Timberlake and Robin Thicke may want to watch their backs for B.'s honeyed tenor. Alongside his religious and social concerns, Reith excels...

CD Reviews

Crimson Jazz Trio

King Crimson Songbook, Volume 2 (Inner Knot)

The strength of great songs can be measured by how well they stand being reinterpreted, especially in ways that might not have occurred to their authors. Could Robert Fripp have imagined his prog rock epic, "In the Court of the Crimson King," as a post-bop instrumental, opening an album of jazz renderings of music by King Crimson?

 
 
 

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Moving At the Speed of Darkness
  Words by Erin Wolf “Love, shine on me, shine on me, and set us all free,” raised voices in song introduce listeners to the newest batch of songs from Milwaukee’s The Championship, who since 2005, have been forging their deep and twang-filled country songs in the fires and trials of life. This time around, the emphasis [...]
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Groove Garage Announces All Local Summerfest Line-Up

ExpressMilwaukee.com has posted the line-up for the Summerfest stage we're most excited about, the Cascio Groove Garage, the all-local stage that the Shepherd Express is sponsoring wtih WMSE. The stag...

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