http://www.expressmilwaukee.com/articles.sec-216-1-music-feature.html It's a story everyone's heard: One winter Justin Vernon coops up in his Eau Claire cabin...]]> Lots of bands go into making new albums wanting to capture the sound of their live performances...]]> For most indie acts, luck means your career follows a slight incline. Then there are those acts...]]> This winter's Lemonheads tour coincides with the release of a new, quite unique album...]]> Head On Electric's Sleep Slaughter Sheep isn't a debut album, but it could easily be mistaken...]]> It has become something of a given that the Internet age has been less than kind to record labels...]]> “Dangerous business, using irony in America.” That's what David Lowery's English aunt...]]> The Smoking Popes' punchy pop-punk, sensitive lyrics and crooned vocals helped influence...]]> Milwaukee's music scene has never been known for a single sound, but in 2011...]]> Rocker Nick Lowe was late for his interview. As someone who prides himself on reliability...]]> As with The Replacements' Let It Be and Radiohead's OK Computer, third albums often...]]> “Ha, not really, no,” Zach Condon says with a laugh, when asked if there's...]]> Alex Schaaf has a knack for vocal harmonies—which seems like an odd thing to say since...]]> There's a tension attempting to pull apart almost any buzz band: In order to be successful...]]> David Bazan likes thinking things through. His songs have always maintained intimate connections...]]> In this era of Internet users typing vicious attacks behind the curtain of their laptops...]]> It's rare for bands to last 25 years. It's rarer still for bands to stay together that long...]]> If you only know one thing about the reunited Smashing Pumpkins...]]> Perhaps the most quintessentially Pavement show Stephen Malkmus ever performed in Milwaukee...]]> Annie Clark's first records as St. Vincent tempered her sometimes dark songwriting with generous...]]>