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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Big Leaf Linden

Like Home (Stolen Gold)

By Jamie Lee Rake
 Big Leaf Linden distinguishes itself on this album with an amalgam of hard, country and folk rock appealing to the retro-minded jam band followers and fans of the current bucolic indie vogue. It's all delivered with guitars traversing the breadth from The James Gang to My Morning Jacket and
Dining Out
Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Soul Food Hospitality

Great eating, great folks at Brown’s Café

By Jamie Lee Rake
 One might reasonably expect friendly service from a restaurant going by the name of Brown's Hospitality Café. And hospitality is but one of the positive attributes of this Northwest Side African American soul food eatery
CD Reviews
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

The Saltshakers

Change The Channel (Unreal Records)

By Jamie Lee Rake
On the Milwaukee power pop band’s second in a series of three-track CD singles, they find engaging ways to kvetch about lack of romance with the objects of their affections. The title tune takes to task a paramour partial to ridiculous
Dining Out
Monday, May 13, 2013

Southern Style Sweetness

By Jamie Lee Rake
At Pat's Rib Place (151 E. Sunset Dr., Waukesha), a few booths and about as many stools accommodate folks who come for Southern-style barbeque with blues wafting through the fragrant air. Pork and beef ribs are a specialty
CD Reviews
Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Melissa Czarnik

Non Merci (Hyperdrive Motivator Productions)

By Jamie Lee Rake
 A Milwaukeean's residency in France is bound to have an effect on that artist's work. So it is with Melissa Czarnik, the rapper who now calls Brooklyn home. Her third album bears the imprint of time abroad between leaving
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Friday, April 26, 2013

Cream City Gypsys

"and the sun is the moon"

By Jamie Lee Rake
 From their snappy look and Romany-inspired name, one might assume Cream City Gypsys to be Milwaukee's latest exponents of the jazz genre Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli popularized so many decades ago. That's not
CD Reviews
Thursday, April 4, 2013

Karl Paloucek

K. (Trait Media Works)

By Jamie Lee Rake
 Karl Paloucek's involvement in bands such as Boy Dirt Car, Shrilltower and Impact Test affirm his creden
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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Blue Sky Hour

On the Coast of Lake Michigan

By Jamie Lee Rake
 The packaging of the sophomore release by Milwaukee acoustic rock trio Blue Sky Hour infers purposeful fun with maps of Wisconsin on the sleeve and lyrics in a miniature newspaper format. JoAnn Riedl (also from The Barrettes)

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