No one was more surprised than Violent Femmes’ drummer
Victor DeLorenzo when the play button was pressed and the band’s six-year pause
ended. “Gordon [Gano] called me last October, on John Lennon’s birthday...
Not many
Milwaukee area musicians are able to earn a living and tour the country as
full-time singer-songwriters. And exactly one of them has managed to do so
without a left arm...
June 16, 2013
There’s
perhaps another club or two that can claim to be as dark and musty, but Sunday
night John C. Reilly and his bluegrass band performed at the only venue in the
city that boasts its own hous...
June 13, 2013
With its
punchy doo-wop and an eye for the retro, Shannon and the Clams turned the
Cactus Club into prom night circa 1955 Thursday, delighting its cult-like,
wall-to-wall following and leaving me w...
June 6, 2013
In light of all the old punk rock bands reuniting these days—the competing Black Flag lineups come to mind—playing giant festivals and making mad cash off our nostalgia, I was a little nervous prior to The Dead...
June 5, 2013
“Windfall,”
the first song on Son Volt’s 1995 debut Trace,
has a great line about scanning the AM dial, “searching for a truer sound.”
“Catching an all-night station in Louisiana,” si...
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