http://expressmilwaukee.com/articles.sec-17-1-this-week-in-milwaukee.html Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 CDT en hourly 1 http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-19276-this-week-in-milwaukee.html Minimalist sets and elegantly subtle costuming have allowed the vocal prowess of Milwaukee's Florentine Opera Company to dominate each of their performances for nearly 80 years. Currently led by general director Bill Florescu, the company has...]]> http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-19123-this-week-in-milwaukee-foo-fighters-burnhearts-pabst-street-party-and-iron-maiden.html Ben Folds has kept busy since he disbanded his piano-rock trio Ben Folds Five shortly after the release of its bold final album, 1999's The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner. He's recorded plenty of solo albums...]]> http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-19054-this-week-in-milwaukee.html With the help of some enthusiastic praise from celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, Washington, D.C., pop-rock songwriter Eric Hutchinson rebounded from an unproductive stint on Madonna's Maverick Records, which shut down before...]]> http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-18978-this-week-in-milwaukee.html More than 180 artists will display their works to tens of thousands of visitors at this year's Lakefront Festival of Arts, which raises funds for the Milwaukee Art Museum. Attendees may purchase much of the art on display, which includes...]]> http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-18916-this-week-in-milwaukee-new-edition-and-locust-street-festival.html Milwaukee's classiest free concert series, Jazz in the Park, begins its 2012 season with an evening of music from one of the city's most prominent blues combos: Reverend Raven and the Chain Smokin' Altar Boys. The group plays...]]> http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-18712-this-week-in-milwaukee.html A sort of poetry slam without poetry—or, for that matter, slamming—The Moth was conceived in 1997 as an evening of storytelling, with each performer recounting a 10-minute autobiographical yarn, sans notes. Celebrities like Moby and Ethan...]]> http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-18639-this-week-in-milwaukee-quintron-and-miss-pussycat-the-polyphonic-spree-and-the-black-keys.html Prolific rocker Steve Winwood was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004 for his work with the prog-rock outfit Traffic, and it's not inconceivable he could be inducted again, since he was also a founding member...]]> http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-18591-this-week-in-milwaukee-aziz-ansari-field-report-and-milwaukee-underground-film-festival.html http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-18502-this-week-in-milwaukee.html Gladys Knight and the Pips recorded a number of minor hits for Motown in the mid-to-late '60s, but it wasn't until the group left the label that they scored their signature hit, “Midnight Train to Georgia.” Knight has had a colorful career since...]]> http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-18361-this-week-in-milwaukee-rodrigo-y-gabriela-ceremony-and-cults.html Decades into a career of recording everything from jazz to pop to R&B, Rickie Lee Jones continues to throw curveballs to her fans. Her 1997 record Ghostyhead experimented with drum-heavy trip-hop...]]> http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-18294-this-week-in-milwaukee-youth-lagoon-opening-day-and-lucero.html It's funny how a little bit of talent is all it takes to make even some of the most exhausted sounds feel new again. Released last year through Fat Possum Records, songwriter Trevor Powers' debut album as Youth Lagoon, The Year of Hibernation...]]> http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-18176-this-week-in-milwaukee-spoof-fest-2012-noel-gallagher-and-shabazz-palaces.html Dan Hicks has been playing for half a century, and although his 1969 debut LP with His Hot Licks, Original Recordings, wasn't much of a success, it led to a line of more successful albums that established him as a cult...]]> http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-18117-this-week-in-milwaukee.html A whiff of the sinister ran through Delta Spirit's revival-spiked indie rock on the California group's 2010 full-length, History From Below, with songs like “9/11,” “Salt in the Wound” and “Devil Knows You're Dead” touching on...]]> http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-17735-this-week-in-milwaukee-the-daredevil-christopher-wright-sammy-llanas-and-dirty-dozen-brass-band.html http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-17465-this-week-in-milwaukee-john-oliver-aaron-neville-and-attack-attack_.html http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-17413-this-week-in-milwaukee-jj-grey-mofro-ghost-hunters-live-and-kool-keith.html http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-17349-this-week-in-milwaukee-poli%25E7a-brad-paisley-and-brewcity-bruisers-roller-derby.html http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-17311-this-week-in-milwaukee-jj-grey-mofro-wu-tang-clan-and-hugh-bob-and-the-hustle.html http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-17245-this-week-in-milwaukee-moshe-kasher-the-get-down-and-polar-bear-plunge.html http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-17172-this-week-in-milwaukee-call-me-lightning-haunted-bar-tour-and-sleeping-in-the-aviary.html http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-17106-this-week-in-milwaukee-cage-the-elephant-trans-siberian-orchestra-and-mac-miller.html http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-17020-this-week-in-milwaukee-wilco-milwaukee-zine-fest-and-urban-garage-sale.html http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-16954-this-week-in-milwaukee-kyuss-lives_-russian-circles-and-beady-eye.html http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-16881-this-week-in-milwaukee-steve-aoki-357-string-band-and-art-vs-craft.html http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-16814-this-week-in-milwaukee-the-avett-brothers-seziure-chicken-fall-fest-and-mates-of-state.html http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-16753-this-week-in-milwaukee-rachel-yamagata-paul-simon-and-the-game.html http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-16561-this-week-in-milwaukee-gwar-neil-hamburger-and-they-might-be-giants.html http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-16489-this-week-in-milwaukee-los-straitjackets-seth-meyers-and-mam-after-dark.html http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-16416-this-week-in-milwaukee-keith-urban-melt-banana-and-cirque-du-soleil-quidam.html http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-16344-this-week-in-milwaukee-will-hoge-cheap-trick-and-trailer-park-boys.html