This January, Milwaukee punk purists Bicentennial Rub released a quickie EP to sell at their tours around the region, a wildly invigorating throwback to the rowdiest '80s hardcore and noise-rock called Capital Chaos! Live! And sure enough, it offers a good representation of their live show, even if it wasn't actually recorded live—the band crudely dubbed some protest audio and crowd noises into ...

The music site Daytrotter posted an archived live show from Field Report today, a July 4 performance that site editor Sean Moeller mythologizes as "a suicide mission": Performing at the hallowed Codfish Hollow Barn in Maquoketa, Iowa, for the second Barn on the 4th event in three years, Christopher Porterfield and the rest of the Milwaukee-based band wrapped themselves into dress shirts, vests an...