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Kia Rap Princess bills herself as “extraordinary female hip-hop” and is “determined to bring about a positive change in Milwaukee and some dignity to the female emcee”. The fact that her new single is named “No Limit” should come as no surprise. The woman is on a mission with her music.

WMSE Local Live - Kia Rap Princess

At the foot of the mountain, the joyous lake: Sun//Decrease is the sound of a cliff extending outward as you walk off.  It is a new collaborative trio consisting of WC Tank (Antler Antennas, Stumblesome), Barry Paul Clark (adoptahighway, Tontine Ensemble) and Devin Drobka (Bell Dance Songs, Lesser Lakes Trio, Lady Cannon).

WMSE Local Live  - Sun//Decrease

WMSE Local Live - The Hullmen

Out of “drinkers’ paradise” Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Grasping at Straws blend the sounds of old Americana, country, and blues with a more modern, dissonant rock energy. With a canon of eclectic and catchy songs, the Straws use the traditional tools of multiple harmonies, banjo, guitar, fiddle and upright bass to create a well-rounded offering.

WMSE Local Live -The Grasping at Straws

Milwaukee’s husband and wife trip-hop duo, Will It Burn think of their music as “upcycling for the ears.”

Featuring “Em” on the vocals and “Eight” on the beats, Will It Burn make it their art to take snippets of forgotten musical history and refashion those snippets, recovering lost words, poetry, phrases and decades-old culture by searching for gems on neglected wax.

The duo’s snippets and gems go to also fashion a sound that recalls moments of modern electronic bands such as Purity Ring and Broods as well as older moody offerings from Propellerheads and Massive Attack.

Coming right off of the release of their new album, In Other Circumstances, Will It Burn is getting set for a string of fall shows and beyond.

WMSE Local Live - Will It Burn

“Formed in 2000 with no sense of when to call it a day, Milwaukee’s pop-noise chaos theorists have recently reconvened after some time on the shelf.

“IfIHadAHiFi are a whirlwind of feedback, samples, clanking guitars and de-tuned synths hiding some deceptively catchy pop songs.

“Their most recent release was an online-only EP about particle physics written for an art/science installation show, if that gives you any indication of the subject matter you’ll normally find in the cyclone that is a typical HiFi set.

“IfIHadAHiFi is currently writing songs for yet another record and are happy to share them with the dynamic and intelligent hosts of WMSE’s Local Live.”

Join WMSE and IFIHadAHiFi for a farewell to the Milwaukee record label that they called home for years, Latest Flame Records. Latest Flame Records will be winding down with a pair of shows at Club Garibaldi on Friday, October 23rd and Saturday, October 24th.


Local Live - IfIHadAHiFi

Local Live - Dad

Caley was eating expired sushi at her day job. Surprise and strange fortune were met in the bitter flavor of translucent cucumber, that meal. The Lucy Cukes would later form, curling snugly around Caley’s songs, its name gently alluding to the memory of that fateful, off cucumber. What will become of them all?

Caley Conway and her”Lucy Cukes”, the band she gathered from a group of childhood friends – Timothy Stone, Alex Heaton, and Robert Weiss — has, over the past few years, served her well, bolstering her already-strong singer-songwriter foundation.

Conway’s voice evokes folk vocalists from both the past (Joni Mitchell) and more recent (Alana Davis), her range impressive and her verbose lyricism a breath of fresh air in a scene where chorus / verse / chorus is pretty standard. Conway has released a couple of EPs (Discipline Soup and Of Songs on the Ukulele) but has never gotten to a full-length. It’s unfortunate that the demise of the band also times out as their first release (Silk For Life will be released later this summer), but the bittersweet nature of things doesn’t take away from the music, itself; the first single (“The Dreaming Genius Sees”) is solid. Recently previewed by Milwaukee Record, they write, “Conway’s vocals remain magnificent and altogether charming throughout.”



Local Live - Caley Conway

Piles is a three piece band from Milwaukee including Nolan on bass and vocals, Drew on drums, and Jesse on guitar and vocals.  Piles will be releasing their second LP, Expeller, on Gloss Records on March 14th.

Local Live - Piles

Milwaukee’s Rocket Cat guitarist Christopher Guse (Parallel), bassist Dave Maurer (Parallel, Signal Daddy), drummer Steve Vorass (I’m not a Pilot, Bright Black, Mouse Corn) and vocalist/lyricist Justine Trudeaux (Smack Leveaux) skillfully blend their backgrounds for a combination that yields a supercharged sound that’s at once fresh and familiar, forward-focused and reflective, unpredictable yet accessible, and always lushly melodic.

After a long hiatus from songwriting, Trudeaux crossed back into a forgotten world of creativity when an unexpected series of personal connections led her to Guse, Maurer and Vorass. This experience of reconnecting inspired the storyline of the band’s debut EP, Radiant Transmission, which chronicles her year-long journey of reflection, risk-taking and reawakening through Rocket Cat.

“I’ve lived in a number cities across the country and in Europe so I’m amazed I found these guys here in Milwaukee, Wisconsin after years away from the music industry,” Trudeaux says. “It’s mind-blowing that we get along so well. I connect so viscerally to the sound they are creating, and each time they send me bits of music to tinker with, I instantly hear songs in my head.”

Local Live - Rocket Cat

WMSE’s Local/Live once again returns to Club Garibaldi’s for another awesome season of monthly Local/Live segments!

On Tuesday, November 7th, we welcome the one, the only, Wisconsin legend…the Rhythm Chicken!

The Rhythm Chicken is a non-musical enigma wrapped in uncooked bacon. He’s played in the woman’s bathroom at the Cactus Club and to a crowd of 40,000 at Miller Park. He’s played at the finish line of a marathon in Las Vegas and on a pontoon boat in the River Elbe in downtown Dresden during the fireworks finale of Stadtfest. He’s played at sausage shops and fish boils. He’s played in Poland, German, Kansas, California, and Cudahy.

He has played to a crowd of zero in the woods, and he’s had Deathcab for Cutie open up for him. All this might lead you to believe he’s notable on some level, but he’s not. He’s just a chicken who lives above a soup shop.

You can join WMSE and the Rhythm Chicken at his newest show locale at Club Garibaldi’s as we team up for this live radio show. If you can’t make it, listen live over the airwaves (or in the WMSE archives).

As always, WMSE Music Director Erin Wolf and co-host Cal Roach will lead the Rhythm Chicken through questions in between the live performance with the help of our audience (audience participation is encouraged!).

Doors are at 5:30pm and the segment starts at 6pm and runs until 7pm. Club Garibaldi’s is located at 2501 S. Superior Street in Bay View.

This is a 21+ event which is FREE and open to the public.

Again, if you can’t join us for the live segment and show at Club Garibaldi’s, please tune in, per usual, to 91.7 FM (or stream online at WMSE.org) at the 6 o’clock hour.

Local Live - the Rhythm Chicken

ROCKET CAT LAUNCHED IN MILWAUKEE IN EARLY 2016, WHEN FOUR VETERAN MUSICIANS EMBARKED ON A MISSION TO CREATE MUSIC ROOTED IN THE HIGH-ENERGY INTERPLAY OF VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL LAYERS, DRAWING HEAVILY UPON THE MUSICAL INFLUENCES OF THEIR YOUTH.

LAST YEAR SAW ROCKET CAT HOLDING THE #1 SPOT ON REVERBNATION’S LOCAL AND REGIONAL ALTERNATIVE ROCK CHARTS AND ALSO EARNING NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2018 WAMI AWARDS IN TWO CATEGORIES – “NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR” AND “POP/ROCK ARTIST OF THE YEAR”. FUELED BY THEIR SUCCESS, ROCKET CAT HAS A FRESH ROUND OF NEW MATERIAL AND ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO AN APRIL 5TH LP RELEASE AT ANODYNE (WITH SPECIAL GUESTS FLAT TEETH AND MORTGAGE FREEMAN) AS WELL AS A MUSIC VIDEO PREMIERE AND SCREENING ON JUNE 1ST AT NO STUDIOS WITH LIVE PERFORMANCES BY ROCKET CAT AND THE KEYSTONES.

TUNE INTO WMSE’S LOCAL/LIVE TUESDAY, MARCH 19TH TO LISTEN TO THE NEWEST SONGS AND HEAR THE LATEST NEWS FROM MILWAUKEE’S ROCKET CAT. WMSE.ORG TO STREAM LIVE OR IN THE ARCHIVES OR SIMPLY TUNE YOUR RADIO TO 91.7 FM AT THE 6 O’CLOCK HOUR.

LOCAL/LIVE ON WMSE IS SPONSORED BY CLUB GARIBALDI’S.

FORMED WAY BACK DURING THE TAIL-END OF THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION, IFIHADAHIFI ARE A CYCLONIC MORASS OF FEEDBACK, EFFECTS, DANCE BEATS, SQUALL, AND SHOUT-ALONG HOOKS. DRAWKWARD HOLDS DOWN THE DRUMS AND VOCALS, MRALARM PUNISHES ON BASS, SYNTH AND VOCALS, YALEDELAY SQUALLS ON GUITAR AND VOCALS AND REVEVER WREAKS HAVOC ON GUITAR AND SYNTH.

THE BAND HAS THEIR NEWEST RELEASE SINCE 2012 – WE’RE NEVER GOING HOME – READY TO MEET THE WORLD. THE ALBUM CONTINUES IN THE HIFI TRADITION OF BURYING POP SONGS UNDERNEATH LAYERS OF DISSONANCE AND VOLUME. TOUCHING ON TOPICS LIKE SPACE EXPLORATION, CRYPTOZOOLOGY-AS-RELIGION, SCIENCE DENIAL, AND YOUR MORE, IFIHADAHIFI HAVE TAKEN A LOOK AT 2019 AND ARE FAIRLY SURE WE’VE GONE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, AND NOT A SINGLE ONE OF US ARE EVER GOING HOME.

TUNE INTO WMSE’S LOCAL/LIVE ON TUESDAY, JULY 16TH FOR A LIVE SET FROM IFIHADAHIFI BEFORE THEY NEVER GO HOME.  WMSE.ORG TO STREAM LIVE OR IN THE ARCHIVES OR SIMPLY TUNE YOUR RADIO TO 91.7 FM AT THE 6 O’CLOCK HOUR.

LOCAL/LIVE ON WMSE IS SPONSORED BY CLUB GARIBALDI’S.

Local Live - IFIHADAHIFI

DRAWING ON THE MORE MELODIC SIDE OF 90S INDIE ROCK AND EMO, FLAT TEETH’S MUSIC ECHOES EVERYTHING FROM THE GET UP KIDS AND MOCK ORANGE TO DARKER AND MOODIER ACTS LIKE NO KNIFE AND CURSIVE.

INTERLOCKING GUITARS, LAYERED VOCAL HARMONIES AND DRIVING RHYTHMS ARE ALL PRESENT IN THE BAND’S OUTPUT AND THOSE SEEKING STRAIGHTFORWARD AND ENERGETIC SONGWRITING WILL FIND MUCH TO ENJOY (AS NOT MUCH AS CHANGED SINCE THEIR DEBUT EP, RELEASED LAST YEAR). FLAT TEETH’S NEXT RELEASE, SILENT SECONDS, SEES THEM STRONGER THAN EVER.

WE INVITE YOU TO INTO WMSE’S LOCAL/LIVE ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29TH TO GET A SNEAK PREVIEW OF THE NEW FLAT TEETH RECORD, SILENT SECONDS BEFORE IT OFFICIALLY ARRIVES ON NOVEMBER 8TH. WMSE.ORG TO STREAM THE SHOW LIVE OR IN THE ARCHIVES OR SIMPLY TUNE YOUR RADIO TO 91.7 FM AT THE 6 O’ CLOCK HOUR.

LOCAL/LIVE ON WMSE IS SPONSORED BY CLUB GARIBALDI.

Local Live - Flat Teeth

MILWAUKEE’S SNAG CONFRONTS THEMES OF ANTIPATHY FOR LATE-CAPITALISM, POLICE VIOLENCE, AND ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHE WITH FURY AND DESPAIR. THEIRS IS A GENERATION WITH A DEEP SENSE OF INJUSTICE AND IMPENDING LOSS. THEY DRAW INFLUENCE FROM TOUCHSTONES PORTRAITS OF PAST, CITY OF CATERPILLAR, AND MAJORITY RULE: BANDS THAT INFORMED AN ADOLESCENT SNEER THAT HAS MATURED INTO AN ADULTHOOD OF AMBIVALENCE AND PRECARITY. THEY OFFER A DISTINCTLY MIDWEST INTERPRETATION OF THE IMPENDING CRUMBLE OF SOCIETY.

LISTEN TO A SET OF NEW SONGS FROM SNAG’S LATEST FULL-LENGTH ON WMSE’S LOCAL/LIVE ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12TH. WMSE.ORG TO STREAM THE SHOW LIVE OR IN THE ARCHIVES OR SIMPLY TUNE YOUR RADIO TO 91.7 FM AT THE 6 O’ CLOCK HOUR.

LOCAL/LIVE ON WMSE IS SPONSORED BY CLUB GARIBALDI.

Local Live - Snag

A FOUNDING MEMBER OF MILWAUKEE X PORTLAND, MAINE RUBY YACHT LABEL, BAND MEMBER OF MILO AND PRODUCER FOR FORMER MILWAUKEE ARTIST, QUEEN TUT, RANDAL BRAVERY [BRANDON WASHINGTON] HAS, ON HIS OWN, EXPERTLY TURNED OUT AN ADMIRABLE CACHE OF CREATIVE BEATS, MELLOW ELECTRONICA AND DENSE TRIP-HOP. ALWAYS LEANING ON THE ATMOSPHERIC, RANDAL BRAVERY HAS BURIED HIMSELF IN THAT CLOUD, KEEPING A LOW PROFILE DESPITE CRAFTING NOTHING BUT QUALITY. HIS LATEST RELEASE – HUETT – IS AN EVER-MOVING, BUT LOOSE SPIRAL, OF SOUND DUSTED WITH PIANOS, SYNTHS AND BEATS AT EVERY TURN.

“AMBIENCE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A MAIN COMPONENT OF THE MUSIC I WRITE”, HE’S EXPLAINED, GOING FROM CHOPPING OF LOOPS WITH PADS TO EMPLOYING MORE OF AN IMPROV STYLE, UTILIZING A VOCAL MIC, EFFECTS AND SAMPLER TO CREATE MORE OF A CONTINUOUS VIBE. HIS DABBLINGS HAVE INCLUDED INFLUENCES OF EVERYTHING FROM KRAUTROCK, CHILLWAVE AND SOUL TO EXPERIMENTAL HIP HOP; RANDAL BRAVERY CREATES A SONIC WORLD THAT IS ALL HIS OWN.

JOIN WMSE FOR LOCAL/LIVE WITH RANDAL BRAVERY ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11TH – WMSE.ORG TO STREAM THE SHOW LIVE OR IN THE ARCHIVES OR SIMPLY TUNE YOUR RADIO TO 91.7 FM AT THE 6 O’ CLOCK HOUR.

LOCAL/LIVE ON WMSE IS SPONSORED BY CLUB GARIBALDI.

Local Live - Randal Bravery

WMSE’S LOCAL/LIVE RETURNS TO CLUB GARIBALDI ONCE AGAIN ON TUESDAY, MARCH 3RD WITH A VERY SPECIAL SHOW WITH MILWAUKEE’ MAGNETIC MINDS.

MAGNETIC MINDS ORIGINALLY FORMED TEN YEARS AGO AS A TWO-PIECE. TWO YEARS LATER, SINGER AND BASSIST CHRIS ORTIZ AND DRUMMER TIM WICK WROTE AND RELEASED THEIR FIRST FULL-LENGTH ALBUM, AUDIO RORSCHACH, A HEAVY, RHYTHMIC ROCK AND ROLL RECORD BENT ON FUSING BEATLES-ESQUE MELODIES WITH STONER-ROCK RIFFING. THE DUO PLAYED EXTENSIVELY IN CELEBRATION OF THAT RELEASE BUT THEN LAID MAGNETIC MINDS TO REST TO WORK ON OTHER PROJECTS.

IN 2016, MAGNETIC MINDS WAS RESURRECTED AND IGNITED WITH A NEW ENERGY AND DIMENSION BROUGHT ON BY ADDING LONGTIME FRIEND, JIM WELNIAK ON GUITAR. THEY IMMEDIATELY FELL TO WRITING MATERIAL, RECORDING FIVE SONGS THAT WOULD BECOME THE RECENTLY-RELEASED EP, RECOMPOSE. WORKING WITH WMSE ENGINEER BILLY CICERELLI ON THE ALBUM YIELDED FANTASTIC RESULTS AND THE BAND RE-JOINED WITH HIM TO RECORD TWO MORE SONGS AT THE WMSE STUDIOS WHICH WILL BE A NEW 7”, RELEASING THIS SUMMER. MAGNETIC MINDS HAVE DEVOTED SOLID TIME TO THE STAGE, REVELING IN THEIR CHOSEN GENRES OF PUNK, DEATH-METAL, PROG AND MORE.

WMSE MUSIC DIRECTOR ERIN AND LOCAL/LIVE CO-HOST CAL ROACH WILL INTERVIEW MAGNETIC MINDS IN BETWEEN SONGS WITH THE HELP OF OUR AUDIENCE (AND AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION IS ENCOURAGED!).

JOIN WMSE WITH MAGNETIC MINDS AT CLUB GARIBALDI (AT 2501 S. SUPERIOR STREET IN BAY VIEW) FOR ANOTHER NOT-TO-BE-MISSED LIVE RADIO SHOW. DOORS ARE AT 5:30PM AND IF YOU CAN’T MAKE IT, LISTEN LIVE OVER THE AIRWAVES (OR IN THE WMSE ARCHIVES) AT THE 6 O’CLOCK HOUR.

THIS 21+ EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Local Live - Magnetic Minds

OPERATIONS WAS FORMED BY CHARLES MARKOWIAK AND ALISA RODRIGUEZ [APOLLO VERMOUTH] IN THE SPRING OF 2018 WHILE THE DUO WERE PLAYING IN THE GROUP SUNDIAL MOTTOS.

IN OPERATIONS, THE PAIR SPLIT GUITAR, SONGWRITING, AND VOCAL DUTIES. JOHN SCHONEMAN OF SLOWCORE-WORSHIP GROUP HAUNTER WAS BROUGHT ON TO PLAY DRUMS AND SAM GARGULAK CAME IN TO PLAY BASS. OPERATIONS HAVE BEEN PLAYING SHOWS IN AND AROUND MILWAUKEE SINCE DECEMBER 2018.

THE BAND’S FIRST ALBUM FOG MUSEUM WAS RECORDED ON LABOR DAY WEEKEND OF 2019 AT JAMDEK IN CHICAGO AND WAS ENGINEERED/MIXED BY DAVE VETTRAINO [THE HECKS]. THE ALBUM WAS MASTERED BY MIKEY YOUNG [EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING, TOTAL CONTROL].

JOIN WMSE FOR LOCAL/LIVE WITH OPERATIONS ON TUESDAY, MARCH 10TH AND HEAR A LIVE SET FROM THEIR DEBUT RECORD – WMSE.ORG TO STREAM THE SHOW LIVE OR IN THE ARCHIVES OR SIMPLY TUNE YOUR RADIO TO 91.7 FM AT THE 6 O’ CLOCK HOUR. 

LOCAL/LIVE ON WMSE IS SPONSORED BY CLUB GARIBALDI.

Local Live - Operations

Every Tuesday since February of 2005, WMSE has welcomed a Milwaukee-area artist into the Bob and Genie Friedman Live Performance Studio to perform a full set live on the airwaves. WMSE Local Live is hosted by WMSE music director, Erin Wolf, along with Milwaukee  music writer extraordinaire, Cal Roach.

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