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Jeff Mitchell is a native of rural Minnesota transplanted to Milwaukee. His time spent living in small towns is essential to his songs and is obvious to listeners from out of the way places. He is a lifelong devotee of early music and singing old country songs passed down in his family. He also came of age in some gloriously ragged garage bands. Over the past 20 years or so, his interests in writing and experimentation have grown to combine his portraits of Midwestern life with a strange undercurrent of dark, electronic psychedelia. Jeff is perhaps best known as collaborator with others. He was a founding member of Field Report and is also known for his live work with Duluth finger-picker Charlie Parr. Most recently, Jeff has been performing with the instrumental group, Dryhouse Ruins, with Damian Strigens (ex. Field Report, Testa Rosa), Jim Warchol (Death Blues) and Ben Derickson (Collections of Colonies of Bees, All Tiny Creatures). While Jeff may remain obscure as a solo artist, he continues to build a b

WMSE is excited to be back once again at Club Garibaldi for our monthly Local/Live segments. On Tuesday, October 2, we welcome Milwaukee’s “retro”-electronic brother duo, Immortal Girlfriend for a live show and interview on-site and over the airwaves that YOU can join! Milwaukee’s Immortal Girlfriend is a fresh “retro” brother duo of William and Kevin Bush, who use atmospheric layering of electronics to wash over their melodic vocals. While the heart and soul of their sounds might be immersed in nostalgia, their sound is thoroughly modern and akin to chill + synth wave outfits like Washed Out, SURVIVE and Bonobo. In their spare creative time, Immortal Girlfriend also operate as producers out of a music studio in Lannon, laying down sounds for a growing list of Milwaukee artists, including WebsterX and Lex Allen. Although Immortal Girlfriend have been active on the scene for a brief time, the two go far back with their initial collaborative creations in their parents’ basement. Those creative days have prod

Flat Teeth are a Milwaukee-based five-piece, comprised of current and former members of John the Savage, Paper Holland, Twelve Ounce Prophet, Hester Mofet and the Invaders. Drawing on the more melodic side of 90s indie rock and emo, the band’s music recalls the sounds of everyone 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 in Flat Teeth. Tune into WMSE’s Local/Live on Tuesday, September 18th to listen to a live set from Flat Teeth before they send their debut EP “Winter House” out into the world. 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.

Vinz Clortho is a newly-formed supergroup of Milwaukee rock mainstays, featuring members of Calliope, Mortgage Freeman, Castle Thunder and Myles Coyne to name a few… Drawing influences from artists such as Chris Isaak, the Velvet Underground, and Angelo Badalamenti, Vinz Clortho dabbles in the moody, blues-y and psych-surf-y sounds of a surreal roadhouse jukebox. Tune into WMSE’s Local/Live on Tuesday, September 11th to check out Vinz Clortho before they get set to release some brand new music later this month. 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.

Stink Lines are a Milwaukee based power trio that spits out two-minute blasts of fast and gnarly punk reminiscent of cuts found on Thrasher and Killed by Death compilation discs. The band features Milwaukee punk and garage scene mainstays, Ryan King on bass, Sam Sharkey on guitar and vocals and Wendy Norton on drums and vocals. The band is getting geared up for their slot at the Bay View Bash at the WMSE / Rush-Mor Records stage on Saturday, September 15th. Tune in to hear all about it! Listen to WMSE’s Local/Live on Tuesday, August 28th for a live set from Milwaukee’s Stink Lines. 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.

Amanda Huff is a multi-genre musician, currently living and working in Milwaukee. A composer for the local film scene, as well as one-seventh of the jazz group “Strangelander”, Amanda pulls from a multitude of styles to inform her solo project, a triad of the cinematic, jazz, and electronic. Tune into WMSE’s Local/Live on Tuesday, August 21st as Amanda Huff shares music from her recent debut, Hempitara. WMSE.org to stream live or in the archives or simply tune our radio to 91.7 FM at the 6 o’clock hour. Local/Live on WMSE is sponsored by Club Garibaldi’s.

Driven by a deep love of music and a collaborative lifestyle, Liam O’Brien has spent the last two decades developing a unique symphonic-folk sound that brings together the improbable, pulling his compositions out of the conservatory and onto the front porch. Having toured internationally both solo and as an original member of weird-folk collective, Holy Sheboygan, his new group Liam O’Brien’s Faithless Followers emerges as a rotating cast of talent who come together to bring his visions to life through immersive, dynamic performances anchored by Liam’s heartfelt melodies and thoughtful lyrics. Tune into WMSE’s Local/Live on Tuesday, August 14th to hear new music from Milwaukee’s Liam O’Brien and a few of his Faithless Followers before the band releases their full length with a show at Anodyne later that week; 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.

Ako is an indie-pop band from Milwaukee. The band formed in 2016 when multi-instrumentalists Mark Soriano and Gabrielle Powell met through their college radio station and began to play in Soriano’s childhood home. Drawing from influences from 70’s rock to R&B, Ako quickly grew their audience, their first album, And You, garnering attention from Milwaukee publication Breaking & Entering, who wrote, “sounds far beyond a debut project.” Their current EP, everything is ok, was met with similar acclaim with 88.9 praising its “catchy hooks and upbeat rhythms” and the band’s take on “complicated and introspective subjects with a dewy approach that’s both relevant and nostalgic.” The duo is heading back to the studio to record their second full-length in the fall. Tune into WMSE’s Local/Live on Tuesday, July 31st to hear new music from Milwaukee’s Ako as the band gets ready for a couple Milwaukee shows in August. WMSE.org to stream live or in the archives or simply tune your radio to 91.7 FM at the 6 o’clock hour.

THE RIVERWEST ACES’ NAME IS A TRIBUTE TO D.L. MENARD’S BAND THE LOUISIANA ACES. THEY BEGAN AS A SIDE PROJECT FROM MILWAUKEE’S AIMLESS BLADES. BLAINE SCHULTZ AND PAUL SETSER HAD BEEN PLAYING TOGETHER IN VARIOUS PROJECTS SINCE 1995 AND THEIR APPRECIATION FOR VARIOUS ACOUSTIC MUSIC: OLD COUNTRY AND WESTERN, CAJUN, FOLK, BLUES – ROOTS MUSIC THAT CAME TO BE KNOWN AS AMERICANA – LED TO FORMING A LOOSE AGGREGATION OF LIKE-MINDED FRIENDS. IT MAY HAVE BEEN 2004, IT MAY HAVE BEEN 2005, BUT THOSE EARLY GIGS WERE A SUNDAY NIGHT RESIDENCY AT THE CIRCLE A CAFÉ IN MILWAUKEE’S RIVERWEST NEIGHBORHOOD. WITH A ROTATING CAST OF MUSICIANS, THE RIVERWEST ACES HAVE PLAYED BENEFITS, A LAW SCHOOL CLASS REUNION, FARMER’S MARKETS, SUMMERFEST, A RETIRED JUDGE’S BIRTHDAY PARTY, WEDDING RECEPTIONS, CHURCH FESTIVALS, LOCAL VENUES, A BOAT LAUNCH AND MORE. A RECENT HIGH POINT WAS SERVING AS BACKING BAND FOR LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY’S PAUL K FOR A SHOW IN 2017. TUNE INTO WMSE’S LOCAL/LIVE ON TUESDAY, JULY 24TH TO HEAR THE LATEST FROM MILWAUKEE’

For two decades, Collections of Colonies of Bees have existed in various forms and incarnations, beginning with Chris Rosenau and Jon Mueller (who split time with post-rock band Pele). From there, the line-up grew and evolved. At one time, Nick Sanborn — currently in the spotlight as one-half of Sylvan Esso — counted himself as a member. At another, the group joined forces with Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon to release two albums under the moniker Volcano Choir. (In fact, it was Vernon who proclaimed of his collaborators: “If the world was perfect, they would be as big as U2.”) Never content to paint the soundscape twice, the previously instrumental Bees now come outfitted with vocalist Marielle Allschwang and a new full-length, HAWAII, that finds the Wisconsin-based ensemble harvesting the fertile intersection between experimental and pop to maximum effect. Tune into WMSE for Local/Live on Tuesday, July 17th for a live, on-air set from Milwaukee’s x Madison’s Collections of Colonies of Bees and hear a set full

Self-described as a psychedelic chamber ensemble for the disobedient and melancholic youth, Milwaukee’s SOCIAL CATERPILLAR—a five-piece project composed of Kyle Smith on guitar and vocals, Eli Smith on Bass, Eric Ash on Violin, K-Rad on Cello, and Whisper Crystal on drums—has been playing and recording a unique style of music together since 2016. Following their debut EP, Welcome to the Petting Zoo, SOCIAL CATERPILLAR have since released a split cassette with fellow Milwaukee artists SNAG titled A Dying Emperor Within a Dying Empire in December, 2017. Their latest work, Motorcycle in Three Movements (to be released on July 13th) is a collaboration with the Denver-based soundscape collective UTAJAHS and the band will embark on a two-week tour in support of the album beginning July 20th. In its acronymic form, S.O.C.I.A.L C.A.T.E.R.P.I.L.L.A.R, as the band often reminds their audience, means “Striving Onward Collectively and Illegally Against the Law Cosmic Art Terminates Every Relation of Power Instantly Limi

GENESIS RENJI IS A MARYLAND-BORN, MILWAUKEE-BASED EMCEE AND ENGINEER AND IS THE CO-FOUNDER OF THE MILWAUKEE BASED LABEL HOUSE OF RENJI. WITH DEEP ROOTS IN SPOKEN WORD POETRY AND A FLAIR FOR THEATRICS, RENJI’S MUSIC IS BROUGHT TO LIFE THROUGH HIS ECCENTRIC DELIVERY AND VARIETY OF FLOWS, AS WELL AS HIS UNFORGETTABLE PERFORMANCES. THE 26 YEAR OLD HAS MOST RECENTLY FINISHED HIS GEMINI SEASON SERIES, RELEASING A SONG A DAY FOR THE 31 DAY SPAN OF THE GEMINI ZODIAC CALENDAR. AND HIS LATEST PROJECT, LUCID, A COLLAB EP WITH OCONOMOWOC PRODUCER CADE ZUBE (PRONOUNCED ZOO-BEE) WAS RELEASED IN MARCH. RENJI IS PREPARING TO OPEN FOR AMINE AT SUMMERFEST ON JULY 5TH AT THE ULINE WAREHOUSE STAGE. TUNE INTO WMSE FOR LOCAL/LIVE ON TUESDAY, JULY 3RD FOR A LIVE, ON-AIR SET FROM GENESIS RENJI. 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.

SISTASTRINGS IS COMPRISED OF REAL-LIFE SISTERS, MONIQUE AND CHAUNTEE, WHO COME FROM A MUSICAL FAMILY OF FIVE. EACH OF THE FOUR DAUGHTERS PLAYED ONE STRINGED INSTRUMENT, EACH, WHILE THEIR BROTHER PLAYED PIANO. THE GIRLS BEGAN SINGING AND PLAYING AS A GROUP IN THEIR CHURCH AND SOON THEY WERE INVITED TO CHURCHES ALL OVER THE MIDWEST. AS EACH SISTER GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL AND WENT OFF TO COLLEGE, THE GROUP BECAME SMALLER. FINALLY, MONIQUE AND CHAUNTEE WERE THE ONLY ONES LEFT AND THE ONLY ONES WHO DESIRED TO MAKE A CAREER WITH THEIR MUSIC. SISTASTRINGS IS CURRENTLY BASED IN MILWAUKEE, WHERE THEY COLLABORATE WITH LOCAL ARTISTS AND PLAY AT VARIOUS EVENTS AND WEDDINGS. THEY CAN BE SEEN ON WEEKENDS ON THE CORNER OF MICHIGAN AND ONTARIO WEARING SUNGLASSES AND PERFORMING IN FRONT OF A VERY LARGE CRATE & BARREL. THERE, THEY PERFORM CLASSICAL MUSIC AND IMPROV ON POPULAR HYMNS. THEY ARE BOTH CLASSICALLY TRAINED MUSICIANS HAVING STUDIED AT THE STRING ACADEMY OF WISCONSIN AND THE MUSIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO. BOTH ARE PURSUING

Paper Holland are a six-piece indie pop band from Milwaukee. Drawing from the pop sensibility of acts like Death Cab For Cutie, the sparkling guitars of The Cure and the mild experimentalism of Tame Impala, Paper Holland creates rhythmic and driving music with elegant horn arrangements, memorable hooks and skillful musicianship. Tune into WMSE for Local/Live on Tuesday, June 12th for a live, on-air set from Paper Holland – they’ll be playing tons of tunes from their latest album, Galápagos and will let us know what the summer has in store! 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. POSTED BY:: ERIN WOLF

Red Lodge is a Milwaukee post-punk//hardcore//riot grrrl three-piece, with an occasional grunge pop flourish. (Ex-Mercy Brown, Fried Hell, Awktopus). All three members (Addie Skillman, Amy Upthagrove and Laura Gravander) have had a hand in working with both the Girls Rock Milwaukee and Ladies Rock Milwaukee camps. Ladies Rock Milwaukee 2018 kicks off on Friday, July 13th. Tune into WMSE for Local/Live on Tuesday, June 5th for a live, on-air set from Red Lodge and to get the lowdown on Ladies Rock Milwaukee – 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.

Shle Berry is a hip hop artist from Milwaukee who strives to make music that is relate-able and honest; music that entices your emotions. She is very versatile on the microphone – she can bring gritty bars that will have you rethinking your life, but will get a hook stuck in your head for days. Her music can be vulnerable and lyrical, but also melodic and fun. Right now, Shle is working to find her own sound in this saturated industry, while also building up her hometown. Tune into WMSE for Local/Live on Tuesday, May 29th for a live, on-air set from Shle Berry (ahead of her performance for Riverwest FemFest) – 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.

Gas Station Sushi is an all-girl band from Milwaukee in they self-proclaimed genre of “snark pop”. Gas Station Sushi is Maya on drums, Olivia on bass, Caterina on guitar and Nyanna on vocals. After almost three years of being together, the band has recently released their first EP, Uglier In Person. Tune into WMSE for Local/Live on Tuesday, May 22nd for a live, on-air set from Gas Station Sushi – 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.

Milwaukee act Greatest Lakes will be releasing their new album, Divisions, on May 4th. If its opener, “Forest”, is any indication, listeners are in for an extremely pleasurable listen. A full-bodied beginning of soaring vocals and full-band lushness gives way to a peppy twang with a Band Of Horses comparison evident at this point. “In alternating between that expansive beginning and the twangy catchiness, the track remains fresh and vibrant. It’s a great piece of songwriting, and a showing of stellar audible chemistry, from an act that appears poised to explode in 2018 with the release of the excellent Divisions.” – Obscure Sound. Tune into WMSE for Local/Live on Tuesday, May 15th for a live, on-air set from Greatest Lakes – WMSE.org to stream live or in the archives, or simply tune your radio to 91.7 FM at the 6 o’clock hour.

Tigernite is a hard-hitting rock-and-roll creature hailing from Milwaukee, with a love of powerful melodies, guitar solos, spandex and good times. Aptly dubbed as “Wiccan Lisa Frank”, the band has blazed a trail of glitter across the Midwest, sharing stages with the likes of the Offspring, Goldfinger, And Electric 6. After the released of their first record, Tigernite, the band has brought their dramatic performances to Summerfest, Pridefest and the BMO Harris Bradley Center. Tigernite draws inspiration from glam, 70’s guitar rock and power pop to create their own sweaty glittery brand of post-glam rock. Tune into WMSE for Local/Live on Tuesday, May 8th for a live, on-air set from Tigernite during WMSE’s spring membership drive – WMSE.ORG to stream live or in the archives, or simpley tune your radio to 91.7 FM at the 6 o’clock hour. Local/Live on WMSE is sponsored by Club Garibaldi’s.

WMSE’s Local/Live once again returns to Club Garibaldi’s for another awesome Local/Live segment that YOU can join! On Tuesday, May 1, we welcome Milwaukee’s Buffalo Gospel for a live show and interview on-site and over the airwaves. Buffalo Gospel will be celebrating the release of their long-awaited sophomore album, ‘On the First Bell’, officially on Friday, May 4th with an official album release show at Anodyne on Bruce on Saturday, May 5th. Catch the band before they get set for a busy and exciting week! With a dual penchant for hopped-up trucker country and breathtakingly honest ballads, Buffalo Gospel delivers through a virtual “who’s-who” of crack Midwest musicians who have assembled around Necci’s heartfelt and heartbreaking songs. Their wildcat live performances take listeners to a dusty, forlorn, but strangely familiar place that simply gets sweeter with time. You can join WMSE and Buffalo Gospel at Club Garibaldi’s as we team up for this live radio show. If you can’t make it, listen live over t