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Haunter is a ramshackle outfit of slackers currently residing in Milwaukee. The group started making music in Stevens Point back in 2011, released two full albums, two EPs, and then in late 2015 began writing and recording for their newest, biggest album, Worm. Worm is an exploration of all the sounds you heard coming out of your big brother/sister’s hi-fi back in the 90’s, from bands like Galaxie 500, Duster, Acetone, or Codeine. Haunter takes those sounds and harnesses them in a very despondent way that lacks energy, but it’s alright. It’s alright.

The Pukes came together during the spring of 2015 in a fit of spontaneity; Jules Frank (who crawled out from the swamps of Florida where he was raised by alligators, relying heavily on the native Garfish and snails for sustenance) first met the often elusive Sam Sharkey at the West Allis Karaoke State Championship. Not long after, the two met Ryan King (in the dusty basement of a year-round Halloween store, shopping for a new VCR) and asked him what he was doing next Saturday night. And That, boys and girls, is how it happened.

The Glacial Speed began in 2014 when long time friends and musical collaborators Ashley Altadonna and Mike Carey (both formerly of the band, New Blind Nationals) started writing songs together again after nearly a decade-long hiatus. They were joined by Chris Van Gompel (Ifihadahifi) and Kyle Martin (Kings Horses, Two Room Honeymoon) and started playing shows around Milwaukee and the Midwest in the summer of 2015. Last year they opened the Milwaukee Record stage at Pridefest, and began recording their first EP, “New Wilderness”, just released on January 1st.

One might first recognize Vincent VanGREAT as a producer from Milwaukee’s SAFS Crew, but recently (and more than ever), his singular name is sticking out since creating and releasing his own material last year. His solo debut UnGREATful, was released in June and at it’s release, he told Milwaukee Record that his “Crew” still majorly influenced his own work. “This project was really organic. A lot of the beats I made were on the spot. Every hook was made during the production process and every artist that was featured kind of followed my lead on the record and got to come however they wanted, and got to be as creative as they wanted without me restricting them or telling them exactly what to do. SAFS Crew is also all about being a free creative spirit with no boundaries. So creating this project, I wanted to keep the same formula SAFS has always had, except with it being my own project, I got to sing on songs much more than in the past.

WMSE 91.7FM is excited to welcome Stomata to our monthly Local/Live at Club Garibaldi’s series on Tuesday, January 3rd. Featuring three of the Milwaukee jazz scene’s most exciting talents – Dave Schoepke on the drum kit, John Simmons on upright bass and Jay Anderson on woodwinds – the trio will provide a live show experience that will showcase those talents and serve as an introduction to their upcoming late-January stint with Milwaukee rapper, Klassik for TRIBE UNCOVERED. Join WMSE and Stomata by listening over the airwaves or by participating as an audience member – this event is FREE and open to the 21+ public. As always, WMSE Music Director Erin Wolf and co-host Cal Roach (and YOU), will lead Stomata through questions in between the live performance. Doors are at 5:30pm, segment starts at 6pm and runs until 7pm. Club Garibaldi’s is located at 2501 S. Superior Street in Bay View. If you can’t join us for the live segment and show at Club Garibaldi, please tune in, per usual, to 91.7 FM (or stream onli

Join WMSE’s Local/Live crew of Cal and Erin as they reminisce about 2016’s Local/Live segments and pick some of their favorite tracks and memories from the past year: 12/20 LBN667 12/13 Dramatic Lovers 12/6 The Mighty Reindeerlick 11/29 Acanthrophis 11/22 Mead Lake’s Most Wanted 11/15 Honeymooners 11/8 Luxi 11/1 B~Free 10/25 Soul Low 10/18 Parallel 10/4 Abby Jeanne 9/27 Siren 9/20 Sat. Nite Duets 9/12 NO/NO 9/6 Ugly Brothers 8/30 Something To Do 8/23 Trapper Schoepp 8/16 Whiskey of the Damned 7/26 Live Tetherball Tonight! 7/19 Shonn Hinton & Shotgun 7/12 Bo Triplex and His Beautiful Band 7/5 Old Earth 6/28 Faux Fiction 6/21 Direct Hit! 6/14 Dr. Shrinker 6/7 Caley Conway 5/31 New Boyz Club 5/24 Midwest Death Rattle 5/17 Ms. Lotus Fankh 5/10 Antler House 5/3 Cow Ponies 4/26 AUTOMatic 4/19 Space Raft 4/12 Heat Death 4/5 Ruth B8R Ginsburg 3/29 The Demix 3/22 TRUE Skool, Tontine Ensemble, Myles Coyne, Sat. Nite Duets 3/15 Airo Kwil 3/8 The Sounds of Time 3/1 Slow Walker 2/16 WORK 2/9 DAD 2/2 Indonesian Junk 1/26

Milwaukee’s bedroom maestro of ethereally minimalistic electro-hip hop soundscapes a la Boards Of Canada, Casino Versus Japan and The Books is called LBN667 who has been releasing music on SoundCloud, Bandcamp and other avenues since 2012. His most recent release is called Leviathan; expect to hear his newest tracks from that release on Local/Live.

Dramatic Lovers take their name from the Italian anarchists that once upon time, held weekly meetings at the Cactus Club in Bay View, Wisconsin. Like those political crusaders of yesteryear, Dramatic Lovers (the band), have spent the past 20 years or so in various musical incarnations drinking, dreaming and playing shows together at The Cactus Club. Friends for eternity and bandmates in cycles, Dramatic Lovers began less than a year ago after single show reunion as Decibully. Inspired once again, the group began to write new material and rounded out the line-up with the rhythm section from Maritime taking on more melodic roles. The new material holds roots in the time-tested shadows of Decibully and The Promise Ring/Maritime, but also looks backwards to the sounds of their youth. 80s and 90s shoegaze, emo & Brit-pop influence a maturing songwriting style that comes from decades of playing music together.

Local/Live: December 6 – WMSE’s Annual Holiday Broadcast with The Mighty Reindeerlick @ Club Garibaldi’s WMSE merrily invites you to our monthly Local/Live at Club Garibaldi’s series on Tuesday, December 6th with Milwaukee’s most raucous holiday revelers, the Mighty Reindeerlick. Join us for our annual holiday Local/Live program by listening over the airwaves or by participating as an audience member – this event is FREE and open to the 21+ public and lots of fun! Call them “garage punk”, or “garage rock”, or just “rock”, just don’t call them early in the morning. The Mighty Deerlick has been more or less rocking the tri-state area since their formation in La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1985, and has out-existed many of its contemporaries. Originally called The “Slow Pedestrians”, the band took on its current moniker upon moving to Milwaukee in 1988. Ever-prolific, the band’s prodigious output includes the full-length cassette “Beneath You” (1989), the four-song 7-inch single “Stag Nation” (1990), the legendary h

Acanthrophis is a blackened death metal band who formed in Milwaukee in spring of 2016 with the hopes of recreating and progressing upon the approach of ’90s bands like Dissection, Naglfar and God Dethroned. While modern takes on extreme metal have gone a more abstract route, Acanthrophis seeks to return to the use of melodic structures to thematically express their take on black and death metal through complex yet dynamically concise songwriting. Debut EP Twilight of the Vanquisher’s Reign was released in July of 2016.

The folk septet Mead Lake’s Most Wanted — a group of writers-turned-musicians — hails from West Bend, just north of Milwaukee, but is beginning to make Milwaukee it’s musical home after the release of its debut, Sinners Sang the Crows. They relay that the album was “recorded at Eisley Studios between October 2015 and February 2016 [and was] produced by Christian Seibert and features guest appearances from some of our favorite local musicians, including Christopher Porterfield (Field Report) and Peter Thomas (I’m Not A Pilot & the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra). Such an honor, to even utter their names in the context of our album. Sinners Sang The Crowswill be available (almost) everywhere July 10, 2016. ”

Honeymooners is the solo project of Eli Smith (previously of Wasted Islands and Lost Spirit). The project started in May of 2012 when he was 16. It began as a solo, acoustic project and has gradually amassed different musical layers since, currently residing at the intersection of experimental music/sound art and more conventionally structured songs. He released his first EP, called Sleepwalking, in August of 2013, a release informed equally by folk/acoustic music and ambient music, and released his first full length album, called Night Beach, in August of 2016, featuring a traditional guitar/bass/drums setup augmented by extensive loops, samples, and field recordings. Smith is currently working on writing the next Honeymooners full-length, likely due for release sometime in 2017.

Luxi has been experimenting with electronic music since around 2007, transforming her more traditional song writing towards the obscure after taking an interest in computer programming and recording, she calls her style “futuregrungepop” while being influenced by a wide range of musical genres, including artists such as Portishead, Fever Ray, Pictureplane, Balam Acab, Tricky, Radiohead, Bjork, and many more… Currently, Luxi is nearly finished with her sophomore full-length album, expected to be released early 2017, already having a collection of EPs and singles in her back catalogue of music, which can be found on her Bandcamp page. She also works as an audio curator for Joseph Gordon Levitt’s open collaboration production company, HitRecord, and has begun to mix and master tracks for other artists’ projects, more information about her music and events can be found at www.luxireally.com.

WMSE 91.7FM is excited to welcome B-Free to our monthly Local/Live at Club Garibaldi’s series on Tuesday, November 1st. Join us by listening over the airwaves or by participating as an audience member – this event is FREE and open to the 21+ public and lots of fun! B~Free will be joined by Milwaukee’s Foreign Goods as her backing band. The members of the multi-genre collective cite this as one of their last public performances of the year. When first introduced to the soulful & artistic sound of singer-songwriter-producer-musician B~Free, it is but a mere taste of all the capabilities this young lady embodies. Following a lengthy hiatus, B~Free reemerges with her sophomore project, the “Ode 2 A Luv Affair” LP. With sound inspirations from Musiq Soulchild, Dwele, J-Dilla and Jill Scott., it is a conceptual album that traverses the ups and downs of romantic relationships. vulnerability, passion and compromise. Production for the album began in 2013 but was interrupted by a lengthy vocal trauma that would lea

“Parallel mixes vocals, piano, electric cello, drums and bass/guitar to deliver its own brand of rocking poetry. From high energy, driving rhythms to rich, dark, emotive melodies, Parallel provides a captivating juxtaposition of texture and instrumentation in its approach to indie rock.”

WMSE 91.7FM is excited to welcome Abby Jeanne to our monthly Local/Live at Club Garibaldi’s series on Tuesday, October 4th. Join us by listening over the airwaves or by participating as an audience member – this event is FREE and open to the 21+ public and lots of fun! In 2010 Abby Jeanne hit the roads of america in her mini-van to begin her musical journey. She personally describes her music as “Rock n’ roll with a dreamers soul” and uses her music to guide listeners into transcending reality, her soulful voice full of raw emotion and on-point dynamics. While she has contributed vocals for Queen Tut and Milwaukee’s Foreign Goods, her solo work is where she truly shines, a young woman with an old soul evoking those big, soulful, downtempo R&B sounds of the sixties and 80s. According to Milwaukee Record, “Abby’s solo material is not to be ignored. With lush and layered production and her downright moving voice, you’ll want to bear witness to this versatile one-woman powerhouse in action.” As always, WMSE Mu

Milwaukee’s Siren (Katie Lafond), has solidified her presence in the scene with her memorable appearances and recordings with locals New Age Narcissism, Lex Allen, WebsterX and Kiings (listen to “Exoskeletal Love”, here). Siren’s stage presence and pipes make a statement that is truly her own, even with echoes of Adele, Grimes, Beyoncé and Amy Winehouse. As Siren ventures into releasng a debut solo album, she’s sure to bring that notoriety to a new level.

“Since their start in 2009, Sat. Nite Duets have been making the sort of idiosyncratic, heartfelt rock music that inspires a devoted cult following in their home base of Wisconsin. Air Guitar, their followup to 2013’s Electric Manland, is their most accomplished yet, and sees each of the band’s six members taking a whack at songwriting, a tradition established and solidified over their most recent records.” ~Stereogum

“NO/NO are among a handful of Milwaukee bands making music that’s unabashedly sexy, something the city’s scene had rarely even attempted in the past. Sound and Light is every bit as personable and infectious as the EPs that preceded it. And like those efforts, it’s savvy enough to leave you wanting more.” ~ The Shepherd Express

WMSE is happy to present Local/Live with Ugly Brothers (fresh from the release of their debut album!), broadcasting live from Club Garibaldi – 2501 S. Superior Street — on Tuesday, September 6th. Join WMSE and Milwaukee’s Ugly Brothers by listening over the airwaves or by participating as an audience member in another installment of WMSE’s dynamic ‘Local/Live at Club Garibaldi’s’ series; it is FREE and open to the 21+ public! Ugly Brothers is well-deserving of its popularity on the Milwaukee folk scene; they have a penchant for thoughtful singer/songwriter lyrics crossed with the vocal intensity, harmonies, and catchy instrumentation to deliver them. Even though the sextet’s name is now only a partially correct descriptor, it still hearkens to the core of the group’s sound, priding itself on the “ugly” or unpolished sounds of raw Delta Blues melded with jazz swing, folk and more, the group originated around real life brothers Palmer and Alex Shah’s original collaboration. Since then, Ugly Brothers has expand