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Milwaukee’s ska-tastic Something To Do’s stage buddies really speak for the kind of live performance experience they offer, themselves: the Offspring, Reel Big Fish, The Beach Boys, Less Than Jake, The Spin Doctors, Goldfinger, G Love and Special Sauce, Old 97’s, The BoDeans, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Suburban Legends, The Gufs, Cowboy Mouth, Patti Smyth & Scandal, Voodoo Glow Skulls, The Toasters, The Skatalites, Mustard Plug, Big D & the Kids Table, Catch 22. The band gets ready to release a brand new album with a show on Saturday, September 9th. Before that show, tune into WMSE on Tuesday, August 30th to hear a live performance full of new songs from and interview with Something To Do – WMSE.org to stream live or in the archives, or simply tune your radio to 91.7 FM at the 6 o’clock hour.

“On Rangers & Valentines, Schoepp continues to write narrative-driven songs, something he’s improved on from his first two albums, 2009’s Lived and Moved and 2011’s Run, Engine, Run. He drops his characters into adrenaline-filled situations – diseases, natural disasters, even war – to see how they endure in the face of danger. It may sound dramatic, but many of the dire situations come straight from Schoepp’s life. “‘His whole personality revolves around telling people stories,” says the band’s former guitarist, Graham Hunt. “He’s the kind of guy that weird, funny situations follow him around, so he’s always got fuel for his stories.'” ~Milwaukee Magazine

WMSE is happy to present Local/Live with Whiskey of the Damned, broadcasting live from Club Garibaldi – 2501 S. Superior Street — on Tuesday, August 16th. Join WMSE and Milwaukee’s Whiskey of the Damned 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! Whiskey Of the Damned will be sure to get you in the spirit before the group plays Milwaukee’s Irish Fest later that week…”described as a mix of the Pogues, Dropkick Murphys and Bad Religion, you do not want to miss this act perform live.” “Whiskey of the Damned is a five-piece Celtic-influenced rock group put together by Ireland native, Eoin McCarthy [and they] are a group of talented musicians dedicated to playing high-energy, raucous concerts filled with an unmistakable mixture of American and Irish rock. A batch of maniac, Celtic gypsy carnies, the group extensively tours, almost never leaving the road.” This spe

Weighing in at 450 pounds with a combined income of $27 an hour, these three Midwestern lads embark on a fruitless rock ‘n roll journey. Influences ranging from pre power chord rock ‘n roll, early 2000’s emo and post rock; their songs have a natural ebb and flow created through the bond of three best friends. If it weren’t for Live Tetherball Tonight, the three would be hundreds of dollars richer.

WMSE is happy to present Local/Live with Shonn Hinton & Shotgun, broadcasting live from Club Garibaldi – 2501 S. Superior Street — on Tuesday, July 19th. Join WMSE and Milwaukee’s Shonn Hinton & Shotgun 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. “Why search the world for great musicians when they’re right in your own backyard? Those were Shonn Hinton’s thoughts when forming the super powerhouse group, Shotgun, in 2014. Although the group had played together for over a decade in Milwaukee, they decided to emerge into their own band that would headline tours, showcasing their pocketed, classic sound. Shotgun’s opportunity to shine came when they performed songs live from Shonn Hinton’s 2014 instrumental gospel, rock and blues album The Happy Hour LP. “For Shonn, Shotgun’s personnel guarantees not only great musicianship, but diversity as well. “I wanted the ha

Bo Triplex is a funky, groovy, get down good time from Milwaukee. Lead by established local bassist Bo Triplex, his Beautiful Band adds to – and compliments – the booming bass lines. Audiences bounce with their high energy performances, awe at the sexy Bonita’s and remiss groups like Vanity 6, Parliament and the like.

Todd Umhoefer – aka Old Earth — got his start in Milwaukee as a solo performer and artist, looking for an outlet outside of his predominant collaborative efforts. “I met most of my collaborators in ’06 doing open mics around Milwaukee,” he mentioned in a 2013 interview. Those collaborators turned into a band as Umhoefer played in the initial iterations of Field Report (which was then known as Conrad Plymouth). When Umhoefer ventured to solidly offer his solo efforts both in recording and in performance, he quickly gained attention for his mesmerizing songwriting — folk at its darkest and prettiest, inspired by golden oldies, punk and hip hop. Frantic-yet-grounded pacing, constant layers and washes of guitar on loop bolster his sincere lyrical poetry. Although last year saw Umhoefer venture to California, he is back for a string of Midwest dates (among those, a stop at Acme Records and Inspiration Studios with Jon Mueller this weekend) and a stop by Local/Live to share with us his newest writings (Lay For Ju

Direct Hit is a band with members you might remember from now-defunct Milwaukee groups The Box Social, Paige Marshall, and The Accidents. They’ve taken a big step this year, signing a contract with Fat Wreck Chords, the San Francisco-based record label that’s released work from NOFX, The Lawrence Arms, Against Me!, Dillinger Four, Anti-Flag, Descendents, Madison’s own Masked Intruder, and countless other beloved punk acts over the course of its 25-year existence. The band’s new album, Wasted Mind, comes out on Friday, June 24.

Dr. Shrinker’ style of music can be described of a blend of thrash metal, death metal, progressive metal and hardcore. The term the band coined back in the 1980s for their brand of music is ‘Gore Core’. “Dr. Shrinker’s first go-around was back in late 1987 – early 1991. In 2013, three of the original members decided to reform the band. The remaining original members are Rich [Noonan on vocals] and Jim [Potter on guitar].

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 relea

A soulful banshee coupling cascades melodies over upright and ivory…gives way to the raucous intrusion of electric strings, syncopated thunder claps, brass shimmers, the jarring howl of “in the morning I’ll be good as gone…jazz, folk, punk rock, and apparition-driven serene, NBC broadcasts the collective unconscious in fierce.

On Tuesday, May 24th, WMSE will present Local/Live with Milwaukee’s Midwest Death Rattle, who are newly-releasing a brand new album, Post-Apocalypso. This special night of local music and a live radio segment at Club Garibaldi’s (2501 S. Superior) is free and open to the 21+ public to listen to and participate in. WMSE Music Director Erin Wolf and co-host Cal Roach, will lead Midwest Death Rattle through questions in between their live sets and you can get in on the interview, too; the audience will be active participants, allowed to pick the our guests’ brains by writing out their questions for Cal and Erin to ask, live on the radio. Doors are at 5:30pm, segment starts at 6pm and runs until 7pm. 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 online at WMSE.org) at the 6 o’clock hour.

From the birth of the cool till the end of September she is Ms. Lotus Fankh. She whose name represents “life and rebirth” creates music that explores the heart of soul and is sure to make you smile. A singer-songwriter-producer-musician from Milwaukee, her sound is inspired by influences of Soul, Funk, Jazz, and Rock. She expresses her story through guitar, loop station, violin, and voice while her shows reach beyond generations and across genres.” Ms. Lotus Fankh will be releasing a brand new EP – Better Than This – on May 21st at the Riverwest Public House.

Antler House is an alternative/indie rock band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. We released our debut album Through the Dirt in May 2014. Our next album Across the Waves is being released on April 30th. While Through the Dirt is a more relaxed, atmospheric, even folky record at times, Across the Waves is much more abrasive and dynamic, honing in on the sound of our live performances.

The Cow Ponies is a Milwaukee-based band founded by music veteran John Graham in 2015. Our set list includes both original music and old country, alternative country, and cow punk copies.” The band features members whose experience runs deep in Milwaukee’s music history — Rock-A-Dials, Those XCleavers, Torn Soul and Resist Her Transistor, to name a few.

AUTOMatic Music is the perfect name for the hip-hop group formed by Milwaukee based emcee APRIME and producer Trellmatic. The perfection that comes from their musical collaboration is simply, automatic… 2016 is already shaping up to be the most audacious year for the group with several projects planned to drop over the calendar year…AUTOMatic Music is the next best thing to the golden era of hip-hop, and it’s the revival of the golden era sound that AUTOMatic Music is here to bring back, and will bring back, because when the music that you do is automatic, there’s no way that it can be denied.

Milwaukee-based quartet Space Raft — a staple in the city’s indie scene alongside garage poptimists Jaill — serves up lightweight guitar rock in the melodic vein of early 2000s post-punk revivalists like the Strokes’ Albert Hammond Jr. Dusted with weird little synthesizer distortions Kenny Rogers might be proud of, “Mountain” (the second listen off of the group’s sophomore LP, Rubicon) roughs up the edges of their power-pop with just enough psychedelic edge. Singer Jordan Davis’ double-tracked croons and his guitar’s pleasantly layered crunch, plus jovial arpeggios from T Jay Christenson’s keyboards, beam rays of warmth into the ears of listeners in frigid flyover county.” ~SPIN Help Space Raft celebrate the release of its new Dusty Medical Records LP, Rubicon, by joining us on Tuesday, April 19th at 6pm for another installment of WMSE’s dynamic ‘Local/Live at Club Garibaldi’s’ series, featuring Milwaukee’s Space Raft. This special night of local music and a live radio segment at Club Garibaldi’s (2501 S.

Heat Death is a Milwaukee band combining self-oscillating fuzz, analog synthesis, and pounding drums with hints of noise-rock, shoegaze, industrial, and no-wave. Formed in later 2015, Heat Death first arrived in the form of the apartment-recorded Obselescene EP. After months of playing through Milwaukee and with a finalized line-up and crafted sound, Heat Death retreated to the wilderness to record their forthcoming album.

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“Ruth B8r Ginsburg is a six-piece neo soul-folk group from Milwaukee, Wisconsin with an aim to lift up women’s voices, their music addresses a myriad of contemporary issues. ”