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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.

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 online at WMSE.org) at the 6 o’clock hour.

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 The Pukes

1/19 Fox Face

1/12 Static Eyes

1/5 Allen Cote

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 holiday tour-de-force “Bells to the Wall” (1991), and several songs they have written since, quickly became hits absolutely nowhere. They have shared the stage with Soul Asylum, the Replacements, the Violent Femmes, Alejandro Escovedo/True Believers, Willie Nile and innumerable local legends. If you have not experienced the Deerlick live, you have truly not yet lived.

For WMSE’s special annual holiday Local/Live, the Mighty Deerlick will morph into…the Mighty Reindeerlick! Just for one night, these guys will bring you the holiday hits (alongside their own), including their beloved version of “Reindeer In the Sky”.

As always, WMSE Music Director Erin Wolf and co-host Cal Roach (and YOU), will lead the Mighty Reindeerlick through questions in between the live performance.