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CREAM VELLUM FORMED IN SPRING OF 2018 AND QUICKLY FOUND CHEMISTRY IN THEIR SHARED LOVE OF STORYTELLING, DREAM INTERPRETATION, AND VINTAGE GEAR. THE BAND IS COMPRISED OF ELISE MCARDLE, HANS JAEGER, TYLER SALZBRUN, AND RYAN SABLAY, AND IS FOUNDED ON A YIN/YANG RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WARM SYNTH LINES AND WASHES OF GUITAR.

CREAM VELLUM PLAYFULLY CALLS THEIR SOUND POST-DREAM, SINCE IT’S ROOTED IN DREAM POP AND SHOEGAZE, BUT SOMETIMES GARNERS NOISE POP AND PUNK COMPARISONS THANKS TO AN OCCASIONAL ABRASIVE EDGE. THEY ALSO ENJOY ENCOUNTERING PSYCHEDELIC MOMENTS AND DO NOT FEAR PSYCHIC VISIONS.

THE BAND’S DEBUT EP, VENUS RX RX, IS AN INTIMATE FIRST JOURNEY THROUGH MEMORY AND AFFECT GUIDED BY LYRICS ALTERNATIVELY ABSTRACT AND CANDID.

TUNE INTO WMSE’S LOCAL/LIVE ON TUESDAY, JUNE 4TH FOR A GLIMPSE INTO LIVE VERSIONS OF THOSE SONGS FROM VENUS RX RX. 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.

GENAU IS A MILWAUKEE TWO-PIECE CONSISTING OF ERIK GOSNELL ON BASS AND DRUM PROGRAMMING AND CHRIS BELKOFER ON VOCALS AND GUITAR. INFLUENCED BY POST-PUNK AND GOTH OF THE 1980’S, THE BAND EMPLOYS VINTAGE DRUM MACHINES AMBIENT PASSAGE, NOISE SECTIONS, AND ELECTRONIC LOOPS ALONG WITH GUITARS AND MELODIC AND DRIVING BASS. GENAU HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS “WASHED OUT AND WARY” AND “DARK-HUED AND DANCEABLE” BY MILWAUKEE RECORD WITH A “LILTING DREAM POP FEEL”. TOO MUCH, GENAU’S THIRD RECORDING, WAS RELEASED THIS FEBRUARY.

TUNE INTO WMSE’S LOCAL/LIVE ON TUESDAY, MAY 28TH TO HEAR GENAU’S LATEST BATCH OF DREAM POP. 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’S CASHFIRE SUNSET WAS OFFICIALLY FORMED IN 2018. FEATURING SAM LOZOFF ON GUITAR, RAY CHI ON DRUMS, RAJ’R TAIM ON BASS AND JASON “TODD” ZBICHORSKI ON VOCALS/GUITAR, IT MAKES NOISY POP MUSIC. BAND DISCLAIMER – “REALLY PRETTY MUCH, IT’S JUST LOUD ALL THE TIME WITH NO DYNAMICS OR ANYTHING WHICH IS WHY IT GETS CHEAPLY PROCESSED IN THE END WITH DIGITAL FREEWARE. CASHFIRE SUNSET LIKES IT THIS WAY (A LOT) AND SPENDS A FAIR AMOUNT OF TIME THINKING OF WAYS TO MAKE WHAT WOULD OTHERWISE BE DECENT (PASSABLE…DON’T FLATTER YOURSELF!) SONGS SOUND “WORSE”.”

CFSS HAS PUNCHED OUT A COUPLE OFFICIAL RELEASES ON BANDCAMP AND ITS LO-FI, BRASH QUALITY HAS ALREADY BECOME ITS HALLMARK, CAPTURING A LITTLE ROCK N’ ROLL LIMELIGHT IN OUR FAIR CITY.

TUNE INTO WMSE’S LOCAL/LIVE ON TUESDAY, MAY 21ST TO HEAR CASHFIRE SUNSET PERFORM, HOT ON THE HEELS OF THEIR OFFICIAL FULL-LENGTH, GET THE STARTS. 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.

THE MUSIC OF CRLSS IS THOUGHTFULLY CRAFTED; AT TIMES AMBIENT, AT TIMES A TORTURED POP FORMAT. RYAN KING, (CRLSS) EXPRESSES THE LAMENTS OF A LIFE LIVED IN TURMOIL AND THE ENSUING MELODIC CATHARSIS. CRLSS’S HEROINE SWOON EP COMES OUT ON MAY 17TH AND PROMISES TO DELIVER ANOTHER ROUND OF WELL-CRAFTED ELECTRONIC POP.

TUNE INTO WMSE’S LOCAL/LIVE ON TUESDAY, MAY 14TH TO HEAR MUSIC FROM THE NEW CRLSS EP. 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.

WMSE IS EXCITED TO BE BACK ONCE AGAIN AT CLUB GARIBALDI’S FOR OUR MONTHLY LOCAL/LIVE SEGMENTS! LAURYL SULFATE & HER LADIES OF LEISURE WILL HAVE THEIR WMSE DEBUT FOR OUR FINAL CLUB G’S SEGMENT BEFORE SUMMER BREAK! LET’S CELEBRATE!

LAURYL SULFATE AND HER LADIES OF LEISURE ARE A DANCE POP TRIO FROM MILWAUKEE, VARIOUSLY DESCRIBED AS “WOKE KESHA”, “LETIGRE MEETS FANNY PACK” AND “A TOTAL LOVEFEST”, THE LOL’S SHOWS DELIVER FEEL-GOOD PARTY MUSIC WITH A MISSION, INFUSED WITH HIP HOP, DISCO, AND NEW WAVE REALNESS. THEIR DEBUT ALBUM, DANCE MUSIC SAVES LIVES IS A LOVE LETTER TO THE DANCE MUSIC WE GREW UP WITH, AND ITS POWER TO TRANSFORM AND HEAL US. “THE ALBUM’S A BLAST, BUT THE MESSAGE IS AS SINCERE AND ASSURING AS ITS TITLE.” -MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL

AS ALWAYS, WMSE’S LOCAL/LIVE HOSTS, CAL AND ERIN WILL LEAD OUR MUSICAL GUESTS THROUGH QUESTIONS IN BETWEEN THE LIVE PERFORMANCE WITH THE HELP OF OUR AUDIENCE (AND AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION IS ENCOURAGED!).

YOU CAN JOIN WMSE AND LAURYL SULFATE & HER LADIES OF LEISURE FOR THIS LIVE RADIO SHOW– DOORS ARE AT 5:30PM AND THE SEGMENT STARTS AT 6PM, RUNNING UNTIL 7PM. CLUB GARIBALDI’S IS LOCATED AT 2501 S. SUPERIOR STREET IN BAY VIEW.

IF YOU CAN’T JOIN US IN-PERSON, 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 ON WMSE IS SPONSORED BY CLUB GARIBALDI.

“WITH SINGER ERIC SCHOEN’S IAN CURTIS-ON-UPPERS VOCAL DELIVERY AND VELVET UNDERGROUND-INSPIRED GUITAR FREAK-OUTS, THE BAND CAN SWITCH FROM SULKY TO SEXY IN A MATTER OF SECONDS, OFTEN BUILDING ON A SKELETAL GUITAR RIFF OR A REPEATED PHRASE TO CREATE A FEELING OF ANXIETY AND, EVENTUALLY, EUPHORIC RELEASE. THOUGH THE BAND CAN BE DARK AND GLOOMY—PERFECT ACID-RAINY-DAY MUSIC—IT IS NOT AFRAID TO PEPPER ITS SONGS WITH JITTERY HANDCLAPS OR SHOUT-ALONG CHORUSES.” ~ CMJ

ON MAY 11, LOCAL POST-PUNK OUTFIT DIRTY DANCING WILL RELEASE THEIR SECOND LP THAT FOR THIS THROUGH GLOSS RECORDS. LED BY PRIMARY SONGWRITER ERIC SCHOEN, THE BAND HAS SEEN INNUMERABLE LINEUP CHANGES IN ITS DECADE-LONG EXISTENCE. THE CURRENT LINEUP OF SCHOEN (GUITAR/LEAD VOCALS), NEIL LARSON (GUITAR/VOCALS), MAX WILLIAMSON (BASS/VOCALS), AND TRAVIS MCDONNELL (DRUMS) COALESCED IN THE FALL OF 2017 TO BEGIN WORK ON THAT FOR THIS WITH PRODUCER HARRISON COLBY. SINCE THEN, IAN EHRNSTROM HAS STEPPED IN TO REPLACE LARSON ON GUITAR.

A YEAR (PLUS) OF ON-AGAIN / OFF-AGAIN RECORDING SESSIONS FORMED THE ALBUM’S RAW, ANGULAR SOUND, STARK WITH MULTI-FACETED STATEMENTS ON CHANCE, LOSS, LOVE, AND CONSUMERISM. “THE ENTIRE MUSIC EXPERIENCE, FROM PERFORMING TO BUYING AND SELLING RECORDS, IS A TRANSACTION BETWEEN AUDIENCE AND ARTIST, LIKE AN ABSTRACT CONVERSATION,” SAYS SCHOEN. THIS KIND OF DETACHED STOICISM PERMEATES THE BAND’S SOUND. SONGS LIKE “RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME,” TO “WINNING” WITH ITS SCREAMED CHORUS OF “TO WIN YOU GOTTA BEAT SOMEONE,” SHOWCASES THE BAND’S UNIQUE BLEND OF DEADPAN LYRICS WITH TWANGY, PERCUSSIVE GUITAR.

TUNE INTO WMSE’S LOCAL/LIVE ON TUESDAY, APRIL 30 TO HEAR THE NEWEST MUSIC FROM MILWAUKEE’S DIRTY DANCING; 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 ARTIST CULLAH IS A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY MUSICIAN AND ENGINEER WHO HAS WRITTEN, RECORDED, AND RELEASED AN ALBUM EVERY YEAR ON APRIL 27TH (HIS BIRTHDAY) SINCE 2006. EACH ALBUM REFLECTS THE ECLECTIC MUSICAL STYLES THAT CULLAH DRAWS FROM — AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL JOURNEY OF MUSICAL EXPRESSION.

CULLAH & THE COMRADES PLAY A SPECTACLE OF MILWAUKEE STRUT-N-STROLL ROCK -N- ROLL. BACKED BY TALENT OF THE COMRADES, CULLAH’S ABILITY TO BEND AND TRANSCEND GENRES LEADS FOR AN EXCITING AND CAPTIVATING PERFORMANCE THROUGH STYLE AND SOUND. CULLAH’S UNASSUMING PRESENCE EXISTS IN STARK CONTRAST TO HIS VOLUMINOUS VOCALS.

TUNE INTO WMSE’S LOCAL/LIVE ON TUESDAY, APRIL 23 FOR A LIVE SET FROM CULLAH & THE COMRADES. CULLAH WILL BE ONE OF THE LOCAL ARTISTS FEATURED FOR 2019’S CHILL ON THE HILL SEASON LINEUP; TUNE IN TO HEAR MORE ABOUT CULLAH’S MUSIC AND GET A SNEAK PEEK OF THIS YEAR’S FULL CHILL ON THE HILL LINEUP AS WELL. 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.

CALEY CONWAY SLINGS A TELECASTER AND A NEW SET OF RULES FOR THE SINGER/SONGWRITER PARADIGM; ROOTED IN FOLK BUT HARDLY BOUND TO IT, HER INVENTIVE STYLE RANGES FROM JAZZ TO POST-ROCK, HINTS AT THE FAMILIAR AND EMBRACES A DISSONANT BEAUTY. THE MILWAUKEE NATIVE’S BREEZY VOICE AND DISARMING WIT BELIE A DEEP COMPLEXITY THAT HAS EARNED HER PRAISE AS “THE NEXT BIG THING IN FOLK MUSIC” BY NO DEPRESSION MAGAZINE. EQUALLY ENTHRALLING AS A SOLO PERFORMER OR A FULL BAND WITH BACKUP SINGERS, CONWAY LEAVES ROOMS HUSHED, HER AUDIENCES SOMEWHERE BETWEEN CHILLED AND CHUCKLING. HER NEW EP, SURROUNDED MIDDLE, IS OUT ON APRIL 18TH.

TUNE INTO WMSE’S LOCAL/LIVE TUESDAY, APRIL 16TH, TO HEAR CALEY CONWAY’S LATEST MUSIC FROM HER FORTHCOMING ALBUM BEFORE HER OFFICIAL RELEASE SHOW LATER THAT WEEK AT ANODYNE ON BRUCE. SHE WILL HAVE A FULL BAND IN TOW, INCLUDING LOCALS MIKE NOYCE, D’AMATO AND DEVIN DROBKA. 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.

MOSS FOLK’S ANDREW SHELP GREW UP LISTENING TO PINK FLOYD, NEIL YOUNG, BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD, CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG, THE ANIMALS AND THE VELVET UNDERGROUND. A LOVE OF PSYCH MUSIC AND ANYTHING WITH A HEALTHY DOSE OF DISTORTION AND REVERB FUELED THE BIRTH OF SHELP’S NOW-ANNUAL MILWAUKEE-BASED FESTIVAL, PSYCH FEST, WHICH DRAWS LIKEMINDED ARTISTS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE TO PERFORM FOR A FULL WEEKEND OF SHOWS. MOSS FOLK WAS THE FOUNDATIONAL BAND ON WHICH PSYCH FEST BEGAN.

MOSS FOLK’S LIVE SHOWS HAVE BEEN DESCRIBED AS “BLISTERING AND EXCITING” AND THE BAND HAS SPENT THEIR YEARS IN MILWAUKEE ROTATING THROUGH A CAST OF NUMEROUS MUSICIANS BUT ALWAYS COLLECTIVELY SPINNING THE SAME WEB OF HYPNOTIC MUSIC IN ONE OF THE MANY VEINS OF SHELP’S LAUDED PSYCH GENRE. DRONED GUITARS, SUBTLE CHANGES AND HEADY ATMOSPHERICS ALL HELP TO CREATE A COCOON OF HAZE THAT IS MOSS FOLK’S HALLMARK SOUND.

TUNE INTO WMSE’S LOCAL/LIVE TUESDAY, APRIL 9TH, TO LISTEN TO SONGS FROM MOSS FOLK AHEAD OF THIS YEAR’S PSYCH FEST. 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.

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LOCAL/LIVE: APRIL 2– NINETEEN THIRTEEN @ CLUB GARIBALDI’S

POSTED:: MARCH 27, 2019

FILED UNDER:: INTERVIEWS, LOCAL/LIVE, SPECIAL PROGRAMMING

WMSE IS EXCITED TO BE BACK ONCE AGAIN AT CLUB GARIBALDI’S FOR OUR MONTHLY LOCAL/LIVE SEGMENTS! THIS TIME AROUND, WE WELCOME THE NEW AND DYNAMIC SOUNDS OF NINETEEN THIRTEEN, FEATURING CELLIST JANET SCHIFF AND PERCUSSIONIST VICTOR DELORENZO (FOUNDING DRUMMER OF THE VIOLENT FEMMES).

SCHIFF PLAYS A CELLO THAT WAS MADE IN ROMANIA IN THE YEAR OF 1913 WHILE DELORENZO PLAYS A SET OF DRUMS MADE IN MODERN-DAY AMERICA. TOGETHER, THEIR MUSIC SUGGESTS MYSTERY, ROMANCE AND FUTURE THOUGHT. POWERED BY CELLO LAYERS AND BEAT BRUSH PERCUSSION, THIS AWARD-WINNING DUO DEFIES EXPECTATIONS AND REWARDS LISTENERS WITH THEIR UNIQUE EXPRESSION OF MUSIC. CURRENTLY, THE DUO IS NO LONGER AN EXCLUSIVELY INSTRUMENTAL PROJECT – 2016’S EPS ‘MUSIC FOR TIME TRAVEL’ AND ‘THE DREAM’ AND THEIR LATEST, [2018’S] ‘SCI-FI ROMANCE’ EP FEATURES VOCAL CONTRIBUTIONS FROM BOTH SCHIFF AND DELORENZO.

NINETEEN THIRTEEN HAS BEEN FEATURED ON PBS’ THE ARTS PAGE, NPR’S LAKE EFFECT, MSNBC, MODERN DRUMMER MAGAZINE AND HAS PERFORMED AT BMO HARRIS PAVILION, MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM, LAKEFRONT FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS, SUMMERFEST, THE PABST THEATRE, THE PFISTER HOTEL, TURNER HALL BALLROOM, THE SHARON LYNN WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND MORE. NINETEEN THIRTEEN HAS HAD THE HONOR TO COLLABORATE AND PERFORM WITH THE FOLLOWING NOTABLE PLAYERS: THE AVETT BROTHERS, ROB WASSERMAN, DAVID J HASKINS, LANGHORNE SLIM, JILL SOBULE, RAINN WILSON, AND OTHERS.

AS ALWAYS, WMSE’S LOCAL/LIVE HOSTS, CAL AND ERIN WILL LEAD OUR MUSICAL GUESTS THROUGH QUESTIONS IN BETWEEN THE LIVE PERFORMANCE WITH THE HELP OF OUR AUDIENCE (AND AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION IS ENCOURAGED!).

YOU CAN JOIN WMSE AND NINETEEN THIRTEEN FOR THIS LIVE RADIO SHOW– DOORS ARE AT 5:30PM AND THE SEGMENT STARTS AT 6PM, RUNNING UNTIL 7PM. CLUB GARIBALDI’S IS LOCATED AT 2501 S. SUPERIOR STREET IN BAY VIEW.

IF YOU CAN’T JOIN US IN-PERSON, 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 ON WMSE IS SPONSORED BY CLUB GARIBALDI.