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Milwaukee’s Beach Static are getting set to ride a wave of notoriety into the new year with their most recent release, Games. The surf-y garage x garbage pop trio takes a nod from other aficionados of the genre like the edgier Wavves and FIDLAR and another from the sunkissed sweetness of Best Coast. Games is a six-track sun-baked batch of confessionals, hopped up on flat soda pop and good old fashioned angst.

Tune into WMSE’s Local/Live on Tuesday, December 18th for the final segment of the year with Beach Static! The band will be sharing songs from Games and sharing their plans for the new year, ahead. 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.

“We’re Floor Model and we’re slightly damaged.” In a way that tells you everything you need to know. Floor Model has powered through nineteen years of original Milwaukee Grey Collar punk rock spanning two centuries. Garage rock harmonies powered by hardcore riffs under socially pointed lyrics and sly punk jabs. They have released six recordings – Absent Minded Salvation, 3, More Throttle, Apply Resistance, Humiliation Payday and the smash single, “Swillwaukee”.

Jeff is the creative engine. He and Dave (drums), have been bringing the rock since the Rock ‘N Roll Palace days of early 1999. Tim came aboard in 2000 and trimmed the fat. For some reason they picked up Mark, Tim’s neighbor, a stray shredder, about a year ago. Chances are, if you roam the Riverwest, you’ll see us rocking one of the many glorious dive bars – the places we call home: Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, Circle A!

Tune into WMSE’s Local/Live on Tuesday, December 11th as Milwaukee’s Floor Model celebrates their 20th anniversary year and have a few fun things on tap to celebrate (including putting out some new music!). WMSE.org to stream live or in the archives or simply tune yoru 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 for our monthly Local/Live segments. On Tuesday, December 4, we open the doors to our listener family to share A Chicken Shack Christmas show MC’d by none other than WMSE’s Jonny Z. Our annual holiday Local/Live show is always a good time and this year, we’re pulling out all the stops for an unforgettable night of local, holiday tunes.

Jonny will be backed up by local friends and legends, JP Cyr and the Midnight Men. Also sharing the stage will be Matt Tyner and The Hungry Williams. This holiday show will be a little bit country, a little bit blues and a whole lot of fun.

As always, WMSE Music Director Erin and co-host Cal will lead the 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 Jonny Z for A Chicken Shack Christmas at Club Garibaldi – 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.

Cairns is the main project of Milwaukee musician, John Larkin, who debuted his initial recordings in 2015. The newest release, Entanglement, is Cairns’ debut full-length with a full band. While performed and recorded by mostly Larkin, himself, he added contributions from other Milwaukee musicians to fill out the soundscape – Caley Conway, Eli Smith, Eddie Chapman, Sam Pekarske and Joe Kirschling are now also part of the live ensemble.

Layered and expansive, Entanglement masks its complex time signatures and rhythms with layers of meticulous sound and dynamic swells through every track and nearly every song features drastic stylistic changes throughout. No two moments carry the same weight. This release marks significant development in the complexity of Cairns’ sound and Larkin’s songwriting. Its name is derived from the phenomenon of quantum entanglement, befitting of the direction the project has taken.

Tune into WMSE’s Local/Live on Tuesday, November 27th to hear the newest from Milwaukee’s Cairns. 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.

MKE x CHI’s SleeperSound latest release, In Media Res, finds the band crawling into crates of experimental rock, noir indie folk, ambient obscurities, and eclectic imports to create a unique statement on American guitar-rock.

Sleepersound started as a solo project by David D’Antonio (guitars, vocals, synths), and was chosen by him to “invoke the desire to awaken ourselves gradually and ajar from existential slumbers that make us aloof to each other and our world.”

Sleepersound developed from a previous project when David was rooted in St. Louis and Chicago — the latter where David was born and raised, coming to Milwaukee by way of Chicago, then Naples, Italy, and St. Louis. Guitarist Kenny Buesing is from Sheboygan, currently in Riverwest, Milwaukee. Drummer Dan Niedziejko grew up on the south side of Milwaukee and lives just outside it, in Cudahy. Bassist Mike Campise grew up in Chicago and now resides in Milwaukee as well.

In Media Res is a Latin phrase meaning, “In the middle of things.” The sequence of songs – “Give to Time,” “Passengers,” “Gravity Well,” b/w “Terminals,” “Slow Moon,” and “Error Tape” – “all focus on the journey from life into death,” Mike says. “An exploration behind the veil of existence and into the realm of our place in the larger mechanism.” “Convergence, too,” Dan adds. “Things starting while in the middle of other things but coming together to form something new and putting other things to bed.”

In Media Res was made of compositions documented, produced, and performed in drummer Dan Niedziejko’s studio, Indian Not the Arrow. The icy winds from Lake Michigan seem to blow through the six chapters, the songs are augmented by the esoteric talents of producer Kramer at Noise Miami, a true collaborator with such avant-garage bands as Galaxy 500, Low, Bongwater, Daniel Johnston, Ween, and Saeta, among others. You can hear both the original Krautrock but also the basement show-equivalent from the more elegant instrumental math-rock bands inspired by them in the 90s.

Tune into WMSE’s Local/Live on Tuesday, November 20th for new music from Milwaukee’s Sleepersound. WMSE.org to stream live or in the archives or simply tune your radio to 91.7 FM in the Milwaukee area 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 for our monthly Local/Live segments. On Tuesday, November 13, we welcome Stephen Cooper’s Nobody Famous for a live show and interview on-site and over the airwaves that YOU can join!

Stephen Cooper has been a bandleader, sideman, and touring musician for over 25 years. In that time, he has played in 21 states and 7 countries with numerous groups, most namely WiFEE and the HUZz BAND and The Groove Hogs. Deeply rooted in jazz, r&b, and blues, Coop draws in vocal influences such as Amy Winehouse, Otis Redding, Stevie Wonder, and Al Green, while also being a highly accomplished saxophonist and instrumental soloist. Each member of Nobody Famous is a superstar on their own. The band has made a name for themselves in the Fox Cities and won’t be contained any longer!

Soul. Rhythm and Blues. The words conjure romantic images of sweat dripping dancers swaying slowly to infectious Motown grooves, Staxx and Chess chart toppers oozing from the band stand with a harmonic intensity so real it broke your heart. Tender ballads peppered with generous portions of Hammond organ and scorched barn burners precisely punctuated by a ruthless horn section, these were the songs to have you on your feet before the singer even started. The times have changed and music has moved on, but the feeling of all this remains. This is an eight-piece band that promises that feeling will sustain.

Horns. Bass, drums, and keys. Seductive guitar. And at the forefront of all this, Stephen Cooper and his newest group, Nobody Famous, does a bang-up job of combining rockin’ genres to form something that is toe-tapping, to say the least: from R&B, jazz, soul, blues, funk, hip hop, and rock, Cooper has drawn on his accomplishments of the past to bring you something truly special…a living, breathing musical conduit from the past to the present…and we guarantee to bring you that feeling of the heart once again.

As always, WMSE Music Director Erin and co-host Cal will lead the 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 Stephen Cooper’s Nobody Famous at Club Garibaldi as we team up for this live radio show. If you can’t make it, 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.

Red Stuff started out as an instrumental 2 piece in the winter of 2007 comprised of Kelly Wanderer on electrified autoharp and Tom Wanderer on electric guitar. This duo released a 4 song 7” in the summer of 2008, but were eager to expand the group and the sound.

An early stint with drummer Peterson Kyuk-White got things off the ground, and his contributions to the Best Of Hot Rod Love LP and a handful of shows turned an esoteric musical project into a rock band. Joe Scheltema took over on drums for a memorable summer that culminated in the Pagan Rock 10”. After working with two drummers as many years, the current lineup was cemented in late 2011 with the addition of full time member Steve Tiber.

After almost 5 years of playing shows but failing to capture new material in a satisfactory recording, a spontaneous night of improvisation was released as the Woodfaces album. Invigorated by this new approach, a long stalled record called Saccharine Underground was revived and completed.

More than a decade in, 2018 finds Red Stuff working more than ever. The instrumentation often changes, and a song can come out of thin air or go nowhere at all, but the thread that brings it all together is the simple joy of playing in a band.

Tune into WMSE’s Local/Live on Tuesday, November 6th for a very special fall membership drive edition and hear the newest from Milwaukee’s Red Stuff. 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.

Over the years, Tyler St Clair has been known to exploit archaic electronics to great effect. His penchant for the unconventional is best on display in the form of his Milwaukee-based record label ‘Radiograffiti’ where he’s curated a roster of like-minded boundary-pushers and sonic destroyers. He’s affiliated with the world’s first D.I.Y synthesizer hackspace/storefront ‘Modular Addict’ and skirts the fringe of ubiquity by making music under a multitude of aliases.

Despite his usual aggressive approach to music, his latest project, Black Lines, Din Sky, showcases his most accessible work to date. The radio-friendly “misery.dev – select” 7-inch comfortably spent a few weeks on top of Milwaukee’s Bandcamp chart and has quickly become a must-have within distributor networks, where it’s available in more than 15 countries, across six continents.

St Clair has also released material under Midwest hardcore label Distort, played Blip Fest (NY), and the infamous Schizophrenia warehouse parties where he once shared the stage with members of the Detroit S.W.A.T. His music is featured in the home brew ‘Tracker Hero’ video game, and he made an appearance in the ‘Viva Amiga’ documentary, which recently toured multiple worldwide film festival circuits. His upcoming full-length “misery.dev” is set for an early 2019 release.

Tune into WMSE’s Local/Live on Tuesday, October 30th to hear music from Black Lines, Din Sky in advance of his appearance for the Caution: Radiograffiti Label Night with Doormouse, Nullsleep and more, taking place on Friday, November 9th at Club Garibaldi’s. 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.

Black Eagle Child is guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Michael Jantz. Founded in 2008, Black Eagle Child’s music ranges in style from simple folks instrumentals, to loop-based guitar songs, to experimentally-produced long-form pieces. His work has been published on Preservation Records, Under the Spire Recordings, and Geology Records, among others. Black Eagle Child’s most recent release, Six Lugubrious Airs, is a collection of brief folk airs, and is co-released by himself and Milwaukee’s Geology Records.

Tune into WMSE’s Local/Live on Tuesday, October 23rd to hear the newest music Black Eagle Child has to share with you. 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.

MRS.FUN plays nu jazz. Complex, sophisticated and adventurous, their music is a unique blend of off-center jazz, ultra-funk, spoken word rap, and their own brand of neo-cabaret. Intelligent lyrics, stellar musicianship, and a dynamic stage presence are hallmarks of their music. The MRS.FUN sound is derived from Connie Grauer’s funky bass-driven keyboard playing, combined with Kim Zick’s skillful in-the-pocket drumming.

“Grauer is a piano player with few equals whose drive and energy spills across the stage and into the audience like nitrous oxide. She’s got a left hand that doesn’t quit, the mark of any great pianist, and a right hand with limitless boundaries”. Zick holds court as a “heart-stopping drummer” whose “grooves get so far out, most people need a map to get back.”

Voted Best Contemporary Jazz Group by the Wisconsin Area Music Industry (WAMI) three consecutive years, Grauer and Zick have also received WAMI awards for Best Instrumentalist: keyboards and drums. Grauer has also received awards for Best Female Vocalist and Best Stage Entertainer.

Tune into WMSE’s Local/Live on Tuesday, October 16th to hear what Milwaukee jazz legends, MRS.FUN have been up to lately. WMSE.org to stream live or in the archives, or simply tune your radio to 91.7FM at the 6 o’clock hour.

Local/Live on WMSE is sponsored by Club Garibaldi’s.