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November 2010
11/06/2010 10:00 PM
Mickey's weekly Honky Tonk Tuesdays is a casual and not strictly countrified weekly session from two of the city's more distinct singer-songwriter voices. The twangier of the two, Blake Thomas, has been known to shift from somber drunken-love ballads like "Please Cash This Check" to smart-assed drunken-love stompers like "I Don't Want Your Heart, I Want Your Liver." Jeremiah Nelson balances his rootsier writing with his jazz guitarist's flexibility, and both use the Tuesday-night jam to try out covers and new songs.
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Heidi Spencer & The Rare Birds and Flojo
11/13/2010 10:00 PM
"Here's one thing Milwaukee musicians don't seem to need when it comes to getting record deals: media coverage. Similar to how garage-pop group Jaill was virtually ignored locally for years before signing with Sub Pop in 2009, singer-songwriter Heidi Spencer parlayed a career playing under-the-radar gigs in area bars into a deal earlier this year with celebrated indie label Bella Union, known for working with acts such as Fleet Foxes, Midlake, Beach House, and Radiohead's Phil Selway. Now, with Spencer poised to make a big splash with her third record, Under Streetlight Glow (due out sometime early next year), those outside of her small circle of local fans are scrambling to play catch-up with Spencer's beautifully sad and quietly heart-wrenching songs."
- Steven Hyden, Milwaukee AV Club
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Heterophonics, Ross Fale, and Brothers Burn Mountain
11/20/2010 10:00 PM
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11/24/2010 10:00 PM
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Pink Lipsticks w/ special guests Lovanova
11/27/2010 10:00 PM
Most five year olds spend their time playing with imaginary friends, Mike Willis however, would put on a pair of headphones and listen to Rolling Stones and Jay Geils records from his older brother's collection. Willis was already singing and playing guitar in his early teens and fronting a local band that was well beyond their years. While in Oshkosh as a college student, Willis put together the Backyard BBQ band, crafting his sassy, riff-a-licous old school rock into his own persona ... the tape still floats out there and is cherished by those who have it.
After several years of touring Colorado as a keyboard player for the Cool Waters band and a few years working on a solo project in Los Angelas, Willis returned to his home town and immediately started to make musical connections that would eventually lead to his current group ... Pink Lipsticks.
Picking up local music verterns Bob Schmidt (Guitar, vocals), Ryan Brown on the kit, and recently adding Bret Smith as the bass player, the Lipsticks have honed in on their own brand of pure rock n' roll that harkens back to an era of packed late 70s NY and British punk clubs, opinion laden-cigarette smokin' record collectors, and field parties centered around the world's biggest bonfire.
Their self titled debut Pink Lipsticks is full of delicious riffs, driving beats, sassy vocals, dirty solos, and attitude. In the modern era where most rock bands lean towards stylings of jam bands, straight up punk rock, southern rock, or blues, the Lipsticks have created their own brand of pure no-strings-attached sassy rock n' roll. This is a record that will be enjoyed by many windows-down-stereo-up-summer-drivers, those at oudoor parties revolving around a keg on ice, and perhaps ... another kid who puts on a big pair of headphones and dreams of being in a rock n' roll band.
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