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Aug
27
Thu
interview: Dusty Medical Records
Aug 27 @ 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm

DustyMedical10Dusty Medical 10th Anniversary Fest — interview with Kevin of Dusty Medical Records on the Von Munz Vinyl Variety Show at 1pm.

“Since 2005, Milwaukee’s DUSTY MEDICAL RECORDS has issued almost 50 releases by over 35 bands. This August, 17 of these acts (some who have not played in close to 10 years) will converge at 5 venues over the course of 4 days, to celebrate 10 years of Dusty Medical Records.

WEEKEND PASS = $42

DMR10FEST.brownpapertickets.com

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Thursday, August 27

<<Opening Reception / Art show>>
“MIXTAPE TRADING CARD SERIES, Vol 1″
Works by Luke Chappelle
HOLY SHIT!
THE ORNERYS
@ Acme Music & Record Emporium, 7pm
$FREE

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Thursday, August 27

MIDNIGHT RERUNS
THE MIDWEST BEAT
PHYLUMS
The Get Drunk DJs
@ Club Garibaldi, 9pm
$8

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Friday, August 28

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TBA (Dryland)
The Get Drunk DJs
The Vanguard, 5pm
$FREE

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Friday, August 28

LIVEFASTDIE (New York)
TBA (Dryland)
A/V MURDER (Chicago)
JOHNNY ILL BAND (Detroit)
DRUGS DRAGONS
The Vanguard DJs
@ Cactus Club, 9pm
$12

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Saturday, August 29

PLATINUM BOYS
RAMMA LAMMA
Head On Electric
Midwives
DJs Von Munz & Warlock
@ Quarters Rock ‘n Roll Palace, 4pm
$7

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Saturday, August 29

Goodnight Loving
The Tuff Bananas
Tang Soleil (Montreal)
Space Raft
DJ Greg Cartwright
@ Mad Planet, 9pm
$15

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Sunday, August 30

Greg Cartwright (Asheville/Memphis)
Sugar Stems ‘N Friends
Hot Dog! Classic Country Spin DJs
@ Linneman’s River West Inn, 3pm
$12”

Dec
10
Thu
interview: Frank Chandek and Fly Re: Zappafest
Dec 10 @ 5:00 pm – 5:30 pm

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“Make no mistake about it, this is THE LONGEST RUNNING FRANK ZAPPA TRIBUTE CONCERT IN AMERICA! Those that have been to prior fests know how much the bands bring it and how much fun it is so help us keep this long running tradition in Milwaukee alive!

“Bands participating in this year’s Zappafest:
Gozortenplat
Dr. Chow’s Love Medicine
Brothers of Pretension”

~ The Cactus Club

Tune in to the Tom Wanderer Radio Experience on WMSE to hear all about this year’s Zappafest!

 

Jun
9
Thu
interview: Neil Fallon of Clutch
Jun 9 @ 2:30 pm – 3:00 pm

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“Neil Fallon’s voice hints at what the man does on stage. The Clutch vocalist speaks in a low register, and his answers are far more controlled than the unhinged roar heard on records like The Elephant Riders and Blast Tyrant, although at any moment he could belch out a mighty roar through the phone. That said, there’s nothing overly fancy about Maryland’s longstanding pure rock furists—four dudes that look like East Coast dock workers who deliver meat-and-potatoes riffs with a very blue collar approach to performing live. You can’t argue with the results: 11 full-length records and a rabid fanbase that’s carried them for nearly 25 years.”

~Noisey

Tune into WMSE as DJ Von Munz talks to Fallon in advance of Clutch’s show with Lamb Of God at The Rave/Eagles Club that night.

Jan
22
Tue
interview: OQ
Jan 22 @ 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Tune into WMSE for an interview with new Milwaukee duo, OQ.

Though OQ hasn’t played a show yet, many Wisconsin music aficionados are likely aware of the group’s musical affiliations. The self-described “creative duo” consists of Liam O’Brien (of Holy Sheboygan! and namesake of Liam O’Brien’s Faithless Followers) and Cole Quamme (of The Fatty Acids). The project became connected to PEOPLE through Mike Noyce while he and Josh Evert (The Fatty Acids, Silver City Studios) were finishing OQ’s first EP at Vernon’s April Base recording studio.

OQ is officially a duo, but its members called on a wealth of Milwaukee musicians to contribute on the project’s forthcoming EP, Paradice 1. Players and vocalists involved in the recording process include Evert, Noyce, Ivan Eisenberg, Alex Heaton, Treccy Marquardt-Thomas, D’Amato, Caley Conway, Ms. Lotus Fankh, Derek De Vinney, Steven Strupp, Carmen Quinliven, Sarah Shay, Caley, John Larkin, Ian Olvera, Alex Scott, and Hesper Juhnke.

The band will make its live debut and release the five-song EP at Company Brewing on Saturday, January 26. Quamme will also screen and release a “visual album” at the show.

~Milwaukee Record

Apr
3
Wed
interview: Rose Of The West
Apr 3 @ 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Tune into Squid Inc. on WMSE’s Local Lunchbox segment to hear all about Rose Of The West’s debut album, which is being released later that week on April 5th on Communicating Vessels Records. The Milwaukee band has a show that weekend to celebrate – catch all the details on the Mighty 91!

Rose of the West loosely threads dark and brooding strands throughout its newest songs to bind its temperate-but-temperamental style of pop. The result is a beautifully structured, soft-blooming, Technicolor Lynchian dreamscape with just the right amount of sparkle amidst the dark shadows to catch the eye. Are you awake or still sleeping? Are these thoughts your own or are they driven by the characters who populate your dreams?

Driving these hazy dream-currents of music are frosty synths, radiant warmth from guitar and piano, nimble bass lines and a tempestuous, gutsy kick from clear-cut percussion. Rose of the West leader, Gina Barrington, brings it all together with her crystalline-but-sultry vocals, twisting and turning lyrics over like talismans. And no matter how dark, Barrington’s most desolate words always seem to hold the possibility of turning those single sparks into bright flames.

 

Jul
11
Thu
in-studio performance: Southern Culture On The Skids
Jul 11 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Tune into WMSE as Southern Culture On The Skids make their return to Milwaukee and into the ever-lovin’ arms of WMSE as they stop by the station for an in-studio session before their gig at Colectivo’s Back Room later that night! Von Munz will host the band and get all their latest news after their set! WMSE.org or 91.7 FM to listen in.

Southern Culture On The Skids has been spreading the rock and roll gospel since since they formed in Chapel Hill, NC in 1983. Guitarist/singer Rick Miller, drummer Dave Hartman and bassist/singer/heartbreaker Mary Huff, play a greasy mix of surf, rockabilly, R&B and country-fried garage with a side of psych, all the while driving fans into ecstatic, sweat-drenched paroxysms of joy. It’s a musical gumbo Miller calls, “Americana from the wrong side of the tracks.” The band has been prolific and ubiquitous for over thirty years, touring everywhere from the North Carolina Prison System to Mt. Fuji, Japan and delivering what Rolling Stone calls “a hell raising rock and roll party.”

In 2014 the band was honored by the Southern Folk Life Collection at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill with an exhibition featuring their music and cultural contributions. The flame-adorned La-Z-Boy from the cover of their Plastic Seat Sweat LP now resides at UNC-CH!

Jan
23
Thu
interview: GGOOLLDD
Jan 23 @ 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm

GGOOLLDD stops by WMSE on the Von Munz Vinyl Variety Show to talk about their new single, “Welcome To My House” and their upcoming album release show in a couple months at Turner Hall Ballroom (Friday, March 27th)! Tune into WMSE for all the news!

Local indie-pop outfit GGOOLLDD isn’t like other bands. They formed on a whim, decided to play their first show mostly as an excuse to host a killer party, and eschew the traditional gotta-get-a-record-deal game in favor of playing as many live shows as they can and releasing their own material. That sense of whimsy blended with resolute autonomy is all part of the signature GGOOLLDD aesthetic – and it feeds into their sound, from soaring bangers to wind-in-your-hair glittery romanticism. Join them in celebrating their new album, ‘Here We Are’ (coming out this Valentine’s Day) when they bring their crazy fun live show back home to Turner Hall Ballroom!

Apr
22
Thu
interview: Eric Blowtorch
Apr 22 @ 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Tune into WMSE during the Local Lunchbox segment to hear all about Milwaukee’s Eric Blowtorch’s latest release, Quality Items, a triple LP from his band, The Inflammables. Only on the Mighty 91! Listen in at WMSE.org or 91.7 FM on your radio dial.

Oct
7
Thu
interview: Reverend Nørb of Boris The Sprinkler
Oct 7 @ 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm

All hail the mighty punk band from glorious Titletown, Boris the Sprinkler! The band is coming to Milwaukee for a show at the X-Ray Arcade on Friday, October 8th. Von Munz checks in with Reverend Nørb, leader of the notorious Green Bay band.

Boris The Sprinkler were formed the night of the 1992 ShopKo fireworks in Green Bay. Veterans of numerous local bands (including minor Beer City Records sensations Suburban Mutilation), they opted to forgo most then-popular musical routes — long-stale hardcore, vaguely melodic emo-esque muttering, dull strummy plugged-in acoustic guitar crap — for the then highly-unpopular music they grew up playing: The punk rock of the late 70’s and early 80’s, albeit with a loony thrift-store goofball aesthetic. To the surprise of no one, the shenanigans of 2020 AD extinguished the band’s plans for a string of dates in support of Vespa To Venus. But, newly vaxed, waxed, and with a belly full of grape juice, Boris shall brave the rigors of I-43 to bring their Carnival of Spaz back to Milwaukee for the first time in almost two decades. Don your cheeseheads and ’80s new wave specs and come on out! P.S. The band enjoys socks, soup, and most polkas.

Oct
21
Thu
RE-BROADCAST OF LOCAL/LIVE INTERVIEWS EPISODE 37 WITH PRIMITIVE BROADCAST SERVICE
Oct 21 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Due to technical difficulties this past Tuesday, October 19th’s broadcast of Local/Live wasn’t able to air in its entirety. With that, WMSE will be re-broadcasting the full, one-hour segment so our listeners can enjoy the segment in full as soon as possible during the Local Lunchbox segment on the Von Munz Vinyl Variety Show. Tune in at 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. on Thursday, 10/21 to hear our conversation with Milwaukee’s Primitive Broadcast Service about their just-released record, Colors For Chameleons!

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During these strange times, WMSE aims to keep you connected to your local music community by getting up close and personal in conversation while taking a listen to new local projects, albums and songs.

Milwaukee’s Primitive Broadcast Service is a three-piece noise rock colossus. Described as “Neil Young meets Joy Division” and likened to Unwound, Husker Du and “Sonic Youth at their height when everything was raucous and slightly off key”, Primitive Broadcast Service quickly reclaimed the momentum and swagger they had prior to the pandemic, and are ecstatic to release their 2nd album, Colors for Chameleons in mid-October.

The new album, long in the making throughout the pandemic, represents a bit of a shift from the dissonant, psychedelic sprawl of the band’s first album to a more taut, skronky approach; there’s a Chicago noise influence at work and the new album version is just a bigger, heavier slab of urban SKRONK. Tune into Local/Live on October 19th to learn more.

Catch episodes of WMSE’s new Local/Live interviews by tuning in at the 6 o’clock hour. WMSE.org to stream live or in the archives or simply tune your radio to 91.7 FM in Milwaukee.

Local/Live is presented by Third Space Brewing. “You have your home, you have your work, but everyone needs a third space.”