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Two or three decades ago, the music industry was a very different place than it is today. World class rock musicians belonged to one band, and the lifecycle of that band pretty much went like this: record and release album, tour to support album sales and spread the new music …

Bob Weir, of Grateful Dead fame, brought his trio, Bob Weir & Wolf Bros., and their unique interpretation of Grateful Dead material (amongst other songs), to Milwaukee on 3/20/19 for one of the final dates of their second tour. The group, which includes Jay Lane on drums and Don Was …

Metallica kicked off the second leg of their tour in support of their recent album, Hardwired… To Self-Destruct, in Milwaukee on 10/16/18. At least the promo email I got called it the opening of the second leg of the tour. But it seems hard to believe this is only the …

AV Super Sunshine drops new re-mixes (Time Bomb) CLUB MIX: https://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/29911618 RADIO DJ MIX: https://soundcloud.com/av-super-sunshine/time-bomb-radio-dj-mix AV Super Sunshine’s “Time Bomb” is the latest scintillating outing from a Wisconsin based artistic unit making bigger and bigger waves with each new release. The single comes with two mixes, a radio DJ and …

70’s/80’s rock powerhouse Foreigner finished their summer tour with Whitesnake and Jason Bonham’s “Led Zeppelin Evening,” by reuniting with the original lineup for a show in Sturgis, South Dakota, and two additional shows in the midwest. The band rocked the Wisconsin State Fair main stage on August 11th, playing the …

If there is one thing the rest of the United States should know about Wisconsin, it’s this: Wisconsinites are proud. Wisconsinites are defiant. They do not like to be ****ed with. And if Unintimidated: Musicians Against Scott Walker is any indication, there is a growing population of Wisconsinites disgruntled with …

In their own words, Milwaukee rock foursome The Living Statues (Tommy Shears, Chris Morales, Alex Thornburg, and Zak Rickun) sound like they “inhaled the sounds of ’64 off an LP of A Hard Day’s Night and coughed up Jack White’s blood onto Cream City brick.” I recently caught up with …