Chuck Prophet and His Cumbia Shoes
FRIDAY, JULY 11 AT 8 P.M. (DOORS AT 7 P.M.) | SHANK HALL | TICKETS
Electric boogie with infectious beats baked in Cumbia rhythms, Chuck Prophet provides moveable sounds to get you on your feet. Imagine if Love and Theft era Bob Dylan really wanted people to dance … Dig a sample of his live show here.
It’s time to pick your Milwaukee favorites for the year!
Offtide + The Paper Flames + Stone Theory
FRIDAY, JULY 11 AT 7:30 PM | ANODYNE COFFEE ROASTING CO. WALKER’S POINT | TICKETS
Offtide offers fractured grooves with reverb-soaked vocals that will have you locked-in to the vibe. Part Pavement, part Neil Young, songs like “Ticking Clock” will have you feeling buoyant in no time. For The Paper Flames, expect Milwaukee shoegaze, psych rock ready to roll. Stone Theory is more Milwaukee psych but with jazz groove and vintage vibes.
Abe Partridge, Jack Barksdale
WEDNESDAY, JULY 16 AT 8 P.M. (DOORS AT 7 P.M.) | SHANK HALL | TICKETS
Have you always wondered what would’ve happened if Albert Einstein and John Lennon switched places and all of its geopolitical ramifications? If songs tangled in freak-folk and psychedelic reasoning all unspooled in drama, comedy and question are in your wheelhouse, Abe Partridge is your singer-songwriter. Sample Abe Partridge’s 403d Freakout for his singular sound.
Built To Spill + Yo La Tengo
WEDNESDAY, JULY 16 AT 7 P.M. | PABST THEATER | TICKETS
Built to Spill plays guitar-snaking Neil Young as indie rock gods rock that won’t go away. Yo La Tengo makes music that’s not so much timeless as time-defiant.
Bug Hunter & The Narcissist Cookbook
FRIDAY, JULY 18 AT 8 P.M. (DOORS AT 7 P.M.) | SHANK HALL | TICKETS
If storytelling interrupted with blasts of song, lyrics and irreverent shenanigans gets you going, Bug Hunter & The Narcissist Cookbook can deliver for you. Blazingly original and unpredictable, the show is bound to be memorable.
Winona Fighter: The Yes, Chef Tour
FRIDAY, JUL 18 AT 8 P.M. | VIVARIUM | TICKETS
Pack up for punk rock with tasty licks, rowdy choruses and boppable guitar theatrics to keep you guessing for hours … it’s Winona Fighter! Catchy hooks galore, like this one in “TALK.”
Chapped Lips • Shoobie • Bug Moment • Lunar Moth • Aergo
SATURDAY, JULY 12 AT 6:30 P.M. | CACTUS CLUB | TICKETS
Chapped Lips shake loose from Sheboygan, ready to crash the Cactus Club with rapid heartbeat punk propulsion perfect for a night of catharsis. Rock to their recent “ROT.” Shoobie, out of Oshkosh, offer down-tuned, yet hooky angular rock, emphasised in arena-ready rollers like “What’s Left.” Bug Moment makes emo-matic noises of glitchy and groovy nature, twisting into sudden explosions of manipulated vocals and catchy choruses. Someday you’ll find it, “The Lazer Connection,” for lovers, the dreamers…and me. Lunar Moth motors in from Madison with sincere slur and sludge spacey sounds that sound like they woke up from a ’90s nightmare with a great song idea like “Lamplight,” in which they realize “all their organs are shutting down…”
Yusi • Sandwich • Miur
TUESDAY, JULY 22 AT 7:00PM | CACTUS CLUB | TICKETS
Yusi, native to Milwaukee is “exploring traditional and alternative hip-hop, switching from upbeat and introspective songs throughout his discography.” Sandwich is known for their fun fusion of rock, and funk.
Soul Asylum with special guests BRETT NEWSKI & the Bad Inventions
TUESDAY, JULY 22 7 PM | CACTUS CLUB | TICKETS
Grungy rock folk and Americana all rolled in one, Soul Asylum smashed the ’90s with crunchy and hooky radio hits. The Minnesota legends have more rock up their sleeve and are sure to toss the crowd a few old faves like, I don’t know, this absolute classic.
Daisychain • Stone Theory • Shade Seeker • Wisconsin Space Program
SUNDAY, JULY 27 AT 7 P.M. | CACTUS CLUB | TICKETS
Daisychain plays Chicago blues based psych rock snakes along with head-nodding grooves led by proto-Pretender sneer and hooks on display in tunes like “All in a Name.” Stone Theory rocks out of the Racine-Kenosha area with “a mixture of classic covers and originals inspired by those classics.” Wisconsin Space Program is a Milwaukee-based trio tripping out through the cosmos with psychedelic confections that Robyn Hithcock wished he’d hatched, like the infectious “Sun in Your Hands.”
Alexa Russo + Kent Avenue Carpool + James Norcross + Claire Martine
SUNDAY, JULY 27 AT 6 P.M. | ANODYNE COFFEE ROASTING CO. WALKER’S POINT | TICKETS
Wisconsin-grown musician Alexa Russo delivers the kind of assurance you hope for in a friend with sweet soulful tunes with tricky centers like “Obsessed.” Kent Avenue Carpool are an Indie psych rock based out of Chicago with “an ethereal, indie psych rock sound that stays true to their midwest roots.” Madison’s James Norcross sings songs steeped in synth beats and undeniable pop energy, swirling into an 80s summer night of sweet confusion as in “Crawling Back.” Milwaukee’s Claire Martine sings tight harmonies over tight production like The Breeders on a sugar high, swinging for big hits with songs like “Gossip Baby.”
Dinosaur Jr. + Snail Mail with special guest Easy Action
THURSDAY, JULY 31 AT 6:45 P.M. | TURNER HALL | TICKETS
Dinosaur Jr. delivers snaking guitar god psych rock that gave birth to every indie band that ever snarled a guitar. J Mascis will lay his Cheap Trick by way of Neil Young vocals down over sounds not exactly Jurassic, but sure to rattle the remains of MPM’s famous triceratops. In case you forgot, this was basically a radio hit, or at least it should have been.
