Summerfest has come and gone, the dust is settling and the Milwaukee music scene is getting back to its old self. What does that mean for you? A seemingly endless list of bands playing shows all over town and here at the OnMilwaukee.com / WMSE Local Music Podcast, we're here to tell you all about it, so listen up.
One of Saturday's finer musical entertainment options is The Mad Planet, where you will find Milwaukee's Now and Never Again sharing the bill with Ruby Isle (Mark Mallman and Dan Geller of I Am The World Trade Center) and Madison's Sleeping in the Aviary. Here is "Army of Lovers."
Satuday, July 14 also gives us an evening with 1881, a familiar local band playing in a perhaps less than familiar venue. The band takes the stage at Mosaic, 2624 N. Downer Ave at 9:30 p.m. Is the electro funk band not so familiar to you? Listen to "Forever Doin' it" to see if it'd be worth checking out.
The ever-popular The Good Luck Joes are taking to the festival circuit this weekend as they headline the Cathedral Square Stage Sunday night at Bastille Days. The show starts at 7:15 p.m. but get there around noon for an entire day's worth of good Milwaukee music, including shows by Northern Room and The Uptown Savages.
This Friday is Friday the 13th and what better band to play Stonefly than the almighty Battles. Milwaukee's Collections of Colonies of Bees opens the show with DJ extraordinaire Bts.Wrkng.
OnMilwaukee.com staff writer Julie Lawrence grew up in Wauwatosa and has lived her whole life in the Milwaukee area.
As any “word nerd” can attest, you never know when inspiration will strike, so from a very early age Julie has rarely been seen sans pen and little notebook. At the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee it seemed only natural that she major in journalism. When OnMilwaukee.com offered her an avenue to combine her writing and the city she knows and loves in late 2004, she knew it was meant to be. Around the office, she answers to a plethora of nicknames, including “Lar,” (short for “Larry,” which is short for “Lawrence”) as well as the mysteriously-sourced “Bill Murray.”
