Roshambo
Today May 18, 2013 8:00pm $5.00
ROSHAMBO originally started when a few UW-Madison friends got together to play a college graduation party. The band was then asked to play for a fashion show at the landmark Memorial Union for designer Francois Girbaud. Soon the band grew and began playing in Madison, Milwaukee and Chicago including festivals, bars,....read more
Drivin' N Cryin', The Whigs
Tomorrow May 19, 2013 8:00pm $20.00
"We are a band that's like your record collection." --That's a quote from me in one of the first articles ever written about drivin' n' cryin' back in the Eighties. We released our first album Scarred But Smarter in 1986 on 688 Records. 688 was the center of the underground Atlanta rock scene in the 1980′s. Bands as....read more
Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, Michael McDermott
Tuesday May 21, 2013 8:00pm $20.00
Roger Clyne doesn't like serving the musical version of junk food. "I like to put a little more heart into my cooking than that," Clyne said. For over a decade, Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers have avoided unnecessary additives, preservatives and sugary substances that may initially be satisfying, but ultimately provide....read more
Mundy, Michael McDermott
Tuesday June 11, 2013
Mundy released his 5th studio album Shuffle (on 29th April 2011). Recorded over a year at various bunkers, this is Mundy's love song to his favourite American songwriters. Mundy's first record of covers perfectly compliments a catalogue that already includes a live album & DVD where he had a massive hit with Steve Earle's....read more
Magma Dragon, Thrasher
Saturday June 15, 2013 10:00pm $5.00
Project of Dan Clark (The Mighty Chouffe, Justin Vernon's Goddamn Cabin, The Dark Clan, Stromkern, am.pscyh, Ego Likeness, and The Gothsicles) and Dave Norman (Lockjaw, ex-Dark Clan), Magma Dragon is intended to fuse badass american headbanging riffs with fucking epic-ass euro power metal. Sharpen your sword and prepare....read more
Marcia Ball
Friday June 21, 2013 8:00pm $25.00
Singer/pianist Marcia Ball knows how to raise roofs and tear down walls with her infectious, intelligent and deeply emotional brand of southern boogie, rollicking, roadhouse blues and heartfelt ballads. Over the course of her three-decade career, Ball has earned a huge and intensely loyal following all over the world. Her....read more
Harvey Scales and The Seven Sounds
Saturday July 6, 2013 8:00pm $10.00
Harvey Scales...a name synonymous with musical accolades, he started his career at the age of 14 in a group called The Playboys who rivaled then Al Jarreau's Doo Wop group, and later sang with The Esquires who had an international hit entitled 'Get On Up'. Harvey left the group to form his own that grew to be a large....read more
Daphne Willis, Dave Tamkin, Mike Mangione & The Union
Thursday August 1, 2013 8:00pm $10.00
With Chicago roots and Texas ties, Daphne Willis brings both musicality and grit to the songs she writes and plays. Born in San Antonio to a classically trained vocalist and audio engineer, Daphne began singing at an early age and found her way to the guitar in high school. Since then, she's developed the confidence,....read more
Sedated (Ramones tribute), Veronica Late (Johnny Thunders tribute)
Friday August 2, 2013 8:00pm $10.00
Sedated formed in July of 2010 and had their first of many shows at the Jockey Club in Oshkosh on 10/ 2/10. This was their home base and their CBGB's. It was Larry's Facebook post about starting a Ramones tribute band that....read more
Flannel Animal, Step 9, The Lilies
Saturday August 10, 2013 8:00pm $7.00
Flannel Animal's original songs are awkwardly situated genre wise somewhere between Neil Young with Crazy Horse and Hank Williams. The genre that people call Alt Country or Americana is perhaps where you might place them, but where one song might sound like a Neil Young folk song dipped from a whiskey barrel, another....read more
Popa Chubby, Chris Duarte Group
Thursday August 15, 2013 8:00pm $20.00
Popa Chubby, born Ted Horowitz in 1960, is a native son of The Big Apple. His parents owned a candy store in the Bronx. The young Chubby would play the jukebox endlessly listening to the hits of the day. Motown, Stax Volt, Chess and Atlantic records spun endlessly through the young boy's head. "The defining moment came....read more
Richard LaValliere Tribute/Film
Saturday August 17, 2013 8:00pm $10.00
A rockin' fundraiser for the Humane Society of Wisconsin, featuring the premiere of the movie "Time Trek," Richard LaValliere's final work -- as composer, musician, and actor.
The Brothers Comatose
Thursday September 5, 2013 10:00pm
Literal brothers, Alex (banjo and vocals) and Ben Morrison (guitar and vocals) of The Brothers Comatose grew up in a house that was known for its music parties. "The Morrison house was a gathering place for local musicians -- everyone would bring an instrument, call out tunes, call out changes, and just play for hours"....read more
Tav Falco
Friday September 13, 2013 8:00pm $15.00
Tav Falco - The master of a raw and shambolic fusion of rockabilly, blues, and fractured noise, Tav Falco was, along with the Cramps, one of the earliest purveyors of what would come to be known as psychobilly, and he anticipated the fractured but hard-hitting blues wailing of the Gories and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion....read more
Leo Kottke and Loudon Wainwright III
Friday October 18, 2013 8:00pm $45 and $35
At South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center, Milwaukee, WI
Tickets ($45 and $35) on sale at the South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center box office, all Ticketmaster outlets, Ticketmaster.com or by phone 800-745-3000.
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