Ike Reilly Assassination, Jason Heath and the Greedy Souls
Today May 24, 2013 8:00pm $15.00
Ike Reilly has been called a raconteur. Just give his latest solo album, Hard Luck Stories, a listen, and you'll discover a rich, tour-de-force collection of tales that sound so authentic you'd swear they were all true. The Illinois-born musician delivers them with course, soulful lyrics and a sound that meets at the....read more
Ana Popovic
Tomorrow May 25, 2013 8:00pm $15.00
Ana's career has been meteoric, and shows no signs of slowing down! The 4x Blues Music Awards nominee blends smoking electric funk slide guitar, jazzy instrumentals and tight blues groove with soulful feminine vocals. Her incredible stage presence makes her an irresistible force in the music world. Ana Popovic was....read more
This Must Be The Band - a Talking Heads tribute
Friday May 31, 2013 9:00pm $10 advance / $12 door
This Must be the Band is a Talking Heads Tribute Band; they only play Talking Heads music, and, if possible, 3 to 4 hours at a time. Since forming in May 2007, TMBTB has been Burning Down The House throughout Chicago and the entire midwest. With a rapidly expanding repertoire from the Talking Heads' catalog of countless....read more
Vandaveer
Friday June 14, 2013 8:00pm $10.00
VANDAVEER is the song-singing, record-making, globetrotting project penned and put forth by alt-folk tunesmith Mark Charles Heidinger. Born in Ohio, raised in Kentucky, and currently camped out in the nation's capital, Vandaveer offers up melodic Americana that is both haunting and easy, forlorn and welcoming, with stories....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
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
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
Dwight Twilley
Friday August 16, 2013 8:00pm $20.00
DWIGHT TWILLEY: The True King Of Power Pop and the father of New Wave. Dwight Twilley fronted the Dwight Twilley Band, a legendary trio from Tulsa. Twilley had a major hit with the very first record they recorded professionally, "I'm On Fire," in the summer of 1975. The band went on to record a brilliant first album,....read more
Requiem for Richard / Rover Rescue
Saturday August 17, 2013 8:00pm $10.00
Fans can pay tribute to late Milwaukee punk-rock icon (and animal lover) Richard LaValliere (19522012) at Requiem for Richard / Rover Rescue, a rockin' cinematic/musical program that also will serve as a fund- and awareness-raiser for the Wisconsin Humane Society (WHS). Says program organizer Paul McComas, a....read more
Miles Nielsen
Friday August 23, 2013
Songs. Songs are the key. Miles Nielsen has been writing them for as long as he can remember. Good, bad, great -- yeah he's covered all those bases. For some, music is something in the background, or in the corner of the bar, or merely something that lives on the other side of the dial -- a magic diversion created to....read more
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
D.O.A.
Friday September 6, 2013 8:00pm $15.00
Canada’s legendary Punk Kings,who helped spread punk rock counterculture around the world, approach a momentous milestone. For nearly 25 years D.O.A. has been happily slashing away at all manner of philosophical enemies. They’ve traveled the globe almost continuously since they formed in 1978; they released their first....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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