Author Archives: Amy

Juniper Tar in the general vicinity of Detroit

By Amy | Published: November 14, 2008
ATTN: DETROIT A band I like is playing in your (sort of) town. It’s a special joy for me when the distance between my heart’s two cities –- Milwaukee and Detroit –- is triumphed, for whatever reason, however briefly, like planets crossing paths. I even felt perversely comforted this year when Milwaukee Alderman Michael McGee [...]
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The Large Hadron Collider of the Heart

By Amy | Published: June 27, 2008
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] The Shins – “Gone for Good” (from Chutes Too Narrow) As with all these sorts of things, I saw it coming, but it still came out of nowhere. It was like a basketball to the face; of course you see it coming, but you can’t move out of [...]
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Review: Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago

By Amy | Published: April 9, 2008
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Bon Iver – “For Emma” (from For Emma, Forever Ago) This is the kind of creative awakening all of us romantic, moony creative-types wish for: a retreat to the north, a burst of lightning in a field of deep meditation, a fully realized work of art borne from [...]
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Rock concerts from the future – today!

By Amy | Published: October 17, 2007
Of Montreal, Wilco, and other musical acts in Milwaukee (credit) As a six-year-old, picturing myself at a rock concert, I would have imagined a concert hall, with a heavy red curtain and a crystal chandelier. With my six-year-old musical horizons limited to classical works, Motown, and Josie and the Pussycats, the band I imagined would [...]
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From Milwaukee, With Love

By Amy | Published: July 27, 2007
The Candliers – The Unsettled West Live at WMSE I don’t want to get into the politics of Milwaukee’s local music scene, except to say that for a city that brought you both Liberace AND The Violent Femmes –and hosts the world’s largest music festival every summer –we ought to have more of a scene [...]
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Who Needs a Love on Mars?

By Amy | Published: February 27, 2007
A Long (belated) Valentine to the Detholz!  The Detholz! – Mister Electricity (from Who Are the Detholz!?) The Detholz! – Behold the Man (from Cast Out Devils) Detholz! recordings, Detholz! tour dates, and other assorted Detholz! tidbits available at www.detholz.com.  The Detholz! have a way of rearranging the realities of the sensory world. At every [...]
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Pulling the Plug on the Party? Not Just Yet.

By Amy | Published: September 20, 2006
Electric Six Switzerland [Metropolis Records; 2006] Rockists hate Electric Six. Rockists think that Electric Six is everything good rock should not be: trashy, jokey, lewd, full of hooks and disco and naked ladies. Pitchfork Media’s review of last spring’s Señor Smoke, the Six’s second full-length album, branded the band “dick-and-fart-joke rock.” It called the album’s [...]
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