Every week either Bobby Tanzilo or I join WMSE's promotions director Brent Gohde in podcast to break down the week in local music and play songs from a few of the bands who have upcoming gigs around town.
This week we took it back almost a decade and started things off with "Too Many Flakes" by Couch Flambeau, which plays with Live Fast Die at the Cactus Club this Saturday night, Feb. 10.
We give you a taste of Vega Star (Original members Joe Crockett, John Crockett and Jordan Burich later went on to form The Championship, another successful Milwaukee band) which plays a show that same night at the Bremen Café.
We feature a live-on-WMSE track by Mercury Crossing, which plays a benefit show for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society at the Todd Wehr Auditorium on Friday, Feb. 9, and wrap up this week's local music podcast with a band called No Longer Micah, which plays with Aviator at the Riverwest Commons that same night.
Thanks for supporting local music!
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.”
