Enjoying the Ride – After Hour Animals Release Their Most Memorable Single Debra Kate Schafer September 27, 2021 Buzz, Features Milwaukee's very own melodic metalcore group, After Hour Animals, has one of the brightest futures the city – and the music industry as a whole – has seen in recent years. After Hour Animals are a rock ... Read More...
Little Hag Discusses Pork Roll vs. Taylor Ham, Creating Art with Friends, & Their Theory-less Approach To Music Debra Kate Schafer September 17, 2021 Buzz, Features In a day and age so tense and so serious, a small dose of cleverly-worded, uptempo cynicism can't hurt... right? Frontwoman Avery Mandeville is a powerhouse of a performer, but even more of a powerhous... Read More...
A Welcomed, (Emo)tional Return – 21 Years of Bad Luck Tour at Starland Ballroom / September 4, 2021 L. Taylor Adzima September 10, 2021 Concerts, Reviews With a sold-out show filled to the brim with Jersey natives, live music, and crowd surfers, Starland Ballroom couldn't have asked for a better reopening. The Aquarian couldn't have been happier to have been th... Read More...
A Fresh-Faced Force To Be Reckoned With – Payton Moormeier Challenges Expectations & Defies Genres Debra Kate Schafer August 6, 2021 Features, Interviews Inspired by the hyper-pop icons of today, memorable musical production, and Post Malone, rising rockstar Payton Moormeier is an impressive character who is making waves as we speak. He is a genre-defying, TikT... Read More...
The Hella Mega Throwback Collection – Featuring Pete Wentz, Patrick Stump, Tré Cool, Mike Dirnt, Patrick Wilson, & Brian Bell Debra Kate Schafer July 26, 2021 Buzz, Features When Green Day, Fall Out Boy, and Weezer announced their joint touring venture, sales in Converse All-Star sneakers went up, eyeliner could no longer be found on any store shelves, and MySpace was resurrected ... Read More...
WILLOW’s “lately I feel EVERYTHING” – Playful, Jaded, Inclusive, & Enormous L. Taylor Adzima July 21, 2021 Albums, Reviews WILLOW’S groundbreaking new album lately I feel EVERYTHING dropped on July 18. For being her first venture into pop punk territory, lately I feel EVERYTHING was a pleasant gift to the scene. WILLOW delv... Read More...
Why We Loved The Drum-Heavy, Rockstar Musicianship & Punky Antics Seen In jxdn’s Live Stream / July 17, 2021 Debra Kate Schafer July 19, 2021 Concerts, Reviews A somewhat virtual, but very much live sea of tattoos, iPhones, special guests, excitement, and screams awoke something new in the ever-growing fandom of jxdn the night of July 17. Tell Me About Tomorro... Read More...
Arrested Youth Offers Insight Into His Expressive, “Fiction-Free,” Two-Sided, John Feldmann-Produced LP Debra Kate Schafer July 2, 2021 Buzz, Features Stylish, boundless, humbling, revelatory, and gratifying. Arrested Youth’s Nonfiction – out now – is all of that and more. Oh, and did we say that is's a whole lot of urban-tinged pop punk fun? Because it’... Read More...
Mayday Parade’s Brooks Betts Talks The Importance of Availability & Accessibility Debra Kate Schafer April 28, 2021 Buzz, Features Looking for a way to spend a May day? How about tuning into Mayday Parade’s May 1 livestream? Live music, interactive games, and virtually distant – but still social! – interactions. What more could you want i... Read More...
