Music - July 13, 2009
Gig roundup: Grupo Fantasma riding a wave
If you don't know about Austin, Texas latin funk orchestra Grupo Fantasma yet, then you just haven't been paying attention. Three dates into its summer tour -- Thursday, July 16 -- the group plays at The Mad Planet. Some other gigs in town this week include Sonic Youth,
Tags: Grupo Fantasma, Mad Planet, The Dutchess and The Duke, The Goodnight Loving, The Sugar Stems, The Get Drunk DJs, Club Garibaldi, Shank Hall, Gende's Giant, Dave Koz, Brian Culbertson, Riverside, Pabst, Turner Hall, Sonic Youth, Blitzen Trapper

Music - Aug. 29, 2007
A punk legend is gone; Hilly Kristal dead at 75
Kristal, who died in Manhattan on Tuesday of complications from lung cancer at age 75, launched CBGB's in 1973 and in doing so helped spark the New York punk scene that centered around his club until its recent closing.
Tags: Hilly Kristal, Talking Heads, Ramones, Sonic Youth, Blondie, CBGB's, Bad Brains, Beastie Boys

Music - Aug. 17, 2006
Sonic Youth is still in touch with its inner youth
It's hard to believe that Sonic Youth has been making music for three decades. They've out-lived all the labels -- alternative, grunge, post-punk, New Wave, No Wave, permanent wave, whatever. And what they created was a sound distinctly all their own.
Tags: Sonic Youth, Rather Ripped

Milwaukee Buzz - June 6, 2006
Sonic Youth, Bacon Brothers, Dennis Miller head to Milwaukee
Sonic Youth, The Go! Team, The Bacon Brothers and Dennis Miller are all heading to Milwaukee this summer.
Tags: Sonic Youth, Bacon Brothers, Dennis Miller, Pabst Theater, Riverside Theater

Music - July 14, 2005
Long-awaited Die Kreuzen tribute arrives
"Man, there was a point there when Die Kreuzen were the best band in the USA." And so Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore describes Milwaukee's seminal hardcore band Die Kreuzen in his liner notes for the long-awaited, "'Lean Into It.' A Tribute to Die Kreuzen," on Appleton's Erosion Records.
Tags: Die Kreuzen, Kubinski, Brammer, Tunison, Egeness, Decapitado, Erosion, Voivoid, Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth, Mike Watt, Firehose, Minutemen, Clitboys