Blaine Schultz

1 week ago | shepherdexpress.com | Blaine Schultz

The Green Mile MKE & Milwaukee Messenger Invitational returns on Friday, April 18 and Saturday, April 19. Open to riders 21-and-over, here is your chance to find out what a day in the life of a bike messenger is like. The 4/20 Day-centric event is a messenger-style “alleycat.” In non-bike nerd terms, it is a two-day bicycle-based scavenger hunt in Riverwest designed to simulate the rigors of a bike messenger’s workday.

2 weeks ago | shepherdexpress.com | Blaine Schultz

Corky Siegel, two nights of Spoof Fest!, Mount Eerie & Alan Sparhawk, Record Store Day, saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin, James McMurtry w/ BettySoo and more—This Week in Milwaukee Music! Pinkshift w/ VIAL and Rat Bath @ X-Ray Arcade, 6:30 p.m. The Basement Collective, Riot Fest and X-Ray Arcade Present this all-ages show. Baltimore’s Pink Shift are joined by Minneapolis trio Vial and Milwaukee post everything rat-core ravers Rat Bath. Want to kick start your weekend with a blast of energy?

2 weeks ago | shepherdexpress.com | Blaine Schultz

Green Bay, Wisconsin is known around the world for a legendary NFL football team and toilet paper. But dig a little deeper into the untold music scene. Green Blah! is a documentary that tells the stories of the city's music scene, from the earliest punk and new wave bands to hardcore and beyond. The documentary will screen as part of the Milwaukee Film Festival at the Oriental Theatre April 25th and April 30th.

3 weeks ago | shepherdexpress.com | Blaine Schultz

Singer songwriters, a tribute to Guy Clark, a benefit at X-Ray Arcade, Jackie Greene, improvisors in Bay View and Riverwest and more—This Week in Milwaukee Music! Will Orchard w/ Caley Conway and Dialogues @ Anodyne, 6 p.m. Will Orchard began his career in his home state of Rhode Island with the experimental project. LittleBoyBigHeadOnBike. He established a prolific output of 100 EPs and LPs by 2018, often with a lo-fi, homespun touch.

3 weeks ago | shepherdexpress.com | Blaine Schultz

This is the story of the incredible shrinking band; a cult group whose profile is so low it hurts. The downstate Illinois quartet Souled American had moved to Chicago by the late ‘80s. The band’s sound, a difficult to peg distillation (molasses-slow bluegrass and dub reggae?) found them signed to the American branch of cutting-edge London-based label Rough Trade, for whom the group recorded its initial run of four albums.