tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15597970522616082132024-03-13T08:50:13.639-07:00UNINTIMIDATED: Wisconsin Musicians Against Scott WalkerWisconsin punk rock dedicated to spreading information about the harm Scott Walker has done to our state.DrAwkwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12650605115189254329noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1559797052261608213.post-86364683541579722162016-04-07T19:46:00.002-07:002016-04-07T19:46:47.571-07:00UNINTIMIDATED is ON SALE NOW.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One (1) CD featuring 16 hot-shit anti-Scott Walker jams!</div>
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One (1) DVD featuring 13 videos of 13 of said jams, filmed during the recording process at Howl Street Recordings! Also includes interviews from several of the bands!</div>
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One (1) Zine booklet with lyrics, propaganda, activities, and a centerfold. Yes, a centerfold.</div>
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<br />DrAwkwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12650605115189254329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1559797052261608213.post-22429280508706153902016-03-06T21:31:00.003-08:002016-03-06T21:31:56.773-08:00PRE-ORDER UNINTIMIDATED: WISCONSIN MUSICIANS AGAINST SCOTT WALKER TODAY!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We're mere days from sending all the CD, DVD, and zine materials to their respective pressing/printing plants, so it's time to open the Bandcamp up to pre-orders! If you've been wondering when you could throw your money at us, now's the time. <a href="https://unintimidatedscottwalker.bandcamp.com/album/unintimidated-wisconsin-musicians-against-scott-walker" target="_blank">Click here</a> and head to our Bandcamp page, where you can choose from the following pre-orders:<br />
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- For $10 you can pre-order a download of the UNINTIMIDATED CD, a 16-song collection of anti-Scott Walker anthems, in the audio format of your choosing! Included in the download will be a .pdf version of the UNINTIMIDATED zine, featuring lyrics, activities, propaganda, and a...well, I won't lie. There's a centerfold.<br />
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- For $20 you can pre-order the UNINTIMIDATED 16-song CD, the UNINTIMIDATED DVD, featuring videos of the 13 songs recorded at the August 2015 Howl Street sessions and interviews with most of the bands, and the UNINTIMIDATED zine, featuring lyrics, activities, propaganda, and did I mention a centerfold?<br />
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Also, if you pre-order, you will immediately get a download of the three non-video tracks on the comp: Damsel Trash's "Scott Walker, You're a Piece of Shit," "Left Mitten" by Venus in Furs, and "Bad Wolf" by Testa Rosa! You can stream 'em right now, in fact:<br />
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Remember - all proceeds from this project go to benefit Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin and Milwaukee-area soup kitchens. DO IT!DrAwkwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12650605115189254329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1559797052261608213.post-54666468439215219762016-02-14T09:17:00.002-08:002016-02-14T09:17:54.308-08:00Kick Rebecca Bradley off the WI Supreme Court this Tuesday and Bum Out Scott Walker.Wisconsin, we need your help on Tuesday.<br />
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State Supreme Court justice Rebecca Bradley is a career-long Scott Walker toady, having been appointed to three different positions by him. She's his lapdog, pretty much. She recently <a href="http://thefreethoughtproject.com/wisconsin-lost-4th-amendment-rights-single-vote-justice-appointed-scott-walker/" target="_blank">cast the deciding vote</a> on a case that has severe repercussions on our Fourth Amendment Rights to be protected from illegal search & seizure. Please read <a href="http://thefreethoughtproject.com/wisconsin-lost-4th-amendment-rights-single-vote-justice-appointed-scott-walker/" target="_blank">this</a> and <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/state-high-court-broadens-police-search-and-seizure-power-b99668123z1-368381721.html" target="_blank">this Journal-Sentinel article</a> to learn more about it. What's important is that she did not even hear the oral arguments in the case because she wasn't on the court when they happened, YET SHE CAST THE DECIDING VOTE ANYWAY. Like the rest of the Republican wing of this court, she is corrupt and shady.<br />
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But i have good news! Her seat is UP FOR RE-ELECTION, RIGHT NOW. We have a primary for "non-partisan offices" (in quotes because partisanship has destroyed the integrity of our court) on TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, and Rebecca Bradley is on the ballot running to retain this seat, along with TWO opponents. Only the TOP TWO move to the general election in April. One of her opponents is JoAnne Kloppenburg, a good judge who ran for the State Supreme Court in 2011 but lost to another Walker stooge, David Prosser (who ironically voted against Bradley on this 4th Amendment thing).<br />
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Experts are projecting that Tuesday's primary election will feature 10% voter turnout. That means YOUR VOTE HAS MORE POWER THAN NORMAL. Please go to the polls on Tuesday and help toss Rebecca Bradley out of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. She sucks, and it would bum out Scott Walker.<br />
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Please share this message and get the word to your friends to PLEASE VOTE on Tuesday. REAL CHANGE BEGINS AT HOME, on the local level.<br />
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DrAwkwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12650605115189254329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1559797052261608213.post-55054206381348629962016-02-07T20:52:00.000-08:002016-02-07T20:52:04.879-08:00VIDEO PREMIERE: Haunted Heads, "285 Feet Tall"<a href="http://www.unintimidatedscottwalker.org/2015/09/meet-bands-haunted-heads.html" target="_blank">Haunted Heads</a> deliver our second song and video for UNINTIMIDATED, the high-octane infectious "285 Feet Tall." The song is a pure distillation of what makes Haunted Heads one of Wisconsin's best bands--shimmering, complementary dual guitar harmonies, a rapid-fire rhythm section, and haggard, instantly memorable vocal hooks. Guitarist Andy Johnson wrote the lyrics from the perspective of Scotty Walker himself, singing "My hands, my arms are made of wood/With billion dollar strings/I can be anything." Although, to be fair, I think Andy's giving Scooter a little too much credit by assuming that he knows who Van Gogh was.<br />
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DrAwkwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12650605115189254329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1559797052261608213.post-21479765897639251462016-02-01T21:28:00.000-08:002016-02-01T22:17:17.458-08:00VIDEO PREMIERE: FowlMouth, "Too Tired to Riot"UNINTIMIDATED: Wisconsin Musicians Against Scott Walker is pleased to premiere the first video and song from the UNINTIMIDATED project: "Too Tired to Riot" by Kenosha, WI's <a href="http://www.unintimidatedscottwalker.org/2015/09/meet-bands-fowlmouth.html" target="_blank">FowlMouth</a>!<br />
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FowlMouth are a group of long-tenured Kenosha scene veterans playing a bare-bones, stripped-down dirty, bluesy punk rock. "Too Tired to Riot" is a perfect choice for our first video posting as the song encapsulates the overall frustration with Scott Walker and the Wisconsin Republican party that inspired this project. As we have sat back over the past five years watching unions stripped of their power, education devalued, Wisconsin's resources and public lands attacked, and our state's middle class decimated, we've felt the need to rise up and do something more than vote, but the grind of daily lives often leaves us too worn out to do little more than share an angry Facebook post and call it a day. FowlMouth captures this feeling of powerlessness and exhaustion in an ironically upbeat, instantly catchy tune.<br />
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More videos are coming soon as we near the completion of this project! Watch out for more updates and information about release shows and more fun stuff coming this Spring!<br />
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DrAwkwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12650605115189254329noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1559797052261608213.post-12429644043782243422016-01-31T21:51:00.002-08:002016-01-31T21:51:40.557-08:00Bitterfest was a big ol' success.On Saturday night, the UNINTIMIDATED crew and a few of the UNINTIMIDATED bands descended on Evelyn's on Main St. in Racine for the second annual BITTER FEST, a day-long marathon rock show that's free to get in to and features a fundraising raffle to donate funds to a good cause. That cause this year was our little project, and the show was a big ol' slam-bang success! Fourteen bands blasted through 25-minute sets from 3 PM until 1 AM, including UNINTIMIDATED bands Heavy Hand, Body Futures, IfIHadAHiFi, and Donoma. When all was said and done, well over $1000 was raised, which will cover production costs for the CDs, DVDs, and zine printing that will be commencing very soon!<div>
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We want to extend a very sincere thank you to everyone at Evelyn's, including Tom, Dustin, Jessica, and Gretchen; the Hey Muchacho guys for running sound, and every band that made the trip to Racine to donate their time to our little art project. Every dollar raised will eventually make its way to Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin and Milwaukee soup kitchens, in an effort to directly help those getting most screwed by the Wisconsin Republican Party's regressive and profit-minded policies. </div>
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So, the question now becomes, when the hell will YOU guys get to hear and see some results from all this work? Very shortly, folks...we're <i>this</i> close to getting all the videos edited, and the songs are completely mastered. We're in the home stretch!</div>
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DrAwkwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12650605115189254329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1559797052261608213.post-68073799039541596942015-12-30T20:23:00.003-08:002015-12-30T20:23:53.946-08:00Happy New Year from UNINTIMIDATED! (Project Update Post!)Oh hi, errybody! The blog's been a bit quiet (shit, we still have to tell you all about Donoma, Body Futures, Damsel Trash, Testa Rosa and Venus in Furs!), but stuff's been a-happening! Our tireless squad of editors have been diligently assembling and cutting rolls of film (not really; it's all FinalCut now. It's 2016) in the hopes of putting together 13 kickass videos full of anti-Scott Walker piss, vinegar, bile, and guitars, bass, drums, fiddle, autoharp, keys, etc. Meanwhile, the songs themselves are pretty much mixed and will be off to mastering at the beginning of January. Man, we can't wait to share these with y'all.<br />
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"So guys, about that -- <i>when</i> will you be sharing these with us all?" Well, it's tricky when you're a bunch of people with day jobs trying to make a huge art project happen on your free time, but we're still shooting for late February/early March to have this all done and ready for consumption. A big x-factor in that equation, of course, is money and whether we have it, because pressing CDs and DVDs ain't cheap! But that's why one of our executive producers, Tony, is <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/897386843702133/" target="_blank">throwing a little shindig for us</a> in Racine on January 30.<br />
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More to come in 2016, you guys. Scott Walker's not running for president anymore, but he's doubled down on his special brand of homespun bought and paid for evil. We're ready to yell at him a whole lot with distortion and loud noises and shit. Yell along with us!</div>
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I'm half-tempted to wander downtown that day just to witness the shitshow out on the streets. Trump, Carson, Bush, Fiorina and like 25 other candidates all descending on the Milwaukee Theatre? Fuck me. What's the over/under on one of them touring the Miller Brewery to show their concern for working class Wisconsin industry? (You know it'd be Miller and not Lakefront; these guys wouldn't be caught dead at a small business if their carcasses were drop lifted in by the Trumpicopter to make them look "small time.") What will keep the security detail busier: keeping us commonfolk away from the candidates, or keeping Scott Walker out of the building? ("GOD DAMMIT, NO ONE TOLD ME I WAS GONNA HAVE HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE FOR ONE OF THESE! I NEVER WOULD HAVE DROPPED OUT!")<br />
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The big question is: will Waukesha County have the nerve to brave the scary Milwaukee downtown in order to come see their heroes? After all, they may run into brown people outside the Theatre. Heaven forbid!DrAwkwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12650605115189254329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1559797052261608213.post-55157446572142474892015-10-12T21:04:00.000-07:002015-10-12T21:04:10.547-07:00Meet the Bands: DRILLERS<i>This project would obviously not be possible without the amazing punk and indie bands contributing. So let's meet the bands of UNINTIMIDATED: Wisconsin Musicians Against Scott Walker, one by one.</i><br />
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You probably haven't heard of <b>Drillers</b>, and there's a reason for that, other than the fact that they're an obscure Wisconsin punk band like all the obscure Wisconsin punk bands on our little compilation. Drillers are a collection of friends from Milwaukee, Madison, and Western Michigan who until recently recorded and performed as part of a collective of musicians called <a href="https://book-burners.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">The Book-Burners</a>. After that group called it quits, a few of them decided they wanted to keep recording and playing together, so they did. It's as simple as that, really.<br />
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Visiting The Book-Burners' Bandcamp site is to be deluged by recording after recording, which was the Burners' M.O: write songs, record them in the home studio, throw 'em up, repeat. Immediacy was the objective; of the five Book-Burners, whoever was available generally ended up on the recording (they lived in five separate cities, after all). Waiting for everyone to be in the same room wasn't generally in the cards; the song needed to be shared, and shared it was, timelines be damned. The result was a sweeping discography of raw, low-fi nuggets of musical pearl formed from grit covered in just a bit of smooth. A rare physical document surfaced in 2013 with the release of <i><a href="https://book-burners.bandcamp.com/album/peoples-songs" target="_blank">People's Songs</a></i>, a vinyl release on Milwaukee's Latest Flame Records. The album was produced in the same manner as all of their recordings: in their own studio on their own terms. Economical, bare-bones, and absolutely urgent.<br />
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That sense of working-class urgency has carried on into the first recording from Drillers, "Starving," recorded during the UNINTIMIDATED sessions on the last weekend of August. The challenge of setting up in a recording studio and churning out a completed tune in two hours was tailor-made for these guys, and they more than rose to the task. "Starving" is a <strike>thinly</strike> not-at-all-veiled threat directed at a certain executive in Madison regarding what may happen to him if the Wisconsin middle class continues its downward spiral toward irrelevance. Let's put it this way--when the "Starving" singer/drummer Bradley explained to us what they had planned, he asked us, "is cannibalism too taboo a subject to tackle on this record?"<br />
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Provocation? God forbid we have some of <i>that</i> on our punk compilation. You may not know who Drillers are right now, but get this comp in the right hands when it becomes a real, physical thing, and who knows how well-known they'll become? If they don't catch on with musical audiences in Wisconsin, they should at least get on the radar of Scott Walker's security detail.DrAwkwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12650605115189254329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1559797052261608213.post-39189375457996402942015-09-24T21:37:00.000-07:002015-09-24T21:37:03.653-07:00Meet the Bands: FOWLMOUTH<i>This project would obviously not be possible without the amazing punk and indie bands contributing. So let's meet the bands of </i>UNINTIMIDATED: Wisconsin Musicians Against Scott Walker<i>, one by one.</i><br />
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Ever hear that old ridiculous stereotype about how people over 30 that are still in bands are sad losers hiding from real life because they think they're still gonna "make it" eventually, or whatever? You know--working odd jobs and touring the country while living in squalor with five other punks is cool and bohemian when you're in your 20s, but at some point the whole thing just becomes sad and you need to put the guitars and drums away and have a real, boring life? Hell, Metal Sucks ran <a href="http://www.metalsucks.net/2011/03/03/being-in-a-band-is-for-losers-scientific-proof/" target="_blank">an article</a> based on the premise a few years back. Thing about stereotypes, though, is that they're rarely true--most musicians are plenty capable of holding down Real Big Person Jobs while practicing their craft at nights on weekends, using some vacation time to play out of town when they feel like it, and using some to hang out with their families. They play music because they love playing music, not out of some naive desire to "make it" (what does that even mean anymore, anyway?), and frankly, contrary to what that Metal Sucks article would tell you, musicians get cooler as they get older. Want proof? The members of <a href="https://fowlmouth.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Fowlmouth</a> are cooler than any of us could hope to be. They're as old as your dad, they live in Kenosha of all places, and play the least pretentious brand of dirty, bluesy punk rock you'll hear outside of the 1970s.<br />
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The Fowlmouth dudes are all Kenosha scene lifers, having gigged around town for decades in bands named things like Old Junk and Ash Can School, although lead carnival barker Jeff Moody's been spending the last couple decades doing more rock criticism than rocking, having run the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Stripwax" target="_blank">StripWax</a> record review comic strip for years 'n' years. Finally, right around his 50th birthday, Moody decided it was time to get off the sidelines and mix it up, taking the smirking, sardonic wit he developed in the funny papers and transposing it to lyrical form. Instant local classics like"Ms. Ramone" and "<a href="https://fowlmouth.bandcamp.com/album/the-christler" target="_blank">The Christler</a>" (if you've ever spend time in midday downtown Milwaukee you can probably guess what that song's about--if not, click through and check out the cover art) deliver snarky dad-joke bon mots over dirty riffs built by smashing the Stooges together with pure, unfiltered badass small town Wisconsin bar rock. There's nothing flashy about Guy Crucianelli's meat-and-potatoes guitar riffs, but the musicianship displayed by him, bassist Dave Aiello, and drummer Tom Selear is all gravy. (Fun fact: as soon as Tom sat down behind the kit at Howl Street and started warming up, Shane's eyes got a little big and he walked into the control room saying, "ok, these guys can <i>play</i>."<br />
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Their song for UNINTIMIDATED is the future state anthem "Too Tired to Riot," an impossibly catchy ditty that unceremoniously encapsulates everything our little project is about: being fed up and wanting to make a huge noise, but real life wears you out, so you do what you can with the tools you have. So instead of rioting and marching and running for office, Fowlmouth writes an instant working-class singalong classic that you'll find yourself humming for days once you sing it. It's everything they're about compressed into 2:21, and they stormed into the studio, belted it out, and were out the door in 52 minutes. No bullshit, stripped-down blues-punk that's ten times cooler than your band and 50 times as fun. I hope to be half as badass in ten years (which will get here way faster than i want it to, regardless...the faster it comes, the faster that Metal Sucks article will look lamer and lamer and lamer. Nothing's less cool than telling people how cool they're not for doing what they love, after all).<br />
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It's been a cathartic week of delicious <i>schadenfreude</i>, to be sure. But man, what's up with all the Wisconsinites acting like Walker's going away? Sure, the national consciousness doesn't have to focus their attention on the doughy-faced asymmetrical pile of goo that doesn't know how to go bald gracefully anymore (seriously, dude--who the hell told you that making up a story about your bald spot coming from banging your head on a cabinet was a way to make you look like a manly common man? Just tell people you have male pattern baldness and own it. It's not a sign of genetic weakness, you unnecessarily vain weirdo). But guess what, Wisconsin? He's going to be back in our state full-time now, and <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/scott-walker-plans-to-finish-second-term-launch-state-tour-sources-say-b99582951z1-328869781.html" target="_blank">he's not going anywhere else</a> for the time being.<br />
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And even if he did resign from the Governorship tomorrow and took some cushy lobbying or punditry gig, we'd still be stuck with Rebecca Kleefisch, Robin Vos, Alberta Darling, Scott & Jeff Fitzgerald, Sheila Harsdorf, Luther Olsen...sociopaths and sycophants all. Things are still pretty shitty in Wisconsin, and they're not looking up anytime soon.<br />
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The collapse of Walker's campaign is a glorious win, to be sure. But the war still rages on, y'all.DrAwkwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12650605115189254329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1559797052261608213.post-40671615597137184792015-09-21T13:21:00.001-07:002015-09-21T13:21:05.309-07:00Shirts are here, and they're spectacular!Our first ordering run of shirts has arrived! They're real, and they're spectacular:<br />
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If you ordered one before the end of August, it's going out in the mail to you Tuesday (tried to make it to the Post Office this morning but it just didn't pan out. Stupid late Packer games messing with my sleep!)! If you placed an order for one after Sept. 1, yours will be ordered on the next run October 1. Thanks to everyone for being patient! I work in customer service and know everyone wants their stuff shipped immediately, but this is the best way we can raise cash for our punk rock endeavor without putting our credit cards in excessive jeopardy. Anyway, watch for them soon, and please post photos of you wearing your shirt all over social media and tag our Facebook or Twitter handles in them! We're @unintimidatedsw on Twitter and Instagram and you can find our Facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/unintimidatedscottwalker" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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<br />DrAwkwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12650605115189254329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1559797052261608213.post-19931104789351052302015-09-17T20:21:00.004-07:002015-09-17T20:21:45.099-07:00Meet the Bands: HAUNTED HEADS<i>This project would obviously not be possible without the amazing punk and indie bands contributing. So let's meet the bands of </i>UNINTIMIDATED: Wisconsin Musicians Against Scott Walker<i>, one by one.</i><br />
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I spent 10 years living in Oshkosh, WI after high school, attending college and discovering punk and indie rock in the Fox Valley and Green Bay scenes of the mid-1990s. As my own musical palate was developed and the bands i played in evolved into better, louder, (hopefully) more original noise-rock juggernauts, it was done understanding that there were larger music scenes in Madison and Milwaukee--and to a lot of music lovers in the state, those cities were all that mattered. This, of course, only grew the chip that's always rested on my shoulder as my bands and i have strived to put together something unique--sometimes stumbling across the way, but always dealing with the repercussions of not following the latest trends, away from the big music centers of our country (or even our state for a while there). The bands i have played in over the years have never been the hip local bands that set the town on fire, even now that we're based in one of those Wisconsin music centers--Milwaukee--instead of Oshkosh. But it turns out that the title of Wisconsin's best, most interesting indie band probably resides in Oshkosh after all, in the guise of some old friends that we met along the way, not long after the start of their own journey to find their voice. Yep--Oshkosh's <a href="https://hauntedheads.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Haunted Heads</a> have become a must-see outfit, away from the hip spotlight of Wisconsin's larger music cities (i mean, we don't have an Austin or a Brooklyn here, but fuck it), where they could just do their thing and do it better than most could hope.<br />
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There's nothing flashy or complicated about what Haunted Heads does--you could pull elements of their sound out of 90s standouts like The Wrens, Built to Spill, Silkworm, or loads of other bands. But influences mean nothing without the talent, the harmonies, and the pure songwriting skills to mold them into great tunes. And Haunted Heads write <i>amazing</i> tunes. Their 2014 self-titled EP is a brisk, crisp march through shimmering chords, rapid-fire drumming, earthy, organic bass lines, and off-kilter, instantly infectious yelping melodies that stick in your head for weeks.<br />
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Watching these guys put a song together for UNINTIMIDATED at Howl Street after decades of knowing them was a treat and a joy. They blasted through "285 Feet Tall" about twice before they knew they had the take they wanted, leaving drummer Chad and bassist Kyle to chill out on the sofa while guitarists Andy and Eric weaved their vocal harmonies together like a beautifully disjointed patchwork quilt of melody lines. "My hands and feet are made of wood/with billion-dollar strings/and i can be anything!" It's one of their most blistering tunes, played with a punk rock moxie that matches the snarky accusations of their lyrics, and easily a standout on an album of unstoppable standout tracks.<br />
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These boys have been at this rock 'n' roll thing for more than two decades at this point, floating through various bands and developing their talents before settling into their current configuration (The Fox Valley in general and Oshkosh in particular excels in the classic Local Scene Trope of a half-dozen key players forming bands, putting out amazing records, breaking up, reforming in a slightly different lineup, and repeating the process). I could list a half dozen of their former bands off the top of my head right now--Crayonblack, Salt, Chinaski, Shelf Life, Congratulations on Your Decision to Become a Pilot, The Willis, Happy (ok, that's seven). Is Haunted Heads the culmination of all those groups, the best thing they've done to date? Who knows, but i'm guessing these guys aren't done getting better. After all, when there's no hot trend to slave yourself to, no pressure to "make it" or be the new Cool Thing because you've stayed put in the place where you grew up, the only proper direction for your creative energy is right back into the songs...the way it should be for everyone. I'm guessing it may be hard for these guys to peak if they just keep evolving.<br />
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"You wanna talk about <i>the Apprentice</i> -- we've already got an apprentice in the White House!"<br />
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How long do you guys think Scotty had that in his back pocket, waiting for his BIG MOMENT to bust that out on national TV? And of course, when he got his chance to zing Donald Trump with it, it sounded just as prepared and forced as any of the other little sound bites the GOP candidates prepared for Wednesday's "debate." And of course, Trump <a href="http://www.politicususa.com/2015/09/16/donald-trump-chews-scott-walker-spits-cnn-republican-debate.html" target="_blank">proceeded to destroy Walker</a> by doing what he's done so well during this campaign: use his lack of political history to his advantage by assaulting the policy shortcomings of his opponents while the other ten people on the stage have nothing to fling back at the man who's never held office (true, Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina are in the same position, but they don't do blowhard the way Trump does <i>blowhard</i>).<br />
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It was pretty gruesome, as the link above summarizes:<br />
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Trump called out Walker’s terrible economic record in Wisconsin. Walker accused Trump of using Democratic talking points. Walker accused Trump of being a bad business person and taking companies to bankruptcy. Trump responded by saying, “When the folks of Iowa found out the true facts of the job that you’ve done in Wisconsin, all of the sudden you’ve tubed. He was number one now he’s number six or seven in the polls."</blockquote>
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He continued, “Look, we brought it out. You were supposed to make a billion dollars in the state. You’ve lost two point two. You have right now a huge budget deficit. That’s not a Democratic point. That’s a fact, and when the people of Iowa found that out, I went to number one, and you went down.”</blockquote>
Why has Trump appealed to so many on the right? He doesn't stock up on little cutesy sound bites like "we already have an apprentice in the White House." Right there is why he comes across as authentic to a huge swath of the populace (fake hair and all). Sure, he's full of shit, but as far as he's concerned, he's not bullshitting you. People can sense that he means what he says. It's why people are flocking to Bernie Sanders in droves as well--people can just sense that he's authentic.<br />
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Walker? Every time he got the floor, you could see his coaching in action--you could tell his handlers said "you need to come out swinging this time! You barely said anything last debate and now you're tanking in the polls!" It was forced, it was clumsy, it was pathetic, and Trump sensed it immediately and went on the attack, like a wild dog smelling fear.<br />
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It's pretty likely that Walker's campaign for President is breathing about as much as The Walking Dead, and we still have months to go before the Iowa caucus. Lots of people have asked us, "what if he's irrelevant by the time UNINTIMIDATED comes out? Trump's been destroying him." Well, he won't be irrelevant in Wisconsin until (hopefully) 2018. No matter how much of a punchline he becomes on the national stage, he and his cronies in the Legislature will still be working to destroy public education, labor rights, and apparently <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/robin-vos-keeps-trying-to-gut-open-records-law-b99573434z1-326754041.html" target="_blank">Wisconsin's open records law</a>--<i>still. </i><br />
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As Walker continues to run roughshod over everything that's ever made Wisconsin great while simultaneously getting laughed out of the 2016 race, what does that say about the state that elected him to the Governor's mansion three times since 2010? As satisfying as it is to see the national media treat Walker <a href="http://www.unintimidatedscottwalker.org/2015/09/the-shame-of-wisconsin-news-media.html" target="_blank">the way our state media should have</a>, it's really hard to watch him squirm, think "and he convinced enough Wisconsinites to treat him seriously?" and not feel a deep sense of humiliation. As embarrassed as Walker should be for clumsily lobbing talking points at his party's frontrunner like he's tossing home run derby meatballs, we should be doubly embarrassed that we ever let him get to the big leagues in the first place.<br />
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<i>(image ganked from NPR)</i>DrAwkwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12650605115189254329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1559797052261608213.post-5649324763716896272015-09-10T21:01:00.001-07:002015-09-10T21:01:27.128-07:00The Shame of Wisconsin News Media (a slightly late Labor Day post)This past Labor Day weekend there were obviously so many talking points to speak on here in Wisconsin, where labor has been under assault for the past five years. But what kept jumping out at me were the litany of posts and pieces gleefully slagging Scott Walker's non-ready-for-prime-time hack job of a Presidential campaign. Perhaps the snarkiest came from <i>The Guardian's</i> Jeb Lund, titled "<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/03/scott-walker-bad-campaigns-give-up" target="_blank">When you're as bad at campaigns as Scott Walker, you should just give up</a>." Oof, it's harsh:<br />
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Scott Walker’s presidential campaign is only a little over 50 days old, and it’s increasingly obvious that Scott Walker sucks. Not for his record or what he believes, although both of those are – to borrow a phrase from William Safire – extremely sucky. But Scott Walker is not good at this campaign thing.</blockquote>
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A good campaign introduces a candidate and his best ideas to sympathetic and like-minded voters through a combination of events, press coverage and paid outreach, allowing him or her to attract campaign donations and new supporters alike. A bad campaign forces a candidate to get on the phone to reassure his existing donors that he exists and is going to abandon the “sinking into obscurity” tactic that hadn’t been working. A truly terrible campaign is at hand when the most widely-reported news story is the candidate’s old claim that his bald spot totally isn’t genetic but comes from banging his head against the underside of a cabinet.</blockquote>
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Friends of mine were gleefully posting this article all over their Facebooks, and i'll not lie--the sheer venom in the prose is a cathartic thirst quencher for those of us stuck in the desert of Wisconsin political news coverage, desperate for an oasis of objectivity, of investigative journalism, of holding politicians accountable for their words and deeds. But ultimately, the <i>Guardian</i> piece made me kinda depressed. If the national press have been able to sniff out Walker's bullshit this quickly--to the point where friends out of state have looked at the UNINTIMIDATED project and said, "geez, you guys better hurry--he's going to be irrelevant soon" (as if he'll stop being irrelevant in Wisconsin after he slinks back home from the aborted campaign trail)--what does that say about Wisconsin? Why did 52% of the electorate not see what the national news media has been not at all shy to point out: that Scott Walker is a lying shill who will at any given moment say the least-committal thing that will garner the most political points?<br />
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It is certainly one thing to pander to conservatives when you're only running against Democrats, such as he's done for three gubernatorial campaigns in Wisconsin, and another to try to triangulate your position among a field of 16 Republican Presidential candidates (especially when one of them is a billionaire blowhard who gives no fucks and doesn't play by the same rules you're playing). But still--the speed with which Walker's campaign has been torn apart compared to all the fawning coverage he's always received back home is staggering.<br />
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It reminded me of <a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118145/scott-walkers-toxic-racial-politics" target="_blank">this article</a> from Summer of 2014, which called its shot a year out by examining how the protective bubble of conservative talk radio and divisive racial GOP politics evolved in Wisconsin. It was a fascinating, if sobering read then, and it's twice as sobering now considering how much of its prognosticating has come true:<br />
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This interpretation of Walker’s appeal could hardly be more flawed. He has succeeded in the sort of environment least conducive to producing a candidate capable of winning a national majority. Over the past few decades, Walker’s home turf of metropolitan Milwaukee has developed into the most bitterly divided political ground in the country—“the most polarized part of a polarized state in a polarized nation,” as a recent series by Craig Gilbert in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel put it. Thanks to a quirk of twentieth-century history, the region encompasses a heavily Democratic and African American urban center, and suburbs that are far more uniformly white and Republican than those in any other Northern city, with a moat of resentment running between the two zones. As a result, the area has given rise to some of the most worrisome trends in American political life in supercharged form: profound racial inequality, extreme political segregation, a parallel-universe news media. These trends predate Walker, but they have enabled his ascent, and his tenure in government has only served to intensify them. Anyone who believes that he is the Republican to save his party—let alone win a presidential election—needs to understand the toxic and ruptured landscape he will leave behind.</blockquote>
It's infuriating to see the rest of the nation turn Walker into a walking punchline while he's been treated with reverence in our increasingly corrupt state. True--thanks to years of conservative media crafting its own reality where anything even slightly critical of right-wing positions constitutes liberal media bias, a local media doing its job would have still likely been dismissed by most of the conservative voters in Wisconsin. But wouldn't it have been at least nice to know exactly what we were getting into back in 2010?<br />
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It's almost enough to begrudgingly admire the brass balls on the <i>Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel</i> that they were willing to let this blog get posted on their site: "<a href="http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/purple-wisconsin/325067841.html" target="_blank">How the Wisconsin media failed to warn us about Scott Walker</a>:"<br />
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Around the time of the Rodney King trial and LA riots of the early 90s, Bobcat Goldthwait once said, "If you ever see me getting beaten up by the police, put the video camera down and help me." Thanks for all the help as our state's gotten beaten into the dirt, Journal-Sentinel Communications, Gannet Wisconsin Media, etc. Good lookin' out.DrAwkwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12650605115189254329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1559797052261608213.post-31306121503021458892015-09-09T21:54:00.000-07:002015-09-09T21:54:00.920-07:00Meet the Bands: HEAVY HAND<i>This project would obviously not be possible without the amazing punk and indie bands contributing. So let's meet the bands of </i>UNINTIMIDATED: Wisconsin Musicians Against Scott Walker<i>, one by one.</i><br />
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UNINTIMIDATED is a punk comp, in ethics and origin--even if not every band could be strictly referred to as "punk" in style. <a href="https://heavyhand.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Heavy Hand</a>, by any definition of the word, is punk as fuck. The opening track from last year's <i>Northwoods Knives</i> release is called "David Bowie Wants to Steal Your Baby" and is all of 56 seconds long. (Yes, <i>Labyrinth</i> references are super punk.) Other hit singles from this nine-song, 20-minute barn-burner include the classy "Milwaukee Cum Dumpster" and "Motherfucking Bobcat." Their song for the UNINTIMIDATED comp? "White Power Norah Jones." When asked where that title came from, Heavy Hand guitarist/screamer (and UNINTIMIDATED co-coordinator) Tony Weber just looked at me and said, "Scott Walker is a total White Power Norah Jones," and left it at that. Totally ridiculous. Totally punk rock.<br />
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The economy with which Heavy Hand does their business makes them a perfect fit for a DIY grassroots political project such as ours. Gritty, fuzzy riffs that are equally simple and catchy as hell, blasted out over a deceptively basic but solid rhythm section (bassist Isa Carini & drummer Chris Roberts, both formerly of the not-in-any-way-similar-to-Heavy-Hand <a href="http://scarringparty.com/" target="_blank">Scarring Party</a>). Like all the best punk rock, it seems simple, but it's deceptively so, as not just anyone can throw a few chords together and make tunes this catchy. Hell, not many bands can make songs this hummable with lyrics this hard to make out. It's a feat!<br />
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This sounds like a lot of silly business, it is true. But don't think that this band doesn't take what they do seriously. Otherwise they wouldn't be on our comp, yo. It takes dedication to be this goofy and fun while delivering delicious bite-sized nuggets of rusty buzzsaw riffs that slice through your forehead and deliver lethal doses of punk rock tetanus. So let's hope that ol' Scotty Walker gets "White Power Norah Jones" bored into his brain to the point where it locks his jaw shut and he starves to death. I mean, "Dead Walker" is a name just begging for some new punk band to adopt it, right?<br />
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For all the poetic and witty couplets expressed in lyrical form over the last weekend, while 13 bands took two hours each to record protest songs about Scott Walker, it took Milwaukee's reigning kings of hardcore punk, <a href="https://holyshitwi.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Holy Shit!</a>, to distill the sentiment to its purest outburst of the night, as vocalist Tab Man screamed "YOU MOTHERFUCKER! FUCK YOUUUUU!" into the mic while tracking vocals for "How About 'No,' Scott?," a just under two-minute blast of concentrated anger that ranks as one of the band's longest songs on record.<br />
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Holy Shit!'s been around since 2001, which makes them the second-longest-running band on our comp (behind our most recent subjects, <a href="http://www.unintimidatedscottwalker.org/2015/08/meet-bands-ifihadahifi.html" target="_blank">IfIHadAHiFi</a>, who started in 2000). When a band's been around that long, it's easy to take 'em for granted ("eh, i'll see 'em next time"), but every time they end up back in front of you, you find yourself beaten over the head with the reminder that these dudes are just as raging, just as hilarious, and just as essential as they've ever been, and you're a fool if you're in the area when they're playing and say to yourself, "eh..." Just give 2010's <i><a href="https://holyshitwi.bandcamp.com/album/kbd-oop" target="_blank">KBD OOP</a></i> a spin and get your ears pinned back by 14 rapid-fire shots of straight-up old school that's way more diverse and adventurous than a collection of minute-long tunes has any right to be. If you're not grinning like a maniac and pumping your fist by the time "My Girlfriend is a Depressed Vegan Nightmare" whips around your ears for all of 40 seconds, you may not be cool. Which is probably ok, since these guys would be the first to tell you that they're huge dorks anyway.<br />
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But they're huge dorks with serious chops. You can't be this fast, this tight, without having some serious skills, and Eric's machine-gun drumming, Andy's lightning riffs, and Tony's earthquake bass never let things fall off the rails. Just ask our video director, Chuck--while filming Holy Shit! at Howl Street, all that could be heard in the live room (thanks to isolation booths) were drums, Tab Man' screaming, and lots of strings getting pummeled. It sounded like a complete mess, until we got into the control room and heard the full, glorious playback of "How About 'No,' Scott?" I'm not saying they're on Bad Brains' level, because was anyone? But these fuckers blast riffs tighter than Rick Santorum's asshole.<br />
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As you can probably tell from their song titles ("Jumping into a Goddamned Waterfall," "I Hate this Stupid World Because it Sucks Like Hell," "Bad Day Fishing"), Holy Shit!'s not normally a political band, but a certain sleepy-eyed prick in Madison convinced them to step outside the box once again and add another check to their punk rock bucket list, and we're really glad they did. It was all laughs and crazy jokes and slammed beers by the end of their recording session; not a bad way to close out a weekend.DrAwkwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12650605115189254329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1559797052261608213.post-63005008578633320922015-09-01T23:12:00.002-07:002015-09-01T23:12:29.372-07:00Too Tired to Riot, Not Too Tired to Film and Record<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-version="4" style="background: #FFF; border-radius: 3px; border: 0; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: -webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width: 99.375%; width: calc(100% - 2px);">
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In the course of 26 hours over 2 1/2 days, 13 bands stormed <a href="http://www.howlstreetrecordings.com/" target="_blank">Howl Street Recordings</a> in Milwaukee and blasted away at a protest song written specifically about our awful, horrible, very no good governor, Scott "A Canadian Border Wall Totally Makes Sense" Walker. And every band brought their A-game. Whether it was Donoma laying down a triple-guitar attack, Lady Cannon using her two hours to improvise a jazzy piece of chamber-pop from scratch, or FowlMouth waltzing in, banging out your soon-to-be new favorite anthem, "Too Tired to Riot," in 52 minutes flat, every band rose to the occasion. We honestly could not believe how smoothly the entire weekend went. Everyone was on task and devoted to the idea of recording a complete compilation album in the course of one weekend. 60+ people doing heroic work, including our insanely talented engineer, Shane, who wasn't fazed by any potential curveballs or miking issues. He kept everything humming and helped every band play and sound their best. He's a hero. <a href="http://www.howlstreetrecordings.com/contact/" target="_blank">Book his damn studio</a> and record your record there.<br />
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Meanwhile, the film crew assembled <i>mountains</i> of footage of every band. Chuck, Orin, and Ashley did stellar work behind the cameras, keeping three GoPros running while working with their own hand-helds. Special thanks also to Kara, Aaron, and Ellen for helping with setup, providing snacks, and in Ellen's case, doing pretty much anything that was needed, be it running for coffee or taking slo-mo shots! And did we mention food? Isa from Heavy Hand was on point with the weekend fuel, bringing cookies, lasagna and chili to the studio to keep gas in our tanks.<br />
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So what's next? Hours and hours of mixing, mastering, and editing. We're shooting for a February 2016 release for this sucker, right in the thick of primary season, and we'll have a lot of work to do to make that deadline. But we're over the first hump, and that's absolutely amazing. We can't wait to share these songs with all of you.<br />
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Our first order has been sent to Scott at <a href="http://hypescreenprint.com/" target="_blank">Hype Screen Print</a> and it's all been paid for, so as soon as those suckers are in our hands, they'll be on their way to those of you who trusted us with a pre-order. We can't wait to post dorky photos of us (and you, if you send them!) wearing these shits. Soon, my pretties, soon. But until then, to all of you who have bought shirts, donated time, and especially to the bands that made this all happen...THANK YOU.<br />
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This weekend the bands of UNINTIMIDATED will arrive in two-hour increments at <a href="http://www.howlstreetrecordings.com/" target="_blank">Howl Street Recordings</a> and bash out the protest music they have been working on for the last few months. This whole thing started as a Facebook post, of all things, in which i (DJ) was lamenting the fact that so many people express their "activist" side by simply sharing an outraging Scott Walker article, huffing and puffing about it, and calling it a day. Recognizing that as armchair activism, i was resolved to do SOMETHING more outwardly active, but when you work 45 hours a week and live paycheck to paycheck, you don't have a lot of time to give. This is an issue we ALL face, of course, so it boils down to: what's your niche? What can you do to make a difference? Well, my friends and i are musicians, so let's make music.<br />
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We don't expect these songs to change the course in Wisconsin--at least not by themselves. Heck, we're noisy punk rock bands by and large, so there's not even a wide audience for our music on an everyday basis. But here's the thing--real change doesn't happen on a large scale without multiple tiny, little changes happening at once. So here we are, making our tiny, little change. Maybe we'll raise a few bucks for Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin. Maybe we'll pay for some meals for the needy. Hopefully, these songs will inspire others to make little changes in their lives, even if that little change is to be more vocal about how upset we are at the direction of our state. If everyone does their small, little part, maybe that could snowball into something. Wouldn't that be nice?<br />
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We'll be updating regularly via Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and here, so follow along!
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Well, hell--what can i say about <a href="https://ifihadahifi.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">my own band</a>? We've been doing our thing since 2000, which was when Bill Clinton was still in office. Three presidential administrations, you guys! We're very loud and we're very noisy. I guess i'll let my friend Chris from the Chicago band <a href="https://burnpermits.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Burn Permits</a> and the Seattle band <a href="https://policeteeth.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Police Teeth</a> <a href="http://www.prfbbq.com/tag/ifihadahifi" target="_blank">handle this one</a>:<br />
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<i>Like an unholy Midwestern man-wich of Cheap Trick and Brainiac, ifihadahifi has been breaking teeth and taking names for well over a decade, with seemingly no plans to grow up and head off to the glue factory. And god bless them for sticking around, as their mix of synth bleeps, guitar noise, and fist in the air anthemic choruses has only been getting better and better with each release.</i><br />
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IfIHadAHiFi recorded our own little sharp poke in Walker's ear (actually, i doubt he's ever even heard it) when we recorded "<a href="https://unintimidatedscottwalker.bandcamp.com/releases" target="_blank">Imperial Walker</a>" in 2011 at the previous Howl Street Recordings locale, raising over $500 for Russ Feingold's <a href="http://www.progressivesunited.org/" target="_blank">Progressives United</a> PAC. A tiny drop in the bucket, but a donation all the same. It's also a pretty accurate distillation of what we do--extremely noisy indie rock with hooks buried way below the chaos. So check it out below, and if you're into it, check out some of our other releases. There ya go!<br />
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I mean, come on, you guys. Need some more motivation? We, of course, have had a couple people questioning what we're doing with any money that comes in past the costs for this project. A valid query! We've been discussing the best places to donate, and we have so far narrowed on the following. Any money earned by this project over its cost is going to:</div>
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1) <a href="http://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-wisconsin/" target="_blank">Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin</a>. It's kind of a no-brainer. We are obviously furious at Scott Walker and the Wisconsin GOP's aping of the national smear campaign that's been afoot as well as the attempts to defund PP, all on the basis of some BS videos that were edited together <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/31/1407462/-Rebecca-Watson-Planned-Parenthood-is-Not-Selling-Baby-Parts-You-F-cking-Idiots#" target="_blank">to make everyone think that Planned Parenthood is selling dead baby parts</a>. WTF, you guys.</div>
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Planned Parenthood obviously does loads of amazing stuff to promote women's health: breast and cervical cancer screenings! Pap and HPV tests! Birth Control! And yes, dear god, should the need arise, they also provide abortion services. GASP OH THE HORROR. Of course, that's where the persecution and <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/03/politics/senate-planned-parenthood-defunding-legislation/" target="_blank">efforts to defund Planned Parenthood</a> on a national scale come in. Unfortunately, Planned Parenthood's funding in Wisconsin has already been slashed by Scott Walker, having started with the infamous 2011 budget that <a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/healthcare/wisconsin-cuts-funds-to-planned-parenthood-20110626" target="_blank">cut off 12,000 women who do not have health insurance from getting preventive health care</a>.</div>
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That's more than wrong--that's straight-up <i>evil</i>. So yeah, we're gonna do Planned Parenthood in Wisconsin a solid and raise 'em some cash, hopefully. We have very modest goals in mind for this project, but you never know--we could make a difference if we get enough people behind us!</div>
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2) Local soup kitchens in the Milwaukee area. We have a specific one in mind, but because they must stay non-partisan (for good, understandable reasons), we won't mention their name unless they give us permission. That said, we very much want any extra money that comes in from this project to go to immediate use for those impacted the most severely by Scott Walker's politics. That's low-income women who need critical medical care. That's low-income <i>everyone</i> who need to eat but are having trouble affording food or shelter. </div>
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That's also public schools across Wisconsin, obviously, and if we figure out where we want to donate money toward that cause, we'll let you know! But for now, Planned Parenthood and efforts to feed Milwaukee's needy are where it's at. We'll do our best to make all of this as transparent as possible.</div>
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Speaking of which -- we'll be sending the first order of t-shirts to <a href="http://hypescreenprint.com/" target="_blank">Hype Screen Print</a> at the beginning of September, and will be shipping them as soon as we get 'em back from Scott. You can order them at our <a href="https://unintimidatedscottwalker.bandcamp.com/merch" target="_blank">Bandcamp site</a>, which is where the DVD/CD set will be ordered from as well, when we're ready to set that up! But first, we have to do the recording and filming, which--holy crap--is <i>this weekend!</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">NOTE: Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin is in no way affiliated with UNINTIMIDATED: Wisconsin Musicians Against Scott Walker. We are merely raising money and donating for them. We have not been in contact with Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin at all, so hopefully they don't mind us raising some cash for 'em.</span></div>
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Man, these bands have all been full of burly dudes so far. Howsabout we mix things up a bit? Good thing we have a bunch of awesome ladies contributing to this project as well--notably for this post, Martha Cannon, AKA <a href="http://www.ladycannon.com/" target="_blank">Lady Cannon</a>!<br />
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Lady Cannon tags her music as "Americana" and "folk" on her <a href="http://ladycannon.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Bandcamp page</a>, and classifies her tunes as "Midwest Softcore," but a listen through her <i>Whiskey Dear</i> EP reveals layers far more complex than those easily-pigeonholed genre tags. Sure, there's plenty of acoustic guitar and lap steel, but the spacey, airy production and occasionally noisy guitar effects bring to mind the not-quite-shoegazey vibes of Mazzy Star playing jazz standards in a foggy dive bar somewhere just off the warehouse district of whatever town you happen to find yourself in. It's sultry, smokey, and kind of magical.<br />
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"My Evil Girlfriend Bought One Ticket Instead Of Two" (c'mon, awesome title) could very well distill the essence of Cannon's songwriting into just under five minutes of haunting, kinda sad, kinda smirking piss-takes at those who would underestimate her. "I'm sorry about my wicked side/I know you don't like when i stay out late/I know you're thinking 'where have you been dressed like that on a Tuesday night?'" I somehow get the feeling she's not sorry, though. Call me crazy.<br />
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"But guyyyyys!" You say. "I thought this was a <i>punk</i> comp you were putting together!" Punk is what you make it, ya goofs.<br />
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DrAwkwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12650605115189254329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1559797052261608213.post-17304060765766963592015-08-17T22:36:00.003-07:002015-08-17T22:36:53.876-07:00Here's Some More Galoot County For YaJeff Moody is the vocalist for UNINTIMIDATED band <a href="https://fowlmouth.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">FowlMouth</a>, but he's also an accomplished cartoonist, having spent years writing comic strip record reviews under the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Stripwax" target="_blank">Stripwax</a> banner. He's picked up his pen once again to bring us <i>Galoot County</i>, the finest in Wisconsinite Republican satire. Here are two new ones.<br />
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Hey, <a href="https://unintimidatedscottwalker.bandcamp.com/merch" target="_blank">want a shirt</a>?<br />
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Today, we're launching the <a href="http://unintimidatedscottwalker.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">BandCamp</a> site for the UNINTIMIDATED project: <a href="http://unintimidatedscottwalker.bandcamp.com/">unintimidatedscottwalker.bandcamp.com</a>. This is where the DVD/CD/zine and download will be sold online, but for now, we're hoping to raise some funds for the pressing by moving these sweet shirts. </div>
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Because we're trying to keep costs manageable, we're running this like a pre-sale. We'll take orders through the end of every month, then that month send them to our printer to run them off and send them to us. So please be patient with regard to shipping time! Hopefully if these take off we'll be able to stock some eventually, but for now, we'll be printing them to order in monthly batches. Expect them to ship around the mid-month after you order. </div>
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And who's doing the printing, you ask? Our man Scott at <a href="http://hypescreenprint.com/" target="_blank">Hype Screen Print</a> in Detroit, MI! They'll be printed on sweatshop-free Tultex shirts and will be available in unisex and women's sizes, white ink on black shirts. All proceeds from the shirts will go toward the pressing of the UNINTIMIDATED DVD/CD/zine, and everything this project raises above costs will go to charity. </div>
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Shirts are $15 plus shipping. Don't have $15 but want to toss us a few bucks to help out anyway? Go to <a href="http://unintimidatedscottwalker.bandcamp.com/">unintimidatedscottwalker.bandcamp.com</a> and get yourself a download of IfIHadAHiFi's 2011 anti-Walker anthem, "<a href="https://unintimidatedscottwalker.bandcamp.com/releases" target="_blank">Imperial Walker</a>!" A $1 minimum donation will net you a copy of that jam, but you can set the purchase to toss us however much you want. (And you'll get the download right away. Instant gratification!)</div>
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Oh hai! Been a few days since we posted last. It's been a crazy few days, but let's get back into it. So far, we've had lots of super-loud, aggro sludge and noise-rock bands. Howsabout we diversify with something over on the indie-pop side of things? Behold thee mighty <a href="http://www.midwestdeathrattle.com/" target="_blank">Midwest Death Rattle</a>!<br />
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The shimmering pop tunes of the Death Rattle are finely crafted nuggets built first and foremost on solid songcraft and canny arrangements that wouldn't be possible if not for the truly impressive musicianship on display on each of the nine tracks that comprise their <a href="https://midwestdeathrattle.bandcamp.com/album/midwest-death-rattle" target="_blank">debut self-titled release</a>. Each member of this band has a Jedi-like mastery over their instrument, each playing their role in a sound flavored by sprinkles of Modest Mouse, some Flaming Lips psych tinges, a humble dash of lounge act vermouth, and hooks, hooks, hooks.<br />
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Have i mentioned how <i>fun</i> this band is to watch live? I mean, you can channel Freddy Mercury crooning over Bootsy Collins and Gene Krupa all night long, but if there's no showmanship, no energy, no <i>fun</i>, who the hell cares? Not saying Midwest Death Rattle are going to be hosting any gear bro clinics anytime soon, but these guys throw off so many good vibes while showing off their chops on stage, it's hard not to get swept up in the sunshine. For a band with the word "death" in their name, they sure are one of the liveliest batches of shredders you'll run into. Every Death Rattle show is a guaranteed smile-fest, whether you're grooving to the songwriting or just basking in the vibe.<br />
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Not that they're hippies or anything. They'll straight-up rock your ass off. Don't believe me? Their shit is embedded below. Crank it yourself and dig the fact that we've got some popsters classing up the joint with some party jams up here in UNINTIMIDATED land. Bet you didn't think hating on Scott Walker could sound like a house party.<br />
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