All Posts by Kiki Schueler

KA-BOOM! BOX – Pop! (2006   Boat Records) Ka-boom!Box is a “before-and-after” puzzle I’m pretty sure Wheel of Fortune hasn’t thought of yet, and their debut, the appropriately exclamatory Pop!, is a danceable electronic delight.  Five songs


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Sunshine for the Blind – See the River Rise 2006   DNA Music Labs   It seems I’m doing a lot of rewriting this month.  First I had to rewrite my Blueheels review because I didn’t quite


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VARIOUS ARTISTS – Wisconsin Pop Explosion Compilation (2006   Self-Release) No one would ever accuse Charlemagne of being over-produced, but with “Nematode” (from last year’s Detour Allure) they sound like absolute studio rats in comparison to the


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VARIOUS ARTISTS – Sector Five Records Compilation 2006 (2006   Sector Five Records) Sector Five Records has always been the home of some of Madison’s loudest rock and punk bands.  You know, the kind of bands that keep


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ROB ANTHONY – Inside You & Inside Me (2006   Self-Release) At several points on Rob Anthony’s third CD Inside You & Inside Me he sounds an awful lot like Neil Diamond.  What I really mean is


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VARIOUS ARTISTS (FAWM) – 14 Songs in 28 Days II (2006   Rebels Trust) For those of us who can’t imagine writing even one song, the concept of writing 14 during the shortest month of the year is


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KELLY PARDEKOOPER – Brand New Bag (2006   Sonic Rendezvous Records) Kelly Pardekooper is usually seen wearing a cowboy hat, but you can forget all your preconceptions because his new release Brand New Bag is definitely not


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GOOD LUCK JOES –   What Do You Think of That Noise? (2006   Third Ward Records) As I listened to this record prior to writing the review I played it for a number of people.  “So, who


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EARL FOSS’S BROWN DERBY – This Drinkin’ Life (2006   Self-Release) Like Linus waiting in the pumpkin patch for the Great Pumpkin to appear, the boys in Earl Foss’s Brown Derby are trying to summon the spirit


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DRIFTLESS PONY CLUB – Cholera (2006   Sector Five Records/ Two Thumbs Down Records) After writing for Rick’s Café for over two years, I thought, foolishly, that I knew all the good Madison bands.  I was wrong,


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