All Posts by Kiki Schueler

THE SHABELLES – A Happy Man (2006   Laundry Basket) A name like “the Shabelles” conjures up images of 60s girl bands, some sort of imagined supergroup combining the Shangri-Las with LaBelle. So much for judging a band


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JOHN STATZ – Dusk Came Slow (2006  Self-Release) John Statz is a singer/songwriter in the most traditional sense. His debut CD Dusk Came Slow has more in common with James Taylor than with John Mayer. At fifteen tracks and topping fifty


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BLAKE THOMAS – 40 Minutes (2006 Self-Release) Thankfully, 40 Minutes runs to almost fifty, and not one minute is wasted. The title of Blake Thomas’s second release comes from its penultimate track, a sweetly strummed waltz that like every


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DOC HEIDE AND THE PILLS – Peaceful Kingdom (2005   Self-Release) Doc Heide comes from Packer country, where he’s better known as an actor, a writer of screenplays and musicals, a co-founder of the American Folklore Theater


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WANDERING SONS – Darken Your Door (2005   Fuse) Things are going quite well for the Wandering Sons.  Even as they work on their upcoming full-length Little Bird, the first pressing of last year’s Darken Your Door


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TURN BLUE – Fire Like TV (2006   Utopian Vendor) It speaks volumes for the progress of home recording when two guys in Green Bay can record an entire record on a laptop without ever leaving the


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NICK VENTURELLA – Sweetsonic (2006   OatMeal Records) Remember the dancing-in-the-library scene from The Breakfast Club?  In one of the movie’s most memorable sequences, the detentionees bop and boogie on tables and atop bookshelves with delightful abandon


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MAERAE – More Please (2006   Self-Release) Lisa Hinzman spent many years plunking the electric bass and doing backing vocals in some of Madison’s favorite bands (the Quickies, NoahJohn), so it was a bit of a surprise


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DAVID LANDAU – Kids and Kitties (2005   Milkbreak Music) There are two types of movies for children: the ones that are strictly for kids (anything involving the Rugrats, Clifford or Winnie the Pooh) and those that


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BUZZ MEADE – Reflect the Light (2005   Self-Release) Some fun facts about Buzz Meade:  He was only 16 when he released the first of four five-song EPs that preceded Reflect the Light, his first full-length album. 


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