Thursday, the Back Room at Colectivo Coffee, 2211 N. Opener: Seasaw, a Madison-based duo with folk background and indie-pop foreground. Cameron’s second solo LP, 2017’s “Forced Witness,” features contributions from the above more-famous names and churns a theme of “toxic masculinity” into songs that smartly call upon the influences of Steely Dan, Leonard Cohen and velvet suits. Why you should go: That “failure” manifests musically in a kind of indie-pop brilliance dusted with irony and conceptualism. When not hobnobbing with the hip, Cameron tends to play-act a bit onstage and on record as a showbiz failure. Among them are Foxygen, Angel Olsen and the Killers, the last of whom he co-wrote five tracks with on a recent disc. Style: Posing above bedrock tunefulness and folk-pop intelligence.īackstory: Australian singer-songwriter Cameron has made the right friends in what’s left of the music industry. Wells St.), the Riverside Theater box office (116 W.
While fast rapping has always had a niche in the culture, Bone certainly. Perhaps the groups most important contribution to rap is their speedy, harmonizing flow. It consists of rappers Krayzie Bone, Wish Bone, Flesh-N-Bone, Layzie Bone, and Bizzy Bone. Price: $16 at the door and in advance at the Pabst Theater box office (144 E. rap group formed in Cleveland, Ohio, United States in 1991. Deceptive sweetness and underlying sourness are considerable flavors for Tennis, and Riley and Moore come across like the unhappily obscure cousins to the all-grins twosomes of the 1970s. Why you should go: Last year, Tennis put out an LP, “Yours Conditionally,” and an EP, “We Can Die Happy,” giving Moore and Riley fresh material to bring out this time around. By 2011, Tennis had issued “Cape Dory” and begun a record-and-tour cycle that has brought its music to audiences that also appreciate the likes of the Shins and Spoon. Piet Smooth-and-spiky retro-modern pop.īackstory: Whatever else those crazy kids get up to in Denver, sometimes they marry and form musical groups, as did Tennis husband Patrick Riley and Tennis wife Alaina Moore circa 2010. Opener: Another great guitar talent, Milwaukee's own Shonn Hinton, who's toured with Jill Scott, Mary J. And like Clark, there's strong potential she'll become a theater headliner herself someday. Why you should go?: Like Clark, Venson's guitar skills mark just the start of her talent she, too, possesses a soulful voice, and her songwriting showcases her instrumental strength without slipping into technical overindulgence. It's become her signature, earning Venson comparisons to guitar master and fellow Austin, Texas, native Gary Clark Jr. - who brought Venson on the road last year, including a Milwaukee stop at the Riverside Theater. Style: Rock, soul and blues built on a strong guitar foundation.īackstory: The ninth child of a veteran musician, Venson picked up a guitar in 2011 during her last year at the Berklee College of Music.