Chapped Lips • The Scratch Offs • Blacktop
Sun 03/19/23
7:00PM
All Ages
music
$10 ADV // $12 DOS
Show Lineup
Chapped Lips
(Milwaukee, WI)
Genre: Garage Rock
Chapped Lips is a four-piece alternative rock band based in Milwaukee (originally from Sheboygan). Power pop, funk, blues, and punk all get thrown into a high-voltage blender. FFO The Strokes, Foxygen, Stephen Malkmus.
The Scratch Offs
(Madison, WI)
Genre: Garage Rock
After forming in Madison, WI in 2019, the pandemic hit, the drummer had a son, and the lead singer had THREE open-heart surgeries, but none of this has stopped the Scratch-Offs on their climb to the top of the rock n’ roll lottery. With their snappy guitar licks, soulful songwriting, and Stones-y close-harmonies, the four-piece harkens back to the music of the 60s and 70s, but they play it with an urgency and attitude like every show could be their last–that’s ’cause they almost have been. FFO The Rolling Stones, Guided by Voices, The Replacements
Blacktop
(Milwaukee, WI)
Genre: Psych
Blacktop is the independent writing and recording project of Milwaukee-based multi-instrumentalist and producer, Austin Wood. With a self-described genre of ‘indie jazz surf pop’, Blacktop draws from a large pool of influence; from Ethiopian jazz and Latin rhythms of the 1960-70s to modern pop and alternative artists such as levitation room, Babe Rainbow, Skinshape, Loving, and Kate Bollinger. With nearly all recording, mixing, and production being done in Wood’s home studio, the music of Blacktop is adorned with gentle and dreamy vocals, washed-out guitars, and acoustic percussion and rhythmic elements. The project’s core is rooted in the spiritual and Zen philosophy of dwelling in the present moment, mindfulness, and impermanence, from which Wood often draws lyrical inspiration. Blacktop is gaining international and local appeal, able to be heard through the airwaves on 889 Radio Milwaukee, and featured on Lilliput Record’s “Local Milwaukee Showcase”. Blacktop’s latest full-length release, “Sun Room”, is available on all streaming platforms.