Artist Couch Flambeau

Legendary post-punk act Couch Flambeau was conjured out of Milwaukee’s early ’80s, and spent that decade cutting albums and seeping through the city’s clubs and then-newborn community radio station, WMSE. The group’s lyrics circle around arbitrary themes such as Cudahy, the zoo, and Christmas, while its music matches the lyrics’ beatific dissonance. Both congeal into satirical, singular, and fun songs like “I Don’t Want To Be An Eddy,” and “The Zoo Is Cool.” A distinctly Milwaukeean group that thrived in the era of Violent Femmes and Big Black, Couch Flambeau has become more remote from the local music scene in the last two decades, but has maintained a constant presence, releasing the anthology I Did A Power Slide In A Taco Stand: Anthology 1982–2001 in 2004, and performing as insanely as ever amidst the always transforming Milwaukee music scene. 

Updated 08/17/2011