Artist Testa Rosa

Joe Kirschling

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Testa Rosa

The 2007 self-titled debut from Milwaukee dreamy pop trio Testa Rosa already seems like an age-old local classic, though even when it was first released it sounded like a lost alt-rock gem from the early ’90s. Singer-songwriter Betty Blexrud-Strigens definitely has a Tanya Donelly/Kristin Hersh thing going on, delivering strong yet vulnerable vocals that make boys swoon. Stay back, fellas—Testa Rosa is rounded out by Blexrud-Strigens’ husband, Damian Strigens, and Paul Hancock, the same core that formed the defunct modern rock band The Mustn’ts in the mid-’00s.

Updated 11/15/2010