Milwaukee Calendar
- May 23
Music
Mortgage Freeman + Calliope
Riverwest Public House
7 p.m.
As apathetic as the grunge movement supposedly was, the one thing it was staunchly opposed to was progressive rock. In the current era, the rampant eclecticism of anything hunkered under the indie-rock umbrella has outdated such rules, making way for bands like Milwaukee’s Mortgage Freeman. The group’s debut album, The Living Proof, is a less-than-precise shepherd’s pie of keyboards, occasional mumbly vocals, and a horde of guitar tones straight out of early-’90s Seattle. It’s a sloppy, flannel aesthetic convoluted by the noodling and shifting tempos of modern jam bands and, yes, prog rock. Holding up the bluesier side of the grungy-Americana thing, Calliope may be ramshackle, but its members can certainly play. The band’s overall style may not be ...
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