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Red Stuff
Also Playing: Bare Mutants and Moss Folk
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Sat Jan 12
10 pm
Red Stuff, Bare Mutants, and Moss Folk at Cactus Club
If everything Robert Johnson knew about music was based solely on listening to soundtracks from Roger Corman biker movies, he might have sounded like Red Stuff, Milwaukee’s preeminent backwoods scuzz-surf duo. The group’s full-length debut, The Best Of Hot Rod Love, is built on minimalist gutbucket guitar riffs, clinky organ fills, and primordial rhythms that appear to have oozed slowly out of a deep, dark muck made of oil, dirt, and bathtub gin. Guitarist Tom Wanderer hosts the Thursday afternoon blues show on WMSE, and his love of obscure vinyl is evident in the record’s lovingly packaged artwork. But Wanderer and bandmate Kelly Buros’ influences are discernible—think Dick Dale jamming with Jack White and Devo’s rhythm section—the final result is its own demented beast. A new EP, Pagan Rock, was released in 2012.
Cactus Club 2496 S Wentworth Ave, Milwaukee, WI
If everything Robert Johnson knew about music was based solely on listening to soundtracks from Roger Corman biker movies, he might have sounded like Red Stuff, Milwaukee’s preeminent backwoods scuzz-surf duo. The group’s full-length debut, The Best Of Hot Rod Love, is built on minimalist gutbucket guitar riffs, clinky organ fills, and primordial rhythms that appear to have oozed slowly out of a deep, dark muck made of oil, dirt, and bathtub gin. Guitarist Tom Wanderer hosts the Thursday afternoon blues show on WMSE, and his love of obscure vinyl is evident in the record’s lovingly packaged artwork. But Wanderer and bandmate Kelly Buros’ influences are discernible—think Dick Dale jamming with Jack White and Devo’s rhythm section—the final result is its own demented beast. A new EP, Pagan Rock, was released in 2012.
Updated 01/02/2013
