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Testa Rosa
Also Playing: BLNX
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Fri Nov 23
9 pm
Testa Rosa and BLNX at Club Garibaldi
Testa Rosa’s self-titled 2007 debut was a breath a fresh air, boasting a series of well-crafted and unassuming pop-rock songs anchored by chiming guitars, crisp rhythms, and the knockout vocals of Betty Blexrud-Strigens. It was the rare local album with the courage to be pretty, a quality that many bands in Milwaukee’s male-dominated and punk- and metal-weaned music scene cross the street to get away from. It was a record steeped in mood and melody, and those attributes also form the foundation of Testa Rosa’s 2011 follow-up, II. Where II improves on Testa Rosa is in the added lushness of the instrumentation, which captivates even on lightly breezy pop tunes like “If Only I Had Run” and the charmingly wordless “Carpet Cube.” Testa Rosa isn’t Milwaukee’s flashiest or edgiest rock band, but it might be the most gorgeous.
Club Garibaldi 2501 S Superior St, Milwaukee, WI
Testa Rosa’s self-titled 2007 debut was a breath a fresh air, boasting a series of well-crafted and unassuming pop-rock songs anchored by chiming guitars, crisp rhythms, and the knockout vocals of Betty Blexrud-Strigens. It was the rare local album with the courage to be pretty, a quality that many bands in Milwaukee’s male-dominated and punk- and metal-weaned music scene cross the street to get away from. It was a record steeped in mood and melody, and those attributes also form the foundation of Testa Rosa’s 2011 follow-up, II. Where II improves on Testa Rosa is in the added lushness of the instrumentation, which captivates even on lightly breezy pop tunes like “If Only I Had Run” and the charmingly wordless “Carpet Cube.” Testa Rosa isn’t Milwaukee’s flashiest or edgiest rock band, but it might be the most gorgeous.
Updated 11/12/2012
