Music - Nov. 25, 2008
As Mueller crushes Crouton, he looks to the future
After 10 years local musician Jon Mueller is shutting down his avant garde, new music label Crouton Records, which has issued more than three dozen engaging musical projects, always packaged in great sleeves. The end of the label does not signal an end to Mueller's musical activity, he says.
Tags: Jon Mueller, Crouton, Physical Changes, Radium/Table of the Elements, Pele, James Plotkin, Marcus Schmickler, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Dan Burke, Jim Schoenecker, David Dinnell

Arts & Entertainment - Oct. 28, 2008
Pecha Kucha gets jazzed tonight
Pecha Kucha, a live event featuring interesting people talking about interesting ideas, moves from the Hi-Hat Garage to a new location, Sugar Maple, for its show tonight.
Tags: pecha kucha, sugar maple, jon mueller, tim cigelske, ryan schleicher, taryn roch, bridget brave, hi-hat garage

Music - Feb. 27, 2008
Hotcakes and MARN host German composer Schmickler
On Friday, the Riverwest gallery brings German composer Marcus Schmickler to the Miramar Theater thanks to a grant from the Argosy Contemporary Music Fund.
Tags: Schmickler, Julee Cruise, Miramar, Brenner, Hotcakes, MARN, Argosy New Music, Todd Hammes, Mike Truesdell, Jon Mueller, Paul Westfall, Ephemerides, MEME, Milwaukee Experimental Music Exchange

Music - March 27, 2007
Crouton issues Bosetti's compelling "Her Name"
Alessandro Bosetti, born in Milan in 1973, is a composer, a saxophonist and a sound artist. As his latest disc -- or one of them -- “Her Name,” issued in a limited edition by Milwaukee’s Crouton Music, shows, he’s also fascinated by the spoken word.
Tags: Bosetti, Jon Mueller, Crouton, Hotcakes Gallery, Mike Brenner, Her Name, avant-garde

Music - Nov. 26, 2006
Audiotrope helps keep Hotcakes coming
Audiotrope, a trio of experimental sound artists, plays at Hotcakes Gallery on Friday, Dec. 1, at 8 p.m. in a performance that is designed to help raise money for the Riverwest gallery's ongoing music series.
Tags: Hotcakes, Audiotrope, Rammel, Nelson-Raney, Gaudynski, Jon Mueller, Pele, Federico Ughi