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

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

Movies & TV - Aug. 23, 2006
"Once" recaps the golden age of American soccer
Baseball, basketball and football comprise the trifecta of American sports, but for the rest of the world, soccer is number one. Although, the soccer tried to make its mark on the American sporting world in the ‘70s.
Tags: pele, once in a lifetime, soccer, matt dillon, chinaglia

Music - March 16, 2006
Beyond the music: Milwaukee's Crouton Records caters to concepts
Musician Jon Mueller stands at the helm as both captain of and contributor to Milwaukee's Crouton Records, which, for the last seven years, has been transcending the usual perimeters of what a local label can achieve and been dedicated to sonic experimentation.
Tags: Crouton Records, Jon Mueller, Pele, Collections of Colonies of Bees, Chris Rosenau, Livingroom concert series

Music - Aug. 11, 2005
Amitai's solo debut CD reflects years of work
Paul Amitai is a fixture on the Milwaukee scene and has been for a decade now. So, it might come as a surprise that Amitai is just now releasing his first solo CD, "River of Shadows." What's not unexpected is that the disc is as wide-ranging as Amitai's musical career to date.
Tags: Paul Amitai, The Pacers, ska, Jookbeat, electronica, Collections of Colonies of Bees, Crouton, Pele, Onopa