Music - May 5, 2009
An OnMilwaukee.com editorial office playlist
Like everyone else, we've got some musical opinions and some songs just hook us and pull us in and we play them over and over again.
Tags: Handsome Family, Placebo, M.I.A., The Sounds, Maximo Park, Decemberists, Death Cab, Clem Snide

Music - Sept. 26, 2007
Narrowing it down to 10 ... a futile work in progress
With apologies to Nick Hornby, I'm not much of a list-maker anymore. Sure, I was the music geek kid with a list -- and a ready-made mix tape -- for every eventuality, but now I love music more than I enjoy trying to quantify it.
Tags: rock and roll, top 10, marley, stones, beatles, dylan, smiths, sex pistols, clash, funkadelic, elvis costello, gaye, gang of four, placebo, son volt, augustus pablo

Music - Aug. 1, 2007
Random musical thoughts
There's a lot of music swirling around today and I must declutter my mind, so I'm unloading all of this stuff from my brain and onto your browser...
Tags: The Go, Sub Pop, White Stripes, Mad Planet, Placebo, Stabbing Westward, The Rave, Gianmaria Testa, Editors, Interpol, Joy Division, Piemonte, Frisell

Music - May 9, 2007
Mix tape: part three
Here’s part three of a journey through the stack of CDs on my desk. Parts one and two appeared in the Sound Check section in the past week.
Tags: Placebo, Air, Astralwerks, Hannon, Cocker, Heptones, Coxsone, Heartbeat, Rounder, LePop, Le Pop, Keren Ann, Blue Note, Sibbles, Groove Attack, Neil Young, Massey Hall

Music - Oct. 17, 2006
Placebo's debut feted with double disc
It's been 10 years since the eponymous Placebo debut was released. Amazing how time flies. Perhaps quietly, the cross-border trio -- a Dutchman, an Englishman and an American raised abroad -- has become one of the best bands around.
Tags: Placebo, Molko, Bowie, glam, Astralwerks