Milwaukee's electro-pop megamen Codebreaker have a new record coming out soon. A taster of it arrived a couple weeks ago.
"The Space Chase," which the duo -- comprising Steven Hawley and Sage Schwarm -- describes as "an epic seven-song journey into the future," is released on Feb. 15.
"We've been off to far away places for the last two years to bring you this groundbreaking adventure," writes the band in its blog.
The track listing for the new record is: "Silver Lining," "Desire," "Follow Me," "First True Love Affair," "Free Your Mind," "Sous l'Choc" and "The Space Chase."
"Sous l'Choc" features an appearance by French chanteur Marc Gauvin.
The band will offer its Los Angeles fans a sneak preview of some of the record on Friday at at DJ set at The Avalon's "Control" party.
But many have already gotten a listen to one track, via the three-song "Silver Lining" EP that arrived on Jan. 8, pairing that song with two remixes -- one by The Outrunners and one by no less than Chicago house music pioneer Joe Smooth.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
