As Milwaukee-based Latest Flame Records prepares to turn 10 years old in 2012, it has issued its (presumably tentative) release schedule for next year.
January will finally see the release of IfIHadAHiFi's delayed "Nada Surf EP+3" on vinyl and CD, according to label boss Dan Hanke.
"Fake Infinity" by Dallas-based Nervous Curtains is due in February, followed by a new System and Station record in May.
July will see the first new record in six years from Minneapolis' The Slats and their co-Twin Citians Animal Lover will launch a debut outing the following month.
Then, as autumn dawns, Seattle's Police Teeth will have a new record, too.
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.
