The third OnMilwaukee.com CD of home-grown music has reached Brew City at last.
"OMCD3" -- co-sponsored by Marquette University -- has 16 slices of fine Milwaukee music and you can get your copy on Saturday, Oct. 10 at the OnMilwaukee.com Art Riot.
Here is a complete track listing for the CD, which comes in a lovely gatefold digipak sleeve designed by our own Jason McDowell:
The Patina Tree -- Princess
The Scarring Party -- Follow It Down
The Championship -- Christian Man/I'd Rather Be Truckin'
The Color Truth -- Counting Sheep
Father Phoenix -- Large Bodies
Xpensive Dogs -- Pinocchio
Lumberhorn -- Judgment Day
David Tomaloff -- Hold On (Alternate Mix)
Pezzettino -- Parasite
The Candeliers -- Junebug Park
Kevin Brandt -- I Want You Tonight
Decibully -- Let Me in My Lord
The Heavyheads -- Rusty Moon
The Olmsted Ensemble -- Lake Park
The Subcontinentals -- Goodnight Nobody
The Celebrated Workingman -- We're Numb
Art Riot 2009 takes place at The Times Cinema and along the 5900 block of West Vliet Street from 2 p.m. until 2 a.m.
In addition to custom bikes, hot rods, art by artists like Derek Hess, The Pizz, Jay Ryan and others, there will also be the Milwaukee premiere of the film "American Artifact: The Rise of American Rock Poster Art" and much more! Giveaways of "OMCD3" will take place throughout the event.
There will also be live music by The Candliers and The Subcontinentals.
CDs will be available at other venues, too, in coming weeks. Stay tuned for details.
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.
