There is no gig round-up on this holiday, but we didn't want to neglect to tell you about Tussle at Borg Ward this week.
Part Public Image Limited, part Massive Attack and part ESG, San Francisco's Tussle has a new disc -- "Cream Cuts" (Smalltown Supersound) -- and arrives at the Borg Ward -- 823 W. National Ave. in Walker's Point -- for a gig on Saturday, Sept. 6.
Some might dismiss the group's third disc as yet another diddly electronica band, but that's wrong. Tussle is equal parts dub, disco, electronica and psychedelia, creating a sound that's fun and funky rather than mathematical and "automated," for lack of a better word.
Although it underwent some changes after the release of its second disc, 2006's "Telescope Mind," founders Jonathan Holland and Nathan Burazer are still on board.
Check out the band in Milwaukee this week. Show time is 7 p.m. and Crime in Stereo, Fake Problems and Wholehearted also play.
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.
