Caterwaul MKE

SEVEN bands on the road to the Caterwaul Music Festival in Minneapolis May 24-27 will converge on Milwaukee for a festival of their own Friday May 24th at Club Garibaldi, 2501 S Superior St. in Bayview.

We're calling it Caterwaul MKE and it comes sponsored in part by Rushmor Records, 2635 S. Kinnickinnic Ave, and 91.7 WMSE Radio. Here's your insanely stacked lineup:

THE ART GRAY NOIZZ QUINTET - NY City noise rockers led by Aussie rock legend Stu Spasm (ex-Lubricated Goat and Beasts of Bourbon) w/ drummer Bloody Richard Hutchins (ex-Live Skull), bassist Skeleton Boy (from the band Woman) and Nikki D'Agostino (sax). For this tour, guitarist Mike Jung from Alice Donut will be joining them. Art Gray Noizz formed for the premiere of the Amphetamine Reptile documentary The Color of Noise and never looked back. Since then they've played shows with Mudhoney and The Scientists, toured with Lydia Lunch, and released in 2022 a searing s/t debut album.

PART CHIMP (London, UK): After two decades of ear-splitting noise rock in the UK, the "primal paragons of the riff" are finally coming to Milwaukee to shake some speakers. Their 2021 album Drool, their sixth and latest, comes laden with gigantic pysche-noise romps played with zombie dedication and purpose. This will probably be the one and only time Part Chimp will ever play in Milwaukee, so don't miss this one! 

COUGARS (Chicago): Purveyors of "energetic sleaze" and all things good, abrasive and economical about that unmistakable "Chicago Sound". Their long-awaited 3rd album COUGS was released last summer and recorded (in part) in Milwaukee at Howl Street Studio! 

BRONSON ARM: "It's dark, ominous and in your face ... stripped down and spiky, like your favorite post-hardcore band merged with quality noise rock." - New Noise Mag. Bronson Arm are a duo from Kalamazoo, MI. Their new S/T debut album is controlled tone over a chaos of brilliant, heavy drumming.   

ISOLATION TANK ENSEMBLE (Louisville, KY): They got hit with the "trash prog" label, liked it and it stuck. But don't let 'em fool you. This is the real King Crimson devil's interval experience with full band, violin and keys. The ITE sound is massive.

CNTS (Los Angeles): Ipecac Recordings (that's Mike Patton's label) artists CNTS just released on May 29th their 2nd full length album, Thoughts and Prayers; it's an intense noise-metal affair, with a completely unhealthy amount of inspired experimentation on the noise aspects of what they do. Hell yeah! 

PRIMITIVE BROADCAST SERVICE (MKE): Correspondents from the dissonant sprawl of uncomfortable times, their 2021 album was hailed "a noise rock classic" (@ntxnoise). Angular, feedback-driven and prone to skronk, they’re back - and they're your hosts!

Doors open at 6pm, show starts at 7:30 pm. 21+ only.

$20 advance tickets, $25 day of the show.