Hailing from Milwaukee Wisconsin, Mark Waldoch of The Hallelujah Ward have this ability to release music that takes so many pieces of what we all grew up listening to. I mentioned one of his songs had "a great deal of "The Wedding Present " in it, " and Mark's response was "Yeah, but Dave Gedge isn't coming to me for any money."

We talked about the songwriting, Polka, the Wisconsin music culture, and everything else you could imagine. Mark was even once the guitar tech for Peter Hook for a single gig.

No task is too small, nothing seems out of reach for the music they want to make, The Hallelujah Ward makes music for the love of making music. The new album "Everybody Swoons" is a powerful skateboarding adventure of the music-scape all of us grew up with. And he is a pretty funny guy.

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A very deep, and enigmatic singer, Lily DeTaeye has been carving out her piece of the music industry with some very distinctive folkish sound songs, then turned "Dream Pop" as of late. A transplant from Des Moines Iowa to New York City, she is still an ambassador for the music scene in the midwest.

She has just released a few singles prepping for the live album at Iowa PBS studio 3. (Link will be below).

She is a prolific songwriter in her own right, taking on the "one song a day" challenge every November, which makes her love, and dread the month, almost as much as I do.

We discussed her lyrics, where they came from, or didn't cause many she can't remember. Working in a music hall that touring artists would rather not be there, also appears in her songs. No subject is taboo for her, just which ones find themselves into her music we ger to hear is the question.

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P.I.N.E.S. is the new project of Josh Hight, a motorcity born musician, who conducted this interview late night from his home near Brighton England. He was previously in the early 2000's post punk band "The Detachment Project", which showcased his musical prowess, just impressive there.

They have just released a very moving ethereal EP called "In His Wake", just 4 songs that have a similar undercurrent to them, but each song takes you from an ambient sound of the PNW, to the Fjords of Norway, somehow. He used some Brian Eno in there of silence as an instrument. We even sort of geeked out about that "Absence" of sound loaded up into the tracks. That is enough of a reason to listen to this EP.

He worked with Richard Norris of the 90s electronica band "The Grid", which I was already a fan of, and heard some of it this one.

The subject matter is dark, but easily hits you where you are supposed to feel it. More to come from this project, as they are in process of making more music at the time of reading this.

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