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They played most of the tracks during their set, including some of my favorites from the album. The opener “Your Uncertain Shadow” (its video a love letter to Milwaukee from Waldoch who is – both in the video and in real life – a true man about town. In fact, I’m fairly certain the tunnel he walks through at one point is at the end of our street), “Crown” (a seething nod to he-who-shall-not-be-named at the show), the heartbreaking and anthemic “Nobody’s Ghost,” the excellent rocker “Diet Suicide” (on the LP singer Liv Mueller from The Lovelies joins on vocals) and the jaw-dropping “The Ring of Brightest Angels, Around Heaven.” While the 80’s and 90’s influences are strong (even if I couldn’t hear them, we’ve seen Waldoch at a ton of shows like Echo and the Bunnymen, Psychedelic Furs, Love and Rockets and The Cure: Waldoch is a Cure megafan), Everybody Swoons is not steeped in nostalgia, rather it feels very modern both in the songwriting and production. You can watch/listen to the entire set in video linked below the video for “Your Uncertain Shadow.”

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Calliope Musicals at Cactus Club 2019

Color/Sweat is almost as much fun as a Calliope Musicals performance – highly danceable, dreamy, swirly pop with an edge to the shimmer. I can’t believe it’s taken me almost 5 years to take a listen. Singer Carrie Fussell’s voice is beautiful, lots of depth with a soaring range and the rest of the band is having an absolute ball backing her. I’m sure they played a bunch of songs from this record in 2019 but I absolutely cannot remember which those would have been. Top tracks include the opener “Fear This Body” and the title track “Color/Sweat,” the all-out dance party “That’s Why We Dance.”

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There’s not much in the way of videos for S.M. Wolf out there, not much of them playing live that I could find from anytime recently (including when they performed at Romanus Fest in 2021) so here’s a video of them playing live from 2019.

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MC’d by WMSE’s Sid McCain and Milwaukee Record‘s Matt Wild, the band played tracks from their 2019 LP You Talk Loud plus some sneak peeks from their forthcoming EP, tentatively titled the Hiatus EP, set for a Fall 2023 release.

The Local/Live event is one of my favorite Milwaukee live music series: it’s early (6:00 pm!), only an hour long (done by 7:00 pm!) and free (FREE!). But more importantly it’s a chance to hear some of the band’s favorite songs to play live and also to learn a bit more about the band members and hear some entertaining stories. Now, because I know a couple of the Dramatic Lovers pretty well, I had previous insider info about the reason for the hiatus (BJ Seidel is heading off for a year-long travel adventure with his family) and also am well-versed in the band’s background and name (made up of members of past Milwaukee groups like Promise Ring, Decibully, Maritime and Camden and named after the WW1-era anarchist group that met at the Cactus Club), which were both discussed in the interview portion of the live radio program. But it was really fun hearing the story behind one of the tracks performed, “Blaze Orange” (to appear on the Hiatus EP): BJ went for a run in the woods of Door County during deer season and realized as he was hearing gun shots in the distance that he was missing the potentially life-saving blaze orange colors needed during a Wisconsin autumn. (A legit fear I know well, having grown up in rural Wisconsin, my parents basically forbade me from even going for a walk outside on our country roads during deer season.) Also fun was watching my good friend Anna hit the stage during the first song of the evening, “Throwing Halos,” to sing backup. (Anna is a fellow yoga teacher and we joked just before the show that she should do a handstand vault up onto the stage, like some crazed acrobatic fan since no one in the audience knew she’d be doing some singing. She did not end up doing that which was probably the best choice.)

Another highlight was the discussion of their April 2020 single release “Buried” b/w “Slow Down” that went Milwaukee-viral in the earliest days of the pandemic: they shot the video for “Slow Down” separately in their own homes in lockdown (BJ had nothing else to do but play guitar in his stairwell and Andy found his laundry room to be “super-inspiring”) and made it into what now feels like an historical marker about how it felt during those first few weeks

You can watch the Local/Live performance in its entirety to hear the sparkling indie-pop that is Dramatic Lovers here:

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