Photo of Freight by Derek Peterson
Words by Brian Whitney
Freight and Possible Fathers are two of Milwaukee’s best bands right now, each with their own take on aggressive indie rock that has been missing from both Milwaukee’s landscape and the scene-at-large for too long. Possible Fathers opened the show, with a set mixed with songs from their Doing The Dad Thing EP (available for free download on their MySpace) and their forthcoming split cassette with Pigs On Ice. Musically, the band floats somewhere between the garage-y grunge of Mudhoney and the precise punk of Hot Snakes, with the heavily reverbed vocals of singers Willy Dintenfass and Tony Dixon occasionally peeking through. The band probably played about 20 songs in 15 minutes, barely giving the crowd a chance to process the last song before launching into the next. The only breaks came when Dintenfass and Dixon traded off guitar and bass duties. This was my first time seeing the band in a non-basement venue and, I must say … (more…)
