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THANK YOU Milwaukee
Thank you again to everyone in Milwaukee who came out on Saturday night. The show was an all-time great, and we loved having fun with you. Great chatter online and Twitter blew up with MONDO LUCHA! fever and hype all weekend long. Pretty great to see.
Thank you again, ….and we’ll see you next time.
MONDO LUCHA! Sep. 11th in Milwaukee!
The term “freak show” might normally carry a negative connotation, but the masterminds behind the Mondo Lucha unapologetically embrace it. Dreamed up by two longtime wrestling fanatics, Andy Gorzalski and Jay Gilkay, Mondo Lucha is an amalgam of Mexican wrestling, sexy burlesque performances, sideshow carnival acts, and rock ‘n’ roll. It’s the kind of wacked-out extravaganza that once only existed in the twisted films of Russ Meyer. Saturday’s latest installment features a typically weird combination of performers at Turner Hall Ballroom, including Milwaukee expatriate Pezzettino, who returns to town to celebrate the release of the new Lub Dub, a collaboration with LMNtlyst.
OnMilwaukee.com Gig Round up: MONDO LUCHA! & Pezzettino
Pezzettino made instant fans of us when we first heard her debut a few years ago and she honored us by gracing our third “OMCD” compilation of local music with a track from the then-forthcoming “Lion” disc.
She stayed on our radar by bringing us baked goodies and by blogging for us from the road. And, of course, by continuing to make some of the freshest, most vibrant music to emerge from Milwaukee in recent years.
When Pezzettino — aka Margaret Stutt — recorded her latest, “Lub Dub,” with LMNTylst, and promptly split for Brooklyn, we were eager to hear this potentially winning collaboration.
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She sent us a preview and we were instantly won over by the girl group shoo bops on “Replay,” the Slits / Tom Tom Club-esque “Cold Chick,” the spacey “Intermezzo I” and “II,” the reggae of the title track and the acoustic piano- and guitar-driven slo-jam that is “For You and Your Headaches.”
I even ponied up a very token sum via Kickstarter to help get the record made.
Now that it’s ready, you should go to the release party with Mondo Lucha at Turner Hall on Saturday, Sept. 11. You, too, will be smitted by the fun, smart, sassy, musical journey that is “Lub Dub.”
Oh, did I mention that OnMilwaukee.com’s Jason McDowell designed the sweeeet “Lub Dub” sleeve?
Showtime is 8 p.m. and tickets are $18.
Special Musical Guests for September MONDO LUCHA! in MKE
MONDO LUCHA’s eclectic and always fun special musical guest rogue’s gallery ups the ante in Milwaukee on September 11th, as we welcome PEZZETTINO with LMNtlyst to the show !
American Indie says “Pezzettino’s Margaret Stutt is a force of nature. Her music is ethereal and haunting, bringing a fantastically different, textural sound to what is decidedly not what you would expect to hear coming out of an accordion.”
As she says of her own music, “It’s like unapologetically showing up for a date after jumping from a moving car, with skinned knees and messy hair.”
Her partner in crime on the upcoming collaboration, LUB DUB, The LMNtlyst has made quite the impact on the Midwest hiphop scene in the last couple of years, chief producing music for groups such as KingHellBastard, Perfect Little Monster, and Blackout Sands. Creating flashes of multiple genres from multiple instruments, his sound has no boundaries.
Tickets for the SEPTEMBER 11TH MONDO LUCHA! SPECTACULAR IN MILWAUKEE go on sale this Friday, JULY 9th, at TURNER HALL BALLROOM.
MONDO LUCHA! Cinco De Mondo Highlight Video from Chicago!
“Good, weird, times. Featuring masked luchadores, titillating burlesque acts, music from The Del Morroccos and a variety of freaky surprises, Mondo was a must for anyone with a strong taste for odd entertainment.” -TIMEOUT CHICAGO
Here’s a rocking, rolling MONDO LUCHA! music video from our Cinco De Mayo spectacular, ‘CINCO DE MONDO” at The Congress Theater in Chicago, IL on May 5th, 2010. Many thanks again to our new pals, THE DEL MOROCCOS who appeared as our special musical guest that evening. Here’s their hit, “El Tren De La Costa” along with great moments from all the babes, bruisers, and burlesque bombshells that stir the drink of The MONDO LUCHA! Variety Show
FOR MORE ON THE DEL MOROCCOS, FIND THEM HERE ON CDBABY!
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MILWAUKEE SHOW ANNOUNCED FOR SEPTEMBER 2010 !
…..This is it Brew City ! MONDO LUCHA! RETURNS TO MILWAUKEE !
SEPTEMBER 11TH, 2010 AT THE HISTORIC TURNER HALL BALLROOM
MONDO LUCHA! THEME SONG with THE SUSPIRIOS!
THE SUSPIRIOS…..Rock n Rollers by day, gentlemen thieves by night. Currently incarcerated by international police organization. They negotiated a work release program with the Mondo Lucha Variety Show, and are trying to be saved by Rock N’ Roll.
Our beloved house band at MONDO LUCHA! recorded an epic theme song for all things Mondo that makes Conan the Barbarian look like Kindergarten Cop! …..That’s how epic this song is, trust us.
LISTEN TO THE MONDO LUCHA! THEME SONG, HERE.
For more on THE SUSPIRIOS, join these cats at Facebook, HERE.
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