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It’s been 17 years since The Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band became a fulltime touring band. Friday night, the trio brings their big show to the State Theatre stage.

Comedian Donnell Rawlings, National Pizza Day, Enlightened Brewing Company turns 10, Combustor’s album release, Fallen Down Angel’s salute John Reilly, Billy Porter, the WAMI awards show and more—This Week in Milwaukee!

A parade on the river, a 95th birthday celebration, new music from Fallen Down Angels, Doors Open Milwaukee, a nod to the late great Paul Setser, legends Billy Cobham and Lucinda Williams and more—This Week in Milwaukee!

How an old Silvertone 1484 became the foundation of this roots-guitar power players sound. Roots-guitar badass Rev. Peyton plays with the intensity of a charging bison. That ferocity comes from his fast, hyper-accurate picking hand blended with dexterous fretting, and it gets juiced by dirty crushed-velvet tones from a variety of evocative guitars: custom Nationals and a mother-of-pearl covered Daddy Mojo, an original 1954 Supro Dual Tone prototype, a Kay Speed Demon, and more. But the foundati...

Money’s tight for the mighty Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band on Dance Songs for Hard Times, the lively new album of galvanizing electric blues from the burly, fingerstyle guitar dynamo and friends. Informed by family health scares, pandemic depression and COVID-related financial calamity, the red-hot trio’s energetic romp sympathizes with the impoverished and the destitute, as the strutting, dogged insistence of the contagious haymaker “Ways and Means” dreams big but laments not havin...

The new album from Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Dance Songs for Hard Times, is scheduled for independent release April 9, 2021 via Thirty Tigers. Ahead of that, the band released a video (“Ways and Means”) last month and a second single, “Too Cool to Dance,”on March 9.