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Submit Your Band Now For Vol. 3

Chuk — Sun, 09 May 2010 19:54:14 +0000

The Wisconsin Sickness digital volumes (Volume One and Volume Two) have been collectively downloaded almost six hundred times so far, with 41 badass songs by 25 of Wisconsin’s sickest bands.

I’m looking for thirteen new bands for Volume Three to be released sometime around August.

Previously there have been some questions about the type of music I am accepting for the releases, as well as accusations of being biased or unfair. To be clear, Wisconsin Sickness just is not about your standard rap or dance music. It is also not about music that sounds too poppy or happy.

That is not being closed-minded. It is about keeping these compilations focused on what I intended them to be about.

If you have any questions about if your band fits the bill, take a listen to what is on the previous releases or just send an mp3 over. It’s cool hearing other Wisconsin artists, even if they don’t fit into the focus of Wisconsin Sickness.

If your band is interested, here is what you will need:

- One or two songs in mp3 format, minimum 128kbps

- Band bio, photo, and logo (layered PSD file or white logo on black background preferred)

- Links (facebook, myspace, youtube, official website, etc.)

Along with whatever other information you want to include.

Email everything to: info@wisconsinsickness.com

Also, I am trying to make some changes to the site and bring it back to what I originally intended it to be. I am hoping to get ALL original WI bands featured here and included on the site permanently, hopefully with videos, mp3’s, etc.

This will be a slow process. If you would like your band included, please contact me with the same info as above. Otherwise I will be starting with the bands included on the Wisconsin Sickness comps and work down the line from there.

Be sure to use the contact form to send info about upcoming shows, as well, including date, time, lineup, flier, etc.

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The Sickness Goes Social

Chuk — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:55:00 +0000

I’m working on the social side of the sickness, trying to get everything working and all the bugs worked out.

So, play around with it, set up your profiles, upload your avatars, etc. and let me know if any crazy shit happens.

Just so we’re clear: If your legs have been chopped off by a renegade lawnmower so you cannot get to the computer to use the site, that is not a site error. But if you have to log in more than once, things don’t seem to be displaying properly, or a wormhole opens up in your monitor, evil little creatures from another dimension come out, and CHEW YOUR LEGS OFF when you attempt to update your profile…that’s about the time you should head on over to the contact page and let me know what’s going on.

Also, I have several great videos and other news and sickness that I am trying desperately to find the time to work on and get posted.

I apologize the lack of updates and just generally sucking lately. I’ve been busy, shit’s been crazy. But it will even out and things will bet back on track. Just bear with me through the rough spots and we’ll all come out of this better psychopaths.

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Nikki Farce New Website

Chuk — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:16:31 +0000

Nikki Farce, Wisconsin’s exclusive cute and crazy Cannibelle, now has her own site (still under construction) right here: wisconsinsickness.com/nikki-farce

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New For 2010?

Chuk — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:40:40 +0000

Though the Wisconsin Sickness concept and myspace page have been around now since 2007, the website and content production part of it all just got it’s rocky start in July of 2009.

There really is no plan. Just a mission statement: To support WI art. However that may be. And hopefully not die too terribly while doing so.

So here’s what I need to know: What would you like to see for Wisconsin Sickness in 2010?

This could be anything from new site features, interviews, videos, etc. to your Grandma as a Cannibelle.

Who do you think needs to be featured, interviewed, or just generally harassed/molested from the evil Wisconsin underbelly? Which bands desperately deserve to be featured that I may have missed or just not got around to yet?

Do you want to see more live videos? Download more albums full of free music? See more disturbing images from WI artists?

Want more shows and details posted? More upcoming events?

Where are all the hot metal girls who should be Cannibelles, and why are you trying to talk them into it?

These are the things I need to know.

Drop your opinions in the comment box below so we can make the site 110% more nauseating in 2010.

Happy Holidays you sick fucks!

Chuk

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Facebook Costume Contest Winner

Chuk — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:02:41 +0000

The winner of the first ever Wisconsin Sickness Halloween costume contest and the coveted t-shirt of doom is Becca Bates!

As a beautifully decaying toxic zombie she got the most likes on the Wisconsin Sickness facebook page.

Becca personally handcrafted her zombie look, so if anyone needs a makeup artist for an upcoming zombie flick, you know who to talk to!

There were more great costumes, including Vic Rattlehead with Jesus, Beetlejuice, Frank from Donnie Darko, a Halloween wedding complete with caskets, a crazy deformed redneck, and a couple hot girl cops that make me wish I was in cuffs.

Thank you to everyone who submitted a costume photo and made the first Wisconsin Sickness contest interesting!

If you still want a shirt you can contact me to buy one or wait hopelessly for the next time I can give one away.

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Cannibelle Photos By Jake Gundrum

Chuk — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:04:50 +0000

Jake Gundrum Photography is now available for Cannibelle shoots!

If you are interested in becoming a Cannibelle take a look at his work and hit him up at one of these:

On facebook: facebook.com/JakeGundrum

Myspace: myspace.com/EagleScout

Model Mayhem: modelmayhem.com/JakeGundrum

Or email him directly: JakeGundrumPhotography [at] yahoo dot com

For more info on becoming a Cannibelle go here.

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Slight Change In The Costume Contest

Chuk — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:29:10 +0000

So…because Halloween actually lands on a weekend this year and that is when most shows and parties will happen, it’s dumb to expect anyone to post a picture of them in their costume before then.

Post your costume pictures up as soon as possible, and voting (liking) will continue through the first week of November.

If no one enters the contest by posting a picture of them in their Halloween costume to the Wisconsin Sickness facebook page (which is the reason why I stopped running any kind of contest that required participation with my last website) then that just saves me the shipping and handling costs!

The Halloween costume contest details are right here.

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New Cannibelle Set From Nikki Farce

Chuk — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:07:34 +0000

A gorgeous girl, an empty bar, fishnets, and a pool table.

What more could you ask for?

Nikki’s new set was actually taken before Audiophile, after hours in the bar where she works, and was her first time ever posing nude.

Nikki Farce is a Wisconsin Sickness exclusive Cannibelle. Leave a comment, show her some love!

You must be a registered member of the site to see the photos. The sign up process is free, fast, and easy. Register now right here.

Her new set is here: Nikki Farce – Just your average bartender…

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The Wisconsin Sickness Movement

Chuk — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:08:16 +0000

So I woke up this morning, fumbled my way to coffee, and stumbled wearily to the computer to find that all the long hours I’ve put into this site so far actually mean something!

What began as a vague idea in 2003, became a myspace profile in 2007, and finally evolved into a full-fledged website four months ago actually serves a purpose and is becoming the movement I hoped it would be.

When you get an awesome endorsement from someone as influential and accomplished as Hobbes Caltous, singer of 9mm Solution, that really makes the work worth while.

If you have been living under a rock or a shack in the woods with dead bodies and haven’t heard 9mm Solution you can check them out here:

9mm Solution on Myspace | Facebook

Here is what Hobbes posted in a note on facebook at about six o’clock this morning:

ok.. i’ve been in the Milwaukee “scene,” in one band or another, for going on ten years. i’ve seen countless people come and go in their effort to “promote” local music. 9 times out of 10, it was simply to get free stuff from the bands.
now, i’ve known about this one site for awhile, but, admittedly, i had never actually checked it out.. so many invites, so little time, right?

the website is www.wisconsinsickness.com

it’s run by Charlie Hintz and a couple other people i don’t really know, and when i got the invite awhile back, i dismissed it as yet another attempt to get something from the band– something bands go through a lot, turning people down simply because we can’t afford to.

now, WS does something a little bit different.. for one, the site actually looks like a site. a la Blabbermouth, this site discusses wisconsin area bands, and the news they have to hype it up with. moreover, they’ve put out two full length compilation albums, complete with album art- that even showed up automatically on my Zune(which, to me, ROCKS!)- and it’s full of songs that are at least listenable. you might not like what you hear in each song, but here’s the kicker..

the fuckin thing is FREE. simply to expose bands. no one’s profiting from this, and to me, that fuckin rocks. that says to me,

these people actually give a shit, and their not trying to mark on something, or get away with ripping people off..

i gotta say, this is the best local site since Milwaukeerocks first started.

so, here’s a toast to Charlie and whoever works with the guy. dude, you’re not doing a half bad job. keep it up.. and put us on the next ones.

———-

Thanks a lot man, that really means a lot.

Wisconsin Sickness is intended to build a network of mutual support and promotion, to end that rivalry that always exists between bands, and to shed some light on Wisconsin art in all it’s forms.

Art isn’t a competition, and independent Wisconsin artists need to work together to get farther. So many great bands have come and gone, amazing songs that will never be heard again.

We all know the major label bands and the Hollywood films, but yet we hear very little about the local artists who are doing the same things on a much smaller budget, and every day fight through the obstacles to achieve the impossible.

A band shouldn’t need a major label deal to have people care about what they’re doing. The dark, dingy basements, garages and warehouses of Wisconsin are thriving with some of the most interesting and innovative music the world has ever known.

We are the virus.

Let’s infect everything…

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Wisconsin Sickness Vol. 2

Chuk — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:11:18 +0000

Wisconsin Sickness Vol. 2 has been unleashed, featuring cover art by Aether Design (website | myspace) and thirteen badass bands, including a last-minute bonus track from Mute Grey!

Download it now: CLICK HERE

Here is the track list:

01. Unum Machina – Infected
02. 40Oz Fist – Point The Finger
03. Headwork – Wasted
04. Mute Grey – Hush
05. Skylines – Delusions
06. Path – Buried Inside
07. A Break In The Storm – Wolves
08. Fading Faith – Better Off Alone
09. Dirtknap – See Inside
10. Lucidity – Lacerate The Lines
11. Spectors Of Sin – Conflict Unresolved
12. Seven Signs – Rise
13. Meth Tooth – At Least I’ll Leave A Beautiful Corpse
14. Unum Machina – Collapse In Concentration(A Conversation With Myself)
15. 40Oz Fist – Tight Like Christ
16. Headwork – Hindsight
17. Skylines – Happily Never After
18. Path – No Regret
19. A Break In The Storm – Warnings Only Go So Far
20. Fading Faith – Tumbling
21. Spectors Of Sin – Push Pull
22. Seven Signs – Walk

Watch the Volume Two promo video here.

There will be links and more info later right here.

Also, due to technical difficulties two bands that were supposed to be a part of Volume Two could not be included at the last moment. So drop by and check them out anyway:

Vintergrun – myspace.com/vintergrun

Urinary Anal Injection – myspace.com/urinaryanalinjection

I would also like to note that it has been purely by accident that both Volume One and Two both ended up with thirteen bands. Maybe it’s a bad omen, but hey, we already live in Wisconsin. How much worse could it really get?

- Download Wisconsin Sickness Vol. 2 Now

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