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Milwaukee's Best: Winsome Austin indie-rockers What Made Milwaukee Famous packed Emo's inside to the gills at their Aug. 19 show, their first local appearance in many moons. "It's getting to the point where people are singing the lyrics back to us," says bassist John Houston Farmer. Characterizing their hiatus as "extremely productive," Farmer says the quartet has eight songs ready to record, two more CDs' worth of ideas they haven't yet fleshed out, and are in talks with several labels he declines to name. They hope whoever does sign them will re-release debut Trying to Never Catch Up nationally, but realize their mushrooming local fan base craves new product ASAP. "We'd like to get it done sooner rather than later," affirms Farmer. "Our album's been out for over a year in Austin." Before embarking on a three-week fall tour, WMMF returns to Emo's Sept. 8 with the Glass Family and Lord Henry.

Living Single: MTV2 watchers should look for CMJ-bound Single Frame's "Exact Copy of This in the Basement," now playing on 120 Minutes heir Subterranean, 11pm Sundays. The hard-to-classify local trio is also breaking in new guitarist Ian Graham, who came aboard when Brendan Reilly left to pursue "lifely" things. "Every time we practice, [Graham] pops out another song," says drummer Adreon Henry. With his friends at Super!Alright! media, Henry has started Car Stereo Wars, a no-cover Sunday-night series at Plush where local musicians, artists, and the like take over the wheels of steel. Henry got addicted to DJing in New York, where the band spent a month earlier this year and played with upstarts Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! one week too soon. "The next week, David Bowie was there," he says. "I was so bummed." Easing the pain is the prospect of starting Single Frame's next album on the sweet Pro Tools equipment provided by their label, Volcom. "Maybe I'll finally get to live that dream of having 500 drum tracks," Henry exclaims.