Milwaukee’s The Scarring Party play the old-timey, tuba- and accordion-driven jazz and folk of the 1920s and ’30sclassic American music as re-imagined through the lens of Tom Waits records and haunted carnival rides. Although they’re filtered through a quirky, vintage microphone, their lyrics are decidedly macabre, reading like excerpts of a George Romero script peppered with nods to Nietzsche. Tonight the group plays a release party for its second album, Loosing Teeth, another collection of comically macabre parables. The band recorded it with Brief Candles’ Kevin Dixon and Call Me Lightning’s Shane Hochstetler.
The Scarring Party w/ The Celebrated Workingman and The Trusty Knife
Tonight @ Turner Hall Ballroom, 7:30 p.m.
