Tame Impala (aka Kevin Parker) is hitting the road next spring with Mike Hadreas, aka the artist known as Perfume Genius, and the jaunt will land at the Fiserv Forum on Saturday, May 30.
Tame Impala will be hawking his fourth studio record, "The Slow Rush," due for release on Feb. 14, while Perfume Genius will be touring in the afterglow of "The Sun Still Burns Here," a performance collaboration with Seattle choreographer Kate Wallich.
Tickets for the show go on sale on Friday, Dec. 13 at 10 a.m., with an American Express Card Members pre-sale running for 24 hours from Wednesday, Dec. 11 at 10 a.m.
In related news, Perfume Genius' 2014 "Queen" was recently named one of the songs of the decade by Britain's New Musical Express.
@perfumegenius Congrats! You're in NME Songs Of The Decade: The 2010s! Check out the full list here: https://t.co/Na7TG2pmTN — NME (@NME) December 4, 2019
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
