The Yell Leaders

Joe Vent - vocals, guitar; Bobby Tanzilo - drums, guitarThroughout the '90s, the Yell Leaders were Milwaukee's premier pop/soul combo. Since their first singles garnered rave reviews from Billboard and the BBC's John Peel, among others, The Yell Leaders toured regularly throughout the upper Midwest, where they shared the stage with the likes of Semisonic, K's Choice, Del Amitri, Evan Dando, The Gufs, Citizen King, The Verve Pipe, The Why Store, Cheap Trick, and others.

The Yell Leaders' last CD, Noxajoy, is chock full of soul stirring, quirky, melodious pop/rock craftsmanship, in the vein of Del Amitri, XTC, Elvis Costello, Rolling Stones, and even Fleetwood Mac. All of the "tonal" instrumentation on "Noxajoy" was carefully played and edited, to accentuate the songs themselves.

Cornelia Street was released in May 1999. The 12 original songs track the group's maturation since 1996's Up for Steam EP.

"Windchill," the opening track on Up For Steam, a six-song CD EP mixed by Brew City wünderkind Mike Hoffmann (Willy Porter, The Verve Pipe, Victor DeLorenzo), was tapped by Columbia/Tri-Star Television for use in an episode of Party of Five. This was the first of many TV, film and advertising uses of Yell Leaders songs, for years to come (up through the present).

A cover of Bruce Springsteen's I Wish I Were Blind was featured on one of the singles culled from One Step Up/Two Steps Back, the EMI/Right Stuff tribute to The Boss.