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Guitar Shop Hitting the Right Notes. Cream City Music has flourished since moving to Brookfield.[more]
Downtown Kalamazoo "Popular Music Store Brings Guitar Roadshow to Kalamazoo"
After nearly 9 years of retail business in Milwaukee, WI, Cream City Music has decided to bring their wares on the road...[more]
The Music & Sound Retailer "Survivor: Guitar Stores"
You look out your window and see the new Guitar Center that just moved in next door. You look down at the beginner packs in the new Wal-Mart ad that appeared on your doorstep. And then you look at your finances and see the margins just aren’t where you need them to be. What do you do?...[more]
Milwaukee Business Journal "Growing via eBay at Warp Drive speed"
Gleaming electric guitars hang three high and cover the length of the showroom wall at Cream City Music. It's eye candy for guitar lovers, but the guts of Joe Gallenberger's business hums in a back room that looks like a basement workshop gone gonzo...[more]
Milwaukee Journal "Hector wiped out as guitarist but assembled noteworthy collection"
Joe Gallenberger told me that Barney Hector told him that he -- Hector -- played guitar for the one-hit wonder, The Safaris, whose one-word song, "Wipeout," neared the top of the charts in the early 1960s and, for better or worse, has become an enduring, if not jarring, contribution to the modern American Zeitgeist...[more]
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Marketplace - Nov. 28, 2007
Cream City Music is a slice of heaven for guitarists
For guitar enthusiasts, Cream City Music's showroom in Brookfield is a can't-miss proposition. There are more than 500 guitars on display, including a wall of vintage instruments.
Music - July 6, 2007
Local musicians band together to help injured Kishline
Bassist Jim Kishline was seriously injured in a May 6 accident and has been hospitalized for weeks. On Sunday, July 15, Cream City Music, 12505 W. Bluemound Rd. in Brookfield , will host a day-long benefit concert.
 
Music - July 13, 2007
Milwaukee musicians band together for Jim Kishline
Greg Koch, Willy Porter, Peter Mulvey, Paul Cebar, Robin Pluer, John Sieger and the Subcontinentals, The Lackloves, and Chuck Hedges are scheduled to perform a benefit concert for Milwaukee bass player Jim Kishline Sunday.
Music - Dec. 25, 2007
Learn songwriting from Sieger
If you want to learn to do something or to improve your skills, you go to a pro, right? So, budding or wannabe songwriters, check out John Sieger's songwriting clinic at Cream City Music, which begins Thursday, Jan. 10.
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We are one of the largest Gretschdealers in the world!
See our interview with Gretsch owner and great grandson of company founder, Fred Gretsch!
video 1, video 2, video 3
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You don’t have to be a Billionaire to own an electric uke.
World famous investor Warren Buffet knows a great value when he sees one. That’s why he got his Oscar Schmidt electric ukulele from Warpdrive Music. Check him out plugged in (small amp on table)and rockin’ out in the below video!