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Casual grounds, subversive sounds. Music about life from living it. Expect performances to be crammed with energy from some dimension just beyond understanding.
In the 10 years since we began, we have released 3 lo-fi concept albums and toured the state in a number of different venue types. Our 3rd official album, "Believe Me", is filled with a rich vibrant sound achieved from our numerous, impromptu collaborations and deeply rooted local histories. We have performed anywhere and everywhere, from solo acoustic shows in backgrounds of coffee shops, to DJin
19/12/2025
Cheeseheads With Attitude—commonly stylized as “C.W.A.,” which, of course, is a play on seminal hip-hop outfit N.W.A.—were born in Oshkosh (yes, of B’Gosh fame, that children’s clothing mail order catalog) in the fall of 1996.
The three-piece was the benefactor of two external circumstances of the time. Earlier that year, Weird Al released his platinum-selling Bad Hair Day. Meanwhile, the Green Bay Packers were in the midst of breaking a near-30 year-championship drought. Using the increasingly popular parody platform and co-opting all the meaty, cheesy, alcoholic, and football-obsessed points of Wisconsin pride, C.W.A. forged a perfect marriage of distinct local quirks and mainstream music consciousness.
Sampling instrumentation from artists like Beck, Tone Loc, and Beastie Boys, C.W.A.’s debut Straight Outta Wisconsin—also a less-than subtle nod to N.W.A.—was something of an unofficial soundtrack for the Badger State during the prosperous Packers runs in 1996 and 1997, in which the team went to two Super Bowls (winning one) while Brett Favre became the Justin Timberlake of Wisconsin.
The six-song album, and the C.W.A.’s entire catalog thereafter, is heavy in hymns about the Packers, of course. However, the Cheeseheads also struck a chord with a keen acknowledgement of Wisconsin’s unique and much-maligned cultural nuisances. Delivered in a thick Germanic lilt that definitively belongs to native Wisconsinites, the trio referenced the in-state standards of Friday night fish fry, ritualistically drinking outdoors in sub-zero temperatures, and partying in small townships named after Native American words like Weyauwega and Ozaukee that were unpronounceable beyond state lines.
The amalgam proved popular enough to outsell legitimate artists like Madonna and The Spice Girls in C.W.A.’s home market during that short period in the late ‘90s.
f**k it who else confident our Man Barry will dance a jig around the Orange man? 3 terms? why not! lets let m have a shot to fix it n stop the charades. W'ed def need a pre nup maybe tho.
of Course you’re hateful until u do ur research
i think its finally time for the new stuff..wrote some songs like 10 - 12 years ago...and they make a lot of sense now finally.
cat even sell wait loss in this economy