Faithfully Recreating the Biggest Hits of Music's Last Truly Great Era

Rustbucket is a 5-piece Milwaukee cover band made up of veteran members of some of the city's most critically-acclaimed local live acts, and kicking out the best of the grunge, post-grunge, and alt-rock playlist. Think the heyday of "New Rock 102.1", but live, lit up and loud.  

Often imitated (but never duplicated!), we're the area's premier alternative rock tribute. The approach is simple: we play the biggest radio hits from the era, and do them proper justice — just as faithfully as fans remember them. And that means the guitar tones are dialed in. The drums are note-for-note. And the vocals range from Eddie Vedder's defiant growl, to Layne Staley's plaintive wail, to Chris Cornell's soaring screams...and everything in between. 

So come ready to experience timeless hits from bands like Alice In Chains, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, 311, Nine Inch Nails, Toadies, Rage Against the Machine, Incubus, Velvet Revolver, Stone Temple Pilots, Queens of the Stone Age, Collective Soul, Cracker, Blind Melon, Candlebox, Oasis, Meat Puppets, Fuel, Bush, Smashing Pumpkins, Līve, Screaming Trees, Linkin Park, White Zombie, Weezer, Faith No More, Everclear, Tool, Jane's Addiction, and many more.

A Rustbucket show is a high-energy, full-volume '90s homage to the biggest hits of alternative radio, played to sound just the way you want to hear them. We'd love to see you rocking out with us sometime soon. Click here to see our upcoming gig schedule, then come out to a show...and hear for yourself why we have a 100% track record for being asked back everywhere we've played. 

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