Our buyers are obsessed in finding the best deals on instruments all over the world...the savings is always passed on to our customers!

Our staff pride themselves in their vast knowledge of the product inventory that we have. Customers will be able to choose from a broad assortment of new, used, discontinued, and scratch and dent deals on our website, eBay, or in our store just outside of downtown Milwaukee, Wisonsin.  We have detailed, accurate descriptions of everything we sell. Your satisfaction is guaranteed!  If you are not completely happy with your purchase, it is returnable for a full refund through our 7 day return policy*. We believes that it is essential to provide the best one-on-one customer service available on the planet!

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MEET OUR STAFF
These are the faces that go with the voices you hear on the phone when you call. Starting with Joe and Jessi, the owners, celebrating ten years and counting as Cream City Music. They both do too many things to number, all of them essential to keeping this great store going. Underneath them, vintage specialist John Majdalani, Retail Manager Brian Douglas and Ben Derrickson, product specialist with more brands than you would care to count! Parked beneath them, Ron Jones, our master luthier, John Sieger who does the photos and content for the web and Beezer Hill, the man from shippping, who sends good things your way! The bottom row features the three newest employees, Kim Allen, our Gretsch specialist and Ben Woyak, who handles all things amplified, from repairs to sales. Andrew Feller works the retail floor and is our bass specialist. This is the cheerful bunch dedicated to giving you a good deal and a fun experience every time you come to Cream City Music. Stop in or give us a call, we can't wait to meet you!


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Past Events and Newsletters:
Fall, Winter '07-'08 Edition
Volume 1/Issue 1 - Jan 08
Volume 1/Issue 2 - May 08


ARTICLES:
Small Business Fortune Magazine, 6/25/09 "Make Purchases without Cash"
 
...In a tough economy, more business owners are conserving cash by bartering for the stuff they need. "

Guitar Shop Hitting the Right Notes. Cream City Music has flourished since moving to Brookfield.

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...

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?...

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...

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...

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!
 
7/24/09 Tallan "T-man" Latz from the "America's Got Talent" show stopped by Cream City Music and met up with Dean Zelinsky, founder of Dean Guitars. Heres the famous tike ripping it up on a new DBZ Imperial.
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Tallan Latz and Dean Zelinsky of DBZ guitars interview with Brian Douglas of Cream City Music
Interview Video