The Imperial is one of those bands that make people long for the days when rock music didn’t need an indie or a folk in front of it to get played on the radio. Formed in 2009, the Milwaukee-area five piece counts Muddy Waters, The Black Crowes and Jimi Hendrix among their influences, but their music stretches across genre, uniting under a fusion of clean, bluesy guitar and organ, and heavy, cohesive beats.
