Author Tyler Maas

Abby Jeanne releases new single, announces “Fire In February” residency

January 4, 2018

Last Sunday night, Abby Jeanne capped off a breakout 2017 with her "Electric New Year" show, an unofficial culmination of a year in which the owner of Milwaukee's most captivating voice released her well-receiv...

Faux Fiction sheds and shreds in “Skin” music video

Tyler Maas

January 4, 2018

Milwaukee musicians don't seem to be wasting any time starting 2018 on a strong note. Adding to the handful of post-New Year releases and album announcements we've already seen in this young year is Faux Fictio...

Holy shit! Hot Snakes are coming to Cactus Club

Tyler Maas

January 3, 2018

We're just three days into the year and it's already been made abundantly clear 2018 is going to be better than 2017 was. How can we be so certain? That's simple. You see, Cactus Club just announced Hot Snakes ...

Mark Yencheske gets in the driver’s seat on ‘Be Easy’

Tyler Maas

January 3, 2018

"I'm a goal-oriented person," says Mark Yencheske.That's a bit of an understatement. On New Year's Eve, he played a total of three sets, split between Paper Holland and backing duties for Abby Jeanne. That ...

Welcome to January: Here’s what you’re doing this month

Tyler Maas

January 2, 2018

It wasn’t too long ago that January was pretty much a vacant, blustery tundra of Milwaukee entertainment options. Between frigid conditions, uncertainties regarding Packers playoff seeding, and the post-holiday...

Milwaukee Record’s New Year’s Eve entertainment guide

Tyler Maas

December 27, 2017

It’s been a rough year, Milwaukee. Still, between the celebrity deaths, frightening political developments, and various other sources for internet outrage, at least a few decent things happened. Come Sunday, mu...

Bar Rescue’s own Campbell’s Irish Pub is for sale

Tyler Maas

December 27, 2017

In 2014, we broke news that Bar Rescue would be using its infallible tactics of serving sliders and overly complicated Smirnoff Vodka shaker cocktails to save not one, but two Milwaukee bars. The first one, Y-N...

What the hell, here are some more Milwaukee-made holiday songs

Tyler Maas

December 26, 2017

Almost every December of Milwaukee Record's existence, we've rounded up a mess of amazingly tolerable local songs that are helping to improve the predominately terrible holiday music genre. This year was no dif...

Remaking A Murderer: The rationale behind (and ramifications of) screening ‘My Friend Dahmer’ in Milwaukee

Tyler Maas

December 22, 2017

Last night concluded the theatrical run for a drama about a troubled, misunderstood, and forgotten high school kid growing up in the Midwest in the late 1970s. The low-budget indie film has grossed less than $1...

Hear another track from the forthcoming ‘Land By The Lake II’ hip-hop compilation

Tyler Maas

December 21, 2017

Throughout 2017, we've given you a few samples of Land By The Lake II, the forthcoming follow-up to a compilation that producer and engineer DSCRIBE curated to help “create a snapshot of Milwaukee's potent hip-...

Members of Carolina, Maritime, and The Championship resurface in Hello, Face

Tyler Maas

December 19, 2017

It isn't unnatural for a musician to take some time off between projects. Sometimes it takes somebody whose band just ended a little while to realign their creative focus and to get that itch to take the stage ...

Hark! Now hear more locally-made songs for the holidays

Tyler Maas

December 19, 2017

Almost every year, we round up a mess of amazingly tolerable local songs that are helping to improve the predominately terrible holiday music genre. Just when we think we've found the last of them, area musicia...

Hanson’s Mmmhops and 14 other beers brewed for (or by) musicians

Tyler Maas

December 17, 2017

There are currently more breweries and more beers than ever before. As a result of the unprecedented growth the industry has experienced, more brewers are crafting new beer at a staggering rate, and the lines b...

Caley Conway’s ‘Heart Be Light’ EP rewraps and refines holiday classics

Tyler Maas

December 14, 2017

Though Caley Conway And The Lucy Cukes officially called it quits last year, the project's eponymous bandleader continues to go strong with occasional performances and an EP on the way sometime soon. Exactly ho...

Help Dream Attics and Kane Place Record Club member raise money for rare brain tumor treatment

Tyler Maas

December 14, 2017

Though Nick Tovarek now lives in Austin, the musician first made a name for himself in Milwaukee music as a member of Kane Place Record Club before moving to Texas in 2015 with his new indie-tinged electronic p...

Buffalo Gospel’s “Hard Labor Side Of Gettin’ On” video blends a timeless tune with classic toons

Tyler Maas

December 12, 2017

Buffalo Gospel has kept a fairly low profile since releasing its outstanding full-length, We Can Be Horses in 2013. In the four-plus years following that well-received record, bandleader Ryan Necci has cycled i...

Abby Jeanne, GGOOLLDD among Radio Milwaukee Music Award winners

Tyler Maas

December 8, 2017

Following weeks of voting, band campaigning, and DJ deliberation, 88Nine held its 10th annual Radio Milwaukee Music Awards ceremony at its Pittsburgh Avenue headquarters Thursday night. Between performances by ...

Tucked Away: Milwaukee’s original Coney Island hot dog lives on at a Mexican restaurant in a pool hall

Tyler Maas

December 7, 2017

Between beloved and well-established local staples and a steady wave of new bars and restaurants popping up in and around Milwaukee almost every week, worthwhile dining and drinking gems can occasionally get lo...

“Lake Effect” is an instant holiday hit from Tenement singer Amos Pitsch

Tyler Maas

December 7, 2017

When he isn't leading us to top-notch fish fry in Menasha and helping to put Wisconsin music on the map with his work in Tenement and Dusk, Amos Pitsch is doing his part to spread holiday cheer. Last December, ...

Space Raft eliminates any doubt another holiday is here with “Another Holiday Is Here”

Tyler Maas

December 7, 2017

Though it's not beginning to look a lot like Christmas in any capacity, it's at the very least starting to feel like it. Temperatures have finally started to dip to normal December levels, the Chicago Bears are...