Author Tyler Maas

Exclusive: Stream the pretty Ugly Brothers single, “Again & Again”

May 19, 2016

//By the time the first Ugly Brothers full-length, 16 Tiny Mountains, is released on August 13, close to two years will have passed since the Riverwest folk project put out its self-titled debut EP. To be ...

Tracklist: Summerfest Place and 10 other ultra-specific Milwaukee streets

Tyler Maas

May 18, 2016

//Last Tuesday, a chunk of Third Ward concrete that had long existed outside Henry Maier Festival Park as "Polk Street" was officially renamed "Summerfest Place" after an application filed by Milwaukee Wor...

Exclusive: Stream Midwest Death Rattle’s ‘Post-Apocalypso’ opener, “Tacoma Narrows”

Tyler Maas

May 18, 2016

//After going more than three years without making so much as a peep (at least in the recorded sense), Midwest Death Rattle has spent much of 2016's first five months issuing small-but-frequent samples of ...

Check out the 9th annual Burnhearts/Pabst Street Party lineup

Tyler Maas

May 17, 2016

//With summer's true beginning just over a month away, most of the uncertainties about the city's staggering number of festivals, weekly music series, and block parties have cleared up. In the last two wee...

Listen to, download Soul Low’s ‘Unplugged’ set

Tyler Maas

May 17, 2016

//Back on February 18, Soul Low stepped on stage at the Helene Zelazo Center For The Performing Arts to play a show unlike any the band had ever played before. Joined by an all-star cast of Milwaukee strin...

Here’s the 2016 Lakefront Festival Of Art lineup

Tyler Maas

May 16, 2016

//Milwaukee Art Museum’s Lakefront Festival Of Art has always been one of the city’s classier summer festivals—no beer runs or zany street performers here! Still, per Milwaukee summer festival regulations,...

Arte Para Todos 2016 raises close to $18,000

Tyler Maas

May 16, 2016

//Arte Para Todos 2016 was awesome. Between April 21 through April 24, an outstanding lineup of more than 90 bands and rappers took to 25 Milwaukee venues in five of the city's neighborhoods. Even more imp...

Rollie Fingers brings comic relief to Screamin’ Sicilian commercial

Tyler Maas

May 16, 2016

//Between having a remarkable career as one of the most dominant closers in Major League history and having a distinct handlebar mustache above his upper lip for much of that legendary career, Rollie Finge...

Urban Bay View will open next weekend

Tyler Maas

May 14, 2016

//Last May, we broke news that Tonic owner Paul Jonas would be opening a new Bay View bar called UC Jonas' in the site Gerry’s Diamond Tap (939 E. Lincoln Ave.) had occupied from 1987 through 2014. More th...

A fond farewell to John Kuhn, King Of Scrap

Tyler Maas

May 13, 2016

//You could almost feel it in the air. While an otherwise bright and inviting mid-May day signaled an impending epoch of warmth, sunshine, and rebirth throughout Wisconsin, the serenity was interrupted by ...

Relive GGOOLLDD’s Turner Hall sellout in behind the scenes video

Tyler Maas

May 13, 2016

//While Milwaukee as a whole is slowly beginning to come around to the wealth of homegrown talent making great music within our city limits, it's still quite an accomplishment for a local band to sell out ...

Casual Vocals’ Milwaukee roots grow stronger with “Plant”

Tyler Maas

May 12, 2016

//Last October, we introduced you to Casual Vocals—the solo folk venture of Chicago native-turned-Milwaukee resident Colleen Webb—by way of her inventive homespun music video for the first single and title...

Help Purple Door Ice Cream and Bounce Milwaukee name new flavor

Tyler Maas

May 11, 2016

//Ever since Bounce Milwaukee opened two years ago, Purple Door has been the Bay View-adjacent inflatable fun zone's exclusive ice cream provider. Evidently the bond between the two young businesses is str...

Remembering the brief, beautiful Smash Mouth and Milwaukee Record feud of 2015

Tyler Maas

May 11, 2016

//The guy from Smash Mouth once famously said, "Somebody once told me the world was gonna troll me." At least I think that's how the lyric went. Was it "roll"? I know it was something like that, but who ca...

Mozaic and Zed Kenzo shimmer in “Imitation Diamonds” video

Tyler Maas

May 11, 2016

//Over the last year or so, Milwaukee rappers and filmmakers have shown an innate ability to forge outstanding videos with little-to-no budget. WebsterX's locally-shot videos for "Doomsday" and "Lately" ar...

Here’s everything you need to know about the Cream City Comedy Festival

Tyler Maas

May 11, 2016

//On Thursday night, the inaugural Cream City Comedy Festival will begin and, in the process, will usher in four days worth of laughs during a total of 11 shows featuring more than 70 comedians performing ...

Something To Do talks Adult Swim employment, the state of ska

Tyler Maas

May 11, 2016

//Depending on who you ask, ska on its deathbed. Though some have reduced the once-formidable genre to a cheap punchline, a small-but-passionate guild of musicians with horns and a proclivity for upstrokes...

Set caps to LOCK, commenters! Ryan Braun will (probably not) be traded to Cubs

Tyler Maas

May 9, 2016

//Oh how time changes things! Scantly two years removed from being booed by his own fans (some of whom were donning poorly-doctored "Fraud" jerseys and foolishly calling for his outright release), Ryan Bra...

Bar Rescue seemed to actually work for Campbell’s Irish Pub

Tyler Maas

May 9, 2016

//As we reported last week, Nick's House—the East Side dive formerly known as Y-Not III until Bar Rescue turned it into a '70s-themed bar and Smirnoff vodka emporium—closed its doors for good in the wee ho...

Support MKE Puppet Theater and watch “Zombie Sunday”

Tyler Maas

May 9, 2016

//When Ryan Lowe puts his mind to something, he can't be stopped. Not only is the veteran comedian one of the funniest and most innovate people in Milwaukee stand-up, his mad genius has manifested itself i...