Author Tyler Maas

Prepare for new Tigernite EP with “Remember”

April 19, 2016

//Following Tigernite's impressive 2015, during which the group released a locally lauded debut record, opened for The Offspring, and hit the summer festival circuit hard, Milwaukee's favorite glam rock ba...

Saddle up and stream the new Dead Horses single, “All I Really Need To Know”

Tyler Maas

April 18, 2016

//Though they failed to take home a WAMI last night, it's not out of line to suggest that Dead Horses are among the most popular Wisconsin-bred bands right now. Between the trio's timeless and downright lo...

‘Wisconsin Foodie’ eats through Bay View in latest episode

Tyler Maas

April 15, 2016

//It seems as if a new, exciting, and altogether delicious restaurant is opening up in Bay View on an almost monthly basis. To quote host Kyle Cherek, "You can't call it Bay View's renaissance, because it ...

Supper Club Jazz honors the career of Miles Davis

Tyler Maas

April 14, 2016

//In September of 1991, following a long and incomparable run in which he released close to 50 studio albums (and more than 70 compilations and live records combined), launched the careers of an untold num...

50 Cent is coming back to the area to sign vodka bottles

Tyler Maas

April 13, 2016

//Last summer, we broke the story that rapper and financially troubled booze peddler 50 Cent would be signing bottles of Effen brand vodka at the Woodman's in Oak Creek. Then we attended said signing. Then...

Exclusive: Stream Heat Death’s dour, damn good ‘9 Steps To A Happier Life’

Tyler Maas

April 13, 2016

//Benjamin Franklin famously said, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." This April 15, those inevitable forces will arrive in unison, as tax day will be chased with a ...

Direct Hit! breaks down fourth wall in “Chemical Ability” video

Tyler Maas

April 13, 2016

//Among of the most overdone music video tropes is the one in which a band is filmed rocking out in a dingy practice space. The singer lip-syncs along to the pre-recorded song with fabricated intensity as ...

Tracklist: 14 ways Milwaukee is celebrating Record Store Day 2016

Tyler Maas

April 11, 2016

//Love it or hate it, it's safe to say Record Store Day is here to stay. What started as an honest-to-goodness movement to encourage listeners to get out and support independent music retailers who were su...

Prepare for Arte Para Todos with the ‘2016 Festival Compilation’

Tyler Maas

April 11, 2016

//Last month, we unveiled the incredible and genre-jumping collection of more than 100 Milwaukee bands, rappers, DJs, and visual artists that compose the lineup of the second annual Arte Para Todos. By now...

Tracklist: The 31 most uplifting Danny Gokey song names, ranked

Tyler Maas

April 8, 2016

//According to a loose college friend's Facebook status, American Idol's final episode aired last night, following a long and inescapable run that spanned who gives a shit how many seasons and launched the...

Exclusive: Stream Low Down Sound’s “Sugar Sweet”

Tyler Maas

April 7, 2016

//Little over a year ago, we formally introduced you to Low Down Sound by way of the Milwaukee classic rock outfit's debut EP Ride Into The Sun, which we called "a five-song sampling of American-made class...

Maharaja owners review restaurant reviewers

Tyler Maas

April 6, 2016

//At a time in which people entrust their dining dollar on the opinions of strangers with Yelp accounts, Google usernames, or posting privileges on websites operated out of their mother's basement, the fat...

Space Raft talks about opening for Bernie Sanders

Tyler Maas

April 5, 2016

//Bands typically try to avoid playing out in the final days before they're to release a new record. However, that unwritten rule can be broken when a band has been asked to play on the same stage as its p...

Lucky Cat is closed

Tyler Maas

April 4, 2016

//Within nine months of Cocoon Room's closing and fewer than two months after Borg Ward's abrupt end, Milwaukee is down yet another all-ages venue. Lucky Cat is no more. The Riverwest art space's closing w...

Try our “Milwaukee Wrecker” sausage at The Vanguard

Tyler Maas

April 1, 2016

//Mid-market regional web-only entertainment journalism can be a largely thankless industry. The pay isn't great, the hours are long, and the comments can be vicious. But every now and then, something happ...

Here’s video of a fox (with prey) roaming downtown Milwaukee

Tyler Maas

March 31, 2016

//Despite all its amenities and hit-and-miss "placemaking" efforts, it's not unfair to suggest downtown Milwaukee's nightlife can be a little lacking at times. In the early hours of Thursday morning—within...

Exclusive: Stream Midwest Death Rattle’s “Feed Them To Each Other”

Tyler Maas

March 31, 2016

//Last month, Midwest Death Rattle broke more than three years of silence (at least in the recorded sense) with a public domain footage-packed lyric video for "Post-Apocalypso," the first single and title ...

I went to Wisconsin’s first “cat cafe” and it was pretty weird

Tyler Maas

March 30, 2016

//Excluding my dumb food- or drinking-related cries for help and whatever bullshit points I try to make on our podcast, I usually make a concerted effort to keep my personal life far away from this website...

Cream City Comedy Festival puts no price on premium stand-up

Tyler Maas

March 29, 2016

//Though they both relocated to Chicago last summer, up-and-coming comedians Sammy Arechar and Liz Ziner haven't forgotten where they got their start in stand-up. Aiming to "celebrate and raise awareness o...

Direct Hit! signs to Fat Wreck Chords

Tyler Maas

March 29, 2016

//About two weeks ago, Direct Hit! was announced as touring support for NOFX's "Hepatitis Bathtub Tour," which will span 14 shows in nine states this April. Today, the tour mates officially became label ma...