Author Tyler Maas

Ladies Rock Milwaukee bands women together through collaboration

March 11, 2016

//Last year, the inaugural Ladies Rock Milwaukee camp brought 16 women together for a weekend anchored on the principles of positivity and collaboration. Four bands worth of first-time musicians picked up ...

Antler House’s “Wabbit” video takes light sounds heavy places

Tyler Maas

March 11, 2016

//It's been a while since we've heard from Antler House, whose 2014 debut full-length Through The Dirt was equal parts ghastly and gorgeous. Excluding a scant few shows since the record release, the local ...

Mark Walberg to produce film about Caron Butler’s life in Racine, NBA

Tyler Maas

March 9, 2016

//Racine-born NBA veteran and former Milwaukee Bucks player Caron Butler is now one step closer to having his life story made into a movie. As reported by Bleacher Report and confirmed by a Swanson Communi...

Comedian Dylan Payne making good on early opportunities

Tyler Maas

March 9, 2016

//With a little more than a year of true stage time to his credit, comedian Dylan Payne is part of an encouraging young crop of comics pushing Milwaukee stand-up onward after the city said goodbye to a han...

First Impression: Pepi’s Place

Tyler Maas

March 8, 2016

//Let's be clear, Pepi's Pizza isn't new. In fact, you'd be hard-pressed to find a Milwaukee pizzeria with a longer history or more loyal customer base than the Italian joint that thrived on 16th Street be...

Exclusive: Stream the new City Of Ghosts EP, ‘PRISMS’

Tyler Maas

March 8, 2016

//Excluding a select few shows, including an acoustic Warped Tour set a few years ago and playing in support of Glassjaw at The Rave last month, Milwaukee's City Of Ghosts hasn't exactly been on the radar ...

Tracklist: 7 comedy specials filmed in Milwaukee

Tyler Maas

March 7, 2016

//Last Saturday, Pabst Theater hosted veteran comedian Kathleen Madigan for a pair of shows, which doubled as a live filming for her yet-untitled fourth comedy special. Citing reasons like the city's ease ...

First Impression: Urban Beets Cafe & Juicery

Tyler Maas

March 4, 2016

//While food trends come and go, and we'll be the first to admit buzz words like "artisan", "gluten-free" and "farm-to-table" have been misused and abused so often lately that the terms have been rendered ...

We went to every George Webb in the world on February 29

Tyler Maas

March 2, 2016

This article was originally published in 2016.Leap Year. Due to an oversight in the Gregorian calendar thousands of years ago, Western civilization is still granted a 29th day in February once every four ye...

Exclusive: Stream Slow Walker’s ‘Robert Plantain’s Grunge Lords’

Tyler Maas

March 2, 2016

//Milwaukee is hurting for rock and roll. Despite the positive state of local punk rock and (evidently) heavy metal, and there being no shortage of "indie rock" bands clustered beneath the catch-all classi...

Your 2016 WAMI nominees are…

Tyler Maas

March 1, 2016

//Last month, we told you the Wisconsin Area Music Industry (aka "WAMI") released a people's choice ballot to let listeners select some winners for its April 17 awards ceremony taking place at Appleton's P...

Welcome To March: Here’s what you’re doing this month

Tyler Maas

March 1, 2016

//March is a period of transition. The month straddles two seasons, a part-time resident in the ass-end of winter and a temporary tenant within the burst and bloom brought on by spring. As the season chang...

Hear Space Raft’s soaring new ‘Paper Airplanes’ 45

Tyler Maas

February 25, 2016

//To say Space Raft started strong would be a massive understatement. In late 2014, the band—which features current and former members of Whips, Call Me Lightning, Temper Temper, and Green Bay-based The My...

Tracklist: Milwaukee’s 15 best bar and restaurant puns

Tyler Maas

February 24, 2016

//Milwaukee could arguably be considered the nation's bar capital. Simultaneously, a cavalcade of new and exciting restaurants are popping up around town on a monthly basis, helping to bolster the city's c...

Exclusive: Stream WORK’s new LP, ‘Doing The Lords’

Tyler Maas

February 24, 2016

//WORK is a tough band to pin down. With toes dipped in the divergent waters of punk, folk, and even on the surface country, the trio manages to subtly nod to a wide breadth of acts that range from Lucero ...

Damon Millard talks ‘Shame, Pain, And Love’ before album recording

Tyler Maas

February 23, 2016

//Though he currently lives in Reno, Nevada (at least until his roving stand-up career takes him to yet another city), comedian Damon Millard got his start in Milwaukee. When he was, as he says, "learning ...

WC Tank duels with the devil in “27th And National” music video

Tyler Maas

February 22, 2016

//Between his directorial work on Busdriver, milo, and adoptahighway projects (among others), Milwaukee filmmaker Wes Tank can be routinely relied upon to put out some of the most innovative and visually s...

SNYD’s new mixtape pays tribute to Kobe Bryant

Tyler Maas

February 19, 2016

//On Monday, February 22, the Milwaukee Bucks will host the Los Angeles Lakers. Though a 22-32 team hosting an 11-44 team doesn't exactly have the makings of a meaningful game, the Bradley Center will be p...

Straight Outta Company Brewing: Jordan Lee previews Dre Day MKE

Tyler Maas

February 18, 2016

//Today marks the 51st birthday of Andre Young, who is better known throughout the world as Dr. Dre. The rap icon's influential career spans parts of four decades. Along the way, he's sold millions of albu...

On The Record Episode 55: The state of metal in Milwaukee

Tyler Maas

February 17, 2016

//It took 55 episodes to do so, but On The Record finally took a long-overdue look at the state of heavy metal in Milwaukee. Though the city's metal scene rarely gets covered adequately by local publicatio...