Author Tyler Maas

Jade Tree is reissuing The Promise Ring’s Nothing Feels Good on vinyl, cassette

September 16, 2015

Earlier this week, we chronicled 15 notable reunions in Milwaukee music. Of those, none were more meaningful than the return of emo kingpins The Promise Ring, who remain one of emo's most important acts and arg...

Nate Seek returns home with new perspective

Tyler Maas

September 16, 2015

// Milwaukee's stand-up comedy scene experiencing a state of transition. This summer alone has seen four of the city's best and most active comedic performers leave Milwaukee to see how their material fares i...

The cupcake is fucking dead: A eulogy

Tyler Maas

September 16, 2015

// It was the English scribe John Keats who first fashioned the prose, “A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.”There was a time, once—a time not...

Here’s who will play Comet Cafe’s 20th Anniversary Block Party

Tyler Maas

September 15, 2015

// Comet Cafe is nothing short of a Milwaukee institution. Beyond being a southeastern Wisconsin dining staple, a place where Guy Fieri was filmed face-fucking himself with a meatloaf sandwich, and an establi...

Hover Craft 2015 announces vendor lineup

Tyler Maas

September 14, 2015

// Attention, shoppers! Though it’s still technically summer, we’re pretty much nanoseconds from the oncoming onslaught of holiday advertisements, yuletide music re-entering radio rotation, and the intense pr...

Here’s the crazy good lineup for the next Riverwest FemFest

Tyler Maas

September 10, 2015

// Milwaukee musicians were feeling especially charitable last winter. Adding to the long-running annual Pablove show, January and February of 2015 saw more than a dozen punk and metal bands taking to the Bor...

Jen Kirkman is manic, magnificent in Turner Hall debut

Tyler Maas

September 10, 2015

// With her New York Times best-selling book I Can Barely Take Care Of Myself: Tales From A Happy Life Without Kids, her self-flagellating Netflix special I’m Gonna Die Alone (And I Feel Fine), and her Drunk ...

Mondo Lucha plays with pro wrestling’s pillars

Tyler Maas

September 9, 2015

// At this point, Mondo Lucha is one of those distinctly Milwaukee events. Though some may struggle to recall a time before Turner Hall was transformed into a wrestling and variety show facility, the local bl...

Exclusive: Stream Brat Sounds’ winning album, Born Loser

Tyler Maas

September 9, 2015

// A little more than a year ago, Scott Cary quietly announced the presence of Brat Sounds—and, simultaneously, the burial of his other project, Dinny Bulca—with an eponymous eight-song debut. Beyond publicly...

SAFS Crew wins 2015 Bandsketball championship

Tyler Maas

September 8, 2015

// The second annual Bandsketball has been waging in Riverwest since the beginning of July. Starting with 32 acts, the music scene-wide basketball tournament whittled down to just two teams. On Saturday after...

Yes we can: An afternoon at an international beer “CANvention”

Tyler Maas

September 8, 2015

//It's been said that one man's trash is another man's treasure. Apparently the same holds true for one man's recyclables. Last Thursday through Saturday, hundreds of collectors and vendors hailing from mo...

Things we learned from Violent Femmes’ Nerdist Podcast episode

Tyler Maas

September 4, 2015

The latest episode of the Chris Hardwick-hosted Nerdist Podcast featured the prodigal sons of Milwaukee music, Violent Femmes. Like the vast majority of the 700-some Nerdist episodes before it, the 77-minute re...

Light Music casts a big shadow with Ocean’s Daughter

Tyler Maas

September 4, 2015

Two letters. One word. When it comes to music, "of" is the sturdy wall of preposition that spans the border of two distinctly different regions of familiarity. Close as it appears, hearing of a band does little...

Watch Soul Low’s bare bones “I Want To Die” music video

Tyler Maas

September 4, 2015

The hardworking indie rockers of Soul Low have been in perpetual motion since recording Kind Spirit, the follow-up to their great 2013 auditory introduction, UNEASY, last fall. Winter found the band releasing a...

The Brewers need to call up Tim Dillard

Tyler Maas

September 3, 2015

In case Milwaukee being on its second manager since April, the team's general manager resigning (or "transitioning to a new role"), a trade that sent the face of the franchise to Houston for a batch of promisin...

Someone (briefly) changed Fink’s “COUPLES ARE BORING” sign

Tyler Maas

September 2, 2015

Last month, we told you the story of Fink’s “COUPLES ARE BORING AND EVERYONE KNOWS IT” sign, painted by Filthy Freehand artist Sarah Linkus. Loved by some and hated by others, the piece got people talking and i...

Behold Milwaukee’s latest supergroup, Dorth Nakota

Tyler Maas

September 2, 2015

Here in the age of the side project, it's not uncommon for new bands to be constructed from pieces that already (or at least recently) put to use in other acts. Bands like Whips, New Boyz Club, and Foreign Good...

Here’s the 2015 Bay View Bash lineup

Tyler Maas

September 1, 2015

Of all the festivals that occur in Milwaukee every summer, Bay View Bash probably isn't regarded by most locals to be the best. But it is the last. Even if it—what with its corny magic shows, strongman competit...

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

Tyler Maas

September 1, 2015

September is a time of transition. This month finds summer officially giving way to fall. Moreover, this September 19—which boasts Bay View Bash, Global Union, and Country In The City—spells the conclusion of M...

Mike Berg is impressing with depressing comedy

Tyler Maas

August 28, 2015

The struggle many comedians face is the task of harvesting laughs from difficult topics. However, if framed and delivered correctly, literally no topic is off limits. Less than a year into stand-up, Mike Berg h...