Music

Listen to another single from Surgeons In Heat’s upcoming LP, ‘Bored Immortals’

May 15, 2018

Back in February, we gave you a sneak peek of the upcoming Surgeons In Heat album, Bored Immortals. Here's what we had to say back then when we premiered the record's first single, "Why'd You Start?": This tim...

Liz Phair rules and she’s coming to Turner Hall October 12

Matt Wild

May 15, 2018

Liz Phair rules. Liz Phair's debut album, Exile In Guyville (which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year), rules. Liz Phair's pre-Guyville Girly-Sound tapes rule. The rest of Liz Phair's career ranges f...

Here’s who’s playing Locust Street Festival 2018

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 14, 2018

The annual Locust Street Festival of Music & Art is one of the city’s best street fests, celebrating all that is good, right, and drum circle-y in Riverwest. On Sunday, June 10, the 42nd installment of the ...

Summerfest adds OutKast’s Big Boi, other stuff

Matt Wild

May 11, 2018

We're roughly a month and a half away from Summerfest 2018, but the excitement is already humming in the kinda-summer air. The music! The food! Our inevitable and increasingly confounding review of Taped Music ...

Feel the pain of the new economy with Dogs In Ecstasy’s buzzy “Scale 2 Infinite”

Matt Wild

May 10, 2018

Are you enjoying the new "gig" economy? Are you enjoying the relentless blurring of the line between "online" and "real life"? Of course you're not! Luckily, Milwaukee's ever-delightful pop smart-asses Dogs In ...

Here’s who’s playing the Riverwest Public House stages at Locust Street Festival 2018

Matt Wild

May 9, 2018

The annual Locust Street Festival of Music & Art is one of the city's best street fests, celebrating all that is good, right, and drum circle-y in Riverwest. On Sunday, June 10, the 42nd installment of the ...

Justin Timberlake and Ringo Starr: 15 standout (non-festival) summer shows

Matt Wild

May 8, 2018

Summertime musical entertainment in Milwaukee typically finds a home at the city's 8,000 street fests, or, you know, that whole Summerfest thing. But look beyond the temporary street stages and the sea of dance...

Pabst Milwaukee Brewery & Taproom announces headliner for its one-year anniversary street festival

Tyler Maas

May 7, 2018

Last month, we announced that Pabst Milwaukee Brewery & Taproom would be celebrating its one-year anniversary with a May 19 street festival. The follow-up to last May's grand opening party will bring an out...

Hear Something To Do channel Gob Bluth on new single, “I’ve Made A Huge Mistake”

Tyler Maas

May 7, 2018

When we last checked in with Something To Do, Wisconsin's premier ska outfit was pining for Tina Fey in the multi-cam music video for "Tina Fey II." In the year-plus since that video's release, the band has bee...

The Delphines will reunite May 19 for the third annual Gloss Weekend

Matt Wild

May 2, 2018

On Saturday, May 19, seminal Milwaukee band The Delphines will reunite for a one-night only show at Mad Planet. The previously hinted-at headlining performance will be part of Gloss Records' third annual Gloss ...

Triple Eye Industries Fest returns in August

Tyler Maas

May 1, 2018

Today, in the era of Name-Your-Price digital downloads, 99 cent iTunes singles, and abject saturation in the music industry, owning a record label isn’t exactly the glamorous and financially lucrative endeavor ...

Boone & Crockett to open (its patio and The Cooperage) May 1 for “Too Loud For Tuesday” pop-up

Tyler Maas

April 30, 2018

Boone & Crockett left its original Bay View site on April 16, with the intention of being open and fully operational in its new and improved Walker's Point bar—that's five times larger, not even factoring i...

Milwaukee Record’s favorite moments from Arte Para Todos 2018

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 30, 2018

In its first three years, Arte Para Todos raised approximately $60,000 for Milwaukee school art programs through the selfless efforts of musicians and visual artists bringing their talents to dozens of local ba...

Rick Astley didn’t give up on his hits, but dished out plenty of surprises, too, at Pabst Theater

Catherine Jozwik

April 27, 2018

Best known for his late 1980s dance-pop hits "Never Gonna Give You Up," "Together Forever," and "Whenever You Need Somebody," English singer and songwriter Rick Astley and his talented six-piece band brought th...

The .357 String Band’s ‘Fire & Hail’ turns 10

Jared Blohm

April 26, 2018

On April 26, 2008, a capacity crowd packed Mad Planet for the release of the .357 String Band's second album, Fire & Hail. Although the Milwaukee four-piece had been building a reputation as a genre-shatter...

Smash that “like” button for Soup Moat’s “Navel Gaze,” from the upcoming ‘Harvester Of Likes’

Matt Wild

April 26, 2018

Soup Moat describes its sound as "heavy, silly sludge." Over the course of seven years, a pair of full-length albums, and a handful of EPs and demos (not to mention a host of lineup changes), the band has lived...

Would-be lovers encounter bad luck, Ted Perry in Buffalo Gospel’s “18 Wheeler” video

Tyler Maas

April 26, 2018

Sometimes things just aren't meant to be. That harsh fact of life should come as no secret to those who listen to the often-tragic, mournful sounds of Buffalo Gospel. As the Milwaukee country outfit prepares to...

John Prine reminds audiences of his timeless talents at Riverside Theater show

Lauren Keene

April 26, 2018

Very few touring artists have a career breadth as expansive as John Prine's. The 71-year-old crooner has been cranking out songs, EPs, and albums since the early '70s after being "discovered" by fellow folk leg...

We took MC Chris on a Rush-Mor Records shopping spree

Tyler Maas

April 25, 2018

Last night, nationally regarded "nerd rapper" MC Chris performed at Cactus Club. This morning, before the veteran musician, animator, and Adult Swim mainstay—who Aqua Teen Hunger Force fans might know as "MC Pe...

Pabst Milwaukee Brewery & Taproom will host a one-year anniversary street fest May 19

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 25, 2018

Has it already been a whole year since the Pabst Milwaukee Brewery & Taproom opened its doors to the public? Yep. The micro-brewery located in the formerly shuttered Pabst Brewing site celebrated its grand ...