Music

Our kingdom for one of these personalized South Milwaukee love songs from 1985

March 5, 2018

Have you ever listened to a song and thought, "This song is great, but I wish the singer was singing directly to me. You know, like singing my name and everything. That would be swell." Of course you haven't. S...

Tyler The Creator, Vince Staples end tour on high note at The Rave

Dan Agacki

March 5, 2018

Approaching The Rave Sunday night for the sold-out Tyler, The Creator show, there was a constant flow of twenty-somethings making their way inside. Police were forced to shut down the block behind the venue in ...

The Vans Warped Tour ’18 band name breakdown

Tyler Maas

March 4, 2018

Last week, Van’s Warped Tour announced its 2018 lineup. The final cross-country tour will be making 38 tour stops throughout two countries between late June and early August. The touring punk, ska, and hardcore...

Lorde is the electrifying voice of Generation Z at BMO Harris Bradley Center

Lauren Keene

March 2, 2018

Music fans of a certain age undoubtedly remember when Lorde's magnum opus, "Royals," made its radio debut back in 2012. The indie-influenced track was unlike anything else on the dreaded top-40 radio stations, ...

Meet Mini Meltdowns and stream a song from the band’s debut 7-inch

Tyler Maas

March 2, 2018

Even though Jon Phillip now lives in Nashville, he's still a notable figure in Milwaukee music. The former Benjamins and Trapper Scheopp drummer—who also kept time for nationally-known acts like Limbeck, Tommy ...

Public Domain: Brett Newski performs “On, Wisconsin!”

Milwaukee Record Staff

February 28, 2018

Milwaukee Record is proud to present Public Domain. The monthly video series features Milwaukee musicians setting up at Colectivo Coffee to adapt some of the world’s best-known songs in ways they’ve never been ...

Arcade Fire will play the final night of Summerfest. Watch them play Mad Planet in 2004

Matt Wild

February 27, 2018

Critically acclaimed, occasionally adored, and Very Serious Indie Band Arcade Fire will play the final night of Summerfest 2018, the Big Gig announced today. The band will headline the American Family Insurance...

And your 2018 WAMI nominees are…

Matt Wild

February 26, 2018

Who's got WAMI fever? Do you have WAMI fever? Do you have WAMI fever? We all have WAMI fever. Today, the folks behind the Wisconsin Area Music Industry unveiled the nominees for WAMI's 38th annual awards show, ...

Vote for Hugh Masterson in Southwest Airlines’ “Artist On The Rise” competition

Tyler Maas

February 23, 2018

Though Hugh Masterson left Wisconsin for the country music mecca of Nashville a few years ago, Wisconsin hasn't left him. Since moving, Masterson has toured extensively, gotten some airplay on CMT, and released...

Steve Aoki shows love for Milwaukee, Steve Aoki at The Rave

Dan Agacki

February 22, 2018

While making the slow cruise to park outside The Rave on Wednesday night, herds of twenty-somethings made their way to the venue—guys in tank tops and girls just in bras, for some reason. It may seem like an od...

Post Animal (that band with Steve from ‘Stranger Things’ on guitar) is playing Cactus Club in April

Tyler Maas

February 20, 2018

Last fall, we delivered the unfortunate news that Post Animal—a Chicago psych rock band with Joe Keery (aka "Steve Harrington" from Stranger Things) on guitar—was forced to cancel its November 18 Cactus Club co...

Bon Iver combines nostalgia, gratitude in “For Emma, Ten Year” performance

Cal Roach

February 18, 2018

"You gotta be careful about nostalgia," said Justin Vernon, three songs into a show celebrating the 10th anniversary of his band Bon Iver's seminal debut album, For Emma, Forever Ago. "There's…a lot of problems...

Immortal Girlfriend and Lorde Fredd33 channel ‘Black Panther’ on infectious “Midnight”

Matt Wild

February 16, 2018

The long-awaited Black Panther opens today, and it's already being hailed as Marvel's first true masterpiece. Featuring a predominantly black cast and black creative team (white actors Andy Serkis and Martin Fr...

MKE SEX: 50 Shades Of Confused

Lucky Tomaszek

February 16, 2018

broadstreet.zone(49071); Dear MKE SEX,One of my friends is moving in with her boyfriend this month. (I'm secretly bummed because we go to a lot of shows together, and now she's going to live all the way ou...

Christopher Novak brings love, appreciation, enthusiasm to Milwaukee music

Tyler Maas

February 14, 2018

If you go to enough concerts in Milwaukee, you've probably encountered Christopher Novak. The 25-year-old can routinely be seen at a variety of local shows—almost always camped out near the front of the stage—s...

Las Cafeteras bring the party, taste of L.A. to Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts

Matt Wild

February 14, 2018

"What's up with the Midwest and winter, dude?"Daniel French and his band, the East L.A.-based Chicano sextet Las Cafeteras, are currently on tour, deep in the Adirondacks Mountains, slowly making their way ...

Spend two and a half minutes in heaven with Eric & Magill’s makeout-heavy “A Softer Sound” video

Tyler Maas

February 14, 2018

If there's a band with Milwaukee ties whose catalog is better tailored to Valentine's Day than Eric & Magill's is, we haven't heard them. Ever since former Camden bandmates Eric Osterman and Ryan Weber star...

Nickel&Rose release new music, video, prepare for second European tour

Matt Wild

February 13, 2018

Things have been busy for Nickel&Rose. Upright bassist Johanna Rose—the "Rose" of the folk-blues duo—just wrapped up her incredible GuthrieUNCOVERED show at Turner Hall, while guitarist Carl Nichols—the "Ni...

8 (more) couples in Milwaukee bands

Tyler Maas

February 12, 2018

Love is in the air. Even if you don’t buy into the fabricated sham holiday that is Valentine’s Day, the sheer volume of mushy, emotional stuff permeating your senses the second week of each February causes even...

Listen to “Forest,” the first Greatest Lakes single since 2014

Tyler Maas

February 12, 2018

It's been a minute since we've heard from Greatest Lakes. Well, more accurately, it's been approximately a million minutes since we've heard from them. Back in 2014, the Milwaukee (by way of Kenosha) folk and i...