Music

Public Domain: Painted Caves perform “Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen”

October 31, 2016

Milwaukee Record is proud to present Public Domain. The video series features Milwaukee musicians setting up at Colectivo's new Back Room performance space at its Prospect Avenue cafe to adapt some of the world...

Here’s the Local Coverage 2017 lineup

Tyler Maas

October 28, 2016

After two years of fun philanthropy, Milwaukee Record’s Local Coverage benefit will return to Turner Hall Ballroom in 2017. On Friday, January 13, an eclectic cast of 10 local acts from all corners of the sty...

Insects and assailants run amok in Hot Coffin’s “Whistle, Hawk & Spit” video

Tyler Maas

October 26, 2016

Between the band's blistering and brutal instrumentation, its menacing and coarse vocals, and even the morbid connotations their name brings, it wouldn't be all too shocking to hear Hot Coffin in the score of...

Stream WebsterX’s first new single in a year, “Blue Streak”

Matt Wild

October 25, 2016

Has it really been a full year since we've heard a new single from WebsterX? Well, if "Kinfolk," released on October 8, 2015, is indeed the last new track from the tireless Milwaukee rapper, then yes, it has ...

Take a sip of the new REYNA song, “Kill Me”

Matt Wild

October 25, 2016

Since shedding their former Vic and Gab trappings and reimagining themselves as REYNA, sisters Victoriah and Hannah Gabriela Banuelos have been slowly releasing new music, all in anticipation of, well, a high...

Listen to Lifetime Achievement Award’s 52-song debut, ‘Today Hard, Tomorrow Hard’

Tyler Maas

October 24, 2016

On October 13, 2015, Jay Joslyn set out to write a song. The goal was to complete it within a week's time. Once he did that, he set out to do it 51 more times. Since Ugly Brothers—the band Joslyn drums in—h...

Cree Myles and friends will perform a Disney-themed tribute show

Tyler Maas

October 21, 2016

Cree Myles' voice is wonderful. It's shining, shimmering, splendid. It's like something out of a movie. Fittingly, the Milwaukee artist will be singing songs from some of her favorite films this weekend. Satu...

Ryan Holman looks back on first year of Hear Here Presents

Tyler Maas

October 19, 2016

Though there's no longer a channel dedicated to broadcasting them, we're presently living in the golden age of music videos. Not coincidentally, Milwaukee videographers are experiencing something of a renaiss...

Join us October 24 for the Local Coverage draft at Company Brewing

Tyler Maas

October 18, 2016

After two encouraging, fun, and overwhelmingly positive years of Milwaukee Record's "Local Coverage" benefit, we're thrilled to announce the show that brings a diverse menagerie of Milwaukee acts together to ...

Xposed 4Heads’ “Save All Monsters” is a graveyard smash

Matt Wild

October 18, 2016

When we last checked in with Xposed 4Heads, the on-again, off-again, three-decades-and-counting Milwaukee goof-rock band was celebrating the holidays—all the holidays—with a wacky tune called "Sing Along Agai...

Phox is going on “indefinite hiatus,” will play Pabst Theater in February

Matt Wild

October 17, 2016

There was a moment when Wisconsin-based Phox was on the verge of becoming the "next big thing." The band's 2014 self-titled debut was a gorgeously rendered collection of dreamy, heavy-lidded folk-pop highligh...

19 Milwaukee Halloween weekend shows

Tyler Maas

October 17, 2016

Even though there's still close to two weeks between now and Halloween weekend, there's so much going on in the Milwaukee from October 28 through October 31, you'll probably need time to set your plans. With ...

An oral history of The Mistreaters’ Packers van going up in flames on a Texas highway

Tyler Maas

October 14, 2016

The Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys rivalry has been raging since 1967's unforgettable Ice Bowl. Things went Green Bay's way in the '60s and Dallas' in the '70s. Both teams kind of sucked ass in the 1980...

Milwaukee drummer Casey Marnocha talks about landing spot in Oozing Wound

Tyler Maas

October 11, 2016

While a Milwaukee musician being part of an out-of-town act isn't unheard of, it is something of a rarity. Recently, former Catacombz drummer Casey Marnocha became the latest local musician to get the distinc...

Cue up debut demo from Milwaukee’s scandalous, sleazy Sex Scenes

Matt Wild

October 11, 2016

Depending on your age, your first exposure to sex likely involved one of the following: finding a stack of Playboys in the woods; watching a scrambled Skinemax channel on TV; the internet. Whatever that porta...

Don’t call me write: NOFX will sign books at Boswell in November

Tyler Maas

October 11, 2016

Boswell Book Company can always be counted upon to add a dash of sophistication and charm to Downer Avenue with an impressive selection of literature and engaging discussions with respected authors on a regul...

Public Domain: Dramatic Lovers perform “After You Get What You Want, You Don’t Want It”

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 6, 2016

Dead Horses make leaps and bounds with ‘Cartoon Moon’

Tyler Maas

October 6, 2016

What a difference two years can make. Since putting out Space And Time in October 2014, Dead Horses have experienced a world of changes. Within those two years, the Oshkosh-born project saw two members move t...

GGOOLLDD condoms and 10 other Milwaukee music merch oddities

Tyler Maas

October 3, 2016

broadstreet.zone(32806); This morning, GGOOLLDD debuted a new single and announced they'll be headlining a show at Turner Hall in December, which points to a likely release of another album soon. For a band th...

Bubba Sparxxx is returning to Cudahy on Halloween

Tyler Maas

October 3, 2016

Way back in February, we tipped you to news that Gold Record-selling rapper Bubba Sparxxx would be performing at the unconventional concert confines of Cudahy's own City Lounge on April 30. We then went to th...