Music

Fox Face caps off big year with release of ‘Teen Wiccan’

September 8, 2016

With just under nine months in the books, it's safe to say 2016 has been Fox Face's biggest year yet. Since January, the punk quartet has headlined nights of Riverwest FemFest and Arte Para Todos, played Mi...

Rapper arrested in association with Juggalo “ritualistic memorial” jailed, may miss Cudahy concert

Tyler Maas

September 7, 2016

This week, reports surfaced from the Green Bay area about a Juggalo “ritualistic memorial” in which a woman is said to have volunteered to have her blood consumed and her pinky finger cut off with a hatchet...

Exclusive: Stream Something To Do’s ‘Not Making A Sound’

Tyler Maas

September 6, 2016

When we last checked in with Something To Do, the band was riding high, having recorded the music for an Adult Swim show. With the money the band earned scoring Gigglefudge USA, the state's premier ska outf...

Guided By Voices played Turner Hall, and shit yeah, it was cool

Sahan Jayasuriya

September 2, 2016

Dayton Ohio's Guided by Voices have come to epitomize the sound of '90s indie rock, a remarkable feat considering their near-dissolution after years of failed successes. Fueled by the prolific songwriting p...

Public Domain: Rio Turbo performs “Hush, Little Baby”

Milwaukee Record Staff

September 1, 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...

Listen to the new Sylvan Esso single, “Radio”

Matt Wild

September 1, 2016

Sylvan Esso may hail from Durham, North Carolina, but the hot-as-shit two-piece electro act has some serious Milwaukee connections. Nick Sanborn, of course, is a former Milwaukeean and former member of the ...

Here’s the 2016 Bay View Bash lineup

Tyler Maas

August 31, 2016

As August gives way to September, Milwaukee's once-bountiful batch of summer festivals has dwindled to just one. Saturday, September 17 doubles as the unofficial end of summer and all its opportunities to l...

Record Recommended: August 29-September 4

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 30, 2016

Our fat-free, dolphin-safe Milwaukee events calendar is chock-full of things to do, but only a handful of events contained therein are worthy of the lofty honor of "Record Recommended" (patent pending). Her...

POEK runs from “Indifference Machine” in new music video

Tyler Maas

August 30, 2016

With At Latl on the shelf until further notice, the band's frontman Kent Watson has redirected some of his artistic focus to POEK. The cross-country recording project—an acronym for "Property Of Eric and Ke...

Watch B-Free’s self-directed, domestic-violence-addressing “No More” video

Matt Wild

August 29, 2016

If you've been paying attention to Milwaukee music as of late, you've been paying attention to B-Free. As singer for the ever-busy, genre-defying Foreign Goods, B-Free (a.k.a. Britney Freeman-Farr) has play...

Triple Eye Industries looks back on first 2 years as a label

Tyler Maas

August 24, 2016

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 endea...

Exclusive: Hear the title track from Arms Aloft’s album, ‘What A Time To Be Barely Alive’

Tyler Maas

August 23, 2016

In recent years, the western Wisconsin city of Eau Claire has crept into the music world's collective consciousness one hauntingly beautiful cabin-crafted song at a time. As Justin Vernon brings music fans ...

Record Recommended: August 22-28

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 22, 2016

Rx Drugs start smooth and somber with ‘Future Friction’

Tyler Maas

August 19, 2016

//Last year, we introduced you to Rx Drugs, the new project of The Championship singer and songwriter Joe Crockett. Save for releasing a single and playing fewer than five shows, the band—which also boasts...

Bad Grades aim to make good marks in Milwaukee music

Tyler Maas

August 17, 2016

//Saturday night's show at Cactus Club will also be a back to school event of sorts, when Shane Hochstetler and Nathan Lilley return to the stage where their beloved band Call Me Lightning played countless...

Caley Conway And The Lucy Cukes save best for last with swan song, ‘Silk For Life’

Tyler Maas

August 16, 2016

//It's never easy to say goodbye to a band. Arguably worse than a band retroactively deciding their most recent performance and release would be their last is when an act senses the need for a change and k...

Bon Iver, Chance The Rapper, and black metal: Eaux Claires goes big, weird in 2016

Cal Roach

August 15, 2016

//A festival curated by two indie-rock dudes is bound to be a niche event. The inaugural edition of Eaux Claires featured a handful of oddball choices filling out the lineup (Melt-Banana? Not that we're co...

Here’s the lineup for Rush-Mor’s Bay View Bash stage

Tyler Maas

August 15, 2016

//Occurring just days before the autumnal equinox, Bay View Bash is technically the last summer festival on Milwaukee's massive collection of warm weather festivities. As such, the Bash is perennially the ...

Get angst-y and stream Bright Black’s blistering self-titled EP

Matt Wild

August 12, 2016

//For those keeping score at home, emo is currently enjoying a so-called "fourth wave" revival, with bands as disparate as The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die and Title Fight ...

Shake, rattle, and ralph with The Pukes’ debut full-length

Tyler Maas

August 11, 2016

//Believe it or not, The Pukes have only been a band since the spring of 2015. It might seem like a much longer span of time to local listeners because the grimy trio has released an EP and a 45, played do...