Music

Listen to Nineteen Thirteen’s mournful, all-too-brief “The Reason Why”

May 5, 2016

//Nineteen Thirteen, as its name suggests, is a band out of time. The duo of Violent Femmes founding member Victor DeLorenzo and cellist Janet Schiff has been slowly creeping its way through the Milwaukee ...

Tracklist: 12 Milwaukee sibling bands

Tyler Maas

May 4, 2016

//Thursday night, Mike Krol will bring his hissy, police-impersonating power-pop stylings to Cactus Club. Despite the recent frequency of the L.A.-dwelling member of the Merge Records family's Milwaukee vi...

Here’s the Chill On The Hill lineup

Tyler Maas

May 4, 2016

//It's amazing that Chill On The Hill has only been around for 12 years. The concept of the mid-week Bay View occurrence is so simple: laying out on a blanket and imbibing food and beverages brought from h...

Here’s the lineup for the 2016 Summer Soulstice Music Festival

Matt Wild

May 3, 2016

//For the past 16 years, the East Side's annual Summer Soulstice Music Festival has celebrated the first day of summer with music, food, drinks, and that one guy who always shows up carrying a giant lizard...

The bands of the 4th annual Milwaukee Psych Fest, in 4 words each

Matt Wild

May 3, 2016

Since 2013, Milwaukee musician Andrew Shelp has given the city a loud, fuzzed-out, and reverb-drenched gift every spring: Milwaukee Psych Fest. The multi-day shindig has become a welcome staple on the city's ...

I actually had fun seeing Bubba Sparxxx in Cudahy

Andrew Winistorfer

May 2, 2016

//There was a moment, about six minutes into Bubba Sparxxx’s 45-minute set at the City Lounge in Cudahy on Saturday, that I realized I was not going to be capable of writing the article you might expect to...

Join author Steven Hyden at the first “Milwaukee Record Book Club” on June 24

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 29, 2016

//For those who don't know Milwaukee Record's backstory, this noble endeavor in mid-market entertainment journalism started as a result of A.V. Club Milwaukee's demise. Then-City Editor Matt Wild and frequ...

Listen to a “Hip-Hop Hates Cancer” mixtape before tonight’s show at Cactus Club

Matt Wild

April 29, 2016

//Tonight at the Cactus Club, some of the city's best hip-hop artists, both old and new, will perform for the fifth (and possibly last) installment of Milwaukee's "Hip-Hop Hates" series. Past installments ...

Exclusive: Batten down the hatches for Antler House’s stormy ‘Across The Waves’

Tyler Maas

April 28, 2016

//Two years ago (almost to the day), we streamed Through The Dirt, a collection of a dozen emotionally devastating and beyond-their-years indie-tinged folk renderings crafted by an unknown trio called Antl...

Nobody cares that you don’t care that people care about Prince

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 28, 2016

//Every Wednesday at noon, Ryan Schleicher, Evan Rytlewski, and Matt Wild take to the WMSE airwaves to discuss all things Milwaukee. This half-hour fun-fest is called The Disclaimer, so named because none ...

Exclusive: Traverse Rx Drugs’ first single, “Mountain Of Dreams”

Tyler Maas

April 27, 2016

//When we first checked in with Rx Drugs last October, the Milwaukee super group fronted by The Championship singer-guitarist Joe Crockett and featuring members of Dashboard Confessional, Hugh Bob & Th...

R.I.P. Summerfest’s locally focused KNE New Music Stage

Matt Wild

April 27, 2016

//Remember last year when we enjoyed an entirely local weekend at Summerfest? A similar feat will be much harder to pull off this year, as news has broke that the KNE New Music Stage—long home to the vast ...

Milwaukee Record’s favorite moments from Arte Para Todos 2016

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 26, 2016

//Last year's inaugural Arte Para Todos—or "art for everyone"—set loose approximately 80 Milwaukee bands and artists in 15 venues across three neighborhoods over the course of three nights, ultimately rais...

Here’s the first single from the final Caley Conway And The Lucy Cukes album

Tyler Maas

April 26, 2016

//Beyond her set at Arte Para Todos last weekend, a performance at FemFest, and a scant few outings around her Riverwest home, Caley Conway has been uncharacteristically quiet of late. There are two good r...

Hear haunting new songs from Ghost Cuts’ forthcoming album

Tyler Maas

April 26, 2016

//You've never heard of Ghost Cuts? Don't worry, it's cool. After all, none of the members live in Milwaukee (Glendale, Cedarburg, Sheboygan). Moreover, they've played exactly zero shows in their near-two-...

Here are the Briggs & Stratton Big Backyard headliners for Summerfest 2016

Matt Wild

April 25, 2016

//Back in March, Summerfest released its giant list of 2016 grounds stage headliners. It was a typically wonderful/ridiculous list that included the likes of Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Ryan Adams, ...

Exclusive: Feast your ears on Paper Holland’s new EP, ‘Fast Food’

Tyler Maas

April 25, 2016

//Last month, we premiered "Jazzy Jeff," the new single and first-recorded peep indie-pop project Paper Holland has made since 2013's Happy Belated. In the three-plus years since its impressive and emotive...

Take a look at Milwaukee Boat Line’s Concert Cruise lineup, mateys

Tyler Maas

April 25, 2016

//Despite the dozens of festivals, block parties, and weekly outdoor music series taking place on Milwaukee soil every summer, Milwaukee Boat Line sees fit to extend the city's celebratory spirit to the wa...

Hear Jack Tell’s finger-tapping cover of The Fatty Acids’ “Flamingo Graveyard”

Tyler Maas

April 23, 2016

//One of the best byproducts of Arte Para Todos is the way the benefit brings musicians—oftentimes performers from entirely different ends of the music landscape who would otherwise never perform on the sa...

A different kind of Purple Rain: Prince’s damp message to a Milwaukee fan

Justin Kern

April 22, 2016

Your own office parties can carry an air of forced interaction. Attending someone else's office get-together removes one layer of humanity from this equation and in its place slaps on all the enjoyment of apply...