Music

WebsterX announces “Lost Ones” headlining tour for spring 2016

March 28, 2016

//Fresh off a string of shows at this year's South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, tireless Milwaukee musician WebsterX has announced a headlining tour for spring 2016. "The Lost Ones" tour will ta...

Tracklist: 12 Milwaukee record labels weathering the storm

Tyler Maas

March 28, 2016

//Tonight, Rush-Mor Records will welcome Lookout! Records co-founder Larry Livermore, who will discuss his new book, How To Ru(i)n A Record Label. The book tracks the origin of Livermore's label, the growt...

Exclusive: Hear Paper Holland make fresh prints on “Jazzy Jeff”

Tyler Maas

March 28, 2016

//If it seems like it's been forever since you've heard a new Paper Holland song, well, that's probably because it's been forever since there's been a new Paper Holland song. The indie-pop outfit's debut a...

Puscifer pushes crude humor, lucha libre wrestling at Riverside Theater

Cal Roach

March 28, 2016

//It's difficult to fathom an enjoyable concert derived solely from the recorded works of Puscifer. Whether or not you're a fan of Maynard James Keenan's voice and/or lyrics, Puscifer albums have trended m...

Vans Warped Tour ’16 lineup is better than last year, still pretty bad

Tyler Maas

March 24, 2016

//Yesterday, when most of the city was navigating the flood of headliners announced for this year's Summerfest, the lineup of another annual Henry Maier Festival Park event was also made public. That's rig...

Times Cinema extends Hayao Miyazaki film series into “Anime April”

Tyler Maas

March 23, 2016

//After Avalon Atmospheric Theater & Lounge's recent Hayao Miyazaki film series—which we called a "slew of stunningly gorgeous, impossibly imaginative, and emotionally complex anime films"—was a resoun...

Here are the 10 most wonderful/ridiculous grounds stage headliners for Summerfest 2016

Matt Wild

March 23, 2016

//Do you like summer? Do you like music? Do you like bands that are both wonderful and ridiculous? Good, because then you'll be over the moon with the just-announced list of grounds stage headliners for Su...

WMSE will release a live Sylvan Esso 7-inch for Record Store Day 2016

Matt Wild

March 22, 2016

//Last year saw beloved Milwaukee indie radio station WMSE throw its hat in the Record Store Day ring with a live Field Report 7-inch—the station's first foray into vinyl. Now, WMSE is gearing up for Recor...

Record Recommended: March 21-27

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 21, 2016

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

Pizza! Weed whackers! Outer space!: Enjoy the latest episode of Rock ‘N’ Roller Remote Controller

Tyler Maas

March 18, 2016

//What's better than Rock 'N' Roller Remote Controller? The Milwaukee-made program's endearingly lo-fi production value combined with local music and a dash of punk-tinged campiness has entertained a proud...

Josh Modell discusses his Milwaukee music roots on Vinyl Emergency podcast

Tyler Maas

March 18, 2016

//While he's no longer putting out records, Jim Hanke—ex El Oso, Twinstar—hasn't stopped talking about them. Back in January, Hanke launched Vinyl Emergency, a weekly podcast wherein he and another audioph...

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with “Real Pat McCurdy drinking song or fake Pat McCurdy drinking song?”

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 17, 2016

//Today is St. Patrick's Day, the annual celebration of all things Irish, all things green, and all things WOOO!!! YEEEAAAHHH!!! WOOO!!! Yep, a whole lot of folks are going to be buckling down and getting ...

The Jerks drink away St. Patty’s Day in “Irish Today”

Tyler Maas

March 17, 2016

//If the first true day of March Madness isn't quite enough to get you to call in sick to belly up to your neighborhood bar today, maybe the fact that it's also St. Patrick's Day is enough to do the trick....

Check out the incredible Arte Para Todos lineup

Tyler Maas

March 16, 2016

//Last year's inaugural Arte Para Todos—or "art for everyone"—benefit was an absolute success. Over the course of three nights, 70 acts from all corners of Milwaukee's musical spectrum combined to play sho...

Two-night “String Fling” coming to Hotel Foster in April

Matt Wild

March 15, 2016

//The Milwaukee area may be the birthplace of the electric guitar (thanks to Waukesha's own Les Paul), but there has always been plenty of acoustic music floating through the Brew City air. To celebrate th...

Tracklist: 7 Milwaukee artists playing SXSW 2016

Matt Wild

March 14, 2016

//Once upon a time, dozens upon dozens of Milwaukee bands would make the annual trek to Austin, Texas for the city's South By Southwest music, film, interactive, and Doritos festival. A few years later, on...

Blondie, GGOOLLDD to close out PrideFest 2016

Tyler Maas

March 14, 2016

//Passes to Pridefest 2016—June 10-12 at Henry Maier Festival Park—have already been selling quite well, especially considering the long-running LGBTQ+ celebration and annual kickoff of Milwaukee's festiva...

Here’s the undeniably awesome lineup for the 2016 Milwaukee Day show at Turner Hall

Matt Wild

March 14, 2016

//On Thursday, April 14, Milwaukeeans young and old will join as one, raise their voices to the heavens, and celebrate the greatest holiday to be based on an area code. Yes, we're just one month away from ...

Here’s the lineup for the 2016 Milwaukee Psych Fest

Matt Wild

March 14, 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 ci...

Carly Rae Jepsen (and Bob Saget?) takes Turner Hall on bumpy, fun adventure

Monica Reida

March 12, 2016

//Carly Rae Jepsen will forever be known best for "Call Me Maybe," the hit single the Canadian singer released in 2012. If you were near anything that emitted sound during that summer, you heard the song. ...