Music

Ladies Rock Milwaukee bands women together through collaboration

March 11, 2016

//Last year, the inaugural Ladies Rock Milwaukee camp brought 16 women together for a weekend anchored on the principles of positivity and collaboration. Four bands worth of first-time musicians picked up ...

Antler House’s “Wabbit” video takes light sounds heavy places

Tyler Maas

March 11, 2016

//It's been a while since we've heard from Antler House, whose 2014 debut full-length Through The Dirt was equal parts ghastly and gorgeous. Excluding a scant few shows since the record release, the local ...

Spring concert preview: Shows we’re looking forward to, shows we’re unsure of

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 10, 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 ...

Spock you like a hurricane: Justin Freer and Dennis McCarthy talk “Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage”

Rob Wieland

March 10, 2016

//Music is an important part of the pop culture breakfast. Theme songs, especially, spark a rush of nostalgia and emotional connection to favorite scenes or characters. But of all the pop culture franchise...

The Living Statues sidle up to the bar in slick, sexy “Valicity” video

Matt Wild

March 10, 2016

//Who among us, man or woman, hasn't sidled up to a bar one lonely night and stewed over love lost or discarded? And who among us, man or woman, hasn't done so at The Hotel Foster while the object of our o...

Exclusive: Stream the new City Of Ghosts EP, ‘PRISMS’

Tyler Maas

March 8, 2016

//Excluding a select few shows, including an acoustic Warped Tour set a few years ago and playing in support of Glassjaw at The Rave last month, Milwaukee's City Of Ghosts hasn't exactly been on the radar ...

Stream all three songs from Northless’ pummeling ‘Cold Migration’

Matt Wild

March 7, 2016

//There's a reason terms like "pummeling" and "heavy as fuck" get tossed around when talking about Northless—the band's music tends to be, well, pummeling and heavy as fuck. For nearly a decade, the Milwau...

Here’s the rock-solid lineup for the inaugural Tasty Fest

Matt Wild

March 7, 2016

//Spring is in the air, and with it, summer festival announcements. Summerfest has already announced a handful of Marcus Amphitheater headliners (including Sting, Peter Gabriel, and Def Fucking Leppard), a...

Exclusive: Stream Slow Walker’s ‘Robert Plantain’s Grunge Lords’

Tyler Maas

March 2, 2016

//Milwaukee is hurting for rock and roll. Despite the positive state of local punk rock and (evidently) heavy metal, and there being no shortage of "indie rock" bands clustered beneath the catch-all classi...

Get ready for Thursday’s Bruce Springsteen show with a synthwave cover of “Dancing In The Dark”

Matt Wild

March 2, 2016

//On Thursday, March 3, Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band will pitch their tent at the BMO Harris Bradley Center and deliver a fiery, delirious, three-hour sermon on the life-affirming power of Rock ...

Your 2016 WAMI nominees are…

Tyler Maas

March 1, 2016

//Last month, we told you the Wisconsin Area Music Industry (aka "WAMI") released a people's choice ballot to let listeners select some winners for its April 17 awards ceremony taking place at Appleton's P...

Kiefer Sutherland (yes, Kiefer Sutherland) is coming to Shank Hall (yes, Shank Hall)

Matt Wild

February 29, 2016

//Fact #1: The entertainment world is littered with film and television stars who moonlight as musicians. Kevin Bacon cuts loose with The Bacon Brothers, Jeff Bridges abides with The Abiders, and Johnny De...

Hear Space Raft’s soaring new ‘Paper Airplanes’ 45

Tyler Maas

February 25, 2016

//To say Space Raft started strong would be a massive understatement. In late 2014, the band—which features current and former members of Whips, Call Me Lightning, Temper Temper, and Green Bay-based The My...

Liar’s Trial get dark on new album

DJ Hostettler

February 25, 2016

//On Friday, outlaw country combo Liar's Trial will celebrate an album release three years in the making, as Songs About Mama, Trains, Trucks, Prison & Gettin' Drunk finally sees the light of day after...

Exclusive: Stream WORK’s new LP, ‘Doing The Lords’

Tyler Maas

February 24, 2016

//WORK is a tough band to pin down. With toes dipped in the divergent waters of punk, folk, and even on the surface country, the trio manages to subtly nod to a wide breadth of acts that range from Lucero ...

Jason Isbell soars, celebrates at sold-out Pabst Theater

Rachel Seis

February 24, 2016

//Jason Isbell has been through a lot since his first few solo outings at Milwaukee's Shank Hall nearly a decade ago. After being kicked out of the seminal alt-country band Drive-By Truckers—allegedly due ...

Listen to the glorious debut single from Milwaukee’s Pharo

Matt Wild

February 23, 2016

//When he's not drumming for shimmering electro-pop juggernaut GGOOLLDD, Mark Stewart is busy making music of his own. What kind of music, you ask? Well, under his newly minted moniker Pharo, Stewart has j...

WC Tank duels with the devil in “27th And National” music video

Tyler Maas

February 22, 2016

//Between his directorial work on Busdriver, milo, and adoptahighway projects (among others), Milwaukee filmmaker Wes Tank can be routinely relied upon to put out some of the most innovative and visually s...

Lizzo brings the party (and a message) to Turner Hall

Cal Roach

February 22, 2016

//The Brew City has seen a lot of Lizzo over the past year or so. The Minneapolis-based rapper (no, she's not on Rhymesayers, and no, she's not in Doomtree) impressed attendees as the unorthodox opening ac...

The Borg Ward is closed

Matt Wild

February 19, 2016

Late Thursday evening, the Borg Ward—Milwaukee's venerable all-ages club located at 823 W. National Ave. in Walker's Point—announced it was closed, effective immediately. In a letter posted to Facebook, org...