Music

Watch GGOOLLDD “Dance Through The Winter” in new music video

January 4, 2016

//Over the course of the last two months, the synth-pop purveyors in GGOOLLDD put out a brand new EP, surprised Milwaukee with an unannounced 12-inch vinyl release, and filmed a music video. Before tonight...

The Promise Ring will play a December 30 reunion show at Cactus Club

Tyler Maas

December 23, 2015

//For a band whose last release was in 2002 (the same year it broke up), The Promise Ring had a pretty active 2015. Maritime—which features two TPR expats in its ranks—put out its fifth (and arguably best)...

Watch Soul Low cover John The Savage’s “Sinking Ship”

Tyler Maas

December 17, 2015

//Great bands come and go all the time in Milwaukee. As disappointing as it is to watch an established local band call it quits in its prime, it seems as if there's always a new project in position to pick...

The Midwest Beat is radio-ready in “Carol Anne” music video

Tyler Maas

December 16, 2015

//Following an altogether great 2015 in Milwaukee-made music videos, The Midwest Beat—the band who brought you the closing time dancing debauchery of "High Life" and animated Alpine antics of "High Up In T...

Hey! Local Coverage is a month away

Tyler Maas

December 15, 2015

//It's been two months since we announced the lineup of Milwaukee Record's second annual Local Coverage benefit. It's been almost as long since we told you tickets were officially on sale. The radio silenc...

Fatty Acids singer Josh Evert takes to the woods in ‘Not Uninhabited’

Tyler Maas

December 15, 2015

//If you know the name Josh Evert, it's almost assuredly as either the singer-keyboardist of synth-pop stalwarts The Fatty Acids or as the drummer for fuzzed-out Great Lakes surf rock staple Jaill. Recentl...

Surprise! GGOOLLDD put out a record

Tyler Maas

December 14, 2015

//By this point, you've hopefully crossed most the names off your holiday shopping list. Between area retailers offering a heft of great gifts, awesome recent events like Urban Garage Sale and Hover Craft,...

Tigernite sleighs on new holiday track, “Rock N Roll Pizza Party”

Tyler Maas

December 14, 2015

//It's been a hell of a year for Tigernite. The Milwaukee glam-rock quartet put out its self-titled debut, which is earning its fair share of positive attention on year-end lists (ours included). They open...

Listen to the latest and greatest Bleach Athletixx track, “Rotation Of The Earth”

Matt Wild

December 11, 2015

//Back in March, former Young Holidays mastermind Max Holiday began releasing music under his new moniker, Bleach Athletixx. Songs like the druggy and Vice City-channeling “California Future,” the druggy a...

Talking about (and listening to) the best Milwaukee music of 2015

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 10, 2015

//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 ...

The 15 best Milwaukee music videos of 2015

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 9, 2015

//As our recent rundown of the 25 best Milwaukee albums of 2015 showed, a dizzying amount of great music was made and released in our fair city this year. In addition to the continually growing and ever-im...

Malled by bears: A review of the Leonard Bearstein Symphony Orchestra at the Shops of Grand Avenue

Justin Kern

December 8, 2015

//Three facts: 1. Should a sleuth of real bears gather at the center of a mall, people would scatter in terror. 2. No self-respecting human symphony could be denigrated into playing among the clamor of a s...

Exclusive: Stream Hot Coffin’s new single, “Whistle, Hawk & Spit”

Tyler Maas

December 8, 2015

//It’s fitting that within 24 hours of rounding up what we consider to be the 25 best Milwaukee albums of 2015, Milwaukee’s Hot Coffin unveils a song that, if any indication of the caliber of the other sev...

The 25 best Milwaukee albums of 2015

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 7, 2015

//Assembling our annual list of the best Milwaukee albums of the year is both a joy and a challenge. A joy because there’s nothing better than immersing yourself in a year’s worth of terrific music and red...

Reunited Naked Raygun has strong Turner Hall showing

Cal Roach

December 5, 2015

In some ways, the Naked Raygun story is a string of rock and roll clichés. They were massively influential on the U.S. post-punk era but, like their Milwaukee contemporaries in Die Kreuzen, they never really go...

Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band will play the BMO Harris Bradley Center March 3

Matt Wild

December 4, 2015

//Bruce Springsteen may be forever linked to Milwaukee (hello, infamous bomb threat show at the Uptown Theater in 1975), but he hasn’t played the Brew City since 2009. That’s six years without “Born To Run...

Here are the 2015 Radio Milwaukee Music Awards winners

Tyler Maas

December 3, 2015

//A month ago, 88Nine Radio Milwaukee released its massive ballot for the 8th annual Radio Milwaukee Music Awards. From there, local listeners, the station’s employees, and even a few local entertainment w...

Take a trip on Trolley’s latest tripped-out album, ‘Caught In The Darkness’

Matt Wild

December 3, 2015

//Like a black-and-white striped T-shirt or a pair of white mod pants, Trolley is of a time but timeless. Since 1995 (!) the Milwaukee band has thrown itself willy-nilly into the golden age of psychedelia—...

Exclusive: Spend 7 (or so) minutes in heaven with Midwives’ ‘Cowboy Songs’ EP

Tyler Maas

December 2, 2015

//Back in February, Midwives delivered its third release in under a year's time. At a trim 16 minutes spread between a 10-pack of songs, the blistering self-titled release displayed the band's uncommon abi...

Exclusive: Stream Greatest Lakes’ cover of The Beach Boys’ “All I Wanna Do”

Tyler Maas

December 1, 2015

//It’s a fine line, really. While most can agree there are few things in music that are more loathsome than watching a true blue cover band perform earnest bastardizations of other musicians’ material on s...