Music

The Get Down will return to Turner Hall for New Year’s Eve 2015

November 2, 2015

If there’s one constant in an ever-changing, ever-frustrating world, it’s The Get Down, Milwaukee’s long-running funk and soul dance party. For more than 10 years, DJs Andy Noble, Brent Goodsell, and Nesh have ...

Temple is breaking up

Tyler Maas

October 31, 2015

Friday, Milwaukee post-punk quartet Temple announced the band will be ending.After forming early iterations of the project almost a decade ago when the members were high school students in Green Bay, the lo...

Say goodbye to The Midwestern Charm and hello to Bad Wig

Tyler Maas

October 27, 2015

There's a pivotal moment many bands face in which they must decide whether to trudge on with a name they no longer enjoy or risk confusing (or downright upsetting) loyal listeners and bookers by keeping an iden...

Madisen Ward And The Mama Bear captivate Colectivo

Phillip Martinez

October 27, 2015

Writing captivating stories is a tough gig, and pairing those stories with song composition only increases the room for error. When done right, though, these musical narratives are able to take the listener on ...

Tracklist: 11 spooktacular Milwaukee music videos

Matt Wild

October 26, 2015

Music videos come in all shapes and sizes: high-concept, lo-fi, jokey, performance-y, that one U2 video where it was just The Edge staring at the camera for five minutes, etc. But ever since Micheal Jackson thr...

They Might Be Giants will play Turner Hall in March

Matt Wild

October 26, 2015

A They Might Be Giants show is one of the few live shows that requires an explicit “FOR AGES 14+ ONLY” warning. For the past 30 (!) years, Johns Flansburgh and Linnell have effortlessly moved and blurred the li...

Exclusive: Stream HoneyBee’s gorgeous ‘The Hollow Tree EP’

Tyler Maas

October 23, 2015

Milwaukee music is in the midst of a renaissance. Much of the rapid growth, inarguable improvement, and increased national attention to which the city has been privy lately can be largely explained by the ongoi...

New look Static Eyes set sights on new horizons

Tyler Maas

October 22, 2015

No matter what widely circulated memes, dated musician jokes, and frequent placement behind everyone but the drummer may lead you to believe, the bass player is an integral part of a band. Aside from rounding o...

Exclusive: Revel (and wallow) in the old-school country of Doghouse Flowers’ ‘Cold Comfort’

Matt Wild

October 22, 2015

There exists a grey zone between radio-friendly mainstream country and critic-friendly alt-country. For all intents and purposes, let’s call that zone, well, “country.” Milwaukee’s Doghouse Flowers occupy that ...

Eaux Claires festival will return August 12-13, 2016

Matt Wild

October 21, 2015

The inaugural Eaux Claires festival in Eau Claire, Wisconsin was a breath of fresh air in a music festival climate dominated by overhyped shit-shows like Coachella and Bonnaroo. The Justin Vernon- (Bon Iver) an...

Plug in and listen to BLAX’s “The Headphone Experiment Volume 1”

Tyler Maas

October 21, 2015

Since moving back to The Good Land from New York in 2013, Fresh Cut Collective co-founder Adebisi Agoro—who raps under the stage name BLAX—has worked hard to regain his footing in the hip-hop scene he’d tempora...

The Ex and Ken Vandermark join forces at…the Sugar Maple

DJ Hostettler

October 21, 2015

For those unfamiliar with the sort of experimental jazz and noise shows that take place in the tiny brick cube that is the Sugar Maple’s back room, the news that legendary anarcho-punks The Ex were kicking off ...

Midnight Reruns’ latest is a ‘Force’ to be reckoned with

Tyler Maas

October 20, 2015

While the band's unpolished, distorted, and often self-deprecating songs routinely put its name in close proximity to the term "slacker," Midnight Reruns aren't lazy. In fact, they work really hard. Lately, the...

Twin Brother’s “Bury Me Dear” is black, white, and sad all over

Tyler Maas

October 20, 2015

Back in June, Milwaukee folk quintet Twin Brother played an extra special show at Club Garibaldi. Not only was it one of the band's first outings as a five piece and a homecoming for frequent show partner Old E...

Local Coverage tickets are on sale now

Tyler Maas

October 19, 2015

Last Thursday, we announced the date and lineup for our second Local Coverage benefit concert. On Friday, January 15, an eclectic and talented group of 10 Milwaukee bands and rappers will take the stage at Turn...

Tracklist: 15 Milwaukee Halloween shows

Tyler Maas

October 19, 2015

Yeah, we know there's still one weekend sitting between now and Halloween, but with the holiday falling on a Saturday, there seems to be even more awesome concerts, comedy shows, and other entertainment ameniti...

The Fatty Acids use best parts of old footage for “Worst Part” video

Tyler Maas

October 19, 2015

On top of The Fatty Acids' energetic live shows and steady wave of increasingly great records (including Boléro, which we called the third best Milwaukee album of the 2010s last year), the synth-pop outfit is k...

Hello Death and friends go crazy with “Prince Uncovered” for Alverno Presents

Matt Wild

October 19, 2015

If you’re angling to include Prince in the Great American Songbook, situating him alongside such tintype legends as Stephen Foster, you’re eventually going to have to contend with lyrics like “I sincerely want ...

Rx Drugs cure Joe Crockett’s creative ailments

Tyler Maas

October 16, 2015

For more than a decade, Joe Crockett served as the unmistakable voice and bandleader of locally-lauded folk band The Championship. At the tail end of that time, though, the gaps between shows grew wider as Croc...

Milwaukee Record presents Local Coverage 2016

Tyler Maas

October 15, 2015

This past January, Milwaukee Record hosted the inaugural Local Coverage at Club Garibaldi. The benefit found eight different Milwaukee acts across the age, neighborhood, and stylistic board covering one another...