Music

September 11, 2015

Blackbird is an all-around great place. The Bay View bar—which, truth be told, was one of the first places to advertise with us—boasts a staggering selection of Wisconsin-brewed beer, more pinball machines than...

Vic And Gab open up about playing their final show as Vic And Gab

September 10, 2015

// From 2012-2014, Vic And Gab were a reliable, near-constant presence in Milwaukee’s music scene. The sister duo of Victoriah and Hannah Gabriela were known to play their effervescent, impeccably crafted ind...

Here’s the crazy good lineup for the next Riverwest FemFest

September 10, 2015

// Milwaukee musicians were feeling especially charitable last winter. Adding to the long-running annual Pablove show, January and February of 2015 saw more than a dozen punk and metal bands taking to the Bor...

Fall concert preview: Chance The Rapper, Maritime, Beach House, more

September 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 of...

Exclusive: Stream Brat Sounds’ winning album, Born Loser

September 9, 2015

// A little more than a year ago, Scott Cary quietly announced the presence of Brat Sounds—and, simultaneously, the burial of his other project, Dinny Bulca—with an eponymous eight-song debut. Beyond publicly...

Will Juiceboxxx make an appearance on the season 5 premiere of ‘Girls’?

September 8, 2015

// When we last talked to world-by-way-of-Milwaukee rapper Juiceboxxx, the 28-year-old musician/entrepreneur was opening up about his childhood, grappling with being the quasi-subject of a new book, and nursi...

Things we learned from Violent Femmes’ Nerdist Podcast episode

September 4, 2015

The latest episode of the Chris Hardwick-hosted Nerdist Podcast featured the prodigal sons of Milwaukee music, Violent Femmes. Like the vast majority of the 700-some Nerdist episodes before it, the 77-minute re...

Light Music casts a big shadow with Ocean’s Daughter

September 4, 2015

Two letters. One word. When it comes to music, "of" is the sturdy wall of preposition that spans the border of two distinctly different regions of familiarity. Close as it appears, hearing of a band does little...

Watch Soul Low’s bare bones “I Want To Die” music video

September 4, 2015

The hardworking indie rockers of Soul Low have been in perpetual motion since recording Kind Spirit, the follow-up to their great 2013 auditory introduction, UNEASY, last fall. Winter found the band releasing a...

Behold Milwaukee’s latest supergroup, Dorth Nakota

September 2, 2015

Here in the age of the side project, it's not uncommon for new bands to be constructed from pieces that already (or at least recently) put to use in other acts. Bands like Whips, New Boyz Club, and Foreign Good...

Summerfest returns (sort of) with two free end-of-summer concerts

September 1, 2015

Summerfest isn’t just a two-week extravaganza of music, food, soul-searching, and Paris Hilton—it’s a gift that keeps on giving. Take today, for instance, which finds Summerfest Foundation, Inc. announcing Tap ...

Here’s the 2015 Bay View Bash lineup

September 1, 2015

Of all the festivals that occur in Milwaukee every summer, Bay View Bash probably isn't regarded by most locals to be the best. But it is the last. Even if it—what with its corny magic shows, strongman competit...

Dusty Medical 10th Anniversary Festival: A day-by-day recap

August 31, 2015

After putting out close to 50 releases from approximately 35 bands since 2005, Milwaukee's Dusty Medical Records absolutely has cause to celebrate. To mark the long-running label's decade-long run, founder/owne...

Tracklist: 11 non-Milwaukee acts that play Milwaukee a lot

August 31, 2015

//If you’re a regular Milwaukee show-goer, you’re bound to encounter dozens of local acts playing dozens of local shows a year. Miss your favorite band one week? No problem—they’ll be across the street lat...

Why do some Milwaukee musicians leave? Why do others stay?

August 27, 2015

On Saturday, August 29, glistening electro-pop outfit Dream Attics will mark its impending relocation to Austin, Texas by playing a goodbye show at Linneman’s. Milwaukee bands packing up shop and heading elsewh...

adoptahighway’s “Qualmness” video dresses in layers

August 27, 2015

Way back in February, adoptahighway—the experimental electronic venture of classically trained instrumentalist Barry Paul Clark—released A Fault, the project's first full-length release since 2010's I Can't Rem...

Label of love: Dusty Medical Records turns 10

August 25, 2015

These days, it takes little more than a name, some MP3 files, and a Bandcamp page to have a record label. With more bands than ever and less financial at risk in an exceedingly digital modern music landscape, i...

Exclusive: Listen to Testa Rosa’s shapeshifting third album, III

August 25, 2015

The word “pretty” gets tossed around a lot when talking about Testa Rosa. It’s easy to see why: Over the course of two full-length albums—2007’s I and 2011’s II—the veteran Milwaukee band has trafficked in lovi...

Sink your teeth into Yo-Dot’s Burleigh Bodega appetizer, “Until”