Music

Exclusive: Stream three songs off Pharaoh Mac & DMT’s SYMBOLS

August 21, 2015

Not long ago, Milwaukee hip-hop was in dire straits. Local rappers were either overlooked altogether or found marginal area attention with regional redressing of artists from other, more established hip-hop mar...

35mm screenings of Jaws, The Shining highlight MFF2015’s Cinema Hooligante program

Matt Wild

August 20, 2015

The 2015 Milwaukee Film Festival is one month and four days away. That’s one month and four days to prepare for an onslaught of films ranging from the highbrow and challenging to the rowdy and crowd pleasing. A...

Three. Stacks. Eliot starts strong with debut record, The Message Is Real

Tyler Maas

August 20, 2015

As shocking as it is, Three. Stacks. Eliot's days old album is also the jazz-rooted (mostly) instrumental band's first release to date. It's not easy to be thrown, what with the group's frequent presence behind...

WC Tank finds new direction with Vanishing Points

Tyler Maas

August 18, 2015

Last fall, Milwaukee rapper, filmmaker, and visual artist Wesley Charles Tank—aka “WC Tank”—released Almost Forever, a five-song EP the eccentric art-rapper wrote and self-produced in its entirety, along with s...

Under The Sun Tour brings ’90s nostalgia to State Fair

Tyler Maas

August 13, 2015

In Sugar Ray’s last known hit, 2001’s “When It’s Over,” singer Mark McGrath asks, “When it’s over is it really over?” For the SoCal pop-rock band, yes, it pretty much was, despite the two albums that followed b...

So, uh, Kip Winger is playing in Cudahy (again) October 15

Tyler Maas

August 12, 2015

Hey, remember when we told you that Kip Winger, the eponymous frontman of second-tier hair metal band from the late-’80s and early-’90s, Winger, was playing in Cudahy March 7? Pretty fucking weird, right? Well,...

Exclusive: Stream a re-recorded version of Direct Hit! rarity “Say Whatever”

Tyler Maas

August 11, 2015

Since 2010, Milwaukee’s premier pop-punk project Direct Hit! has routinely released material that ranged in scope from short-run splits and EPs to its well-received apocalyptic 2013 concept record, Brainless Go...

Watch the gorgeous, cinematic video for WebsterX’s “Lately”

Matt Wild

August 10, 2015

There are few Milwaukee musicians working today with as much tenacity, confidence, and forward momentum as WebsterX. Ever since the release of Desperate Youth in 2013, the tireless rapper—a.k.a. Sam Ahmed—has b...

Tracklist: 17 Milwaukee band names inspired by famous, real-life people

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 10, 2015

//Band names tend to come in two flavors: evocative and meaningful, and just plain random. For every 10 Metallicas, Guided By Voices, and Run The Jewels there are just as many Limp Bizkits, Toad The Wet Sp...

Phylums’ debut LP, Phylum Phyloid, is a giddy slab of thoughtful three-chord rock and roll

Matt Wild

August 10, 2015

Much like film noir, “gonzo” journalism, and CSI shows, three-chord rock and roll is easy to replicate but hard to perfect. Any band can slap together some ’60-inspired surf guitars and a handful of bubblegum m...

Primus and Dinosaur Jr. bring double dose of ’90s alt-rock to The Rave

Cal Roach

August 7, 2015

Primus frontman Les Claypool isn’t the type of guy who caters to his fans. He does whatever the hell he wants, and his core cult of diehards doggedly follows, because he is probably the greatest living bass gui...

Exclusive: Listen to two songs from The Scarring Party’s final album, End Times

Matt Wild

August 6, 2015

It’s perhaps surprising that a band specializing in defiantly out-of-time music should make it to its 10th anniversary. But for The Scarring Party, standing apart from musical trends both locally and nationally...

A Milwaukeean’s guide to Mile Of Music

Tyler Maas

August 6, 2015

During last year's Mile Of Music, the second such iteration of the "handcrafted artisan festival" in the northeast Wisconsin city of Appleton, a combined 39 of the 200 bands and solo artists booked to play hail...

S.S. Web plots its revenge with latest album

Jared Blohm

August 4, 2015

With wild eyes, a shaved head, and a silver front tooth, the heavily tattooed Henry Berger has the look of a hardened sailor of yesteryear. The S.S. Web lead singer delivers tales of drinking hard and loving wr...

Exclusive: Listen to the title track from Marielle Allschwang’s solo debut, Dead Not Done

Matt Wild

August 4, 2015

If Marielle Allschwang’s voice seems familiar, there’s a reason for that. For the past five years the Milwaukee musician has provided vocals—along with violin, guitar, and percussion—for some of the city’s best...

Sat. Nite Duets’ Andi Action goes solo on wonderfully ridiculous All Lit Up

Matt Wild

August 4, 2015

There are plenty of warning signs that All Lit Up, the debut solo album from Sat. Nite Duets’ Andrew Jambura, should be taken with a grain of salt. One, it’s the debut solo album from Sat. Nite Duets’ Andrew Ja...

Watch Pharaoh Mac & DMT’s “Same Time” music video

Tyler Maas

July 31, 2015

When we last wrote about Milwaukee rapper Pharaoh Mac and his producer partner DMT, they were easing us into summer with their airy, Greatest Lakes-featuring single “Drift,” the first song from the duo’s forthc...

Death From Above 1979 comes to life at Turner Hall

Tyler Maas

July 30, 2015

It's been a while since Death From Above 1979 played in Milwaukee. To be more specific, it's been 10 and a quarter years since the Canadian "dance-punk" duo dropped by Mad Planet for a weeknight performance tha...

Check out Fox Face’s short, sweet self-titled EP

Tyler Maas

July 30, 2015

Do you have 10 minutes to spare today? Of course you do. In the amount of time it takes to prepare an omelet, get through most of Marc Maron's "WTF Podcast" intro or watch your weathered 8-Minute Abs VHS approx...

The 15 best things my 14-year-old cousin said at Vans Warped Tour yesterday

Andrew Winistorfer

July 29, 2015

Vans Warped Tour rolled into Henry Maier Festival Park yesterday, and for the 20th year, it provided a place for teens dressed in ways that will embarrass them in 10 years to see bands no one over 25 has ever h...