Music

The SummerRest: 15 non-Summerfest recommendations

June 23, 2015

With tonight’s Rolling Stones show, Summerfest has (unofficially) arrived. The Big Gig gets into full swing come Wednesday, bringing more than 800 acts to 11 stages—not even counting those weird side stages nea...

Exclusive: Stream VBIV’s debut EP, Control

Tyler Maas

June 23, 2015

Outside of serving as Calliope’s guitarist, Victor Buell IV is a skilled videographer, a graphic designer, an artist, and a more-than-capable producer (who recorded, mixed, and mastered Calliope’s last record)....

Dummerfest 2015’s most memorable moments

Tyler Maas

June 22, 2015

On Saturday, as many Milwaukeeans were enjoying the Summer Soulstice music festival, seeing bands at Lakefront Festival Of The Arts, or experiencing any of the other events happening within city lines on the pa...

BMO Harris Bank partners with Pabst Theater Group, releases music mini-docs

Matt Wild

June 22, 2015

BMO Harris Bank’s support of Milwaukee arts and entertainment is plain to see, what with the BMO Harris Bradley Center and BMO Harris Pavilion and all. Today, that support has only grown deeper with the announc...

Peter Mulvey wrote a song for Charleston, and it’s spreading

Matt Wild

June 22, 2015

The way in which we, the rank and file citizens of the United States, react to mass shootings in this country has become depressingly predictable. Our initial feelings of shock and grief almost instantly give w...

Belle And Sebastian, Courtney Barnett leave Pabst Theater dancing, wanting more

Matt Wild

June 22, 2015

There were multiple moments during Friday night’s Belle And Sebastian show at the Pabst Theater when it was possible to mistake the proceedings for a ribald comedy show instead of a rock concert. “One of the an...

Exclusive: Stream Pharaoh Mac & DMT’s “Drift” featuring Greatest Lakes

Tyler Maas

June 19, 2015

Though there have always been assertions—yes, sometimes with proof—that Milwaukee musicians on the whole are unable and unwilling to venture beyond prominently-drawn genre boundaries and are hesitant to collabo...

A decade of intensity: Get Rad looks back on 10 years

Tyler Maas

June 18, 2015

During its first five-plus years of existence, Get Rad was indisputably among the loudest, craziest, most intense, and least constrained bands in Milwaukee. Not long after the release of the great 2010 record I...

Hey! Let’s talk about Summerfest!

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 18, 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 the ...

Learning to let go, lighten up, and love Sofar Sounds

Matt Wild

June 18, 2015

Some of my first live music memories are of seeing shows in basements, attics, and living rooms. These were dingy, dirty affairs, with oodles of teenage crusty punks (and their dogs, always their dogs) crammed ...

Milwaukee Record’s Dummerfest guide for dummies

Tyler Maas

June 17, 2015

Every so often, the stars align just right and Milwaukeeans are faced with the troubling dilemma of what to do. No, this isn't echoing the moronic assertion that "there's nothing to do here." Rather, every few ...

Exclusive: Stream Brett Newski’s cassette-only B-side “Everybody Knows You Can’t Sleep With Your Eyes Closed”

Tyler Maas

June 17, 2015

Following an 11-week, 73-show European tour, during which he ate “Space Cake” and declined a post-massage HJ, Brett Newski likely wouldn’t be the first person you’d expect to issue a new release within two week...

UWM’s Concert Chorale will provide backup vocals for The Rolling Stones

Matt Wild

June 16, 2015

The Rolling Stones’ much-anticipated, much-hyped, and much-priced show at the Marcus Amphitheater is exactly one week away. Yes, on Tuesday, June 23, the Stones will take to the Marcus stage and deliver hit aft...

Old Earth treads new ground in California

Tyler Maas

June 16, 2015

Since New Berlin native Todd Umhoefer moved back to the region in 2012 after two years in San Francisco, the mastermind of experimental folk project Old Earth locked himself away in his downtown Milwaukee studi...

Klassik completes the seasonal cycle with Autumn EP

Matt Wild

June 16, 2015

Klassik has always been a man for all seasons—he’s a musician, rapper, producer, and video director, among other things—but now he’s literally a man for all seasons. With the release of his new Autumn EP, Klass...

Get funky now with Bo Triplex’s debut single, “Thump-Tastic”

Matt Wild

June 15, 2015

Yesterday, during the New Age Narcissism set at Locust Street Festival 2015, Bo Triplex kicked things off with a preview of a new solo track called “Thump-Tastic.” As expected from the NAN/Kane Place Record Clu...

Locust Street Festival 2015: A minute-by-minute recap

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 15, 2015

If the 39th installment of the Locust Street Festival of Music & Art & Sigmund Snopek proved anything—beyond the fact that even dogs are wearing MilwaukeeHome shirts these days—it was that bad weather i...

Olivia Chaney captivates at inaugural Back Room show at Colectivo Coffee

Phillip Martinez

June 15, 2015

Sunday night, prior to singing her beautifully crafted interpretation of a 13th century French poem, English folk-artist Olivia Chaney discussed the idea of harboring nostalgia for something you’ve never had or...

Shank Hall owner Peter Jest talks concert promotion, Summerfest, more

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 12, 2015

Exclusive: Listen to the Dashcam remix of Klassik’s “STAGESlayer”

Matt Wild

June 12, 2015

Klassik has always been a man ahead of the curve. Since bursting on the scene with 2012’s In The Making and 2013’s YRP (Young Rising Phenoms), the rapper/singer/musician/producer has continually raised the bar ...