Music

Listen to Canopies’ excellent new LP, Maximize Your Faith, via Spin

December 4, 2014

Advance tracks from Canopies’ debut full-length album, Maximize Your Faith, have been floating through the online ether for months now, teasing what will hopefully be a stunning effort from Milwaukee’s beloved ...

Wilco refuses to play it safe for 20th anniversary show at Riverside Theater

Cal Roach

December 4, 2014

A 20th anniversary tour could be considered a victory lap; any band that makes it through two decades deserves to trot lazily around the country playing the hits. That’s not Wilco’s style, though. The band just...

Meat Greeter’s debut doubles as Jordan Maye’s goodbye

Tyler Maas

December 4, 2014

Thursday will be an evening of introductions at Mad Planet. Migo will unveil its debut album, Napkin Back. Not only will the show also be an album release show for Meat Greeter, it will serve as the young proje...

Hugh Masterson talks Nashville move, Hustle’s future, goodbye show

Matt Wild

December 3, 2014

For the past few years, Hugh Bob And The Hustle have been a reassuring and reliable Milwaukee music presence, effortlessly playing no-nonsense, honkey-tonk-indebted country to any bar full of buzzed patrons wil...

Nato Coles returns home with Promises To Deliver

DJ Hostettler

December 3, 2014

It's been a good long while now since Nato Coles called Milwaukee home. Back in those days, Coles was one-fourth of the hard-touring Husker-esque Modern Machines, a four-person democracy where every band member...

Skank and sulk through the season with Something To Do’s “Happy Holidays”

Tyler Maas

December 2, 2014

With Thanksgiving now in the rear view mirror and calendars turned to their final page, the holiday season is officially upon us. Right beside shopping, snowfall, inevitable weight gain, and the growing tension...

Exclusive: Hear two songs off Migo’s bonkers debut, Napkin Back

Tyler Maas

December 2, 2014

Migo is a hard band to reduce to a single genre. Its Facebook page describes the eclectic Milwaukee quartet as “Lost Dog Fan-Fiction” and “Piñata Rock.” As nonsensical as those descriptors sound, we can’t offer...

Volcano Choir wraps up Repave tour at Turner Hall (with help from surprise guest Sylvan Esso)

Matt Wild

December 1, 2014

On paper, last night should have been a terrible night for a show in Milwaukee. It was a Sunday—the last Sunday of a long Thanksgiving weekend—and the Packers had played earlier in the afternoon. (What was that...

A-side/B-side: Should Miller Park field more local entertainment options?

Milwaukee Record Staff

November 26, 2014

In A-side/B-side, two Milwaukee Record writers tackle various city issues in an informal, crosstalk style. Insults are hurled, feelings are hurt, and everyone learns something in the end. Maybe.Matt Wild: W...

Come to Blackbird Bar December 5 for “From The Stage To The Booth” with Milwaukee Record

Milwaukee Record Staff

November 25, 2014

The second year of Blackbird Bar's "From The Stage To The Booth" DJ series has already seen beloved local bands like The Championship, GGOOLLDD, Heavy Hand, Canopies, and Fresh Cut Collective plopping down behi...

Summertime Dudes return for benefit gig, “huge milkers”

Tyler Maas

November 24, 2014

Milwaukee tribute band The Summertime Dudes doesn't take the stage for just anything. Though the all-star cock-rockers are usually busy enjoying the fruits of their robust catalog of solid gold '70s and '80s cl...

Trapper Schoepp plays Paste’s “Live At Aloft Hotels” series

Tyler Maas

November 21, 2014

Milwaukee folk fixture Trapper Schoepp And The Shades has spent much of 2014 either on the road or in a Nashville studio with Brendan Benson recording a new album (that may or may not feature Marc Maron playing...

Double Vision: Will Rose plays musical chairs

Tyler Maas

November 20, 2014

The side project isn't a new phenomenon.At a time in which more bands than ever are active, and there are perpetually more descriptors being placed either before or after genre-narrowing hyphens than the pr...

Chris Chuzles breathes new life into Hot Coffin

Tyler Maas

November 20, 2014

This time last year, Chris Chuzles (second from left) was preparing to say goodbye to Disguised As Birds, the decade-old Milwaukee rock band he fronted. Not longer after the release of the band's outstanding sw...

A-side/B-side: The BoDeans, and the way Milwaukee sees its music scene

Milwaukee Record Staff

November 19, 2014

Shirley Manson of Garbage will play the next Pablove Benefit Concert

Matt Wild

November 17, 2014

For the past six years, Milwaukee’s annual Pablove Benefit Concert has assembled some of the area’s best musical acts on one stage in order to raise awareness and funds for pediatric cancer research. Co-founded...

Get Rad will play Punx Give Thanx benefit show Black Friday

Tyler Maas

November 17, 2014

Milwaukee hardcore aficionados now have reason to give thanks. Some 20 months removed from its last show and more than six months after releasing its most recent split, Get Rad will return to the stage for a go...

Interpol beautifully blends old and new in Pabst Theater sellout

Tyler Maas

November 17, 2014

At this point in the iconic post-punk band’s existence, there are two distinctly different eras of Interpol. There’s the indie blog darling that came out of nowhere with a pair or formidable, borderline-legenda...

The Decemberists will return to Riverside Theater March 25

Matt Wild

November 17, 2014

Look up “quintessential ’00s indie-rock band” in the dictionary, and you’ll find a picture of The Decemberists. Beginning with 2002’s Castaways And Cutouts, and culminating with 2009’s The Hazards Of Love, the ...

Johanna Rose lets New Boyz Club out of the house and onto the stage

Tyler Maas

November 14, 2014

As the upright bass player of Calamity Janes And The Fratney Street Band, Johanna Rose provides the rhythmic backbone and contributes one fourth of the gorgeous and formidable harmonic wave for which the buddin...