Music

July 21, 2014

Most weekends in Milwaukee, the bounty of performances by local acts and touring talent forces music fans to face difficult decisions in regard to which of the many shows going on throughout the city at any giv...

Exclusive: Stream Bright Kind’s self-titled debut

July 18, 2014

The new self-titled album by Bright Kind is technically the indie-leaning pop project’s debut record. However, 75 percent of the quartet has played together since 2008. In 2012, Jeanna Salzer Trio subtracted th...

Check out new Juiceboxxx video, new Juiceboxxx facial hair

July 17, 2014

Remember when longtime Milwaukee rapper Juiceboxxx singlehandedly set the city’s hip-hop scene back 20 years by experiencing technical difficulties while performing on a local TV show? Yeah, neither do we. Hype...

Here’s the lineup for the 2014 Center Street Daze Festival

July 17, 2014

With many of the big street fests of 2014 already behind us (Locust Street, Burnhearts/PBR), and another taking place in a few weeks (Brady Street), it would seem that the curtain is slowly being drawn on anoth...

WC Tank announces new album, premieres new song/video

July 15, 2014

Save for occasional one-off shows in town, Milwaukee rapper, filmmaker, and visuals wizard WC Tank has kept things pretty quiet musically speaking since shortly after the release of Kisscry Patina some 18 month...

Spend a minute with the video for Heavy Hand’s “David Bowie Wants To Steal Your Baby”

July 15, 2014

There was a time when music videos blurred the line between video and short film—think of all those ridiculous videos from Michael Jackson’s Dangerous—though there’s something to be said for videos that get in ...

Help keep Global Union free by contributing to “$15,000 in 15 days” campaign

July 15, 2014

Let’s face it: being forced to think about the end of summer in the middle of July is downright cruel. But like all things, summer 2014 must pass, even though it feels like it started a week ago. Happily, there...

Interpol will play Pabst Theater November 15

July 14, 2014

When the time comes for films to be set in the distant early-’00s (some might argue that time is now), music supervisors could do worse than toss an Interpol song on the soundtrack to quickly identify the bygon...

Exclusive: Stream Jay Joslyn’s new EP, Here! I Live Here!

July 14, 2014

Who is Jay Joslyn? Local music fans may better know this under-the-radar solo artist from his contributions as drummer of area folk fixture Ugly Brothers, or singer (sometimes into a telephone receiver) of oddb...

Our weird, wonderful weekend of local music

July 14, 2014

In the wake of a massive music festival that brought hundreds of acts from all corners of the country (and beyond) to town, it would have been totally understandable for Milwaukee to lay low and keep things qui...

Hugh Bob And The Hustle appears on CMT’s Concrete Country series

July 11, 2014

Excuse our tardiness on this one, but CMT.com isn't exactly in our bookmarks. However, we were recently given a reason to check out Country Music Television’s website when Milwaukee alt-country stalwart Hugh Bo...

All-improvised Argopelter trusts its instincts

July 10, 2014

When Milwaukee trio Argopelter begins its debut performance this Saturday, it will be the first time anybody at Club Garibaldi—or anywhere else for that matter—will hear that particular song. And yes, “anybody”...

Watch Dana Coppafeel, SPEAK Easy, and Klassik in the video for “Wait”

July 10, 2014

What happens when Milwaukee rappers Dana Coppafeel, SPEAK Easy, and Klassik get together for a night on the town? If the new video for “Wait” is any indication, they hang out in photo booths, bowl a few games, ...

It’s time to establish some rules for using (or not using) cell phones at concerts

July 10, 2014

A few weeks ago, mere hours before Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds took the stage at Milwaukee Theater, I made a joke about the show on Twitter: “MKE drinking game: Take a shot for every Nick Cave picture you see i...

Joseph Huber goes it alone on The Hanging Road

Jared Blohm

July 8, 2014

Joseph Huber is a solitary craftsman.The Milwaukee musician and woodworker works alone, unburdened by time or a clouded vision. Whether he’s constructing a song or a piece of furniture, Huber dismantles rec...

Here’s the lineup for the 2014 Brady Street Festival

July 8, 2014

The lumbering beast known as Godzilla Summerfest has finally lumbered back into Lake Michigan, content to slumber for another year while plotting the destruction of the city more great music and entertainment f...

Sylvan Esso to perform on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon July 9

July 7, 2014

Sylvan Esso may hail from Durham, North Carolina, but the hot-as-shit two-piece electro act has some serious Milwaukee connections. Nick Sanborn, of course, is a former Milwaukeean and former member of the gone...

10 Fourth of July party tips from Milwaukee music videos

July 4, 2014

July 4 is an important day for Americans, a day for celebrating our independence, a day for honoring those who fought (and still fight) for our freedoms, and a day for blasting that Lee Greenwood song from our ...

An entirely local day at Summerfest