Music

Let’s look at the very ’90s program for Lollapalooza ’94

June 17, 2014

This article is from 2014. Dates have been updated for 2024.Since 2005, venerable music festival Lollapalooza has taken over Chicago’s Grant Park for a two-day summer celebration of the world’s hottest musi...

Tracklist: 10 Milwaukee bands we love in spite of their names

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 16, 2014

Finding a perfect band name can be a daunting prospect. Does the name give listeners a rough idea of what they’re in for? Does it evoke a desired feeling or mood? Is it (and/or its corresponding Twitter handle)...

This dude has seen Sevendust 36 times

Tyler Maas

June 13, 2014

Certain bands have a way of appealing to fans in a special way. Phish, Widespread Panic, and Tool are just a few of the bands that see supporters follow them to each tour stop on cross-country jaunts. Countless...

Tony Memmel to compete in VH1 contest

Tyler Maas

June 10, 2014

Star-making television contests are far from guarantees of fame and fortune for the winning musicians—just ask American Idol champs Fantasia Barrino, Ruben Studdard, and Lee DeWyze; or Making The Band participa...

Exclusive: Hear two new songs (and watch one new video) from Heidi Spencer And The Rare Birds

Matt Wild

June 10, 2014

Let’s talk about Heidi Spencer’s voice. It’s a voice like a waking dream: sleepy-eyed but lucid, lost in the wilderness but always in control. Over the course of four albums and more than 10 years, it’s a voice...

Fable & The World Flat crosses country in Sinnet remix

Tyler Maas

June 9, 2014

At the end of May, Fable & The World Flat’s Matthew Gorski moved to Los Angeles. Though the drummer’s departure certainly limits the sleek synth-rock project’s ability to play live, Gorski told us he and lo...

Locust Street Festival 2014: A minute-by-minute recap

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 9, 2014

The annual Locust Street Festival of Music & Art & Tai Chi Demonstrations marks the official start of Milwaukee’s summer street fest season. The busy Riverwest thoroughfare pulls out all the stops with ...

Exclusive: Listen to Calamity Janes And The Fratney Street Band’s debut, Easier, Better

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 9, 2014

The Calamity Janes have been a going Milwaukee concern for only a year or so, but they already feel as old as the city itself. That’s party due to the members’ deep ties to the local scene, but also because the...

Vampire Weekend breaks in BMO Harris Pavilion

Tyler Maas

June 5, 2014

PrideFest traditionally serves as the first in a long string of celebrations at Henry Maier Festival Grounds that runs all the way into September. That’s technically no different this year, but Wednesday’s Vamp...

Drop what you’re doing (and/or your pants) and listen to The Blue Mooners

Matt Wild

June 5, 2014

Every so often, an album comes across our desks that defies explanation. It may be a particularly inept concept album, a bizarre collection of covers, a field recording of migratory geese set to smooth jazz, or...

The Disclaimer: Favorite Milwaukee music of 2014 (so far)

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 5, 2014

Every Wednesday at noon, WMSE’s Ryan Schleicher, Shepherd Express’ Evan Rytlewski, and Milwaukee Record’s Matt Wild take to the WMSE airwaves to discuss all things Milwaukee. This half-hour fun-fest is called T...

Watch The Midwest Beat drink, dance in its “High Life” video

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 3, 2014

Save for some periodic 7-inches, compilation contributions, and a comprehensive album of singles from previous releases, Milwaukee’s own The Midwest Beat hasn’t managed a proper LP since 2011’s Gone Not Lost. I...

Bob Mould to play Turner Hall September 17

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 3, 2014

Over the course of 30-plus years, Bob Mould has become a triple threat. His work with Hüsker Dü defined the hardcore movement of the ’80s; his pop-minded Sugar provided an alternate soundtrack to the ’90s; and ...

Exclusive: Listen to the new Calliope album, ORBIS

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 2, 2014

On its 2013 self-titled debut, Calliope sneered at current musical trends and offered up a sleazy, unabashed slab of dirty roadhouse blues. It was the kind of record that felt willfully out of time, something t...

Lorde will play the BMO Harris Pavilion September 26

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 2, 2014

You know you’ve arrived when, at 17, you’re telling the world press that you “don’t want to be a role model.” That’s just where New Zealand pop sensation Lorde has found herself in 2014, less than two years aft...

Listen to new music from AUTOMatic, Yo-Dot

Matt Wild

May 30, 2014

AUTOMatic and Yo-Dot are two of Milwaukee’s very best hip-hop acts, each cooly in control of their respective styles. Rapper A.P.R.I.M.E. and producer Trellmatic of AUTOMatic tend to favor jazzy, silky-smooth j...

Misery Signals announce “MaliceX” tour with original lineup

Tyler Maas

May 30, 2014

Monday marks the 10-year anniversary of Misery Signals releasing their celebrated debut full-length album, Of Malice And The Magnum Heart. While the then-Milwaukee metalcore magnates had experienced lineup chan...

K-Nation takes Summerfest sponsorship to a horrible level

Tyler Maas

May 29, 2014

The lineup for KNE New Music Stage was unveiled yesterday. At the risk of my Summerfest press pass being lost in the mail, the cast of performers announced was a supreme letdown. In just its second year at the ...

The Disclaimer: Why aren’t there more shows at the BMO Harris Bradley Center?

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 29, 2014

Exclusive: Listen to a new Sat. Nite Duets song, “On My Honor”

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 29, 2014

No Milwaukee band is better attuned to summer’s giddy highs and bittersweet lows than Sat. Nite Duets. The scrappy Riverwest outfit has grappled with the summer season on nearly all of its albums—hell, one of t...