Music

A-side/B-side: Does Milwaukee need more all-ages venues?

May 28, 2014

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

Listen to the new Canopies single, “Getting Older”

Matt Wild

May 28, 2014

Canopies' self-titled 2011 EP was only five songs long, but that was enough to land it at a lofty number four on our list of the 50 best Milwaukee albums of the 2010s (so far). A sparkling, dreamy, and ridiculo...

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The Delphines: Hush

Matt Wild

May 27, 2014

The Delphines have always been a singles band. The A-side/B-side and EP formats seemed especially suited to the group, whose sly, sinewy, lo-fi garage rock was best enjoyed in short bursts, leaving an aftertast...

Help The Scarring Party fund its final album, End Times

Matt Wild

May 27, 2014

The Scarring Party has been mostly silent since its excellent 2010 album Losing Teeth, and Milwaukee has been a lot less creepy for it. The twisted “end-timey” outfit filled the early ’00s with a sinister blend...

Tracklist: 15 Milwaukee summer songs

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 26, 2014

Memorial Day marks the unofficial beginning of summer, and gives a tired and thankful country a day to unwind, eat some brats, and probably play some bags. We at Milwaukee Record will be doing just that, but be...

Brett Newski is at home on the road

Tyler Maas

May 23, 2014

Brett Newski looks exhausted.He’s stationed at a table in the upper level of a Bay View café, beside a pair of laptop-toting girls, near a man dressed in business attire who appears to be telecommuting, and...

11 Milwaukee bands to drive 100 miles to join Mile 2

Tyler Maas

May 23, 2014

Last summer's Mile Of Music—the inaugural downtown Appleton music festival curated and co-founded by Fox Cities ex-pat Cory Chisel—was nothing short of a success. More than 100 bands from all corners of the cou...

Aaron Freeman—a.k.a. Gene Ween—to bring new band to Turner Hall

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 22, 2014

Following an infamous meltdown during a 2012 show in Vancouver, Aaron Freeman’s future looked bleak. Freeman—a.k.a. Gene Ween of the beloved cult act Ween—had seemingly finally let drugs and alcohol get the bes...

Pearl Jam to play BMO Harris Bradley Center October 20

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 21, 2014

Between columns about where a new Milwaukee arena should be located, and speculation over whom the Bucks should draft with the No. 2 pick to play the Bradley Center into sweet oblivion, BMO Harris Bradley Cente...

Marc Maron played guitar on a new Trapper Schoepp & The Shades song

Matt Wild

May 21, 2014

Stand-up comic Marc Maron is best known as the agreeably neurotic/TMI host of his insanely popular WTF podcast, as well as the star of his own IFC show, Maron. Fellow stand-ups are the most frequent WTF guests,...

A-side/B-side: Is this year’s Summerfest lineup any good?

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 21, 2014

Direct Hit! overcomes the wrath of Brainless God

Tyler Maas

May 21, 2014

It could be argued that Direct Hit! is Milwaukee’s biggest band. The quartet routinely tours both throughout the U.S. and internationally in support of some of punk’s most notable modern acts. It has earned eve...

Exclusive: WebsterX enlists help on “Desperate Youth” remix

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 20, 2014

WebsterX, the pet project of East Side rapper Sam Ahmed, came out of nowhere last year with the beyond-his-years debut, Desperate Youth. Besides nabbing a spot on our best Milwaukee albums of the 2010s (so far)...

Jeff Tweedy to go solo, play Pabst Theater June 16

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 19, 2014

Jeff Tweedy has fronted Wilco since 1994, and in all that time he’s apparently never had the urge to release a solo album, a la every frontman ever. That’s about to change, however, as Tweedy is currently prepa...

Here’s the lineup for the 2014 Locust Street Festival

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 15, 2014

You’d never know it from the early-spring-like, Jesus-Christ-is-this-ever-going-to-end weather, but summer in Milwaukee is more or less here, and with it comes the buildup to the city’s countless festivals and ...

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Lisa Ridgely & The Fainting Room: Heart Hot

Matt Wild

May 15, 2014

Lisa Ridgely & The Fainting Room’s 2012 EP Wine In Bed was the kind of debut that garnered faint praise like “nice.” Its dark-hued Americana was pleasant enough to pass the time, but not quite bold enough t...

A-side/B-side: Does the Milwaukee music scene have a “glass ceiling”?

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 14, 2014

Sylvan Esso, GGOOLLDD, CoCoBees to play Burnhearts/Pabst Street Party

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 14, 2014

Over the last six summers, Burnhearts’ Pabst Street Party has taken over a block of Potter Avenue in Bay View for an entire day, while having the audacity to coincide with the behemoth Summerfest. The block par...

Watch the video for The Delphines’ “Screen Door”

Matt Wild

May 12, 2014

Last month, we premiered two tracks from one of our most anticipated Milwaukee albums of the year, The Delphines’ Hush. Our love for the group isn’t exactly a secret, so it’s no surprise that a recently release...

The War On Drugs to play Pabst Theater September 21

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 9, 2014

Philadelphia band The War On Drugs has been a critical favorite since 2011, when its Slave Ambient album landed on oodles of year-end best-of lists. This year’s terrific Lost In The Dream is receiving even more...