Music

June 21, 2023

broadstreet.zone(152022); Summerfest! Like the last two editions, “The World’s Largest Music Festival” is mixing things up in 2023 by staking out three Thursday-Friday-Saturday blocks instead of the traditiona...

A guide to Milwaukee acts playing Summerfest

June 21, 2023

Thursday marks the official start of another Summerfest. Now in its 55th year, the “Big Gig” has long been home to deep fried delicacies, prime people watching, and hundreds upon hundreds of musical acts from a...

Long Mama gets back to basics, lives simply on “Corduroy Road”

June 21, 2023

All a woman needs on Corduroy Road, according to the lovely new Long Mama song "Corduroy Road":• A candle • A match • A good book to read • A fire • A sweet song • A warm place to sleepAhhhh. Doesn...

The hills are alive with the sound of Oak You’s “Successors”

June 21, 2023

When we first met experimental folk-electronica outfit OQ back in December 2018, group members Cole Quamme (The Fatty Acids) and Liam O'Brien (Holy Sheboygan!) were prepping their debut EP, Paradice 1. The reco...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Scam Likely

June 21, 2023

WMSE's local and live in-studio showcase, Local/Live, airs Tuesdays 6-7 p.m. You can find past episodes HERE. Beginning in 2023, we're also collecting episodes on a handy Soundcloud playlist.milwaukeereco...

Here’s the 2023 Brady Street Festival lineup

June 20, 2023

A couple months ago, we urged you to keep Saturday, July 29 open because Brady Street Festival—one of Milwaukee’s largest, longest-running, and all-around best summer block parties—would be taking over a nine-b...

Milwaukee band Bug Moment (and more!) will play Bayshore Culver’s July 22

June 20, 2023

UPDATE (6/23/23): The show has been canceled. More info HERE.What do you get when you combine one of Milwaukee's best bands (that would be Bug Moment) with one of Wisconsin's most beloved fast food franchis...

Beauty Steps share the love with new single, “My Girlfriend’s Girlfriend”

June 20, 2023

When we first met Beauty Steps back in February, the Milwaukee dream-pop/R&B outfit was extolling the virtues of "Peaches." Group members D'Amato and Robert Weiss—plus a murderers' row of guest musicians—tu...

Jonathan Richman will play Marcus Performing Arts Center October 8

June 20, 2023

Bless you, Jonathan Richman. The legendary singer-songwriter has been a force of good and wide-eyed whimsy since the early 1970s, back when he was with The Modern Lovers. These days, his acoustic shows (usually...

The kids (still) dig nu metal

Joey Grihalva

June 19, 2023

Part essay, part interview, part concert review, this piece explores how much things have changed for teenagers over the last 20 years. It's also the first thing I've written (for the public) since the Klassik ...

MKE Music Rewind: ‘Hit Girls’ brings attention to three important, awesome Milwaukee bands

June 19, 2023

In our MKE Music Rewind series, we revisit notable Milwaukee music that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014.Typically, each of our MKE Music Rewind articles focus on one specia...

Milwaukee Record Recommended: June 19-25, 2023

June 19, 2023

broadstreet.zone(152022); Milwaukee is chock-full of things to do, but only a handful of events are worthy of the lofty honor of "Record Recommended" (patent pending). Here are our recommendations—brought to y...

26 photos (and 1 video) from Summer Soulstice 2023

June 18, 2023

The East Side was alive on Saturday for the 2023 Summer Soulstice Music Festival. Three stages, oodles of food trucks, and oodles of vendors took over various thoroughfares and side streets surrounding the inte...

Garden Home takes over Music Go Round Greenfield in “Past Life” video

June 16, 2023

In late 2021, Garden Home released postmortem. The two-track EP showed the post-hardcore project pulling no punches as it earnestly addressed feelings of remorse, confinement, and helplessness brought on by bot...

Here’s the lineup for the 2023 Música del Lago series at Colectivo Lakefront

June 15, 2023

Is there a day of the week that doesn’t feature a free music series this summer? Our ever-growing guide to summer festivals, fairs, music series, and more says NO.Recently added to that guide is Colectivo’s...

Buffalo Nichols returns with something new/old, “You’re Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond”

June 15, 2023

When we last caught up with Buffalo Nichols—a.k.a. Milwaukee musician Carl Nichols—he was playing at the Bruce Street Anodyne for WMSE's Local/Live. This was roughly a year after playing to a slightly bigger au...

Here’s the Live @ Aloft concert series lineup

June 15, 2023

Another day, another concert series announcement. Don't get us wrong! The steady influx of new (and free!) music happenings is great, but we must admit we're struggling to keep up. Yesterday, we posted the line...

You saw The Flaming Lips play ‘Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots’ at Riverside Theater. You loved it.

June 14, 2023

The Flaming Lips released Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots in 2002, the year you turned 25. You loved that album. You were living in a dilapidated East Side manor with your girlfriend and six or seven roommates....

WMSE’s Local/Live: Delicious Monsters