Milwaukee Music Roundup: October 2024
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LPs AND EPs OF NOTE
Allison Mahal - AllieBrief Candles - Unfinished NatureUnf...
Club Ritual rolls out record label with rhythmic release from Greyhound
If you're hip to Milwaukee's underground dance scene, you're almost certainly hip to Club Ritual. The dance-happy event series has brought beats to places like High Dive, Mad Planet, Quarters, and even Black Ca...
Hear Here is still here (and here to stay)
It ain't easy to sustain a creative vision in the first place, but once COVID hit the first domino—setting off a chain reaction that led to defunding, closures, and premature funerals in the arts—the creative s...
WMSE will broadcast special “Hip Hop Hooray” show live from The Hop on November 16
Back in October 2023, beloved Milwaukee radio station WMSE 91.7 did a live three-hour broadcast from beloved Milwaukee argument-starter The Hop. We hung out that day and helped out. It was fun!Now, WMSE i...
Talking new Milwaukee music with WUWM’s Lake Effect (October 2024)
Once a month, Milwaukee Record's own Matt Wild gets his NPR on by sitting down with WUWM's Lake Effect and discussing some of his favorite new Milwaukee records and songs.Listen to the latest installment HE...
WMSE’s Local/Live: The Quilz (2024)
WMSE's local and live in-studio showcase, Local/Live, airs Tuesdays 6-7 p.m. You can find past episodes HERE, or on this handy Soundcloud playlist.milwaukeerecord · WMSE's Local/Live, October 29, 2024: Th...
Long-awaited Cassini Echoes debut is “a true exercise in patience”
At a time in which projects sometimes announce their existence with the release of a completed album or EP and musicians rush to record slapdash reactionary songs about topical subjects, it's becoming more rare...
Sincere Engineer, Harrison Gordon to headline second annual Burn Bright MKE festival
This past February, a brand new festival called Burn Bright MKE added to the ever-improving winter festival landscape in metro Milwaukee. The two-day affair was created by DIY booking wunderkind JJ Kaiser, who ...
Milwaukee Record Recommended Events: October 28 – November 3, 2024
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Milwaukee is chock full of things to do, but only a handful of Milwaukee events are worthy of the lofty honor of "Record Recommended" (patent pending). Here are our recommendations—br...
Caley Conway navigates dreams, waking life on sublime ‘Partner’
There are moments in Caley Conway's latest album, Partner, when the ever-busy Milwaukee singer-songwriter finds herself caught in the humdrum duties of daily life. There are things to do—or not—people to see—or...
Jack White will play intimate shows at Cactus Club tonight, The Rave tomorrow
One night after a last-minute surprise show at Madison's High Noon Saloon—and an even more last-minute and surprise show at Milwaukee's Vanguard restaurant—the one and only Jack White will play Milwaukee's Cact...
Bug Moment at its best on new single, “Purple Guy”
Bug Moment's metamorphosis from a glitchy bedroom project to the city's finest "emo-adjacent rock melancholia" band is one of the great Milwaukee music scene success stories of the post-pandemic era. Twenty-twe...
Vacancy Chain pours on the “Halloween Hot Sauce” with new seasonal single
Last summer, Milwaukee/Chicago's Vacancy Chain formally made its presence known with the release of Count The Stars. In the year-plus since that excellent debut album first encountered eardrums, the indie rock ...
Milwaukee Recreation is offering a Yoko Ono class this fall and we’re all for it
Milwaukee Recreation rules. For more than 100 years (!) the Milwaukee Public Schools program has made the city a better place by offering innumerable recreational and educational opportunities to folks of all a...
Holy Pinto returns to form with new single, “Death Is In The Air”
With a run of recent shows both in his adopted home of Milwaukee and in overseas locales like Austria and Hungary, Holy Pinto—the musical moniker of English-born singer/songwriter Aymen Saleh—has been keeping q...
WMSE’s Local/Live: Caley Conway
WMSE's local and live in-studio showcase, Local/Live, airs Tuesdays 6-7 p.m. You can find past episodes HERE, or on this handy Soundcloud playlist.milwaukeerecord · WMSE's Local/Live, October 22, 2024: Ca...
Get lost in the dream-pop goodness of Brief Candles’ ‘Unfinished Nature’
In the final moments of David Lynch and Mark Frost's 2017 Twin Peaks revival, a puzzled and temporally adrift Agent Cooper asks "What year is this?" The same question comes to mind while listening to the music ...
Milwaukee Record Recommended Events: October 21-27, 2024
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Milwaukee is chock full of things to do, but only a handful of Milwaukee events are worthy of the lofty honor of "Record Recommended" (patent pending). Here are our recommendations—br...
Enjoy new Halloween songs from Fuzzysurf, The Quilz
It's that time of year, folks: Pumpkins! Pumpkin spice! Leaves! Scary movies! That old Garfield Halloween special where he fights ghost pirates or something! Oh, and spooky music! And spooky local music!So ...
Psychedelic Furs, Jesus And Mary Chain get loud at Riverside Theater
Twenty-twenty-four has been a banner year for UK bands helmed by male siblings. Not only did Oasis announce a handful of reunion shows that are totally gonna actually happen, the U.S. is currently in the throes...