Music

Meet Fight Dice, a Dungeons & Dragons-inspired music collective featuring members of The Promise Ring and Braid

February 3, 2021

They say to write what you know. Well, the members of Fight Dice know Dungeons & Dragons. Before the Milwaukee music and arts collective got its start, its members had spent a few years playing the game tog...

Summerfest 2021 moving to three weekends in September

Matt Wild

February 2, 2021

Summerfest 2021—previously scheduled for June 24-26, July 1-3, and July 8-10—has been moved to September 2-4, 9-11, and 16-18."While the progress made through the vaccine rollout is encouraging, we believe ...

Bask in the impromptu ambiance of Whaler’s ‘ex-tem-po-re’

Tyler Maas

February 2, 2021

When he isn't making excellent prints for his Bureau Of Print Research And Design business or helping to release music from a vast roster of Midwest bands as co-owner of Triple Eye Industries, Francisco Ramirez...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Dewey Gill’s Big Band Program on WMSE is essential Sunday listening

Matt Wild

February 1, 2021

broadstreet.zone(77472); Some places come and go, while some places become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. Join us as we revisit beloved and well-worn local staples with fresh eyes, and exp...

Milwaukee Music Roundup: January 2021

Milwaukee Record Staff

January 31, 2021

Looking for new music? Looking for new Milwaukee music? Then look no further than our monthly Milwaukee Music Roundup. (Want to hear us discuss a few selections on WUWM’s Lake Effect? Click HERE.) LPs AND EPs ...

Listen to Kesha and Laura Jane Grace talk about their love for The Rave

Tyler Maas

January 26, 2021

There's no other venue in Milwaukee (or anywhere else, for that matter) that's quite like The Rave/Eagles Club. In "normal times," the longstanding events space can host upwards of three or four different conce...

Wisconsin Senate votes to kill mask mandate; Assembly to finish it off later this week

Matt Wild

January 26, 2021

The Wisconsin Senate passed a resolution Tuesday that would kill the state's mask mandate—a mandate put in place to combat the spread of COVID-19. In order for the resolution to go into effect, the Wisconsin As...

Live Tetherball Tonight channel 4 Non Blondes in “What’s Up?” cover

Tyler Maas

January 22, 2021

What's going on? That's a question many of us have been asking a lot these past few years. However, the query has been around far longer than the last, say, four years or so. In fact, it was brought to mainstre...

MKE Music Rewind: The Trusty Knife

Matt Wild

January 21, 2021

In our MKE Music Rewind series, we revisit notable Milwaukee music that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014.Everyone loves a "lost" album. Whether it's a legendary artifact (th...

Let’s listen to the new Lil Wayne and Victor DeLorenzo Packers hype songs

Matt Wild

January 16, 2021

It's a match made in playoffs heaven: rapper Lil Wayne, Milwaukee musician Victor DeLorenzo, and your Green Bay Packers. Yes, ahead of Saturday's NFC divisional playoff game between the Packers and the Los Ange...

Victor Buell IV scores the apocalypse with synth-drenched solo album, ‘Fallen Angels’

Matt Wild

January 13, 2021

The last time we checked in with Victor Buell IV, the Vinz Clortho leader was getting down—real low down—with a winning cover of Sheryl Crow's "If It Makes You Happy." The song was eventually included on Vinz C...

Weird Storm gets, well, weird in video for “Brittle Pastimes”

Matt Wild

January 8, 2021

There's unfortunate timing, and then there's Milwaukee's Weird Storm. Formed in summer 2019, the group (Charlie Hoehnen, Bob Schaab, brothers Chris and Nicholas Ouchie) wrote, rehearsed, and recorded some demos...

Lauryl Sulfate and LUXI team up for “Basement Show”

Matt Wild

January 8, 2021

Ahhh, the basement show. That magical beast where 17 hardcore bands are on one bill, where three dozen people have to squeeze past the washer and dryer without accidentally unplugging the Christmas lights, and ...

Favorite Milwaukee Music We Forgot To Include In Our Year-End Favorites: Red Stuff, ‘Bless Us’

Matt Wild

January 6, 2021

In 2020 we dropped our usual year-end "25 Best Milwaukee Albums" list and went with something less stuffy. "Milwaukee Record's favorite Milwaukee music of 2020" contained lists of our favorite LPs and EPs, but ...

Greet the new year with Mere Of Light and the wistful “Moon From A Well”

Matt Wild

January 5, 2021

Entering a new year is a lot like waking up in the morning: it's best done slowly, quietly, and, if at all possible, without doomscrolling through Twitter. With that in mind, please let new Milwaukee project Me...

Ranking Milwaukee-themed polka songs by the number of times they say “Milwaukee”

Matt Wild

January 5, 2021

Back in December, Milwaukee-area polka king Mike Schneider released a video for his delightful "Christmas Kielbasa." The song ended up getting stuck in our heads for approximately three weeks. Go figure.htt...

Rexxx goes to the toppermost of the poppermost in video for “Animal”

Matt Wild

January 4, 2021

Back when the Beatles were a struggling band playing dingy clubs and ratty ballrooms, John Lennon would cheer the group on with a rallying cry. "Where are we going, fellas?" Lennon would ask. "To the top, Johnn...

Milwaukee Music Roundup: December 2020

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 31, 2020

Looking for new music? Looking for new Milwaukee music? Then look no further than our monthly Milwaukee Music Roundup (a list compiled via our own archives and other resources like Bandcamp, 88Nine Radio Milwau...

MKE Music Rewind: Couch Flambeau, “Santa Claus Skips Cudahy”

Tyler Maas

December 23, 2020

In our MKE Music Rewind series, we revisit notable Milwaukee music that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014.In recent years, Milwaukee's collective catalog of holiday music has...

18 more Milwaukee-made holiday songs

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 21, 2020

Over the course of a few Decembers of Milwaukee Record‘s existence, we’ve rounded up a mess of amazingly tolerable local songs that are helping to improve the largely unsatisfying holiday music genre. (You can ...