Music

June 24, 2019

Remember a few years ago, when the East Side was lousy with empty bars, empty buildings, and gone-out-of-business businesses? Yeah, it's not really like that anymore. If you needed proof, this past Saturday's S...

Here are some dumb pictures from the best Dummerfest to date

June 24, 2019

Last Saturday, while thousands flocked Summer Soulstice on Milwaukee's East Side and Lakefront Festival Of Art outside Milwaukee Art Museum, a few hundred folks made their way to a Cudahy venue for a different ...

If you like Nineteen Thirteen’s new EP, ‘If You Like It, It’s Good,’ it’s good

June 24, 2019

Nineteen Thirteen is a group that's more normal than its lineup suggests, and one that's much, much weirder. On one hand, the duo of Victor DeLorenzo and Janet Schiff produces surprisingly accessible music, esp...

The National, Walk The Moon, more are playing intimate shows at Hacienda Beer Co.

June 23, 2019

Summerfest 2019 is just around the corner. Like, it starts this Wednesday, folks. It'll be your chance to see acts like The National, Walk The Moon, Neon Trees, Taking Back Sunday, Young The Giant, The Head And...

19 pictures of the new Uline Warehouse Stage at Summerfest, plus 1 picture of a red-winged blackbird at Lakeshore State Park

June 20, 2019

Thursday morning, Summerfest officials unveiled the new and much-improved Uline Warehouse Stage. It's pretty neat! The northern-most stage now sports an expanded footprint, expanded production capabilities, an ...

A guide to Dummerfest 2019, the biggest and dumbest one yet

June 20, 2019

After two awesome Dummerfest installments that brought bands like Off With Their Heads, Negative Approach, 88 Fingers Louie, The Copyrights, PEARS, Meat Wave, Masked Intruder, Direct Hit!, and many more to The ...

21 standout (non-festival) summer shows

June 19, 2019

Summertime musical entertainment in Milwaukee typically finds a home at the city's 8,000 street fests, or, you know, that whole Summerfest thing. But look beyond the temporary street stages and the sea of dance...

Rappy Hour brings old school hip-hop and classic music videos to The Vanguard every Thursday

June 19, 2019

Aside from serving up some of the finest and most innovative sausages in Milwaukee (or anywhere, for that matter), The Vanguard is probably best-known for the unique things they show on the restaurant's two TVs...

Lorde Fredd33’s complex sense of place

Tone Madison

June 19, 2019

The following piece by Henry Solo was originally published on Tone Madison.A lot has changed for Cameron Henderson, rap name Lorde Fredd33, in the year and change since he released his debut album, Norf: Th...

Our return trip to Blue Ox Music Festival sure was something

Josh Hoppert

June 18, 2019

Last year, we packed up our Toyota Camry with granola bars and Outkast CDs and made our first ever voyage to Eau Claire, Wisconsin's fourth annual Blue Ox Music Festival. It was great. The fest was incredibly w...

Listen to the new Devils Teeth EP, ‘Jet Jaguar,’ before the band releases it on a boat

June 18, 2019

There are many ways to celebrate the release of an album. A standard album release show. An intimate concert in someone's living room. Renting out the Polish Falcon and going nuts like Sat. Nite Duets did years...

Rose Of The West bassist, manager, spouse talks about work-life balance and band expectations

June 17, 2019

broadstreet.zone(71237); By his own admission, Cedric LeMoyne wears "a lot of hats" in Rose Of The West. The bassist—who earned major label attention in his longtime band, Remy Zero, before joining Alanis Mori...

Megadeth’s July 4 Summerfest show canceled due to health issues; Summerfest will not reschedule

June 17, 2019

Back in April, Ozzy Osbourne announced that due to health issues, he was canceling his 2019 tour—and with it, his scheduled July 4 Summerfest show at the American Family Insurance Amphitheater. Summerfest soon ...

Here’s who’s playing the 5th annual Biju’s Block Party

June 15, 2019

Though his band broke up more than a decade ago, former Camden member Biju Zimmerman continues to be very involved in music. He’s served as a tour manager for a variety of notable musicians (including Milwaukee...

Watch a local harpist try to break the world record for marathon harp playing…right now!

June 14, 2019

What are you doing right now? Reading this article and farting around on the internet, obviously, but what are you really doing? Are you trying to break a world record? Probably not. Well, New Berlin resident R...

A-side/B-side: Are hologram concerts the future of entertainment or just smoke and mirrors

June 13, 2019

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

The night I saw Tiffany at a rural Wisconsin bar

Joey Grihalva

June 11, 2019

To paraphrase Chuck Klosterman—who has a new book coming out and will be at Turner Hall on July 18—nostalgia, when it comes to music, may have less to do with warm and fuzzy memories and more to do with repetit...

Here’s the lineup for Cafe Hollander’s Summer Music Series

June 11, 2019

If there’s one thing Milwaukee loves more than live music, it’s live music played outdoors. Even though the city is already chock full of festivals, block parties, and a variety of other festivities, it hasn’t ...

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