Music

Some Summerfest 2019 headliners are doing intimate acoustic sets, too

May 22, 2019

What's better than standing on a metal bench and seeing your favorite Summerfest act perform to a crowd of thousands? How about sitting on your butt and seeing your favorite Summerfest act perform to a crowd of...

DJ Questlove will perform at The Cooperage July 3, following The Roots’ show at Summerfest

Matt Wild

May 22, 2019

On Wednesday, July 3, at 9:45 p.m., The Roots will perform at the BMO Harris Pavilion during Summerfest 2019. It'll be a great show. Then, immediately following the set, Roots drummer Questlove will race over t...

Milwaukee Record Recommended (May 20-26)

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 20, 2019

Our fat-free, dolphin-safe Milwaukee events calendar 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 recommendati...

Here’s the Bay View Jazz Fest 2019 lineup

Tyler Maas

May 17, 2019

For the sixth straight year, the organizers behind Bay View Gallery Night, in association with Milwaukee Jazz Vision, are melding the massive 70-business artistic endeavor with Bay View Jazz Fest. Yesterday, we...

Saturday’s “Blood On The Tracks Revisited” to be final Dylan-cover Alzheimer’s benefit at Linneman’s

Josh Hoppert

May 17, 2019

Bob Dylan is one of those musicians whose work seems to touch everything that’s come along since, either directly or indirectly. Whether you enjoy his unique brand of music or not, there’s no denying that he’s ...

Please enjoy the scream-along jam of the summer, IfIHadAHiFi’s “Death Van”

Matt Wild

May 17, 2019

"I wanted to write a song that presented a resigned, even joyful look at doom."That's David Byrne looking back on his 1985 Talking Heads hit, "Road To Nowhere." It's a song that does exactly what Byrne inte...

The Obsoletes will release a remastered version of ‘Is This Progress?’

Tyler Maas

May 15, 2019

In 2004, The Obsoletes released their one and only album. That record, Is This Progress?, is a 13-song collection of timeless tracks that straddled the line between alt-country and power-pop. A year after the M...

Johnny Marr treats Pabst Theater to a winning mix of old and new

Catherine Jozwik

May 15, 2019

Johnny Marr has been working as a professional musician since he was 15 years old—and it shows.The 55-year-old former guitarist of the influential 1980s post-punk group The Smiths has worked with many bands...

Milwaukee Record Recommended: (May 13-19)

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 13, 2019

How come no one told us Insane Clown Posse is playing Miramar Theatre June 5?

Matt Wild

May 13, 2019

It's hard to believe now, but there was a moment when the most outrageous thing in pop culture was a song in which two rapping clowns from Detroit questioned the inner workings of magnets. "Fucking magnets, how...

Here’s the musical lineup (and wedding) for Locust Street Festival 2019

Matt Wild

May 10, 2019

Returning for its 43rd (!) year on Sunday, June 9, the annual Locust Street Festival of Music & Art is one of the city's best street fests, celebrating all that is good, right, and drum circle-y in Riverwes...

Here’s the Dummerfest 2019 lineup

Tyler Maas

May 10, 2019

Last month, we announced that following a one-year hiatus (which organizers spent acquiring the former Metal Grill and renovating it to re-open as X-Ray Arcade), Dummerfest would be returning and The Lawrence A...

Get ready for Triple Eye Industries Fest IV, stream the ‘Vinyl. Noise. Beer. Vol. 4’ comp

Tyler Maas

May 10, 2019

In a span of less than five years, Triple Eye Industries has managed an astounding 45 releases—many of them in vinyl format. To celebrate all they’ve done in such a short span, the Milwaukee-based independent r...

Join us at Colectivo’s Lakefront Cafe for another summer of “Friday Nite Music”

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 9, 2019

Colectivo Coffee has a wide variety of cafes spread across metro Milwaukee (and a few in Madison and Chicago), each with its own look, feel, and unique personality. However, as far as location and view are conc...

Get ready for summer and listen to Fuzzysurf’s latest, ‘Fuzzy & The Surfs’

Tyler Maas

May 9, 2019

Fuzzysurf is a band suited for any era. Since formally introducing themselves to Milwaukee music fans with 2017’s great Me Wocky EP, the quartet has quickly garnered attention with their distinct sound that per...

Milwaukee duo Anti-Vax embrace online collaboration, YouTube

Matt Wild

May 8, 2019

What do you get when you name your latest musical project Anti-Vax? If you're Milwaukee musician Anthony Weber (Heavy Hand, Moustache Bride, LLAARRSS, more), the answer is "a lot of weird emails.""We get re...

Listen to the incredible new Marielle Allschwang record, ‘VISITATIONS IV’

Matt Wild

May 7, 2019

The first thing to hit you when cueing up the new Marielle Allschwang record is the noise. A distorted guitar. A rat-a-tat snare. A solitary cymbal. Could this possibly be the same Marielle Allschwang whose las...

mewithoutYou, Cursive, The Appleseed Cast treat Turner Hall to a blast from the past (and the present)

Tyler Maas

May 7, 2019

The spirit of 2001 was alive and well in Milwaukee on Monday night.As the Milwaukee Bucks were dominating an Eastern Conference foe in an NBA playoff contest, a respectable crowd made its way to Turner Hall...

Here’s the full lineup for Summerfest’s Rebel Stage

Tyler Maas

May 6, 2019

Every weekday for the past two weeks, we've announced the daily headliners of a different Summerfest stage. Friday's unveiling of the JoJo's Martini Lounge lineup was the 10th and final such announcement for 20...

WORK’s Joe Cannon shifts focus to Resurrectionists

Tyler Maas

May 6, 2019

Last August, WORK released Strictly Cruis’n, a record we called "a frenzied and genre-bending 12-song follow-up that continues the ironically-named outfit’s trend of fun-yet-focused material." The release of th...