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Lou Barlow had something special in store at intimate URSA performance

Dan Agacki
July 10, 2023
Just short of five years since his last visit, Lou Barlow made his return to URSA in Bay View last Friday. The previous appearance had a “working out the kinks” feel, with minimal seating and plenty of folks mi...

Summerfest Weekend 3 Recap: The random indie-rock edition!

Matt Wild
July 9, 2023
At one point during the third and final weekend of Summerfest, I was considering buying a toe ring. At another I was screaming along to one of my favorite songs in the rain. At another I was being offered a spl...

Sparks played Milwaukee? Sparks played Milwaukee! SPAAAAARKS!

DJ Hostettler
July 7, 2023
So, wait...did Sparks play in Milwaukee 40 years ago? The internet seems to think that they played Summerfest on July 3, 1983—almost 40 years eerily to the day. But I suppose we should forgive Russell Mael, the...

“Inside A Dream” brings the music of David Lynch back to The Cooperage

Matt Wild
January 23, 2023
"I fell in love with Twin Peaks back in early high school. I also remember a copy of Blue Velvet sitting in my mom's VHS collection growing up, so it's always kind of been a part of my life in some ways."So...

15 takeaways from Saturday’s MxPx show at The Rave

Tyler Maas
November 21, 2022
To be honest, I wasn't really looking forward to Saturday night's MxPx show at The Rave as the concert drew closer. It was one of the first truly cold, windy, snowy, and just plain brutal days of the fall...and...

IDLES treat Riverside Theater to ferocious, fun performance

Cal Roach
September 4, 2022
Americans who lived through the rise and fall of grunge might smell something familiar in the media spat that’s gone on for the past few years between British alt-rock band IDLES and its detractors, who accuse ...

Frankie And The Witch Fingers work up a sweat in Cactus Club return

Catherine Jozwik
July 14, 2022
Scrappy power-psych/garage rockers Frankie And The Witch Fingers served up a heady concoction of heavy-hitting tunes during a sold-out Wednesday night show at the Cactus Club.Before the headliner took the s...

PUP tears up Turner Hall in long-awaited Milwaukee return

Tyler Maas
June 7, 2022
A lot can change in five years. During the half-decade span since PUP made its Milwaukee debut at a half-full Turner Hall in the summer of 2017, the Canadian pop-punk quartet that fashioned a small-but-impassio...

Fenne Lily, Illuminati Hotties, Pom Pom Squad wow Back Room @ Colectivo in Saturday sellout

Tyler Maas
March 7, 2022
Saturday night's sold out show at The Back Room @ Colectivo had a special feeling to it. Yes, every live event at this point in time feels a little more significant than it did two years earlier. However, addin...

Here’s to the afternoon we saw Eve 6 at Summerfest

Tyler Maas
September 5, 2021
With all due respect to the actual night-ending headliners who have earned top billing at their respective Summerfest stage this year, there's really nothing better than a quality afternoon "headliner" at the B...

Buffalo Nichols: hometown hero gives a performance to remember

Jabril Yousef
August 2, 2021
Last Wednesday, by complete chance, I connected with Buffalo Nichols on Instagram after seeing a clip of him playing at Evanston Space, a venue in Evanston, Illinois, where I attended college.At the time, I...

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...

P!nk brightens up the bleak with acrobatic and uplifting Fiserv Forum performance

Tyler Maas
May 3, 2019
With three Grammys, 15 chart-topping singles, more 50 million records sold, and an endless string of sold-out arena tours throughout the planet over the course of a career that's now spanned two full decades, P...

Foals elegantly trot through its catalog in energetic performance at The Rave

Tyler Maas
April 29, 2019
Even though Foals hail from Oxford, England, the British band has been a somewhat frequent fixture in Milwaukee in recent years. The last few Foals outings in town have taken place at The Rave, and that trend c...

Interpol turns on the bright lights and gracefully traverses its catalog at Pabst Theater

Tyler Maas
February 10, 2019
Before the last time Interpol came to Pabst Theater in 2014, we referenced the two drastically different identities the seminal New York post-punk band has presented over the course of its lengthy run. The firs...

Metallica follows simple, winning formula in Fiserv Forum debut

Cal Roach
October 17, 2018
The last bastion of music industry consumerism rolled through the Fiserv Forum on Tuesday night for the first of three consecutive nights of massive concerts at the new arena. Metallica hasn’t released a really...

Hop Along takes Turner Hall on a joyride in Milwaukee debut

Tyler Maas
June 13, 2018
It's been a year of new experiences for Hop Along. In April, the Philadelphia quartet released Bark Your Head Off, Dog, the band's most anticipated album to date. The newfound attention—first set into motion by...

Pabst Theater receives King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard like conquering heroes in Milwaukee debut

Cal Roach
June 10, 2018
From a distance, everything about King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard seems like a gimmick: the goofy name; the preposterously psychedelic record and song titles; the album concepts (All the songs are the same...

Talib Kweli shows Turner Hall why he’s lasted 20 years strong

Phillip Martinez
July 10, 2015
Brooklyn was in the house Thursday night as Milwaukee played host to one of independent hip-hop's most influential artists, Talib Kweli. With a career spanning 20 years, Kweli has pumped out six solo albums, ne...

Iron & Wine calls for requests in solo Pabst Theater outing

Tyler Maas
September 19, 2014
Though it’s close to a decade removed from its commercial peak as go-to indie flick score and default audio accompaniment for that “play an entire song and show different characters doing stuff at the end of th...
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