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Maritime announces new album, release date

June 24, 2015

It seems like its been an eternity since Maritime’s last record came out. Though the longtime Milwaukee indie rock dream team—which we think we’re legally obligated to mention is composed of members from Promis...

The SummerRest: 15 non-Summerfest recommendations

Tyler Maas

June 23, 2015

With tonight’s Rolling Stones show, Summerfest has (unofficially) arrived. The Big Gig gets into full swing come Wednesday, bringing more than 800 acts to 11 stages—not even counting those weird side stages nea...

Exclusive: Stream VBIV’s debut EP, Control

Tyler Maas

June 23, 2015

Outside of serving as Calliope’s guitarist, Victor Buell IV is a skilled videographer, a graphic designer, an artist, and a more-than-capable producer (who recorded, mixed, and mastered Calliope’s last record)....

Taking The City By Storm will document Milwaukee’s early punk scene

Matt Wild

June 23, 2015

Remember the days when the early history of Milwaukee’s punk scene was grossly undocumented and uncelebrated? Milwaukee Record remembers. Happily, those days are long gone. The last five years or so have seen a...

Dummerfest 2015’s most memorable moments

Tyler Maas

June 22, 2015

On Saturday, as many Milwaukeeans were enjoying the Summer Soulstice music festival, seeing bands at Lakefront Festival Of The Arts, or experiencing any of the other events happening within city lines on the pa...

Tracklist: 6 Safe House improvements we’d like to see

Rob Wieland

June 22, 2015

Local movie money moguls Marcus Corporation announced late last week their purchase of perennial tourist bar Safe House for an undisclosed sum. With nerd bars popping up all over the city and kitsch theme pubs ...

Peter Mulvey wrote a song for Charleston, and it’s spreading

Matt Wild

June 22, 2015

The way in which we, the rank and file citizens of the United States, react to mass shootings in this country has become depressingly predictable. Our initial feelings of shock and grief almost instantly give w...

Belle And Sebastian, Courtney Barnett leave Pabst Theater dancing, wanting more

Matt Wild

June 22, 2015

There were multiple moments during Friday night’s Belle And Sebastian show at the Pabst Theater when it was possible to mistake the proceedings for a ribald comedy show instead of a rock concert. “One of the an...

Is the Bucks arena deal on “life support”?

Matt Wild

June 19, 2015

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• Hot off pondering the great teenage-Redditor question of why a woman can hit ...

Exclusive: Stream Pharaoh Mac & DMT’s “Drift” featuring Greatest Lakes

Tyler Maas

June 19, 2015

Though there have always been assertions—yes, sometimes with proof—that Milwaukee musicians on the whole are unable and unwilling to venture beyond prominently-drawn genre boundaries and are hesitant to collabo...

A decade of intensity: Get Rad looks back on 10 years

Tyler Maas

June 18, 2015

During its first five-plus years of existence, Get Rad was indisputably among the loudest, craziest, most intense, and least constrained bands in Milwaukee. Not long after the release of the great 2010 record I...

Learning to let go, lighten up, and love Sofar Sounds

Matt Wild

June 18, 2015

Some of my first live music memories are of seeing shows in basements, attics, and living rooms. These were dingy, dirty affairs, with oodles of teenage crusty punks (and their dogs, always their dogs) crammed ...

On The Record Episode 23: Re-examining West Allis

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 17, 2015

West Allis. If you live in southeastern Wisconsin, reading the name of that city surely elicited a reaction, and it probably wasn’t a positive one. For decades now, Milwaukee’s western neighbor has been the rec...

Milwaukee Record’s Dummerfest guide for dummies

Tyler Maas

June 17, 2015

Every so often, the stars align just right and Milwaukeeans are faced with the troubling dilemma of what to do. No, this isn't echoing the moronic assertion that "there's nothing to do here." Rather, every few ...

Help fund a documentary about breaking the cycle of homelessness in Milwaukee

Matt Wild

June 17, 2015

It’s rare to find a Kickstarter campaign that’s both worthwhile and financially feasible. Ridiculous ideas paired with ridiculous funding goals are all too common on the popular crowdfunding site. But every now...

Exclusive: Stream Brett Newski’s cassette-only B-side “Everybody Knows You Can’t Sleep With Your Eyes Closed”

Tyler Maas

June 17, 2015

Following an 11-week, 73-show European tour, during which he ate “Space Cake” and declined a post-massage HJ, Brett Newski likely wouldn’t be the first person you’d expect to issue a new release within two week...

In search of Milwaukee’s most authentic Mexican restaurants

Todd Lazarski

June 16, 2015

We’ve all been there: sleeves rolled up, paper napkins scrunched in palm, grease trail trickling dangerously down the forearm as you angle another tortilla torpedo of mystery meat at your mouth, all the time th...

Old Earth treads new ground in California

Tyler Maas

June 16, 2015

Since New Berlin native Todd Umhoefer moved back to the region in 2012 after two years in San Francisco, the mastermind of experimental folk project Old Earth locked himself away in his downtown Milwaukee studi...

Klassik completes the seasonal cycle with Autumn EP

Matt Wild

June 16, 2015

Klassik has always been a man for all seasons—he’s a musician, rapper, producer, and video director, among other things—but now he’s literally a man for all seasons. With the release of his new Autumn EP, Klass...

Tracklist: 13 Milwaukee music-inspired beers we’d totally drink

Tyler Maas

June 15, 2015

In one of the cooler and more boozy bits of cross-promotion in recent memory, Sprecher Brewing Company and WMSE recently joined forces to release SMASH Ale. The “single malt and single hop” (the first letters o...