Tagged Feature

Exclusive: Listen to Whips’ undeniably awesome new album, Turn It On

December 16, 2014

Midway through Whips’ swaggering, scorching debut LP, Turn It On, the band lets off the throttle and switches gears for an out-of-character surprise: a piano ballad. “I won’t forever glow / I won’t forever glow...

4.0

NO/NO: X.O.

Matt Wild

December 16, 2014

It should come as no surprise to fans of Milwaukee’s gone-but-not-forgotten Delphines that the band that quickly formed from the group’s ashes, NO/NO, has already released two EP’s worth of material. The Delphi...

The 15 best Milwaukee concerts of 2014

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 15, 2014

There was a time, not too long ago, when Milwaukee was on the “don’t-bother-playing” list for big-ticket touring acts, and regularly lost big-ticket shows to Madison and Chicago. Now, anyone claiming the latter...

Ale Asylum Riverhouse preps for December 22 open

Tyler Maas

December 15, 2014

Milwaukee has no shortage of local beer. With the abundance of breweries in town, the Brew City moniker is well-deserved. So with the sheer volume of suds produced within the city limits, it was an interesting ...

Extra Points: The Green Bay-Buffalo connection

Tyler Maas

December 12, 2014

On paper, the Green Bay Packers and Buffalo Bills couldn't be more different. One franchise owns four Lombardi Trophies, as the other is best known for losing four consecutive Super Bowls. Since the Brett Favre...

The 15 best Milwaukee music videos of 2014

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 11, 2014

This year was an incredibly bountiful year in Milwaukee music. Meanwhile, the utter success of the 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival suggests the city is coming into its own, both in the ability of locals to capture...

Neil deGrasse Tyson enlightens Riverside, explains how the universe is trying to kill you

Rob Wieland

December 11, 2014

Of all the unusual acts that have come through Milwaukee, never has their been one stranger than noted astrophysicist and ambassador of science (or perhaps, more correctly, SCIENCE!) Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson. Dr...

Moms group urges Kohl’s to pull ads from “s-nsual” and “p-rn-graphic” ABC show

Tyler Maas

December 10, 2014

One Million Moms, a “Christian community” of parents, was brought into this world by a higher power (Facebook) in 2009. Since then, the group—which is more accurately just 69,723 uptight people with nothing bet...

Neutral Milk Hotel will play Riverside Theater April 24

Matt Wild

December 10, 2014

For a certain slice of indie-rock fandom, Neutral Milk Hotel’s landmark 1998 album In The Aeroplane Over The Sea remains a musical and emotional Holy Grail. It was certainly a high-water mark for singer-songwri...

It’s Wednesday, which means Silk Exotic is applying for a downtown license again

Matt Wild

December 10, 2014

If there’s one piece of news Milwaukeeans can count on hearing about time and time again—other than the streetcar, the Grand Ave., and Bar Rescue—it’s the plight of Silk Exotic and its never-ending quest to ope...

Canopies maximize their scope with Maximize Your Faith

Matt Wild

December 9, 2014

“There are a million bands and a million songs. We were in no hurry to do something mediocre.”The five members of Canopies are huddled around a back table at Burnhearts, and guitarist-songwriter Nolan Treol...

The 25 best Milwaukee albums of 2014

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 8, 2014

If the sign of a deliriously overstuffed and overwhelming year in local music is the almost paralyzing difficulty in ranking it all come year’s end, then 2014 was one for the books. The number of assured, accom...

Tracklist: 12 Bar Rescue takeaways

Tyler Maas

December 8, 2014

//It finally happened. Months after revealing Spike TV “reality” series Bar Rescue was scouting locations in the city, then subsequently breaking the news of what bar would be featured on the show and when...

Var Gallery paints itself into the Walker’s Point landscape

Tyler Maas

December 5, 2014

When we last visited Var in June, the Bay View artistic hub was breaking in the new stage in its Hide House-adjacent gallery and studio with occasional acoustic performances and comedy showcases. As suitable as...

Watch two ridiculous clips from Bar Rescue’s Y-Not III/Nick’s House episode

Matt Wild

December 5, 2014

Are we really running another post about Bar Rescue’s upcoming Y-Not III/Nick’s House episode? To paraphrase BR host John Taffer, “YOU’RE GODDAMN RIGHT WE ARE!!! NOW COME DOWNSTAIRS FOR A STAFF MEETING!!!” Yes,...

The Midwestern Charm go on date from hell in video for “General Drag”

Matt Wild

December 5, 2014

If there’s one theme running through The Midwestern Charm’s thoroughly enjoyable 2014 album Growing Pains, it’s the difficulties in grappling with the humdrum realities and low-level indignities of adulthood. N...

Catacombz prepares to bow out after 10 years

Tyler Maas

December 4, 2014

A decade together is a milestone for any band. But when a cast of collaborators can come together as teenagers and span the length of two and a half presidential terms, see 10 versions of the iPhone, last appro...

Wilco refuses to play it safe for 20th anniversary show at Riverside Theater

Cal Roach

December 4, 2014

A 20th anniversary tour could be considered a victory lap; any band that makes it through two decades deserves to trot lazily around the country playing the hits. That’s not Wilco’s style, though. The band just...

Meat Greeter’s debut doubles as Jordan Maye’s goodbye

Tyler Maas

December 4, 2014

Thursday will be an evening of introductions at Mad Planet. Migo will unveil its debut album, Napkin Back. Not only will the show also be an album release show for Meat Greeter, it will serve as the young proje...

Johnny Beehner brings his homegrown humor out on the road

Tyler Maas

December 3, 2014

It's a quiet November afternoon in a residential neighborhood tucked between high-traffic causeways in Waukesha.Inside his two-story suburban homestead, Johnny Beehner holds his infant son in one arm while ...