Music

April 24, 2024

WMSE's local and live in-studio showcase, Local/Live, airs Tuesdays 6-7 p.m. You can find past episodes HERE, or on this handy Soundcloud playlist. milwaukeerecord · WMSE's Local/Live, April 23, 2024: Diam...

Alvvays returns to Pabst Theater for instantly iconic performance

April 23, 2024

Back in March, indie-pop band Charly Bliss scored a semi-viral tweet about fellow indie group Alvvays: if a venue doesn't play "archie, marry me" before a three band indie rock bill you can report them to the c...

Here’s the full musical lineup for the 2024 Harley-Davidson Homecoming, July 25-28

April 23, 2024

If you're looking for Milwaukee's most ridiculously packed weekend of summer 2024, look no further than July 25-28. There's German Fest July 26-28. There's the Riverwest 24 July 26-27. There's the Air & Wat...

Milwaukee Record Recommended Events: April 22-28, 2024

April 22, 2024

broadstreet.zone(152022); Milwaukee is chock full of things to do, but only a handful of Milwaukee events are worthy of the lofty honor of "Record Recommended" (patent pending). Here are our recommendations—br...

Guided By Voices (!) will headline WMSE’s Backyard BBQ on August 24

April 18, 2024

The club park is open. Yes, you read the headline correctly: Legendary high-kicking Dayton, Ohio indie-rock band Guided By Voices will headline WMSE's 14th annual Backyard BBQ concert in Humboldt Park on Sat...

Here’s the 2024 Chill On The Hill lineup

April 17, 2024

For nearly two decades, Bay View Neighborhood Association’s Chill On The Hill has brought music to Humboldt Park’s band chalet every Tuesday between the beginning of June and the end of August. We’re pleased...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Garden Home

April 17, 2024

WMSE's local and live in-studio showcase, Local/Live, airs Tuesdays 6-7 p.m. You can find past episodes HERE, or on this handy Soundcloud playlist. milwaukeerecord · WMSE's Local/Live, April 16, 2024: Gard...

Bob Reitman announces retirement, final show on WUWM

April 15, 2024

It's not alright, ma: Legendary Milwaukee radio pioneer Bob Reitman is retiring. Reitman, 82, who currently co-hosts WUWM's It's Alright, Ma, It's Only Music with his son Bobby, will officially retire on Fri...

Milwaukee Record Recommended Events: April 15-21, 2024

April 15, 2024

broadstreet.zone(152022); Milwaukee is chock full of things to do, but only a handful of Milwaukee events are worthy of the lofty honor of "Record Recommended" (patent pending). Here are our recommendations—br...

8 ways Milwaukee is celebrating Record Store Day 2024

April 15, 2024

Love it or hate it, it’s safe to say Record Store Day is here to stay. What started as an honest-to-goodness movement to encourage listeners to get out and support independent music retailers who were suffering...

Gold Steps take mansplainers to task in “Narcissist”

April 12, 2024

When Betty Mauritz isn't commanding crowds all over the country as the vocalist of Milwaukee pop-punk outfit Gold Steps, she's working a 9-to-5 at a brewery. Being a woman in those two male-dominated industries...

Scam Likely breaks through with terrific sophomore album, ‘Yolk’

April 12, 2024

Roughly 10 minutes into Scam Likely's new album Yolk, an unexpected sound arrives: an acoustic guitar. Huh. This is a band whose excellent 2023 debut Getting Worse was stuffed with crunchy indie-rock rocker ...

Garden Home is a band in full bloom on self-titled debut album

April 12, 2024

Garden Home hasn't exactly been a stranger to our little parcel of digital real estate in recent years, but the Cream City screamo quartet has somehow managed to attract our attention (and fashion an impressive...

Make our “Milwaukee Daylist” playlist your official Milwaukee Day soundtrack

April 12, 2024

Sunday, April 14 marks another "Milwaukee Day" here in the Cream City. This holiday, which originated about 15 years ago as an inside joke between friends who realized Milwaukee’s 414 area code had a striking r...

Valerie Lighthart’s “Backwoods” video brings high fashion to “a vacuum of rural isolation”

April 11, 2024

When we last checked in with Valerie Lighthart, the multi-faceted Milwaukee musician was adding to her "By Moonlight" EP trilogy output by releasing a music video for her single "Monster," which we described as...

“Come on, we don’t get to play in Milwaukee every day!” Marc Ribot brings Jazz-Bins to Vivarium

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April 11, 2024

After years of honing his craft in obscurity, Marc Ribot got his big break in the mid-'80s playing guitar for Tom Waits. Listening to those records now—Rain Dogs and intermittently onward—you hear a restrained ...

Lilliput Records has big plans for this year’s Record Store Day

April 10, 2024

During last year’s Record Store Day festivities, Lilliput Records—an independent record retailer owned and operated by former Exclusive Company managers in the same property (1669 N. Farwell Ave.) that its pred...

Here are the Main Stage headliners for the 2024 Wisconsin State Fair

April 10, 2024

Ah, the Wisconsin State Fair. The food, the animals, the food, the rides, the food, the dog-days-of-summer heat, and the food. We're still four months away from the 2024 installment of the Fair (August 1-11), b...

Royal Mill weathers cold conditions with warm companionship on “Winter In The South”