Category: Music | Page 55 | Milwaukee Record

Shle Berry addresses dark times, prepares for better days on “When The Snow Melts”

April 2, 2021

Following a busy breakout year in 2019 that included tons of memorable live performances, oodles of local press, and the release of the Tampons EP, Milwaukee singer, rapper, and producer Shle Berry was poised f...

Brett Newski writes book, enlists Barenaked Ladies co-founder Steven Page for “I Should’ve Listened To Ferris Bueller”

Matt Wild

April 2, 2021

There's nothing unusual about a new Brett Newski song. Hell, the hard-working alt-rock troubadour has released eight singles in 2021 alone. What is unusual is a new Brett Newski song that doesn't come complete ...

Milwaukee Music Roundup: March 2021

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 31, 2021

Looking for new music? Looking for new Milwaukee music? Then look no further than our monthly Milwaukee Music Roundup. (Want to hear us discuss a few selections on WUWM’s Lake Effect? Click HERE.) LPs AND EPs ...

Trapper Schoepp takes you behind the scenes of disastrous “River Called Disaster” video

Matt Wild

March 30, 2021

You may or may not know that tireless Milwaukee singer-songwriter Trapper Schoepp has a new record coming out May 21 called May Day. You may or may not know that the first single from May Day is called "River C...

Reins Daily chronicles paranormal experiences in ‘Songs For The Phenomenon’

Tyler Maas

March 30, 2021

In early 2019, Twin Brother officially came to an end. The conclusion of the Milwaukee project—that managed five releases between its 2013 formation and 2019—soon found singer, songwriter, and founding member S...

MKE Music Rewind: The Fatty Acids, ‘Leftover Monsterface’

Tyler Maas

March 26, 2021

In our MKE Music Rewind series, we revisit notable Milwaukee music that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014. The local music scene seems to operate in cycles. When looking back ...

Andy Warren Jepson welcomes new album with haunting “Willkommen” video

Matt Wild

March 26, 2021

Twenty-twenty may be over, but its sights and sounds will linger for years to come. Just ask Racine singer-songwriter Andy Warren Jepson, whose new album, Main St., was written and recorded in the midst of the ...

Hear songs from two upcoming Rx Drugs releases

Tyler Maas

March 24, 2021

Way back in the summer of 2016, Rx Drugs—the project of The Championship's Joe Crockett, which also features past and current members of The Promise Ring, Dashboard Confessional, and Trapper Schoepp And The Sha...

Milwaukee musicians reflect on one year of COVID, look ahead

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 23, 2021

It’s been more than one year since COVID-19. It’s been over a year since “pandemic” became an everyday word. And for countless Milwaukee musicians, it’s been roughly a year since everything changed. We checked ...

Stop, collaborate, and listen to this Elkhorn Ribfest parody of “Ice Ice Baby”

Tyler Maas

March 18, 2021

A few days ago, in a Mandatory Milwaukee column we wrote about "making the most of spring," we referenced the newfound excitement and optimism of being able to once again see concert announcements and lineup re...

Locust Street Festival, Riverwest Beer Run have been canceled. Again.

Matt Wild

March 18, 2021

For the second year in a row, the annual Locust Street Festival of Music & Art and the accompanying Riverwest Beer Run have been canceled. The 2021 installments were scheduled for Sunday, June 13. The fe...

KASE’s ‘Pop Art’ captures a formative night at The Highbury Pub

Tone Madison

March 17, 2021

The following piece by Scott Gordon was originally published on Tone Madison. Trumpeter Jaime Breiwick, producer/DJ Ian Carroll, and bassist John Christensen began their first show as KASE with a stop-start ...

Something To Do dabbles in “Deepfakes” in its “Let’s Break Some Laws” music video

Tyler Maas

March 17, 2021

Even though the COVID-19 crisis has made things incredibly difficult and altogether horrible for musicians, bands have managed to come up with resourceful and downright incredible ways to write and record new m...

Diet Lite’s new album is very good, doctor-certified COVID-free

Matt Wild

March 17, 2021

The world is out of control. Up is down, left is right, dogs and cats living together, etc. About the only thing one can depend on these days is dependable bands putting out dependable music to help ease the de...

Like the rest of us, Indonesian Junk is ‘Living In A Nightmare’

Matt Wild

March 16, 2021

A new record from Indonesian Junk is a cause for celebration. The Milwaukee glam-punk outfit has been serving up sneering and snotty songs since 2014, invoking classic acts like the New York Dolls and Dead Boys...

I wrote about Shellac’s Turner Hall show a year ago (and left out some important details)

DJ Hostettler

March 12, 2021

For most of my immediate friend group, last March's Shellac mini-tour, which happened exactly one year ago, was the last live music experience any of us were able to take in before COVID-19 shut the world down....

Caley Conway’s “I Love You So Much I Don’t Want To See You” video doesn’t mince any words

Tyler Maas

March 12, 2021

Caley Conway has a knack for writing pointed, personal songs that have the unique ability to cut to the core while simultaneously sounding downright beautiful. After a prolific 2019, the inimitable Milwaukee mu...

Delight in the dark pop goodness of You Win !!!’s new single, “Painmonger”

Tyler Maas

March 11, 2021

Last fall, we formally introduced you to You Win !!!, the young project consisting of multi-talented Milwaukee musician Amanda Huff and producer William Gardiner (who releases music under the moniker of This Ra...

11 Wisconsin Elvises can’t be wrong: Conversations with Elvis impersonators and tribute artists

Caleb Westphal

March 9, 2021

Elvis impersonators have been around since shortly after Elvis shook onto the scene in the mid-1950s. They range from informal impersonators to professional Elvis Tribute Artists (ETAs). In Wisconsin, they are ...

Devils Teeth channel spaghetti westerns, ‘Bloodsport,’ in excellent ‘La Leggenda Di Chong Li’

Matt Wild

March 5, 2021

Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. For Milwaukee garage-surf outfit Devils Teeth, our current extraordinary times have called for—what else?—releasing a self-recorded "spaghetti western garage...