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Don’t think twice, it’s all right to watch some Vince Condella “mini-concerts”

May 5, 2020

We're all dealing with the ongoing COVID-19 crisis in our own ways: baking bread, yelling at people for baking bread, drinking, yelling at people for drinking, having an extended nervous breakdown, etc. But wha...

Ways to support Milwaukee musicians during Bandcamp’s “Fee Free Friday”

Tyler Maas

May 1, 2020

Let's just cut right to the chase, shall we? Today—Friday, May 1—Bandcamp is waiving its fee for all sales, meaning artists get 100 percent of sales. Figuring musicians and independent labels could probably use...

Johanna Rose walks us through ‘Only Good Nites’

Matt Wild

May 1, 2020

"It seems absurd to have a voice memo as a track on a song, but I absolutely love it." That's Johanna Rose—tireless champion of Milwaukee music, one half of Nickel&Rose—describing one of the songs on her...

Devil Met Contention do it in the road (and by “do it” we mean “sleep”) in video for “Wait”

Matt Wild

April 30, 2020

It's been too long since we heard from Devil Met Contention. Back in 2018, the dusty Southern-gothic group was hanging up its matching suits and moving toward a more modern, sleeker sound. That year's single, "...

Milwaukee Music Roundup: April 2020

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 30, 2020

Looking for new music? Looking for new Milwaukee music? Then look no further than our monthly Milwaukee Music Roundup. LPs AND EPs OF NOTE CRLSS - 808's & A Lack Of Faith 808's & a Lack of Faith by...

Hear a new song by Tracing Mona, a “long distance recording collaboration” with Milwaukee roots

Tyler Maas

April 29, 2020

Given the band’s unconventional nature of making music, its limited output, and the fact that none of its members currently live in Milwaukee, we'll give you a pass if the name Tracing Mona doesn't ring a bell....

When life gives you an apocalypse, Xposed 4Heads make it a “New Wave Apocalypse”

Matt Wild

April 29, 2020

There aren't many certainties in life right now, save for death, taxes, and the wisdom of staying inside. Oh, and the gleefully geeky and goofy sounds of long-running Milwaukee band Xposed 4Heads! Let's focus o...

Field Report’s ‘Brake Light Red Tide’ is an accidental masterpiece

Matt Wild

April 28, 2020

"We weren't working toward a specific goal or deadline. We weren't trying to make anyone happy. We weren't trying to shoehorn a song or vibe into an album that asks for it. We made ships in bottles, one at a ti...

Heed the advice of Something To Do’s quarantine ska jam, “Stay Inside”

Tyler Maas

April 21, 2020

You simply won't find a longer-tenured or better ska band in Wisconsin (or the Midwest?) than Something To Do. The Milwaukee-Madison sextuplet has been playing out regularly and releasing music since 2003, surv...

Forward Music Festival gives listeners a way to watch Milwaukee musicians, support area venues

Tyler Maas

April 20, 2020

With all due respect to the countless musicians who are hosting live streams of performances in their own home or from their practice space in an effort to entertain folks (and hopefully raise a little money) d...

Watch the video for Devils Teeth’s new recorded-under-quarantine jam, “Drop Down Gator”

Matt Wild

April 20, 2020

"We haven't seen each other or played together since our Man Or Astro-man? show on February 25, and our March 17 show was canceled because of the 'rona. We're each isolated for a variety of reasons, and we're d...

Please enjoy the debut album from one-man grindcore band Chopping Mall, ‘Mauled By A Magical Bear With Scalding Hot Liquid Cheese Spraying From Its Eyesockets’

Matt Wild

April 18, 2020

Sometimes an email comes across our desks that needs no explanation. Sometimes that email is promoting a debut album from a one-man grindcore band that also needs no explanation. So, without any further explana...

Take the money and run with the cinematic video for Lorde Fredd33’s “Summer Breeze”

Matt Wild

April 17, 2020

"It's put up or shut up time as far as I'm concerned." That's Lorde Fredd33, speaking about his new song and video, "Summer Breeze." But he's talking about much more than that, of course. He's talking about ...

Enjoy the gloriously live, gloriously sweaty video for Hughes Family Band’s “Death Of Me”

Matt Wild

April 16, 2020

Remember shows? Us too! Remember squeezing into a bar on a Saturday night and enjoying the sounds of a live band and the company of other human beings? Us too! Want to relive that currently on-hold experience v...

Dramatic Lovers premiere new single and release new video they shot while quarantined

Tyler Maas

April 14, 2020

Last year, Dramatic Lovers—a Milwaukee super group that boasts members of Decibully, The Promise Ring, Maritime, and Temper Temper in its ranks—officially announced its presence with You Talk Loud. The band's d...

Celebrate our city with a Long Line Riders cover of “Milwaukee, Here I Come”

Tyler Maas

April 14, 2020

If you've never had the pleasure of hearing Long Line Riders during the band's relatively short run to this point, the six-piece outfit—which features past and current members of Space Raft, Fox Face, Phylums, ...

The Grovelers’ “Sicko” gets appropriately sick stop-motion video

Matt Wild

April 10, 2020

If you're looking for subtlety in your music—poetic and tender lyrics, intricate and feather-light instrumentation—The Grovelers are not the band for you. "When you wear your Sunday best / I tear you up and I e...

Vinz Clortho gives us the shoegaze cover of Sheryl Crow’s “If It Makes You Happy” we need right now

Matt Wild

April 9, 2020

Feeling a little up and down these days? Have you been juggling pangs of soul-crushing dread with unexpected bursts of hope and joy? SAME. Need a perfect song (and video) to sum up those conflicting feelings? E...

14 Milwaukee-made quarantine/COVID-19 songs

Tyler Maas

April 7, 2020

They say "write what you know." Well, for a bunch of Milwaukee musicians, what they know at the moment is isolation, uncertainty, loneliness, lost income, and fear. As a result, a few local acts have taken it u...

Stream five songs from Will Rose’s new album, ‘Wilted’

Tyler Maas

April 6, 2020

When we last caught up with Will Rose in late 2018, the accomplished Milwaukee percussionist and rapper was putting the finishing touches on a Mac Miller tribute show he organized, which would also serve as a f...