Announcing Bandsketball 2016
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Since 2014, Bandsketball has served as a means of bringing musicians from all ends of Milwaukee's music scene together in an unconventional and incredibly fun way. Each summer, a combined 32 bands or hip...
SAFS Crew wins 2015 Bandsketball championship
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The second annual Bandsketball has been waging in Riverwest since the beginning of July. Starting with 32 acts, the music scene-wide basketball tournament whittled down to just two teams. On Saturday after...
Bandsketball 2015 reaches the finals
The second annual Bandsketball tournament has waged since the beginning of July. What started with 32 Milwaukee bands, rap collectives, or solo artists who found friends to play on their team has reduced to jus...
Bandsketball 2015: Second round results and quarterfinal matchups
Following a spirited opening round of Bandsketball, the field of 32 teams was cut in half. Saturday's sweet 16 saw bands, rap crews, and solo artists who were able to scrounge up a couple friends returning to t...
Bandsketball 2015: First round results and second round matchups
Following an enjoyable and altogether successful inaugural year, Bandsketball is back. The band-based basketball tournament returned to the courts on Fratney and Center streets in Riverwest for a second session...
Here’s the Bandsketball 2015 bracket
Last year's inaugural Bandsketball tournament was nothing short of a rousing success. Musicians hailing from all corners of Milwaukee and a number of different genres came together in Riverwest on the courts at...
Bandsketball returns for a second year
Last year’s inaugural Bandsketball tournament brought a wide variety of Milwaukee bands and rappers—32 in total—to the courts at the corner of Center and Fratney streets in Riverwest to determine which group of...
Bandsketball reaches final four, preps for Friday’s championship
More than a month ago, 32 Milwaukee bands and rappers threw their respective hats in the ring—or more accurately, brought their drastically varying basketball skills to the court—to engage in the inaugural Band...
Just 8 remain in Bandsketball championship contention
What started as a collection of 32 Milwaukee music acts taking the court to determine which is the best at basketball has now shrunk into single-digit contenders. Over the weekend, the second round of Bandsketb...
Bandsketball preps for second round
And then there were 17. After starting June 22 to accommodate bands embarking on tour, the opening round of the 32-band three-on-three Bandsketball MKE tournament is finally (almost) complete. Calamity Janes An...
Bandsketball courts 32 Milwaukee music acts
When it comes to music, the title of “best” is almost always subjective. Try as writers may to remain impartial, it’s only natural for at least some personal preference to trickle into record reviews and year-e...
Locust Street Festival 2016: A minute-by-minute recap
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For the past four decades, the annual Locust Street Festival of Music and Art has been one of the city's best street fests, celebrating all that is good, right, and drum circle-y in Riverwest. This year'...
Here’s the Breadfest 2015 lineup
Doesn’t it seem like Breadfest has been around forever? Though the concept of an eclectic cluster of local and regional acts taking to an abundance of bars and clubs in Riverwest in mid-to-late summer seems so ...
Tracklist: 13 Milwaukee music-inspired beers we’d totally drink
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...
Thurman Merman tackles tough topics with delicate sounds
Already a full-fledged member of Ugly Brothers, an occasional supporting player with Caley Conway And The Lucy Cukes and Holy Sheboygan (among other outfits), the co-organizer/co-founder of Bandsketball, in the...
Johanna Rose lets New Boyz Club out of the house and onto the stage
As the upright bass player of Calamity Janes And The Fratney Street Band, Johanna Rose provides the rhythmic backbone and contributes one fourth of the gorgeous and formidable harmonic wave for which the buddin...
Tracklist: 10 especially ambitious Milwaukee music videos
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No modern band has done more with the music video medium than OK Go. With its genius use of things like treadmill choreography, Rube Goldberg-like mechanisms, paint, and other artsy accoutrements, the L....
Sat. Nite Duets and The Fatty Acids rekindle b-ball rivalry for art’s sake
Wouldn't it be cool if music videos were real? Imagine a universe where a woman could be whisked away to an exhilarating animated world like the one in A-ha's "Take On Me", where Paula Abdul and MC Skat Kat cou...
Exclusive: Stream the self-titled debut EP by Ugly Brothers
Founded in 2011 by brothers Alex and Palmer Shah—two Milwaukee transplants of debatable attractiveness from Green Bay—Ugly Brothers kept its original emo-meets-Delta-blues output confined to house shows and Riv...
WebsterX takes to the clouds in the “Renaissance” music video
During his Mad Planet performance as part of Breadfest 2014, Sam Ahmed (aka "WebsterX") pledged to have new material in the can and ready to release this winter. Fewer than 72 hours later, the talented Milwauke...