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Cal Roach is a writer (here, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, You-Phoria.com) and radio DJ (WMSE 91.7 FM) who has lived in Riverwest for most of the past two decades.

IDLES treat Riverside Theater to ferocious, fun performance

Cal Roach
September 4, 2022
Americans who lived through the rise and fall of grunge might smell something familiar in the media spat that’s gone on for the past few years between British alt-rock band IDLES and its detractors, who accuse ...

Kristin Hersh lives up to (and exceeds) alt-rock-icon status at intimate Back Room show

Cal Roach
June 13, 2022
Alt-rock icon Kristin Hersh, unlike virtually all of her peers, never made much of a grab for stardom. Even at their most compelling, Hersh's songs are more likely to get under your skin than make you hum along...

New book, ‘The Milwaukeean,’ tells tragedy-and-triumph tale of Milwaukee music original Klassik

Cal Roach
June 2, 2022
By now, any fan of Milwaukee music has heard of Klassik, and any fan of Klassik knows a bit about his life story. Kellen Abston is an artist who makes no attempt to hide his past or his opinions, and the journe...

Weird Al fortunately returns to Milwaukee with “Unfortunate Return” of non-parody tour

Cal Roach
May 25, 2022
broadstreet.zone(72091); Welcome to Milwaukee Record’s Weird Al Week, sponsored by Lakefront Brewery! Want daily Al-related articles culminating in a recap of Al’s May 24 show at the Marcus Performing Arts Cen...

The kids are alright: An interview with a 9-year-old Weird Al fan

Cal Roach
May 23, 2022
broadstreet.zone(72091); Welcome to Milwaukee Record’s Weird Al Week, sponsored by Lakefront Brewery! Want daily Al-related articles culminating in a recap of Al’s May 24 show at the Marcus Performing Arts Cen...

Courtney Barnett takes her time, shreds at Pabst Theater

Cal Roach
January 21, 2022
The Pabst Theater Group catches flak whenever the "all the good tours skip Milwaukee" conversation flares up, so due credit to those in charge for snagging Courtney Barnett late in the game. This leg of her U.S...

Billy Strings goes electric (and acoustic, and electric again) in sold-out Riverside Theater show

Cal Roach
November 4, 2021
Bluegrass is one of the most popular genres of music that still has fierce gatekeepers and rules—all of which Billy Strings has made his name disregarding. The attitude is evidently paying off.While most to...

Credentials work it out in video for “Body Builder’s Lament”

Cal Roach
October 28, 2021
Milwaukee band Credentials may just be hitting the public radar, but they've been kicking around for a few years. A collection of demos appeared on Bandcamp in May of 2019, and the group played a handful of sho...

Tool still invincible at Halloween costume-clad Fiserv Forum show

Cal Roach
November 1, 2019
Photos and video recordings were not allowed during Thursday night's sold-out Tool concert at the Fiserv Forum. It's a hip policy these days, ostensibly to force an audience to be present and focused on the sta...

Trey Anastasio refuses to play it safe at rewarding Riverside Theater show

Cal Roach
October 19, 2019
It’s been another uneventful year for Phish frontman Trey Anastasio. He didn’t write a single Broadway musical, nor did he perform with any symphony orchestras. Phish didn’t even release an album or invent an i...

Heart anything but a nostalgia act at deep-cut Fiserv Forum show

Cal Roach
October 13, 2019
Sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson have helmed Heart for more than four decades, almost entirely responsible for the group's success through more personnel and stylistic changes than the average fan could even keep t...

Stereolab remain relevant, revelatory at sold-out Turner Hall show

Cal Roach
October 5, 2019
Lætitia Sadier and Tim Gane probably didn’t set out to change the landscape of popular music forever, but that’s essentially what happened. The duo responsible for Stereolab didn’t simply inspire the creation o...

Hip Hop DNA: Volume 1 celebrates, investigates hip-hop history at Marcus Center

Cal Roach
September 14, 2019
Three weeks ago, Milwaukee's second-annual Hip Hop Week wrapped up, and the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts played an important part, hosting Ladies First: The Women Of Classic Hip Hop And R&B at its ...

Just eat it: Exploring the far reaches of the Weird Al culinary universe

Cal Roach
July 24, 2019
broadstreet.zone(72091); Hey! Welcome to the second annual Weird Al Week! Over the course of seven days, Milwaukee Record will fill your feed with fresh, funny, and slightly fanatical Al-related materiel. It a...

Snarky Puppy brings jam band prowess (and cheese curd references) to Pabst Theater

Cal Roach
May 24, 2019
To self-identify as a jam band used to be a rare thing. The stigma that comes with the term is a vague, squicky feeling of nth-generation white American men trying to play funk, and it’s certainly not an unearn...

Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets brings weakened pulse of Pink Floyd to Riverside Theater

Cal Roach
April 2, 2019
Nick Mason stressing that his Saucerful Of Secrets tour is not a tribute act smacks of Spinal Tap to be sure. Okay, fine: It's a Pink Floyd cover band, how's that? And one of only about three in the whole world...

John Maus turns anguish into therapy you can dance to at Turner Hall

Cal Roach
February 28, 2019
Is this going to be a concert review or a dissertation? Rarely does one come across any discussion of John Maus's music that doesn't drift into metaphysics, despite his own evident disdain for such overthinking...

Bob Nastanovich talks Pavement, weird tour buses, playing Milwaukee as DJ Need A Stack

Cal Roach
February 27, 2019
Two-drummer bands are all the rage nowadays, but how many official auxiliary percussionists are there? Bob Nastanovich likes to downplay his role in Pavement, but most fans would bristle at the suggestion that ...

Neil Young remains restless, reflective at Riverside Theater

Cal Roach
January 24, 2019
What possible reason could Neil Young have for continuing to work at such a pace? A perennial inspiration to all subsequent generations of guitar-based music, Young is also the world's most prolific septuagenar...

Thom Yorke stays solo in uncompromising Riverside Theater show

Cal Roach
December 6, 2018
Like most Gen-X music icons who aren't dead, Thom Yorke's most celebrated outfit (that would be Radiohead) has been relegated to part-time status lo these decades since its commercial peak. And why not? Sure, R...
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