My First Band: Elijah Wolf
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We're breaking our usual Friday release format this week to give you an extra special BONUS episode with Brooklyn-based singer and songwriter Elijah Wolf. The up-and-coming purveyor of...
My First Band: Jen Razavi (The Bombpops)
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This week's guest is Jen Razavi. You might know her better as "Jen Pop," one of the singers, guitarists, and founding members of The Bombpops. The Los Angeles-based band has earned not...
Milwaukee Record now sells forest green and cream T-shirts (for a limited time)
Oh Deer! We have a brand new T-shirt design. With the help of Redwall Screen Printing, we’re making a limited run of forest green Milwaukee Record shirts with cream lettering. PRE-ORDER NOW! Why forest green an...
Milwaukee Music Roundup: January 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.)
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My First Band: Adam Weiner (Low Cut Connie)
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My First Band has reached the century mark! We're celebrating the 100-episode milestone in grand fashion with the incomparable Adam Weiner, who you might know better as the singer, pia...
My First Band: Scott H. Biram
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This week's guest is Scott H. Biram, but you might know him better as "The Dirty Old One Man Band." Since releasing his solo debut in the year 2000, the tireless troubadour has played ...
My First Band: John Sparrow (Violent Femmes, The Danglers)
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John Sparrow is living every Milwaukee musician's dream. The percussionist has toured all around the world, performed at legendary venues like the Sydney Opera House and Red Rocks Amph...
My First Band: Lydia Luce
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Even though Lydia Luce first came to consciousness in folk and Americana circles with her excellent 2018 debut, Azelea, the Nashville-based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalis...
My First Band: Charlie Berens (Manitowoc Minute, Berens & Greuel)
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My First Band kicks off 2021 with Charlie Berens. The affable actor, writer, comedian, and Emmy-winning host has made a name for himself throughout Wisconsin (and far beyond) with his ...
Milwaukee Music Roundup: December 2020
Looking for new music? Looking for new Milwaukee music? Then look no further than our monthly Milwaukee Music Roundup (a list compiled via our own archives and other resources like Bandcamp, 88Nine Radio Milwau...
10 good things to happen in Milwaukee during this awful year
This year will surely go down as one of the worst of our lifetimes. We'd say the worst, but we're honestly not sure how 2021 will turn out. Though the past nine-plus months have been racked with unthinkable tra...
My First Band: Shawna Nicols (DJ Shawna)
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This week's guest—and the final My First Band guest of 2020—is Shawna Nicols. Wisconsin sports fans probably know her better as "DJ Shawna," the moniker she uses while serving as the o...
18 more Milwaukee-made holiday songs
Over the course of a few Decembers of Milwaukee Record‘s existence, we’ve rounded up a mess of amazingly tolerable local songs that are helping to improve the largely unsatisfying holiday music genre. (You can ...
My First Band: Bartees Strange
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Though 2020 has been a downright awful year with very few bright spots, the emergence of Bartees Strange has been one silver lining people can be happy about. The Washington DC-based s...
Milwaukee Record’s favorite Milwaukee Record stories of 2020
Milwaukee Record launched on April 7, 2014. Since then, we've published nearly 7,000 stories and reached millions upon millions of internet-weary eyeballs (we're currently in the midst of another record-breakin...
Milwaukee Record’s favorite Milwaukee music videos of 2020
Even though 2020 has been so unusual/unprecedented/awful, a dizzying amount of great music was made and released in our fair city this year. And—surprise, surprise—a wealth of great music videos were released, ...
Milwaukee Record’s favorite Milwaukee music of 2020
Because 2020 has been so unusual/unprecedented/awful, we're putting our year-end "25 Best Milwaukee Albums" list on hold and opting for something more loose and personal. Despite the pandemic, there was a LOT o...
My First Band: Chris DeMakes (Less Than Jake)
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As a founding member of Less Than Jake, Chris DeMakes has spent close to 30 years traveling the world to perform thousands of shows. Along the way, the singer and guitarist has shared ...
Tune in to Milwaukee Record’s “Best Of The Worst Year” livestream on December 17
What a year, right? Ugh.
Anyway, we'll spare you the year-end wallowing and instead give you this: On Thursday, December 17, from 6-9 p.m., we'll be streaming our first (and hopefully last) "Best Of The Wors...
Merry Dickmas: Etsy’s top 50 dong-themed holiday cards
In need of some late Christmas cards for co-workers, we recently ventured over to Etsy to see if we could find something unique and hopefully a little bit funny. After typing in something dull like "Funny Chris...