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Found Footage Festival talks new volume, ‘Chop & Steele’ documentary, West Allis thrift stores before Milwaukee show

November 20, 2023

Over the past decade, it has become a tradition to have a Found Footage Festival show in Milwaukee around either Thanksgiving or Christmas. That continues this year as Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher of the Found ...

Steve Young talks touring, Bronze Fonz, Industrial Musicals before next week’s show at The Cooperage

Rick Katschke

August 23, 2023

The term “industrial musicals” might not be familiar, but the concept of a musical that was created to be performed at a company sales meeting or industry conference is instantly understandable in the age of la...

Please Don’t Destroy talk tour, Milwaukee plans, Bucks Summer League before Turner Hall show

Rick Katschke

July 12, 2023

Over the past two years, Please Don’t Destroy have been making must-watch digital shorts that have become a staple of Saturday Night Live. Now the trio—Ben Marshall, John Higgins, and Martin Herlihy—are about t...

Semisonic’s Dan Wilson talks memorable Milwaukee experiences before “Last Summer On Earth” tour stop

Rick Katschke

June 6, 2023

This year marks the 25-year anniversary of Semisonic’s Platinum record Feeling Strangely Fine and, as chance would have it, the band is on its first tour in 20 years as part of the "Last Summer On Earth" tour w...

John Carpenter’s ‘Milwaukee Bucks’

Rick Katschke

May 12, 2022

John Carpenter is a national treasure who seems to have the perfect life. He collects royalties, plays video games, makes music when he feels like it, and enjoys NBA basketball all the time. That last part incl...

Semisonic treats Summerfest to greatest hits and brand new material in first Milwaukee show in 18 years

Rick Katschke

July 7, 2019

When the official Summerfest lineup was unveiled in spring, one of the biggest surprises was that Semisonic would be returning to the Big Gig after an absence of nearly two decades. The 2001 edition of Summerfe...

The Lonely Island (and T-Pain and Jose Canseco) entertain Summerfest like a boss

Rick Katschke

June 29, 2019

When the Lonely Island initially announced the dates of their first-ever tour, eagle-eyed fans noticed there was a potential Summerfest-sized gap between their Detroit and Minneapolis dates. Once the Summerfest...

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