Before co-founding Milwaukee Record, Tyler Maas wrote for virtually every Milwaukee publication (except Wassup! Magazine). He lives in Bay View and enjoys both stuff and things.
For hundreds of years, mankind has willingly left the comforts of home no matter the conditions and resigned itself to the concept of paying inflated bar prices for drinks that sometimes take upwards of five mi...
One event we failed to mention in our otherwise thorough and exhaustive Summer Festival Guide was MishMash Fest. Since The Fatty Acids unofficially christened the inaugural event with an amp fire back in 2011, ...
Though Summerfest books bands from all corners of the country and brings in a fair amount of international talent, The Big Gig has recently gone about narrowing the disparaging gap between its hometown talent a...
In case you don't recall or if you haven't kept up on the current events of musical footnotes of the late '90s and early 2000s, Steve Harwell—heretofore known as "the dude from Smash Mouth"—flipped the fuck out...
Milwaukee's collective music video game is strong these days. In the last year alone, local artists have given their music visual representation in a series of impressive, ambitious just plain inventive ways in...
With a 15-year track record, Brand New is anything but. Since reaching semi-consciousness way back in 2001 with Your Favorite Weapon, the New York band has taken incremental steps to transition from mid-eschael...
Where has the summer gone? It seems like the season only started yesterday, when in all actuality, it started 11 days ago. Okay, okay, so there's still a shit-ton of summer left, but with the abundance of festi...
Even the snobbiest Milwaukee music historian wouldn’t fault you for not knowing who the Obsoletes were. After all, two-thirds of the band’s members lived upwards of 100 miles outside Milwaukee for the vast majo...
In 2010, Jeff Wheatley-Heckman moved from Maryland to Milwaukee with the intent of helping inner city youth. After the comedy fan's noble work experience concluded, he decided to stay in town and help himself t...
Though Club Garibaldi’s stage will be empty for the entirety of July and most of August, the vastly underrated venue will come back strong with some great shows between the end of summer and the beginning of fa...
After six years and two records, Jaill is right back where it started. Since 2009 Burger Records debut There’s No Sky (Oh My My), the band—then called “Jail”—added a consonant, lost all but one member, signed t...
Last month, we were excited to reveal that certified Comedian Of Comedy Brian Posehn would headline the final night of the 10th annual Milwaukee Comedy Festival, which is taking place at Turner Hall on Sunday, ...
Summerfest plays host to more than 800 acts each year. By the time the colossal 11-day Midwestern musical mainstay concludes, thousands of musicians will take the stage to perform energetic live sets for an est...
It seems like its been an eternity since Maritime’s last record came out. Though the longtime Milwaukee indie rock dream team—which we think we’re legally obligated to mention is composed of members from Promis...
With tonight’s Rolling Stones show, Summerfest has (unofficially) arrived. The Big Gig gets into full swing come Wednesday, bringing more than 800 acts to 11 stages—not even counting those weird side stages nea...
Outside of serving as Calliope’s guitarist, Victor Buell IV is a skilled videographer, a graphic designer, an artist, and a more-than-capable producer (who recorded, mixed, and mastered Calliope’s last record)....
On Saturday, as many Milwaukeeans were enjoying the Summer Soulstice music festival, seeing bands at Lakefront Festival Of The Arts, or experiencing any of the other events happening within city lines on the pa...
Though there have always been assertions—yes, sometimes with proof—that Milwaukee musicians on the whole are unable and unwilling to venture beyond prominently-drawn genre boundaries and are hesitant to collabo...
During its first five-plus years of existence, Get Rad was indisputably among the loudest, craziest, most intense, and least constrained bands in Milwaukee. Not long after the release of the great 2010 record I...
Every so often, the stars align just right and Milwaukeeans are faced with the troubling dilemma of what to do. No, this isn't echoing the moronic assertion that "there's nothing to do here." Rather, every few ...