Jaill breaks free with Brain Cream
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...
Lineup for 10th annual Milwaukee Comedy Festival announced
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, ...
Review: Taped Music at JoJo’s Martini Lounge (Summerfest)
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...
Maritime announces new album, release date
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...
The SummerRest: 15 non-Summerfest recommendations
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...
Exclusive: Stream VBIV’s debut EP, Control
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)....
Dummerfest 2015’s most memorable moments
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...
Exclusive: Stream Pharaoh Mac & DMT’s “Drift” featuring Greatest Lakes
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...
A decade of intensity: Get Rad looks back on 10 years
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...
Milwaukee Record’s Dummerfest guide for dummies
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 ...
Exclusive: Stream Brett Newski’s cassette-only B-side “Everybody Knows You Can’t Sleep With Your Eyes Closed”
Following an 11-week, 73-show European tour, during which he ate “Space Cake” and declined a post-massage HJ, Brett Newski likely wouldn’t be the first person you’d expect to issue a new release within two week...
Chastity Washington wins HBO’s 2015 ABFF Comedy Wings Competition
Though she’s not quite a household name in Milwaukee outside of the comedy community, comedian Chastity Washington has earned her fair share of attention and accolades from some pretty impressive places. The 20...
Old Earth treads new ground in California
Since New Berlin native Todd Umhoefer moved back to the region in 2012 after two years in San Francisco, the mastermind of experimental folk project Old Earth locked himself away in his downtown Milwaukee studi...
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...
The Violet Hours’ “Beeze” music video masters public domain
Less than a month ago, The Violet Hour put its sophomore album, Fragments, out into the world. The 10-song follow-up to 2013 debut, Not Haunted, sees Karen Muehlbauer's formidable pipes coalescing with a wall o...
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...
Kyle Dunnigan somewhat entertains a patchwork Turner Hall
Kyle Dunnigan is a tough sell at the ballroom level. Though the comic's work is certainly recognizable, the fact that the best known components of his comic catalog come in the form of a little-known character ...
Bad Comedy Theatre squeezes laughs from lemons
Not unlike having sex or driving, performing stand-up comedy is something that's the most exciting for the person doing it when they're new to it. Unfortunately, for those in the bed, in the passenger's seat or...
Exclusive: Stream the single off the LMNtlyst and Rusty P’s collaborative album, LMNoP’s
Last August, Rusty P's released their seventh studio album, Pull The Trigger, which the veteran Milwaukee hip-hop outfit wrote and recorded as a two-piece. By November, Count Classic and Phantom Channel had ann...
Help “Things That Should Exist But Do Not” exist
Josh Ballew is one of the funniest, most active, and most all-around ambitious comedians in Milwaukee. When he’s not delighting audiences throughout Wisconsin and northern Illinois with his stand-up skills, the...