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The SummerRest: 15 non-Summerfest recommendations

June 23, 2015

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

Tyler Maas

June 23, 2015

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

Tyler Maas

June 22, 2015

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

Tyler Maas

June 19, 2015

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

Tyler Maas

June 18, 2015

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

Tyler Maas

June 17, 2015

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”

Tyler Maas

June 17, 2015

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

Tyler Maas

June 16, 2015

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

Tyler Maas

June 16, 2015

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

Tyler Maas

June 15, 2015

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

Tyler Maas

June 12, 2015

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

Tyler Maas

June 12, 2015

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

Tyler Maas

June 12, 2015

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

Tyler Maas

June 11, 2015

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

Tyler Maas

June 11, 2015

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

Tyler Maas

June 9, 2015

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...

I went to the motherfucking Bead & Button Show

Tyler Maas

June 8, 2015

What the fuck did you do last weekend? Milwaukee’s nightlife was vibrant as hell by the time June’s first Friday rolled around. Close to 50 bars, restaurants, cafes, and retail shops in one neighborhood tran...

Space Cake, attic squatting, and unhappy endings: Brett Newski’s European tour diary

Tyler Maas

June 8, 2015

You will not find a more worldly Milwaukee musician than Brett Newski. The well-traveled folk rocker (and former Vietnam resident) hits the road so often and ventures to such distant destinations that he makes ...

Rollout mobilizes Bay View Gallery Night

Tyler Maas

June 5, 2015

During tonight's Bay View Gallery Night festivities, hundreds of Milwaukee area artists and musicians will showcase their work at 47 bars, restaurants, cafes, parks, and retail shops spread throughout the event...

I saw the dude from Staind at the world’s largest bratwurst festival

Tyler Maas

June 4, 2015

It's been a while since you've heard Staind, probably. Formed way back in 1995 in Springfield, Massachusetts, the band's two-decade run has seen the nu metal act rise from relative obscurity to widened notoriet...

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