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Exclusive: Stream Brett Newski’s cassette-only B-side “Everybody Knows You Can’t Sleep With Your Eyes Closed”

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...

Tigernite roars onto festival circuit, The Offspring opening slot

Tyler Maas

June 4, 2015

With under two years to the band's credit, Tigernite has already made a mark on stages throughout the city. The Milwaukee glam-rock quartet—propelled by a steady diet of chunky, arena-ready guitar licks and the...

Jaill album postponement leads to awesome June 28 release show BBQ

Tyler Maas

June 3, 2015

The May 19 release date we reported for Jaill's long-awaited fourth full-length, Brain Cream, has come and gone with no record to be heard. Due to vinyl pressing delays, Jaill's old/new label Burger Records was...

I hung out with the mayor of West Allis

Tyler Maas

June 2, 2015

Way back in March, we posted a video—once again, a video we had absolutely NO role in producing—that displayed a rough, unflattering, and altogether bleak view of West Allis that alleged it was “the worst city ...

First Impression: Wright’s Burgers & Wings

Tyler Maas

June 2, 2015

Late May is a time of exodus on Milwaukee's upper East side. University-adjacent sidewalks are strewn with gently (and not so gently) used furniture, as parents and Hernia movers alike help new graduates move b...

No longer new in town, John Mulaney slays in hilarious Milwaukee return

Tyler Maas

June 1, 2015

Former Saturday Night Live head writer John Mulaney's uproariously funny 2012 special New In Town is on the short list of the best hours of comedy captured on tape in recent memory. The intensely quotable—"OHH!...

Todd Barry will return to Turner Hall on July 24

Tyler Maas

May 29, 2015

With more than 30 years of stage time beneath his belt and an often-imitated, never replicated wry and soft-spoken comedic style, Todd Barry is on the cusp of comedy legend status. Though he's performed in Wisc...

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