Music

Here’s the lineup for The Brewery District’s inaugural Frühling Fest

April 19, 2019

Last May, Pabst Milwaukee Brewery & Taproom celebrated its first birthday with a full-fledged block party. The "one-year anniversary street festival" featured an eclectic mix of musical acts, including Nnam...

An interview with Tunic, a Winnipeg noise rock machine

Dan Agacki

April 17, 2019

Tunic is a noise rock machine.The Winnipeg band’s recently-released debut album, Complexion, is a nuanced assault on your senses. The dissonant guitars and shouted vocals collide with a thick rhythmic pulse...

Here’s Milwaukee Boat Line’s Concert Cruise lineup, mateys

Tyler Maas

April 17, 2019

Despite the dozens of festivals, block parties, and weekly outdoor music series taking place on Milwaukee soil every summer, Milwaukee Boat Line sees fit to extend the city’s celebratory spirit to the water wit...

Remembering the musical legacy of Rocky Rococo

Matt Wild

April 17, 2019

On Saturday, April 20, in the year of our Lord 2019, hungry Wisconsinites can don a white suit, a white fedora, and/or a fake nose and glasses and get a free slice of Rocky Rococo pizza, no questions asked. Yes...

The Yawpers bring diverse brand of rock and roll to Milwaukee

Mike Holloway

April 16, 2019

Loud. Straightforward. American.Denver-based rock and roll outfit The Yawpers use these simple words to describe its music. And yet you’d be hard-pressed to find just one word that embodies the overall soun...

Here’s the lineup for the 2019 Summer Soulstice Music Festival

Matt Wild

April 16, 2019

For nearly two decades, the East Side's annual Summer Soulstice Music Festival has marked the first day of summer with music, food, drinks, and that one guy who always shows up carrying a giant lizard. (Actuall...

Milwaukee Record Recommended (April 15-21)

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 15, 2019

Our fat-free, dolphin-safe Milwaukee events calendar is chock-full of things to do, but only a handful of events are worthy of the lofty honor of "Record Recommended" (patent pending). Here are our recommendati...

Here are your 2019 WAMI winners

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 15, 2019

The 39th annual Wisconsin Area Music Industry Awards (a.k.a. the WAMIs) took over Turner Hall Ballroom Sunday night, and what a night it was. Those in attendance were treated to performances by Hall of Fame ind...

Raw Bar is open at Crossroads Collective. Here’s the menu.

Matt Wild

April 10, 2019

Since opening in December 2018, Crossroads Collective—a.k.a. one of the city's first food halls located in the former Oriental Drugs space on the East Side—has been great. And now it's even greater: Today, the ...

Hey! Here are the 8,000 headliners for Summerfest 2019

Matt Wild

April 9, 2019

It's that time of year again: In advance of Summerfest 2019 (June 26-30, July 2-7), the Big Gig has unleashed its massive list of headliners. Approximately 8,000 ground stage headliners now join the previously ...

10 ways Milwaukee is celebrating Record Store Day 2019

Tyler Maas

April 9, 2019

Love it or hate it, it’s safe to say Record Store Day is here to stay. What started as an honest-to-goodness movement to encourage listeners to get out and support independent music retailers who were suffering...

Stream Nicholas Elert’s new EP, ‘Speculative Fiction’

Tyler Maas

April 8, 2019

When we last caught up with Nicholas Elert, the Milwaukee musician had just delved into the world of film by composing the score for a dreary Wisconsin-made short called Pity. Since then, the guitarist and mult...

Here’s the awesome Washington Park Wednesdays lineup

Tyler Maas

April 6, 2019

Like each and every summer, metro Milwaukee will play host dozens of festivals, block parties, and free weekly music celebrations between June and September that all help make enduring the six to eight other sn...

Ozzy Osbourne postpones 2019 tour, Summerfest show, will play Summerfest 2020 instead

Matt Wild

April 4, 2019

Bad news, Ozzy Osbourne fans: The legendary Prince of Darkness has postponed his 2019 tour due to an "injury sustained while dealing with his recent bout of pneumonia." That tour included a July 4 show at Summe...

MKE Music Rewind: Competitorr, “Stop Go”

Matt Wild

April 4, 2019

In our MKE Music Rewind series, we revisit notable Milwaukee music that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014.I moved to Milwaukee in the fall of 1996, but sometimes it feels lik...

Stomata, B~Free announce special May 3 performance at Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts

Josh Hoppert

April 3, 2019

After months of planning, composing, songwriting, and more planning, the time has finally come. On May 3, get ready to sit comfortably or dance beautifully in the beauty and comfort of The Harris Theater at the...

Pixies played The Rave and they were great and here’s what they played and said between songs

Matt Wild

April 2, 2019

Similar to our "Pixies played Summerfest and they were great and here's what they played and said between songs" review from July 2018, let's keep this short and sweet: Legendary alternative rock band Pixies pl...

After 45 years, Mott The Hoople return to Milwaukee for stunning Miller High Life Theatre show

Caleb Westphal

April 2, 2019

When Mott The Hoople last played in Milwaukee, the Domes were less than a decade old, Summerfest was approaching its seventh season, and Richard Nixon was in the last throes of his presidency. The date was May ...

Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets brings weakened pulse of Pink Floyd to Riverside Theater

Cal Roach

April 2, 2019

Nick Mason stressing that his Saucerful Of Secrets tour is not a tribute act smacks of Spinal Tap to be sure. Okay, fine: It's a Pink Floyd cover band, how's that? And one of only about three in the whole world...

WMSE will release a GGOOLLDD 7-inch for Record Store Day 2019

Tyler Maas

April 1, 2019

Since 2015, local radio institution and chili competition curator WMSE has helped spread the good will and wonder of Record Store Day with a limited-edition release of a 7-inch from a Milwaukee (or Milwaukee-re...