Music

June 18, 2019

There are many ways to celebrate the release of an album. A standard album release show. An intimate concert in someone's living room. Renting out the Polish Falcon and going nuts like Sat. Nite Duets did years...

Rose Of The West bassist, manager, spouse talks about work-life balance and band expectations

June 17, 2019

broadstreet.zone(71237); By his own admission, Cedric LeMoyne wears "a lot of hats" in Rose Of The West. The bassist—who earned major label attention in his longtime band, Remy Zero, before joining Alanis Mori...

Megadeth’s July 4 Summerfest show canceled due to health issues; Summerfest will not reschedule

June 17, 2019

Back in April, Ozzy Osbourne announced that due to health issues, he was canceling his 2019 tour—and with it, his scheduled July 4 Summerfest show at the American Family Insurance Amphitheater. Summerfest soon ...

Here’s who’s playing the 5th annual Biju’s Block Party

June 15, 2019

Though his band broke up more than a decade ago, former Camden member Biju Zimmerman continues to be very involved in music. He’s served as a tour manager for a variety of notable musicians (including Milwaukee...

Watch a local harpist try to break the world record for marathon harp playing…right now!

June 14, 2019

What are you doing right now? Reading this article and farting around on the internet, obviously, but what are you really doing? Are you trying to break a world record? Probably not. Well, New Berlin resident R...

A-side/B-side: Are hologram concerts the future of entertainment or just smoke and mirrors

June 13, 2019

In A-side/B-side, two Milwaukee Record writers tackle various city issues in an informal, crosstalk style. Insults are hurled, feelings are hurt, and everyone learns something in the end. Maybe.Tyler Ma...

The night I saw Tiffany at a rural Wisconsin bar

Joey Grihalva

June 11, 2019

To paraphrase Chuck Klosterman—who has a new book coming out and will be at Turner Hall on July 18—nostalgia, when it comes to music, may have less to do with warm and fuzzy memories and more to do with repetit...

Here’s the lineup for Cafe Hollander’s Summer Music Series

June 11, 2019

If there’s one thing Milwaukee loves more than live music, it’s live music played outdoors. Even though the city is already chock full of festivals, block parties, and a variety of other festivities, it hasn’t ...

Milwaukee Record Recommended (June 10-16)

June 10, 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...

Violent Femmes played a free “Cheers to Milwaukee” show at the Riverside and it was good

June 7, 2019

There are two groups of Milwaukee music fans: the group that enthusiastically answers "Violent Femmes!" when asked to name the city's most influential band, and the group that rolls its eyes when confronted wit...

Milwaukee Record Recommended (June 3-9)

June 4, 2019

Public Domain: Lex Allen performs “Go Tell It On The Mountain”

June 4, 2019

Milwaukee Record is proud to present Public Domain. The music video series features Milwaukee musicians setting up at Colectivo Coffee to adapt some of the world’s best-known songs in ways they’ve never been he...

Here’s the 2019 Lakefront Festival Of Art lineup

June 4, 2019

Milwaukee Art Museum’s Lakefront Festival Of Art has always been one of the city’s classier summer festivals—no beer runs or zany street performers here! Still, per Milwaukee summer festival regulations, there ...

Buckle up for this weekend’s CrusherFest with Lovanova’s bruising “Da Crusher”

June 4, 2019

Reggie "Da Crusher" Lisowski is known as "The Man Who Made Milwaukee Famous." Over the course of his 40-year professional wrestling career, the South Milwaukee native and World War II vet was the pride of a reg...

Milwaukee Record’s favorite moments from Riverwest FemFest 2019

June 3, 2019

"I think moving forward, we'd love to see FemFest as a thing that just happens all the time, everywhere." That was festival organizer Ellie Jackson in the closing moments of this year's eight-day, multi-venue, ...

When you feel like nobody cares, watch the video for Tigernite’s incredible “Oracle”

June 3, 2019

When one thinks of Tigernite (which one should do often), one thinks of glam-rock vamping, mile-high choruses, and glitter. So much glitter. But, as we said about the band's excellent 2018 album Sublunary: "The...

Milwaukee Music Roundup: May 2019

May 31, 2019

Looking for new music? Looking for new Milwaukee music? Then look no further than our monthly Milwaukee Music Roundup, stuffed with new records, notable singles, and more. LPs AND EPs OF NOTE Marielle Allschw...

It looks like Slayer’s “final Milwaukee show” will happen in Chicago

May 30, 2019

Good news, local metalheads! Slayer—a.k.a "SLAAAAAAAYEEERR!!!"—just announced they'll be playing one last Milwaukee show as part of the band's final world tour. Bad news, local metalheads! The farewell performa...

Violent Femmes will play free “Cheers to Milwaukee” show at Riverside Theater June 6