Music

A Weird Al album ranking that totally betrays the age of the author, and that’s it

May 22, 2022

broadstreet.zone(72091); Welcome to Milwaukee Record’s Weird Al Week, sponsored by Lakefront Brewery! Want daily Al-related articles culminating in a recap of Al’s May 24 show at the Marcus Performing Arts Cen...

Childhood, change, and growing a Weird Al Chia Pet for 14 days

Mitch DeSantis

May 20, 2022

Washington Park Wednesdays are back! Here’s the 2022 lineup

Matt Wild

May 20, 2022

And the summer music lineups keep on coming (and coming, and coming, and coming). Today, Washington Park Wednesdays revealed its 2022 lineup—its first full, in-person lineup since 2019. Here's who's playing the...

Music, beer, and fun are on deck at Third Space Brewing’s “Third Space Presents” concert series

Tyler Maas

May 20, 2022

On top of facing many of the challenges countless businesses have been forced to deal with these past two-plus years, Third Space Brewing was met with a fairly unique issue recently. In short, one of its walls ...

Holy crap, Milwaukee is getting a new 8,000-seat soccer stadium and 3,500-person concert venue

Matt Wild

May 20, 2022

Just when you thought Milwaukee's sports and concert venue news couldn't get any twistier, along comes a new twist: a just-announced 8,000-seat soccer stadium complete with an adjacent 3,500-person concert venu...

MKE River Round Up brings live music to the open water all summer long!

Tyler Maas

May 19, 2022

There are few Milwaukee summertime activities that can beat spending a few hours paddling around the city’s rivers in a kayak. Trust us! If the experience that blends outdoor enjoyment, exercise, and seeing the...

Weird Al Week (In 3-D) begins with a chat with Weird Al drummer Jon “Bermuda” Schwartz

Matt Wild

May 18, 2022

broadstreet.zone(72091); Welcome to Milwaukee Record's Weird Al Week, sponsored by Lakefront Brewery! Want daily Al-related articles culminating in a recap of Al's May 24 show at the Marcus Performing Arts Cen...

Soak up the lineup for the 2022 Summer Soulstice Music Festival

Matt Wild

May 18, 2022

In case you missed it, the Great Milwaukee Summer is back! And one of the many Milwaukee music festivals making its return after two COVID-heavy years, the Summer Soulstice Music Festival, just announced its li...

Here are the 2022 lineups for Lake Park’s Musical Mondays and Wonderful Wednesdays

Matt Wild

May 18, 2022

There are approximately 8,000 live music series returning to Milwaukee in 2022. Two of them happen to take place at Lake Park's Summer Stage, just south of the playground and tennis courts: Musical Mondays and ...

Jazz at The Vine coming to The Vine beer garden in Humboldt Park

Matt Wild

May 18, 2022

We've said it before and we'll say it again: There are approximately 8,000 live music series returning to Milwaukee in 2022. But what's this? A new live music series? Yep, for the first time ever, Humboldt Park...

Watch Alkaline Trio’s 2001 in-store performance at Atomic Records

Tyler Maas

May 16, 2022

If you talk to any record collector in Milwaukee who’s over the age of 35 for long enough, you’re bound to hear them wax poetic about Atomic Records. After being in business for more than 20 years, the East Sid...

Here are the daily admission promotions for Summerfest 2022

Tyler Maas

May 16, 2022

There’s an old Milwaukee saying we totally made up: If you can’t manage to score free or discounted tickets to Summerfest, you’re not really trying. Looking to enjoy the dulcet tones of Boyz II Men and Rick Spr...

Milwaukee Record Recommended: May 16-22, 2022

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 16, 2022

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...

Lil Jon, Juvenile, Hannibal Buress, more added to T-Pain’s “Wiscansin Fest” lineup

Tyler Maas

May 16, 2022

Way back in early March, we alerted you to an upcoming tour that singer, rapper, and producer T-Pain was about to embark upon called "Road To Wiscansin." As the name suggests, the 18-show jaunt, which started i...

Here’s the 2022 Tosa Tonight concert series lineup, schedule

Tyler Maas

May 13, 2022

Since 2000, the Tosa Tonight summer concert series has brought free and family-friendly live music to Rotary Performance Pavilion in Wauwatosa’s Hart Park. Following a pandemic-prompted hiatus in 2020, the seri...

Holy Pinto makes bleakness sound beautiful on “We’re All Doomed Forever”

Tyler Maas

May 12, 2022

In February of 2020, Aymen Saleh—a Canterbury, England native who performs under the name Holy Pinto—paid homage to his adopted hometown with a star-studded and local-landmark-laden music video for a song calle...

Here’s Milwaukee Boat Line’s 2022 Concert Cruise lineup

Tyler Maas

May 11, 2022

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...

NilexNile takes to the streets of Austin in “Yute” music video

Tyler Maas

May 11, 2022

Last fall, when we spoke to Nile—a.k.a. NilexNile on streaming platforms—about his breakout 2021, the Milwaukee rapper was poised to follow up his most productive year to date with even bigger and better things...

Milwaukee Record Recommended: May 9-15, 2022

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 10, 2022

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...

Celebrate the “414” with new Grace Weber video

Matt Wild

May 9, 2022

In case you missed it, April 14 was Milwaukee Day—a.k.a. 414 Day, a.k.a. the day every business in town cooks up something they can sell for $4.14. In between the annual video love letter from Imagine MKE and o...