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Get “Bucks Lust” and listen to Eddy J. Lemberger’s new Milwaukee basketball anthem

May 19, 2021

Do you like Milwaukee's professional basketball team? Are you excited for the playoffs? Are you a sucker for Wisconsin sports novelty songs? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you might suffer from ...

Enjoy live music on the open water this summer with MKE River Round Up

Tyler Maas

May 19, 2021

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...

Catch up with the sounds of Milwaukee indie with, well, ‘Milwaukee Indie’

Matt Wild

May 19, 2021

"All the Milwaukee classics you might have missed lately." That's the tagline for Milwaukee Indie, Volume I, a nine-track digital comp out today on Spotify and Apple Music. Inherent in that line is the fact tha...

Guns N’ Roses will play Summerfest September 18

Matt Wild

May 18, 2021

And the rescheduled-from-2020 Summerfest announcements keep on coming: Guns N'Roses will headline the American Family Insurance Amphitheater on Saturday, September 18. Tickets are on sale NOW. And, um, that'...

Bay View Gallery Night returns June 25

Tyler Maas

May 17, 2021

Since 2011, Bay View Gallery Night has organized "Milwaukee’s largest annual celebration of art, local business, music, and community." The massive neighborhood-wide event brings together talented area artists ...

Green Day, Fall Out Boy, Weezer will play Summerfest September 1

Matt Wild

May 17, 2021

In another "kind of Summerfest but not quite Summerfest" show announcement, Green Day, Fall Out Boy, and Weezer will bring their "Hella Mega Tour" to Milwaukee's American Family Insurance Amphitheater on Wednes...

Alice Cooper (and Ace Frehley) will play BMO Harris Pavilion October 1

Matt Wild

May 17, 2021

Ever listen to Alice Cooper's radio show Nights With Alice Cooper? Isn't it funny that the bulk of the stuff he plays is really obvious and overplayed, like "Crazy Train" and, I dunno, "Baba O'Riley"? Weird. Al...

Nature Is Healing, pt. 12: Wisconsin State Fair headliner lineup is exactly what it should be

Matt Wild

May 14, 2021

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week. This week: the 2021 Wisconsin State Fair headliner lineup! • The 2021 Wisconsi...

Dinner Set Gang’s “Jellyfish” video takes you on a “sensual psychedelic journey”

Tyler Maas

May 14, 2021

Less than half a year has gone by since Josh Evert and Derek De Vinney (both of The Fatty Acids) officially unveiled Dinner Set Gang. Though the project has no formal release to its name at this point, the band...

Get to know CONVERT and stream “Slow Choke”

Tyler Maas

May 13, 2021

Here at the tail end of this unprecedented artistic "pause" of sorts, the dust is now starting to settle and we're getting a better idea of what Milwaukee's music scene will actually look like when live shows f...

Former ’90s Milwaukee band, Big Mother Gig, has a new record, ‘Gusto,’ and it’s great

Matt Wild

May 12, 2021

It's always wonderful to hear modern bands replicate the sometimes jangly, sometimes soaring alt/indie-rock sounds of the 1990s. It's even more wonderful, however, to hear the original bands from that college-r...

B~Free tackles jealously on cosmic dance track “Hate 2 Luv”

Matt Wild

May 11, 2021

When we last checked in with Milwaukee soul/R&B powerhouse B~Free, she was pondering a year spent in quarantine. "The loss of all of my in-person shows for the full year was initially devastating," the sing...

It’s “Bliss Or Bust” as Caley Conway wraps up trilogy of songs/videos

Matt Wild

May 10, 2021

Trilogies usually don't end well. The Rise Of Skywalker was a mess. The Matrix Revolutions was worse. Remember the third Godfather movie? (Of course you don't.) Well, at least the third Back To The Future movie...

The Goodboy Suit is reissuing 2002’s ‘Within Walls Without Windows’ on vinyl

Tyler Maas

May 7, 2021

The year is 2002. There's a four-pack of Sparks in your fridge. You're sitting at Comet Cafe and talking about the latest episode of The Sopranos with some of your MySpace "Top 8" before heading to The Globe to...

Summerfest is back, and here’s the 2021 Summerfest lineup

Matt Wild

May 6, 2021

Hey! Summerfest 2021 is happening! It's happening September 2-4, 9-11, and 16-18, to be exact (plus some "Wednesday Kick-Off Concerts" at the American Family Insurance Amphitheater.) And here's the 2021 Summerf...

New Immortal Girlfriend video doesn’t feel pity or remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop

Matt Wild

May 6, 2021

If you were synthwave duo Immortal Girlfriend, you might be content with continually making some of the best music to come out of Milwaukee in years. But you're not Immortal Girlfriend (unless you happen to be ...

MKE Health Commissioner: “We are making sure that masks are going to be worn” at Summerfest

Matt Wild

May 6, 2021

Will masks be required at this year's Summerfest? That's the big (gig) question. Thursday's Summerfest announcement included plenty of big names and plenty of reasons to get excited for the return of the Wor...

Emissary offers “extreme volume and distortion” therapy on ‘Cerulean’

Nick Olig

May 4, 2021

For musical artists to stay sane in COVID-19 times, it’s been easy to rock at home, but hard—if not impossible—to safely get out there and put on a killer show. Months have have turned into more than a year of ...

Milwaukee Boat Line’s Concert Cruise series returns, “first wave” of performers announced

Tyler Maas

May 4, 2021

For years, Milwaukee Boat Line and its impressive fleet of vessels—the Iroquois, Voyageur, and Vista King—have played an important part in the city’s summer enjoyment. With a wide range of cruises, which vary f...

Check out the lineup for The Ivy House’s “Patio Daze” music series

Tyler Maas

May 3, 2021

As society gradually makes its way back to something resembling normalcy, some of life's simple pleasures are also returning. Though some festivals have made the decision to cancel this summer as the COVID-19 c...