Music

January 21, 2020

Daryl Hall and John Oates—OF HALL & OATES FAME—will play Milwaukee's American Family Insurance Amphitheater Sunday, July 26. Squeeze and KT Tunstall will play in support. Pre-sale for the show begins today,...

Hip-Hop Week MKE will return August 17-22, 2020

January 21, 2020

The Milwaukee Common Council approved a resolution Tuesday morning that recognizes August 17-22, 2020 as Hip-Hop Week MKE. This will be Hip-Hop Week MKE's third year of bringing a ton of hip-hop-focused concert...

Milwaukee Record Recommended: January 20-26

January 20, 2020

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...

Fear, Jon Bon Jovi, and the worst Q&A ever

January 16, 2020

The following article originally appeared in the December 2019 edition of Colectivo Coffee's "Off The Record" print-only periodical/crossword puzzle. You can pick up "Off The Record" free of charge at all ...

Milwaukee Record Recommended: January 13-19

January 13, 2020

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...

Milwaukee Record Halftime Show advances to NFC Championship with Nasty Boys

January 12, 2020

On Sunday night, the incomparable Shle Berry packed Cactus Club for a Halftime Show performance before the Packers staved off a comeback by the Seahawks and advanced to the NFC Championship. It was nerve-wracki...

Practice space makes perfect space for Flat Teeth’s “Side Attack” video

January 8, 2020

Flat Teeth has been busy lately. Over the past four months, the Milwaukee indie rock outfit played Bay View Bash, put out its debut full-length, and followed that impressive release with an abundance of local s...

Milwaukee Record Recommended: January 6-12

January 6, 2020

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...

Milwaukee Music Roundup: December 2019

December 31, 2019

Looking for new music? Looking for new Milwaukee music? Then look no further than our monthly Milwaukee Music Roundup. Want to hear us discuss a few of this month's releases on WUWM's Lake Effect? Click HERE. ...

Milwaukee Record Halftime Show roars into the postseason with Shle Berry on January 12

December 30, 2019

On Sunday, Future Plans played the final Milwaukee Record Halftime Show of 2019 to a packed Cactus Club before Aaron Rodgers led Green Bay to a come-from-behind win that secured a first round postseason bye for...

Watch SistaStrings perform “Lift Every Voice” at Silver City Studios

December 18, 2019

Though Monique and Chauntee Ross have been performing as long as they can remember, the dynamic duo of classically trained musicians that make up SistaStrings never had a year quite like they've experienced in ...

Go through the looking-box with the video for Surgeons In Heat’s “By The End Of The Night”

December 17, 2019

It's been more than a year since effortlessly cool Milwaukee band Surgeons In Heat released the effortlessly cool Bored Immortals. The record was a perfect distillation of the group's chilled-out Spoon vibe, ac...

Milwaukee Record Recommended: December 16-22

December 16, 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...

Your Radio Milwaukee Music Awards winners are…

December 14, 2019

Following weeks of voting, artist campaigning, and DJ deliberation, 88Nine named the winners of the 12th annual Radio Milwaukee Music Awards during an event at Turner Hall Ballroom Saturday night. Between perfo...

Brat Sounds wear their hearts on their sleeves on ‘Bad Luck’

December 13, 2019

"I don't want to see 30 / I don't want to get married / I just want to stay hungry / I just want to stay bold." That's Brat Sounds singer Scott Cary in the opening seconds of "See Thirty," a standout track f...

Catch up on some of 2019’s best local music with the Silver City Sampler

December 12, 2019

In case you missed our various recent reminders, Milwaukee music is an incredibly good place. Though there’s no shortage of Best Of lists and awards that help recognize the recorded efforts of Milwaukee musicia...

The 15 best Milwaukee music videos of 2019

December 11, 2019

As demonstrated in our recent rundown of the 25 best Milwaukee albums of 2019 (not to mention our list of 15 standout Milwaukee EPs from 2019), a dizzying amount of great music was made and released in our fair...

Leave room on your best albums list for Social Caterpillar’s ‘Start A Fire That Sings You A Song’

December 11, 2019

Earlier this week, we posted our list of the 25 best Milwaukee albums of 2019. Of course, we put a great deal of time, thought, and effort into the article each year. We stand behind our picks, but despite our ...

15 standout Milwaukee EPs of 2019