Music

February 7, 2019

What do you get when you combine four veteran Milwaukee musicians with a desire to play "loud and sleazy, fast and greasy" tunes? The Slurs. The quartet composed of three former Rust Belt Demons members and 195...

Listen to the SIN BAD / Bad Wig split, ‘SIN BAD WIG’ (and say goodbye to SIN BAD for a while)

February 6, 2019

Peanut butter and jelly. Gin and tonic. Jake and The Fatman. There are certain things that are destined to be joined at the hip, destined to go together like, well, peanut butter and jelly. You can add Milwauke...

Stream Lifetime Achievement Award’s woozy new single, “The Melatonin”

February 6, 2019

On October 13, 2015, Jay Joslyn set out to write a song. The goal was to complete it within one week’s time. After he did that, he set out to do it 51 more times. Joslyn decided to release that year's worth of ...

Lauryl Sulfate explains how ‘Dance Music Saves Lives’

DJ Hostettler

February 5, 2019

Lauryl Sulfate is a product of dance music and outsider art. A veteran of Madison dance clubs and the scene surrounding Milwaukee's long-lost art/fashion space Darling Hall, Sulfate developed an adventurous DIY...

Milwaukee Record Recommended (February 4-10)

February 5, 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...

Ladies Rock will open 2019 enrollment February 8

February 4, 2019

Since beginning in 2015, Ladies Rock Milwaukee—the grown-up companion to Girls Rock Milwaukee—has become an established resource to help empower “women, transgender, and gender non-conforming folks of any ident...

Here’s the full lineup for Milwaukee Psych Fest VII

February 1, 2019

Since 2013, Milwaukee musician Andrew Shelp has given the city a loud, fuzzed-out, and reverb-drenched gift every spring: Milwaukee Psych Fest. Returning for its seventh (!) year April 12 and 13 at The Cooperag...

Milwaukee Music Roundup: January 2019

January 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 Astronaut Husban...

“The Shorewood Sayonara” will say farewell to North Shore American Legion Post #331

January 29, 2019

Earlier this month, news broke that North Shore Legion Post #331 (aka the "Shorewood Legion Hall") was for sale. Though the fate of the building that's known for its fish fry and, more so, for serving as an inv...

METZ will return to Cactus Club on May 27

January 29, 2019

METZ isn’t a particularly difficult band to understand. Amid a modern music landscape that’s rife with clunky sub-genre descriptors and acts haphazardly piling 10 pounds of influences into five-pound bags, the ...

Milwaukee Record Recommended (January 28-February 3)

January 28, 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...

Get old, weird with Yum Yum Cult’s debut single, “Up In The Tenement”

January 28, 2019

You may or may not be familiar with Yum Yum Cult, but if you're familiar with Milwaukee music, you're surely familiar with some of the band's components. The new-ish project features current and former members ...

Thanks for making Local Coverage 2019 great, Milwaukee!

January 24, 2019

Last Friday, Milwaukee Record hosted our fifth annual Local Coverage show at Turner Hall. There, a diverse cast of six Milwaukee acts took the stage to perform (approximately) 15-minute sets of another project’...

Neil Young remains restless, reflective at Riverside Theater

Cal Roach

January 24, 2019

What possible reason could Neil Young have for continuing to work at such a pace? A perennial inspiration to all subsequent generations of guitar-based music, Young is also the world's most prolific septuagenar...

X-Ray Arcade will bring gaming, all-ages events to Cudahy starting February 9

January 23, 2019

Last September, we told you about an all-ages music venue and mini-arcade coming to the former site of The Metal Grill and Vnuk’s Lounge in Cudahy. Today, that exciting venture publicly announced its name and o...

From Malaysia to MKE: How Milwaukee’s music scene is welcoming a foreign student

Mike Holloway

January 23, 2019

Matthew Chia had a surreal moment in Milwaukee, a moment he previously thought he would only experience through someone else's perspective on his computer screen. On Sept. 20, 2018, on-the-rise Boston hardco...

Remembering ‘Now That’s What I Call Milwaukee!’ a mixtape where every word is “Milwaukee”

January 22, 2019

If you're anything like us, you eat, sleep, and breathe Milwaukee. Because of that, you've probably experienced occasional Being John Malkovich moments where every word in your head suddenly becomes "Milwaukee....

Milwaukee Record Recommended (January 21-27)

January 21, 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...

Hear Direct Hit! cover Nickel&Rose before Local Coverage 2019