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Listen to Devil Met Contention “Take A Chance” with bold new sound

May 18, 2018

Devil Met Contention needed a change. "We'd been playing the songs off of our last album for a while," says DMC frontman Ehson Rad. "We did some small tours in the Midwest for them, and then we recorded them...

Here’s the lineup for the 2018 Summer Soulstice Music Festival

Matt Wild

May 17, 2018

For nearly two decades, the East Side's annual Summer Soulstice Music Festival has marked the first day of summer with music, food, drinks, and that one guy who always shows up carrying a giant lizard. On Satur...

20 edgy album covers from Milwaukee music past

Tyler Maas

May 16, 2018

The album cover is a dying art form. Once relied upon to be a gateway to attract customer attention, album art seems more expendable than ever these days. Imagery that, until recently, was used to help sell rec...

David Byrne lives up to his legendary status (obviously) at Riverside Theater

Cal Roach

May 16, 2018

In recent years, David Byrne has made more headlines for his activism than his music; based on his new solo album, American Utopia, this might be a good career development. Byrne has never shied away from makin...

Questlove’s “Symphonic Celebration of Prince” is coming to Riverside Theater (without Questlove)

Matt Wild

May 15, 2018

It's been more than two years since Prince left this plane of existence, but his spirit and his music live on. Purple Rain will forever remain Purple Rain. The Batman soundtrack will forever remain the Batman s...

Listen to another single from Surgeons In Heat’s upcoming LP, ‘Bored Immortals’

Matt Wild

May 15, 2018

Back in February, we gave you a sneak peek of the upcoming Surgeons In Heat album, Bored Immortals. Here's what we had to say back then when we premiered the record's first single, "Why'd You Start?": This tim...

Liz Phair rules and she’s coming to Turner Hall October 12

Matt Wild

May 15, 2018

Liz Phair rules. Liz Phair's debut album, Exile In Guyville (which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year), rules. Liz Phair's pre-Guyville Girly-Sound tapes rule. The rest of Liz Phair's career ranges f...

Here’s who’s playing Locust Street Festival 2018

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 14, 2018

The annual Locust Street Festival of Music & Art is one of the city’s best street fests, celebrating all that is good, right, and drum circle-y in Riverwest. On Sunday, June 10, the 42nd installment of the ...

Summerfest adds OutKast’s Big Boi, other stuff

Matt Wild

May 11, 2018

We're roughly a month and a half away from Summerfest 2018, but the excitement is already humming in the kinda-summer air. The music! The food! Our inevitable and increasingly confounding review of Taped Music ...

Feel the pain of the new economy with Dogs In Ecstasy’s buzzy “Scale 2 Infinite”

Matt Wild

May 10, 2018

Are you enjoying the new "gig" economy? Are you enjoying the relentless blurring of the line between "online" and "real life"? Of course you're not! Luckily, Milwaukee's ever-delightful pop smart-asses Dogs In ...

Here’s who’s playing the Riverwest Public House stages at Locust Street Festival 2018

Matt Wild

May 9, 2018

The annual Locust Street Festival of Music & Art is one of the city's best street fests, celebrating all that is good, right, and drum circle-y in Riverwest. On Sunday, June 10, the 42nd installment of the ...

Justin Timberlake and Ringo Starr: 15 standout (non-festival) summer shows

Matt Wild

May 8, 2018

Summertime musical entertainment in Milwaukee typically finds a home at the city's 8,000 street fests, or, you know, that whole Summerfest thing. But look beyond the temporary street stages and the sea of dance...

Pabst Milwaukee Brewery & Taproom announces headliner for its one-year anniversary street festival

Tyler Maas

May 7, 2018

Last month, we announced that Pabst Milwaukee Brewery & Taproom would be celebrating its one-year anniversary with a May 19 street festival. The follow-up to last May's grand opening party will bring an out...

Hear Something To Do channel Gob Bluth on new single, “I’ve Made A Huge Mistake”

Tyler Maas

May 7, 2018

When we last checked in with Something To Do, Wisconsin's premier ska outfit was pining for Tina Fey in the multi-cam music video for "Tina Fey II." In the year-plus since that video's release, the band has bee...

The Delphines will reunite May 19 for the third annual Gloss Weekend

Matt Wild

May 2, 2018

On Saturday, May 19, seminal Milwaukee band The Delphines will reunite for a one-night only show at Mad Planet. The previously hinted-at headlining performance will be part of Gloss Records' third annual Gloss ...

Triple Eye Industries Fest returns in August

Tyler Maas

May 1, 2018

Today, in the era of Name-Your-Price digital downloads, 99 cent iTunes singles, and abject saturation in the music industry, owning a record label isn’t exactly the glamorous and financially lucrative endeavor ...

Boone & Crockett to open (its patio and The Cooperage) May 1 for “Too Loud For Tuesday” pop-up

Tyler Maas

April 30, 2018

Boone & Crockett left its original Bay View site on April 16, with the intention of being open and fully operational in its new and improved Walker's Point bar—that's five times larger, not even factoring i...

Milwaukee Record’s favorite moments from Arte Para Todos 2018

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 30, 2018

In its first three years, Arte Para Todos raised approximately $60,000 for Milwaukee school art programs through the selfless efforts of musicians and visual artists bringing their talents to dozens of local ba...

Rick Astley didn’t give up on his hits, but dished out plenty of surprises, too, at Pabst Theater

Catherine Jozwik

April 27, 2018

Best known for his late 1980s dance-pop hits "Never Gonna Give You Up," "Together Forever," and "Whenever You Need Somebody," English singer and songwriter Rick Astley and his talented six-piece band brought th...

The .357 String Band’s ‘Fire & Hail’ turns 10

Jared Blohm

April 26, 2018

On April 26, 2008, a capacity crowd packed Mad Planet for the release of the .357 String Band's second album, Fire & Hail. Although the Milwaukee four-piece had been building a reputation as a genre-shatter...