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Stream ‘Ah Yes,’ Slow Walker’s latest and greatest

March 29, 2018

We’ve said it before, but it still holds true: There’s nothing slow about Slow Walker. Since the band’s 2011 start, they’ve averaged one album or EP per year. Their continually-expanding catalog is full of fast...

88Nine wants to make Milwaukee an “emerging music city,” will give four groups $20,000

Matt Wild

March 28, 2018

Today, 88Nine Radio Milwaukee announced it intends to put the city's film scene on the map by blowing up a car put the city's music scene on the map by launching an ambitious project called Backline. One of the...

Hear a song from all 3 of Gallery Night’s forthcoming 7-inches

Tyler Maas

March 28, 2018

If you're reading this article, it's probably for one of two reasons. Reason #1: You've mistakenly stumbled on this, thinking it had information about Bay View Gallery Night or another artsy event. Reason #2: D...

Get a taste of Yum Yum Cult before March 31 debut

Tyler Maas

March 28, 2018

You've never heard Yum Yum Cult, but if you listen to Milwaukee-made music with any regularity, you've surely encountered some of its components. The new project features current and former members of Ugly Brot...

Never Stop Attacking: 20 Years of Seven Days Of Samsara

Sahan Jayasuriya

March 27, 2018

From the top 40 success of Citizen King to the international acclaim of The Promise Ring, the late '90s were an incredibly vibrant time for Milwaukee's music scene. During this period, the city had its fair sha...

Calliope returns with psychedelic, end-of-the-world ‘Chapel Perilous’

Matt Wild

March 26, 2018

Early on in Chapel Perilous, the third psyched-out full-length album from Milwaukee's Calliope, things slow down. "The Dunes" is a three-minute-plus drone of noise and feedback, with wisps of riffs and hints of...

Buckethead takes fans to Bucketheadland at sold-out Shank Hall show

Cal Roach

March 26, 2018

Last year, reclusive guitar virtuoso Buckethead (Brian Carroll) gave an extremely rare interview on a podcast called Coming Alive. He revealed that he'd been dealing with a rare heart condition that had become ...

The daughter from ‘The Goldbergs’ is apparently a country singer, will perform at Potawatomi

Tyler Maas

March 21, 2018

In this era of the multi-hyphenate, it's becoming incredibly common for actors you know from film or television to come to Milwaukee to perform in a musical capacity. In just the past few years alone, the city ...

Ladies Rock opens 2018 enrollment with a fundraiser show

Tyler Maas

March 20, 2018

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...

Summerfest announces Klement’s partnership, new Klement’s-sponsored local stage

Matt Wild

March 20, 2018

It's been a few years since the demise of Summerfest's "local stage." Though the Big Gig is pretty good about including Milwaukee acts in its annual lineups, the last truly "local" stage, the KNE New Music Stag...

Here’s Midwest Gaming Classic 2018’s music lineup

Tyler Maas

March 20, 2018

In 2001, two guys started a small show “to celebrate the Atari Jaguar” at a Boy Scout Service Center that drew about 100 gaming enthusiasts. Since that unheralded outset, the event—which was later named Midwest...

They Might Be Giants bring damn good times to Pabst Theater

Matt Wild

March 17, 2018

"My excellence at parkour might be unexpected / At the age of 58, it comes as quite a surprise." So sings John Flansburgh on the title track to They Might Be Giants' new album, I Like Fun. It's a typically oddb...

Hot Snakes were worth the wait in Mad Planet (and Milwaukee) debut

Tyler Maas

March 16, 2018

"When's the last time Hot Snakes played in Milwaukee?" guitarist John Reis asked a full Mad Planet as the band prepared to play Thursday night. "Never before, so we'll never be here again. Let's make the most o...

Weird music by weirdos, for weirdos: Chatting with Milwaukee-via-Oakland musician Conan Neutron

Matt Wild

March 15, 2018

Despite the decentralizing power of technology, there still exists the un-killable notion of musicians leaving whatever flyover states they grew up in and "making it" on one of the coasts. Conan Neutron has it ...

Download the Local Coverage 2018 concert

Tyler Maas

March 14, 2018

On Friday, January 19, Milwaukee Record hosted our fourth annual Local Coverage show at Turner Hall. There, a diverse cast of eight Milwaukee acts took the stage to perform (approximately) 15-minute sets of ano...

In Tall Buildings’ Erik Hall learns to relinquish control, embrace contrast on ‘Akinetic’

Tyler Maas

March 14, 2018

Back in early 2015, In Tall Buildings released Driver. The 10-song album was written, performed, recorded, produced, and mastered entirely by Erik Hall—a Chicago musician and the project's only permanent fixtur...

Come to (or sign up to be a vendor at) our Broken Up Band Bazaar

Tyler Maas

March 13, 2018

Last April, Milwaukee Record decided to help raise funds for Arte Para Todos by throwing our first “Broken Up Band Bazaar” event. For a few hours on a spring Saturday, dozens of people came out to Black Husky B...

In Love With The Modern World: An interview with Jonathan Richman

Lauren Keene

March 13, 2018

What’s left to say about Jonathan Richman that hasn’t been said before? The prolific Modern Lovers front man-turned-solo artist has rightfully earned his spot in rock and roll history, but you don’t need us to ...

Here’s the lineup for Arte Para Todos 2018

Tyler Maas

March 12, 2018

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

Discover the youthful, whimsical, and unlikely music of Mittelstadt

Matt Wild

March 9, 2018

"Why sing songs, why suffer on? Why wake up at all?" So ponders singer Benny Koziol on "Crimson," the opening track of Mittelstadt's debut EP Roll Ginger Roll. Those are big questions, to be sure, and if Koziol...