Music

April 9, 2018

Hey! Welcome to Weird Al Week! For a few more weekdays, Milwaukee Record will be filling your feed with fresh, funny, and slightly fanatical Al-related materiel. It all leads up to the two Weird Al shows at Pab...

Ministry gets political, busts out the inflatable Trump chickens at Turner Hall

Cal Roach

April 9, 2018

"Al Jourgensen and Ministry are the undisputed kings of Industrial music," says the event description for the band's Sunday night show at Turner Hall Ballroom. It is a difficult statement to argue against. Thou...

The Decemberists face the awful at Riverside Theater

April 9, 2018

"There are white supremacists in the White House! You have a douchebag for a governor!" Aaaaand that's how you start your set if you're The Decemberists and you're playing a sold-out Riverside Theater on a S...

Watch Zed Kenzo’s new “Touchdown” music video

April 8, 2018

Since returning to Milwaukee more than three years ago, Zed Kenzo has quietly been putting together material for a true blue full-length project, but only allowing listeners to peek behind the creative curtain ...

Weird Al bandmates Stephen Jay and Jim “Kimo” West go solo on Parallel Universe Tour

April 6, 2018

As longtime members of "Weird Al" Yankovic's band, Stephen Jay and Jim "Kimo" West are musical chameleons, disappearing into whatever style happens to be called for: rock, pop, hip-hop, country, polka. But in t...

Hey! Here are the 8,000 headliners for Summerfest 2018

April 4, 2018

Well, it's that time of year again: In advance of Summerfest 2018 (June 27-July 1, July 3-8), the Big Gig has unleashed its massive list of headliners. Approximately 8,000 grounds stage headliners now join the ...

Weird Al Week continues with a conversation about why we love Weird Al

April 4, 2018

Hey! Welcome to Weird Al Week! For the next six weekdays, Milwaukee Record will be filling your feed with fresh, funny, and slightly fanatical Al-related materiel. It all leads up to the two Weird Al shows at P...

Judas Priest rules at Riverside Theater

Cal Roach

April 4, 2018

The metal community was stunned to learn in February that longtime Judas Priest guitarist Glenn Tipton had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and would be forced to drop out of the band's 2018 tour. It's a...

Weird Al Week begins with, well, an interview with Weird Al

April 3, 2018

Hey! Welcome to Weird Al Week! For the next seven weekdays, Milwaukee Record will be filling your feed with fresh, funny, and slightly fanatical Al-related materiel. It all leads up to the two Weird Al shows at...

Avast! Feast yar eyes on Milwaukee Boat Line’s Concert Cruise lineup

April 3, 2018

Despite the dozens of festivals, block parties, and weekly outdoor music series taking place on Milwaukee soil every summer, Milwaukee Boat Line sees fit to extend the city’s celebratory spirit to the water wit...

On the third day Dad rose again with the video for “Infinite”

April 1, 2018

Hey! It's Easter! Happy Easter! And what would the most hallowed of Christian holidays be without a blessed new video from Milwaukee rapper Dad? Yes, Dad has risen again (in accordance with the Scriptures) in t...

Public Domain: Nickel&Rose performs “Red Rocking Chair”

March 29, 2018

Milwaukee Record is proud to present Public Domain. The monthly video series features Milwaukee musicians setting up at Colectivo Coffee to adapt some of the world’s best-known songs in ways they’ve never been ...

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

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

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

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’