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Hear another track from the forthcoming ‘Land By The Lake II’ hip-hop compilation

December 21, 2017

Throughout 2017, we've given you a few samples of Land By The Lake II, the forthcoming follow-up to a compilation that producer and engineer DSCRIBE curated to help “create a snapshot of Milwaukee's potent hip-...

Beat the wintertime blues with Nice FM’s retro-tastic “Night Swim” compilation

Matt Wild

December 19, 2017

Winter in Wisconsin may not be as brutally cold as it has been in the past (thank you, "non-existent" climate change), but it's still winter. A long, slushy slog of short days, wind chills, and elusive parking ...

Members of Carolina, Maritime, and The Championship resurface in Hello, Face

Tyler Maas

December 19, 2017

It isn't unnatural for a musician to take some time off between projects. Sometimes it takes somebody whose band just ended a little while to realign their creative focus and to get that itch to take the stage ...

Hark! Now hear more locally-made songs for the holidays

Tyler Maas

December 19, 2017

Almost every year, we round up a mess of amazingly tolerable local songs that are helping to improve the predominately terrible holiday music genre. Just when we think we've found the last of them, area musicia...

Caley Conway’s ‘Heart Be Light’ EP rewraps and refines holiday classics

Tyler Maas

December 14, 2017

Though Caley Conway And The Lucy Cukes officially called it quits last year, the project's eponymous bandleader continues to go strong with occasional performances and an EP on the way sometime soon. Exactly ho...

Help Dream Attics and Kane Place Record Club member raise money for rare brain tumor treatment

Tyler Maas

December 14, 2017

Though Nick Tovarek now lives in Austin, the musician first made a name for himself in Milwaukee music as a member of Kane Place Record Club before moving to Texas in 2015 with his new indie-tinged electronic p...

Here’s who’s playing Milwaukee Psych Fest VI (so far)

Matt Wild

December 13, 2017

Much like the annual Milwaukee Film Festival, is it too early to get excited for the annual Milwaukee Psych Fest? No. It is never too early to get excited for the annual Milwaukee Psych Fest. Returning for its ...

Short and sweet: 10 standout Milwaukee EPs of 2017

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 12, 2017

In the post-everything world of 2017, there's probably little distinction left between "albums" and "EPs." And yet distinguish we do, dedicating our annual 25 best Milwaukee albums list to releases with five or...

“It’s always going to be heavy.” Erik Stenglein talks Northless, volume, ‘Last Bastion Of Cowardice’

Dan Agacki

December 12, 2017

For the past decade, Erik Stenglein has been at the forefront of Milwaukee heavy music. As vocalist/guitarist for Northless, he has orchestrated some of the most pummeling music to ever emerge from the area. Hi...

Buffalo Gospel’s “Hard Labor Side Of Gettin’ On” video blends a timeless tune with classic toons

Tyler Maas

December 12, 2017

Buffalo Gospel has kept a fairly low profile since releasing its outstanding full-length, We Can Be Horses in 2013. In the four-plus years following that well-received record, bandleader Ryan Necci has cycled i...

The 25 best Milwaukee albums of 2017

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 11, 2017

Do end-of-the-year lists matter? Probably not. What purpose do they serve? Who knows! Isn't it all just subjective? Of course. Still, there's something incredibly satisfying about immersing yourself in a year's...

Abby Jeanne, GGOOLLDD among Radio Milwaukee Music Award winners

Tyler Maas

December 8, 2017

Following weeks of voting, band campaigning, and DJ deliberation, 88Nine held its 10th annual Radio Milwaukee Music Awards ceremony at its Pittsburgh Avenue headquarters Thursday night. Between performances by ...

“Lake Effect” is an instant holiday hit from Tenement singer Amos Pitsch

Tyler Maas

December 7, 2017

When he isn't leading us to top-notch fish fry in Menasha and helping to put Wisconsin music on the map with his work in Tenement and Dusk, Amos Pitsch is doing his part to spread holiday cheer. Last December, ...

Space Raft eliminates any doubt another holiday is here with “Another Holiday Is Here”

Tyler Maas

December 7, 2017

Though it's not beginning to look a lot like Christmas in any capacity, it's at the very least starting to feel like it. Temperatures have finally started to dip to normal December levels, the Chicago Bears are...

Sylvan Esso will play two shows at Pabst Theater in July

Matt Wild

December 5, 2017

Can Milwaukee claim Sylvan Esso? If you're a weary internet commenter who gets bent out of shape every time we write about an artist who grew up outside the city limits ("Actually, Juiceboxxx is from Mequon,") ...

Steven Look talks about almost dying, getting back to basics, King Eye & The Squirts

Tyler Maas

December 5, 2017

On Friday night, King Eye & The Squirts will play an album release show at Club Garibaldi. The event is an extra special one for the Milwaukee garage rock quartet because the release of the band's debut rec...

BMO Harris Bradley Center was witness to Katy Perry and the world was okay for a while

Tyler Maas

December 5, 2017

The world is fast becoming a terrible place. Compassion is depleting at an astounding rate, as both economic and political divides widen more with each day of a polarizing presidency. Meanwhile, vital natural r...

Confessions of Non-Binary Fieri, Yokohama’s fourth-place karaoke team

Lauren Keene

November 30, 2017

In the criminally underrated film Mermaids (1990), Bob Hoskins invites the ethereal Cher into his attic and shows her his collection of paintings. When Cher is unimpressed, as Cher would be, he explains: "I sai...

“I’m obsessed with insane people.” Doubletruck explores trashy excess with ‘Honkhonktopia’

Dan Agacki

November 30, 2017

In their brief two year existence, Doubletruck have foregone the traditional process laid out for young bands. Side stepping the demo tape stage, they burst out of the gate in 2015 with a self-titled, 14-song f...

Milwaukee’s (and probably Earth’s) premier Chumbawamba tribute band is calling it quits…again

Tyler Maas

November 29, 2017

In July, Milwaukee Record posted an article entitled "Milwaukee’s (and probably Earth’s) premier Chumbawamba tribute band is calling it quits." The final show mentioned in the post was eventually cancelled, for...