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Yes (or one version of Yes, at least) plays to the diehards at Riverside Theater

September 11, 2017

Yes fans are in a rare but not unheard-of predicament that chiefly plagues the aging prog-rock community: There are currently two touring versions of Yes. The seminal English outfit has been in existence in one...

Former Blessed Feathers member Donivan Berube goes it alone on “Love Is A Dog From Hell”

Tyler Maas

September 8, 2017

Donivan Berube's life has been turned upside down. Since the summer of 2016, the nomadic singer-songwriter, who accounted for half of Blessed Feathers, saw his marriage fall apart and, as a direct result, his b...

Flavor Flav will be hanging out at a Lake Geneva pizza joint September 7-9

Matt Wild

September 5, 2017

For reasons both delightful and unexplained, Public Enemy are no strangers to Wisconsin. From playing Summerfest to playing family reunions in Wauwatosa, the seminal hip-hop group can't seem to get enough of ou...

Avoid analysis this season with the “Milwaukee Record Halftime Show” concert series

Tyler Maas

September 5, 2017

Football is back! As the green and gold prepare for another season on the field, fans are beginning to formulate their game day viewing plans. It's no secret that Milwaukee has no shortage of great places to ba...

So long, summer: 23 Milwaukee songs for the end of Summer 2017

Milwaukee Record Staff

September 4, 2017

broadstreet.zone(32806); It's Labor Day, and, like you (hopefully), we're taking the day off. We're solemnly honoring the progress and sacrifices of the American labor movement, of course, but we're also shedd...

Hear Abby Jeanne’s new out of this world single, “Cosmic Beings”

Tyler Maas

September 1, 2017

With exactly four months left, it's safe to say 2017 is Abby Jeanne's year. Between New Year's Day and the end of August, the owner of one of Milwaukee's—if not Wisconsin's—best voices released her debut album,...

Help Christopher Gilbert replace his stolen band gear

Matt Wild

August 31, 2017

If you've spent any time in or around the Milwaukee music scene, you've likely run into Christopher Gilbert. The sharply dressed musician/dancer/choreographer/New Age Narcissism member is hard to miss, both on ...

Hear Community Centaur’s cover of Radiohead’s “Idioteque”

Tyler Maas

August 31, 2017

Though our monthly music video series and our annual benefit concert might suggest otherwise, we aren't exactly the biggest fans of cover songs. Still, there's something to be said for an artist deconstructing ...

Public Domain: Abby Jeanne performs “A Good Man Is Hard To Find”

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 30, 2017

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 ...

Rose Of The West puts the petal to the metal after slow, calculated start

Tyler Maas

August 29, 2017

Rose Of The West played its first show as a full band less than five months ago. Though that fact suggests the dream-pop project that features current and former members of GGOOLLDD, Group Of The Altos, Canopie...

WebsterX keeps 2017 going strong with new single, “Everfeel”

Matt Wild

August 23, 2017

It's been less than six months since WebsterX made a bid for "Milwaukee album of the year" with the release of his long-awaited debut album Daymares. Now, following a Summerfest appearance and a full New Age Na...

Yung Zucchini performed at a zucchini festival in California last weekend and loved every moment of it

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 23, 2017

When Milwaukee-born (and now Chicago-based) comic Sammy Arechar isn't on stage making audiences laugh, he's on stage making people dance with his DJ alter ego, Yung Zucchini. The DJ project performs somewhat re...

New Pavement Records founders juggle rap, metal, jazz, senior year of high school

Steve Lampiris

August 23, 2017

Milwaukee-based record label New Pavement Records is owned and run by Nate Ruvin, JJ Agara. It was founded because Ruvin, the de facto spokesman for NPR, was "sick of waiting to get signed to a label." In ju...

Take a guided tour through Europe with Space Raft’s “Vacation” music video

Tyler Maas

August 22, 2017

Late last year, Space Raft embarked on a lengthy European tour in support of the band's extraordinary 2016 record, Rubicon. Over the course of three weeks in November and December, the rock quartet played a flu...

Get caught up in the scorching new Static Eyes EP, ‘Traps’

Tyler Maas

August 22, 2017

Boasting accomplished acts like The Mistreaters, Jaill, The Delphines, The Goodnight Loving, and so many more, Milwaukee's semi-recent garage rock history is quite impressive. Currently, the city's garage rock ...

Strange Fruit Music Festival set to return for second year

Matt Wild

August 21, 2017

Last fall, ever-busy Milwaukee musicians Jay Anderson and Chauntee Ross launched the inaugural Strange Fruit Music Festival. Inspired by the then-recent killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, the thre...

Here’s the 2017 Bay View Bash lineup

Tyler Maas

August 18, 2017

As we sit just one fortnight from the start of September, Milwaukee’s once-bountiful batch of summer festivals has dwindled to but a handful. Saturday, September 16 basically doubles as the unofficial end of su...

Watch the Uni-Fi Records crew channel “Macho Man” Randy Savage in NSFW “Grimey” video

Matt Wild

August 18, 2017

Yesterday, when we rounded up five new Milwaukee music videos, we apparently rounded up too soon. Today, the ever-busy Uni-Fi Records crew has dropped a doozy of a clip for a doozy of a song, the decidedly NSFW...

Here’s a friendly reminder that Everclear is playing the Milwaukee County Zoo this Saturday

Matt Wild

August 17, 2017

Today is Thursday. Tomorrow is Friday. The day after that is Saturday. That's the day Everclear is playing the Milwaukee County Zoo. Consider this a friendly reminder. Yes, the ubiquitous '90s band will rock...

Beck performing at Milwaukee's Riverside Theater in 2017

Beck played Milwaukee for the first time in 20 years and it was almost too perfect

Matt Wild

August 17, 2017

Some fun facts: An entire generation of music fans has come of age since Beck last played Milwaukee in 1997. The city has built a ton of new shit, the country has elected three different presidents, and the end...