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The second time is a charm for Piles on ‘Expeller’

March 9, 2017

Last winter, just a few months removed from the release of the locally-lauded Planet Skin, Piles returned to the studio with aspirations of knocking out a new batch of songs for another album over the course of...

Hear a new song from the new, improved, expanded Twin Brother

Tyler Maas

March 8, 2017

Following a fruitful 2014 in which Twin Brother released its emotive coming of age record, Swallow The Anchor, the band that began as a folk trio started to move in a different direction. Amid departures, shift...

Hear Jaill singer Vincent Kircher’s first solo single, “Mr. Doom”

Tyler Maas

March 7, 2017

After finally releasing the long-delayed Brain Cream in 2015, Jaill—and singer-guitarist Vincent Kircher, in particular—has kept a pretty low profile. Though the past 18 months have seen the former Sub Pop and ...

WMSE will release a live Direct Hit! 7-inch for Record Store Day 2017

Tyler Maas

March 6, 2017

Since 2015, local radio institution and chili competition curator WMSE has helped spread the good will and wonder of Record Store Day with a limited-edition release of a 7-inch from a Milwaukee (or Milwaukee-re...

Stream The Zach Pietrini Band’s ‘Holding Onto Ghosts’

Tyler Maas

March 1, 2017

Zach Pietrini is a work in progress. That's not an indictment of his talent as much as it is an acknowledgement of Americana troubadour's unwillingness to spend too much time in any single creative territory. S...

Public Domain: Stomata performs “Alouetté”

Milwaukee Record Staff

February 28, 2017

Milwaukee Record is proud to present Public Domain. The video series features Milwaukee musicians setting up at Colectivo’s Prospect Avenue cafe to adapt some of the world’s best-known songs in ways they’ve n...

Here are the nominees for the 2017 WAMI Awards

Matt Wild

February 28, 2017

Who's got WAMI fever? Do you have WAMI fever? Do you have WAMI fever? We all have WAMI fever. Today, the folks behind the Wisconsin Area Music Industry unveiled the nominees for WAMI's 37th annual awards show...

Something To Do’s “Tina Fey II” music video phones it in

Tyler Maas

February 27, 2017

Aren't videos shot on phones the worst? Between the low definition picture, high likelihood of user error—seriously, stop filming things vertically, people!—and garbled audio, there's not much reason to captu...

Tone Lōc is performing a free concert in Milwaukee tomorrow

Tyler Maas

February 26, 2017

Things have been pretty rough for the Milwaukee Bucks lately. Hours before today's game against the Suns, the Bucks have lost 14 of their last 20 games. During that unsavory stretch, Jabari Parker was lost fo...

Bo & Airo go off in new “Sirens” music video

Tyler Maas

February 24, 2017

As far as projects formed out of a pun made in a text message conversation go, it's safe to say Bo & Airo is one of the best around. In 2015, Bo Triplex (namesake and bandleader of Bo Triplex And His Beau...

Inside Milwaukee’s green rooms: Company Brewing, Linneman’s, Mad Planet

Tyler Maas

February 23, 2017

While countless people flock to Milwaukee's numerous clubs, theaters, arenas, concert-equipped coffee shops, and other performance spaces every year, only a select few are allowed to peer behind the scenes. U...

There’s a petition to remove the stage benches at Summerfest

Matt Wild

February 22, 2017

It's been two long years since Milwaukeeans banded together to sign a meaningless Change.org petition to remove DJ Paris Hilton from the 2015 Summerfest lineup. (The show ended up being okay!) Now, in a simila...

Stream the new Whips song, “Goldmine,” and pre-order ‘The Ride’

Tyler Maas

February 22, 2017

You'd be hard-pressed to find a band in Milwaukee (or Wisconsin, for that matter) more capable of combining crushing, chest-pummeling rock and roll with rousing, radio-ready hooks than Whips. Since suddenly e...

The Fatty Acids unleash long-awaited album, ‘Dogs Of Entertainment’

Tyler Maas

February 21, 2017

The year was 2013. A revitalized Milwaukee music scene was abuzz with activity, and a young synth-pop sextuplet called The Fatty Acids was helping to lead the charge with a steady diet of lively local shows, ...

Help with Clyde Stubblefield’s funeral expenses

Sahan Jayasuriya

February 21, 2017

If the name Clyde Stubblefield doesn't sound familiar to you, his music certainly will. From 1965-1970, Stubblefield served as drummer for James Brown, lending his talents to a plethora of seminal recordings ...

Abby Jeanne goes back to basics in “Baby Roll ‘N Stone” video

Tyler Maas

February 17, 2017

Though Abby Jeanne says "2016 gave gray hair," the incomparable Cream City crooner, songwriter, and producer is poised for bigger and better things in 2017. So far in this young year, she's turned in an unfo...

What a mess: A history of All Messed Up

Corey Baumann

February 16, 2017

Milwaukee has long been coined the “City of Festivals.” While Summerfest is easily the most popular and has been a tradition for going on 50 years, Wisconsin State Fair, PrideFest, and Bastille Days also domina...

Here’s who’s playing every Mama Tried Motorcycle Show event

Tyler Maas

February 15, 2017

Starting Friday evening, throngs of local riders and motorcycle enthusiasts who have been cooped up since fall and whose choppers have been in storage for months will enjoy a brief escape from the cold, dark,...

Let The Blue Mooners break your heart with lovelorn covers album, ‘Deal The Hits’

Matt Wild

February 14, 2017

On one hand, Valentine's Day is a day for love. On the other hand, it's a day for heartache, unrequited longing, and wallowing in one's misery. (A puzzling third hand helpfully points to the Wikipedia page of...

Here’s the Milwaukee Psych Fest V lineup

Tyler Maas

February 14, 2017

Since 2013, Moss Folk's Andrew Shelp has organized an undertaking of all things psychedelic. In its first four years, Milwaukee Psych Fest has evolved into a multi-day, multi-venue celebration of the reverb-y, ...