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Klassik uncovers the story behind Friday’s “Tribe UNCOVERED” show at Turner Hall

January 17, 2017

Back in early 2016, Alverno College's long-running performing arts series, Alverno Presents, announced its current season would be its last. Among the many casualties of the announcement was Alverno Presents' ...

Steve from ‘Stranger Things’ is in a band that’s playing at Cactus Club tonight

Tyler Maas

January 16, 2017

Even though 2016 can be chalked up as a rough year all around, one of the few quality distractions from the unprecedented political happenings, the ever-widening racial and economic gaps, and the steady strea...

Here’s everything you should know about Local Coverage 2017

Tyler Maas

January 13, 2017

Tonight is the night! This evening, historic Turner Hall Ballroom will play host to Milwaukee Record's third annual Local Coverage benefit concert. Over the course of the event's short history, the show has g...

Inside Milwaukee’s green rooms: Anodyne, Club Garibaldi, The Metal Grill

Tyler Maas

January 12, 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...

Stream Shoot Down The Moon’s first album since 2012, ‘Forever Sedated’

Tyler Maas

January 12, 2017

In October of 2012, Shoot Down The Moon released Meetings And Greetings. The record was the Milwaukee indie rock outfit's third full-length and fourth release since its 2005 outset. Not long after, the band r...

Young, shy, and snotty: Being an underage music fan in Milwaukee

Lauren Keene

January 11, 2017

Beer, cheese, motorcycles, sports—these are the things that a lot of people still think about when they hear the word "Milwaukee." I've lived in Milwaukee my entire life and have never really cared about the ...

Exclusive: Stream The Fatty Acids’ “Strangers / In Your House,” from the upcoming ‘Dogs Of Entertainment’

Matt Wild

January 10, 2017

There comes a point in every long-running band's career when listeners (and writers) start tossing around words like "veterans" and "fixtures." Ready or not, The Fatty Acids have arrived at that point. Over the...

19 Milwaukee releases we’re excited to hear in 2017

Tyler Maas

January 9, 2017

It seems like we're just days removed from celebrating the best releases Milwaukee managed in 2016. With all the promise a new year brings also comes the promise of new music. In the same way many of us resol...

Here’s the Burnhearts Mitten Fest 2017 lineup

Tyler Maas

January 4, 2017

Now that New Year's festivities have come and gone, folks in Milwaukee are forced to come to terms with the harsh realization that winter is here in full force and there's not much to do outside. Fortunately,...

Let’s talk about Milwaukee’s connection to the New Monkees

Matt Wild

January 4, 2017

Here's the story: Back in 1966, the world was given the gift of the Monkees. The so-called "Pre-Fab Four" (Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork) were assembled by a pair of producers (Rob...

Corey Feldman will play a show in Green Bay on March 23

Tyler Maas

January 3, 2017

One of the more publicized deaths of 2016 was that of Corey Feldman's career...again, that is. Back in September, the '80s child star's misguided foray into music resulted in a cringe-inducing Today Show ...

Patti Smith will perform ‘Horses’ at the Milwaukee Theatre in March

Matt Wild

January 3, 2017

Let's just boil this down to some facts: The incomparable, iconic, and forever awesome Patti Smith recently celebrated her 70th birthday. Smith's equally incomparable, iconic, and forever awesome album Horses...

Abby Jeanne looks back on a terrible 2016 in “Aged Young” music video

Tyler Maas

January 3, 2017

The year 2016 will be remembered by many as a 366-day span of time in which the world experienced frightening political change, growing racial division, and a staggering stream of high profile celebrity death...

Ashley Altadonna and The Glacial Speed go into the unknown in ‘New Wilderness’

Tyler Maas

December 30, 2016

A lot has happened since the last time Ashley Altadonna put out an album. As Altadonna's band, New Blind Nationals, was coming to an end in 2004, she shifted focus to filmmaking, she started dating the woman ...

Antler House’s “Real Things” video visits agonizing, artificial places

Tyler Maas

December 30, 2016

Anyone who has heard Antler House can attest to the Milwaukee trio's uncanny ability to craft gorgeous indie-leaning folk songs that also manage to deliver a swift and brutal kick to the heart. When one of th...

Public Domain: Mike Regal performs “When The Saints Go Marching In”

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 29, 2016

Milwaukee Record is proud to present Public Domain. The video series features Milwaukee musicians setting up at Colectivo’s new Back Room performance space at its Prospect Avenue cafe to adapt some of the world...

Nickel&Rose check in from Europe, release new music video

Tyler Maas

December 28, 2016

Back on November 1, Milwaukee musicians Johanna Rose (New Boyz Club, Ruth B8r Ginsburg, Thistledown Thunders) and Carl Nichols (Painted Caves, RAS Movement) packed up their instruments, passports, and a few o...

Watch Lex Allen go fly a kite in the latest Cream City Soundcheck

Tyler Maas

December 28, 2016

In addition to capturing high quality performance footage, Cream City Soundcheck has the uncanny ability to show viewers a side of an artist they've never seen before, while simultaneously highlighting a plac...

Devils Teeth prepares for Local H opening slot, a busy 2017

Tyler Maas

December 27, 2016

Unless you've happened upon one of the nine-month-old band's first two under-publicized live outings, you've likely never heard Devils Teeth. However, the new garage rock trio boasts a lengthy and impressive ...

Yule love Tenement’s new holiday EP

Tyler Maas

December 26, 2016

It should be noted that any time we document Milwaukee contributions to the seasonal song canon, it's with the previously-unexpressed sentiment that the efforts are good...for holiday music. On the whole, Chr...