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Whether at a Bucks game or the Art Museum, DJ AKStan is a house connoisseur

November 12, 2025

DJ AKStan has trusted the unknown in the pursuit of sharing good music. In turn, she has reaped a whirlwind of gigs in the heart of Milwaukee. Meet Addyson Stansel, known under her DJ name DJ AKStan. With th...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Ladybird (2025)

Milwaukee Record Staff

November 12, 2025

WMSE's local and live in-studio showcase, Local/Live, airs Tuesdays 6-7 p.m. You can find past episodes HERE, or on this handy Soundcloud playlist. milwaukeerecord · WMSE's Local/Live, November 11, 2025: L...

Danny Arcane delivers another gem with “Precious Stones”

Matt Wild

November 11, 2025

Over the past four years, Milwaukee/L.A. singer-songwriter Danny Arcane has been releasing winning DIY bedroom-pop jams that blur the line between U.S. indie and U.K. Britpop. (Not coincidentally, Arcade was ra...

Milwaukee Record Recommended Events: November 10-16, 2025

Milwaukee Record Staff

November 10, 2025

Milwaukee is chock full of things to do, but only a handful of Milwaukee events are worthy of the lofty honor of "Record Recommended" (patent pending). Here are our recommendations for November 10-16, 2025. MO...

Get an earful of new EP, end-of-world video from hip-hop duo AZTHMA

Matt Wild

November 7, 2025

Higher Education Records (HER) spins an intricate web. The Milwaukee hip-hop and electronic collective has so many individual artists (GetMoses, Mad Static, Diallo, Slang Troubadour, FHOBOS, NDILOMA, Mic Crawf)...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Paul Cebar (Live from Anodyne)

Milwaukee Record Staff

November 5, 2025

WMSE's local and live in-studio showcase, Local/Live, airs Tuesdays 6-7 p.m. You can find past episodes HERE, or on this handy Soundcloud playlist. milwaukeerecord · WMSE's Local/Live, November 4, 2025: Pa...

Step right up for the miracle cure of IfIHadAHiFi’s “Everyone’s A Doctor” video

Matt Wild

November 4, 2025

"There's no hippocratic oath in the punditry biz / When no one is a doctor, then everyone is!" That's a key line in "Everyone's A Doctor," a standout track from IfIHadAHiFi's new EP Paws In The Bacon Grease....

Milwaukee Record Recommended Events: November 3-9, 2025

Milwaukee Record Staff

November 3, 2025

Milwaukee is chock full of things to do, but only a handful of Milwaukee events are worthy of the lofty honor of "Record Recommended" (patent pending). Here are our recommendations for November 3-9, 2025. MOND...

“People don’t know that I play guitar”: Bartees Strange kicks off first-ever solo tour at Vivarium

Cal Roach

November 3, 2025

“I’ve never toured like this before,” said Bartees Strange regarding his current three-week jaunt through the Midwest and West Coast. Sunday at Vivarium was the opening night of the singer/songwriter’s first tr...

Milwaukee Music Roundup: October 2025

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 31, 2025

broadstreet.zone(159870); Looking for new music? Looking for new Milwaukee music? Then look no further than our monthly Milwaukee Music Roundup! LPs AND EPs OF NOTE 414BigFrank - If U Ain't First Bowv...

Troubled Hubble’s Chris Otepka talks ‘Making Beds In A Burning House’ reissue, Cactus Club show

Rick Katschke

October 30, 2025

On November 9, Josh Modell and Dan Didier’s Foreign Leisure record label will be hosting a Cactus Club concert that features artists from three of their latest releases. Joining The Hallelujah Ward and Clem Sni...

The agony and the irony are killing me (and WLUM-FM 102.1)

Tad Kriofske Mainella

October 29, 2025

"One morning I showed up and Norm Macdonald was waiting at the door!" No, this isn't the beginning of a Lorne Michaels story or an outtake from Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend. This is an end-of-days true state...

Ladybird shoots its shot on country classic ‘Clementine’

Matt Wild

October 29, 2025

There's a warmth that radiates from Clementine, the second full-length album from Milwaukee alt-country band Ladybird. It's there in the good-times songs about rock star dreams and barstool camaraderie. It's th...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Zang! (2025)

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 29, 2025

WMSE's local and live in-studio showcase, Local/Live, airs Tuesdays 6-7 p.m. You can find past episodes HERE, or on this handy Soundcloud playlist. milwaukeerecord · WMSE's Local/Live, October 28, 2025: Za...

Driveway Thriftdwellers return, take pop detour with “Dance With You”

Matt Wild

October 28, 2025

Has it really been seven years since Milwaukee/Madison rock/Americana band Driveway Thriftdwellers released new music? "So it's been seven years since we've released new music and we think that's long enough," ...

WMSE will broadcast special “Hustle & Faux” show live from The Hop on November 10

Matt Wild

October 28, 2025

What do you get when you combine one of Milwaukee's favorite non-commercial radio stations with one of Milwaukee's favorite non-controversial modes of public transportation? "Hustle & Faux," WMSE 91.7FM's u...

Milwaukee Record Recommended Events: October 27 – November 2, 2025

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 27, 2025

broadstreet.zone(152022); Milwaukee is chock full of things to do, but only a handful of Milwaukee events are worthy of the lofty honor of "Record Recommended" (patent pending). Here are our recommendations—br...

Fuzzysurf’s “Don’t Go Overboard” video is an aquatic adventure

Tyler Maas

October 27, 2025

You can always count on Fuzzysurf to release some of the most inventive, ambitious, and all-around impressive music videos in Milwaukee. The indie rock outfit’s astounding body of visual work includes puppetry,...

Experimental rock duo Mute Gospel sets sail for ‘Banks Of Nowhere’

Cal Roach

October 27, 2025

"Banks Of Nowhere is the place that signifies both arrival and departure, familiar and alien, home and far from home," says multi-instrumentalist Zak Koehn, one half of Milwaukee experimental rock duo Mute Gosp...

Get into the gloom with Genau’s “Live By The Water,” “Margaret In Dub”

Matt Wild

October 24, 2025

It's been faaaaar too long since we checked in with dreamy post-punk duo Genau. We wrote about the Milwaukee group's self-titled debut way back in 2016 ("If you're feeling a little bit noisy and a little bit go...