Record Recommended: September 12-18
Our fat-free, dolphin-safe Milwaukee events calendar is chock-full of things to do, but only a handful of events contained therein are worthy of the lofty honor of "Record Recommended" (patent pending). Her...
Relive Foreign Goods’ Summer Soulstice performance with live EP, video
If you somehow failed to catch a show from jazz/blues/funk/hip-hop collective Foreign Goods this summer, you clearly weren't trying. The group, led by the ever-busy Jay Anderson, was practically in 10 place...
Milwaukee Record’s 2016 fall concert preview
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Fall is the best! Fall concerts are the best! Here are some concerts that fall between September 22 and December 20, a.k.a. fall!
Thursday, September 22
Blitzen Trapper Songbook:...
Here’s the fall/winter lineup for Blackbird’s “From The Stage To The Booth” DJ series
In addition to offering close to 90 Wisconsin-brewed beers, having outstanding happy hour specials (seven days a week!), hosting a great selection of pinball machines, and being an all-around delightful pla...
Relive Milwaukee’s noisy past with newly digitized New Blind Nationals albums
Technology has made it insanely easy to produce and share new music, as well as dig up and preserve music from the past. In Milwaukee, sites like MKE Punk and the Activities Archive have made it their missi...
Fox Face caps off big year with release of ‘Teen Wiccan’
With just under nine months in the books, it's safe to say 2016 has been Fox Face's biggest year yet. Since January, the punk quartet has headlined nights of Riverwest FemFest and Arte Para Todos, played Mi...
Rapper arrested in association with Juggalo “ritualistic memorial” jailed, may miss Cudahy concert
This week, reports surfaced from the Green Bay area about a Juggalo “ritualistic memorial” in which a woman is said to have volunteered to have her blood consumed and her pinky finger cut off with a hatchet...
Exclusive: Stream Something To Do’s ‘Not Making A Sound’
When we last checked in with Something To Do, the band was riding high, having recorded the music for an Adult Swim show. With the money the band earned scoring Gigglefudge USA, the state's premier ska outf...
Guided By Voices played Turner Hall, and shit yeah, it was cool
Dayton Ohio's Guided by Voices have come to epitomize the sound of '90s indie rock, a remarkable feat considering their near-dissolution after years of failed successes. Fueled by the prolific songwriting p...
Public Domain: Rio Turbo performs “Hush, Little Baby”
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...
Listen to the new Sylvan Esso single, “Radio”
Sylvan Esso may hail from Durham, North Carolina, but the hot-as-shit two-piece electro act has some serious Milwaukee connections. Nick Sanborn, of course, is a former Milwaukeean and former member of the ...
Here’s the 2016 Bay View Bash lineup
As August gives way to September, Milwaukee's once-bountiful batch of summer festivals has dwindled to just one. Saturday, September 17 doubles as the unofficial end of summer and all its opportunities to l...
Record Recommended: August 29-September 4
Our fat-free, dolphin-safe Milwaukee events calendar is chock-full of things to do, but only a handful of events contained therein are worthy of the lofty honor of "Record Recommended" (patent pending). Her...
POEK runs from “Indifference Machine” in new music video
With At Latl on the shelf until further notice, the band's frontman Kent Watson has redirected some of his artistic focus to POEK. The cross-country recording project—an acronym for "Property Of Eric and Ke...
Watch B-Free’s self-directed, domestic-violence-addressing “No More” video
If you've been paying attention to Milwaukee music as of late, you've been paying attention to B-Free. As singer for the ever-busy, genre-defying Foreign Goods, B-Free (a.k.a. Britney Freeman-Farr) has play...
Triple Eye Industries looks back on first 2 years as a label
Today, in the era of Name-Your-Price digital downloads, 99 cent iTunes singles, and abject saturation in the music industry, owning a record label isn't exactly the glamorous and financially lucrative endea...
Exclusive: Hear the title track from Arms Aloft’s album, ‘What A Time To Be Barely Alive’
In recent years, the western Wisconsin city of Eau Claire has crept into the music world's collective consciousness one hauntingly beautiful cabin-crafted song at a time. As Justin Vernon brings music fans ...
Record Recommended: August 22-28
Our fat-free, dolphin-safe Milwaukee events calendar is chock-full of things to do, but only a handful of events contained therein are worthy of the lofty honor of "Record Recommended" (patent pending). Her...
Rx Drugs start smooth and somber with ‘Future Friction’
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Last year, we introduced you to Rx Drugs, the new project of The Championship singer and songwriter Joe Crockett. Save for releasing a single and playing fewer than five shows, the band—which also boasts...
Bad Grades aim to make good marks in Milwaukee music
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Saturday night's show at Cactus Club will also be a back to school event of sorts, when Shane Hochstetler and Nathan Lilley return to the stage where their beloved band Call Me Lightning played countless...