Music

May 25, 2016

// In A-side/B-side, two Milwaukee Record writers tackle various city issues in an informal, crosstalk style. Insults are hurled, feelings are hurt, and everyone learns something in the end. Maybe. Tyler...

Midnight Reruns debut “Warm Days” in Wisconsin Public Radio video

May 25, 2016

// Last year, Milwaukee rockers Midnight Reruns truly made their mark in local music with the release of its wonderful sophomore record, Force Of Nurture (which earned the No. 2 slot on our Best Milwaukee A...

Record Recommended: May 23-29

May 24, 2016

// Our fat-free, dolphin-safe Milwaukee 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). Here ar...

Tracklist: 11 unofficial Milwaukee theme songs

May 23, 2016

// In case you missed it, Milwaukee Record has a theme song now. Courtesy of local auto detailing and carpet cleaning professional Joshua Jones, the song touts our "music and news" coverage, while the accom...

Space Raft comes full circle with 360 degree “Hang On Hang On” video

May 20, 2016

// We've said it before and we'll say it again, Milwaukee has stepped its music video game up considerably in recent years. Just as local filmmakers were beginning to truly find their footing with inventive...

WC Tank revives Stumblesome project, releases “workout record”

May 20, 2016

// "I move around a lot, not because I'm looking for anything, really, but because I'm getting away from things that get bad if I stay. Auspicious beginnings, you know what I mean?" So says Jack Nicholson's...

Exclusive: Stream the pretty Ugly Brothers single, “Again & Again”

May 19, 2016

// By the time the first Ugly Brothers full-length, 16 Tiny Mountains, is released on August 13, close to two years will have passed since the Riverwest folk project put out its self-titled debut EP. To be ...

Exclusive: Stream Midwest Death Rattle’s ‘Post-Apocalypso’ opener, “Tacoma Narrows”

May 18, 2016

// After going more than three years without making so much as a peep (at least in the recorded sense), Midwest Death Rattle has spent much of 2016's first five months issuing small-but-frequent samples of ...

Check out the 9th annual Burnhearts/Pabst Street Party lineup

May 17, 2016

// With summer's true beginning just over a month away, most of the uncertainties about the city's staggering number of festivals, weekly music series, and block parties have cleared up. In the last two wee...

Listen to, download Soul Low’s ‘Unplugged’ set

May 17, 2016

// Back on February 18, Soul Low stepped on stage at the Helene Zelazo Center For The Performing Arts to play a show unlike any the band had ever played before. Joined by an all-star cast of Milwaukee strin...

Fly The Hullmen’s anything-but-pretty ‘Pretty Red Flags’

May 17, 2016

// When we last heard from The Hullmen, the down-and-dirty sleaze rockers were refining their sound on the 6-song EP Expensive Taste. The (relatively) slick affair was a welcome update of the band's lo-fi S...

Arte Para Todos 2016 raises close to $18,000

May 16, 2016

// Arte Para Todos 2016 was awesome. Between April 21 through April 24, an outstanding lineup of more than 90 bands and rappers took to 25 Milwaukee venues in five of the city's neighborhoods. Even more imp...

Here are the daily admission promotions for Summerfest 2016

May 16, 2016

// There's an old Milwaukee saying: If you can't find free tickets or figure out a way to score discounted admission to Summerfest, you're not really trying. Here are all the ways to enjoy the Big Gig on th...

Here’s the lineup for the 2016 Locust Street Festival

May 15, 2016

// The annual Locust Street Festival of Music & Art is one of the city's best street fests, celebrating all that is good, right, and drum circle-y in Riverwest. On Sunday, June 12, the 40th (!) installm...

Relive GGOOLLDD’s Turner Hall sellout in behind the scenes video

May 13, 2016

// While Milwaukee as a whole is slowly beginning to come around to the wealth of homegrown talent making great music within our city limits, it's still quite an accomplishment for a local band to sell out ...

Great Job, Milwaukee! Rolling Stone likes Summerfest

May 13, 2016

// Here at Milwaukee Record, we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job, Milwaukee! Bot (similar to OnMilwaukee's Jeff Sherman Bot 8000) to keep track of the city's many appearances on dopey online...

Tracklist: 15 standout (non-festival) summer shows

May 12, 2016

// Summertime musical entertainment in Milwaukee typically finds a home at the city's 8,000 street fests, or, you know, that whole Summerfest thing. But look beyond the temporary street stages and the sea o...

Casual Vocals’ Milwaukee roots grow stronger with “Plant”

May 12, 2016

// Last October, we introduced you to Casual Vocals—the solo folk venture of Chicago native-turned-Milwaukee resident Colleen Webb—by way of her inventive homespun music video for the first single and title...

Remembering the brief, beautiful Smash Mouth and Milwaukee Record feud of 2015