Music

October 22, 2025

In addition to documenting much of the wonderful music that's being made in and around Milwaukee itself, we here at Milwaukee Record also try to keep tabs on new output from musicians who previously called the ...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Overhand (2025)

October 22, 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 21, 2025: Ov...

Milwaukee Metal Monthly: Psychic Shiv talks ‘Wearing Black,’ Imprecation Of Love talks black metal

Steve Lampiris

October 21, 2025

Welcome back to another edition of Milwaukee Metal Monthly. For this installment, our story begins a coupl’a weeks back with me browsing around Bandcamp for Milwaukee bands. I used filters for “Milwaukee” and “...

Milwaukee Record Recommended Events: October 20-26, 2025

October 20, 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...

Milwaukee “twee punk band” Chit Chat returns to find “Love In A Graveyard”

October 20, 2025

If the name Chit Chat doesn't ring a bell in your Milwaukee music brain, you can hardly be blamed. It's been nearly four years since the trio of Harrison Colby, Carmella D'Acquisto, and Jeremy Ault released the...

Brandy and Monica reignite old “rivalry” and heat up Fiserv Forum

October 18, 2025

Individually, Brandy and Monica have each been responsible for a steady stream of chart-climbing hits, served as musical touchstones and inspirations for countless people, and have enjoyed careers that started ...

Breakup Tour mixes memes and melancholy on ‘Sorry For Your Loss’

October 16, 2025

About halfway through Sorry For Your Loss, the debut album from Milwaukee "bubble grunge" group Breakup Tour, two characters grapple with the unrelenting march of time. "The older that you get, the harder the h...

Here are the first 5 shows coming to Landmark Credit Union Live, and that’s it

October 15, 2025

The first five shows coming to Landmark Credit Union Live are... February 27, 2026 Rainbow Kitten Surprise + Common People February 28, 2026 BossMan Dlow + BabyChiefDoIt, Skrilla, VonOff1700, Raq baby, ...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Black Lines, Din Sky

October 15, 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 14, 2025: Bl...

Talking new Milwaukee music with WUWM’s Lake Effect (October 2025)

October 14, 2025

Once a month, Milwaukee Record's Matt Wild sits down with WUWM's Lake Effect and discusses some of his favorite new Milwaukee records and songs. Listen to the latest installment HERE. This month, Matt bri...

Milwaukee Record Recommended Events: October 13-19, 2025

October 13, 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...

Trapper Schoepp gets back on the horse in the stunning “Kentucky Derby” music video

October 13, 2025

It could be said of pretty much any annal in recent memory, but it's been a big year for Trapper Schoepp. The tireless Milwaukee troubadour's 2025 consisted of the usual cluster of festival appearances and high...

Post Malone will headline Summerfest June 27, 2026

October 13, 2025

Summerfest 2026 is a mere eight months away, and the headliner announcements are HEATING UP. Garth Brooks will play not one, but TWO Summerfest kick-off shows. Ed Sheeran will play. And on Monday, Summerfest an...

IfIHadAHiFi is the (great) band for the (awful) times on ‘Paws In The Bacon Grease’

October 10, 2025

Sometimes there's a band. Well, they're the band for their time and place. They fit right in there. And that's IfIHadAHiFi, in Milwaukee. On their latest EP, Paws In The Bacon Grease, the veteran Midwest noise-...

New Live Nation / FPC Live concert venue will be called Landmark Credit Union Live

October 8, 2025

At an on-site media event Wednesday featuring multiple speakers and a bunch of clear plastic chairs that looked straight out of Star Trek, the name and naming sponsor of that new concert venue being built at 10...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Trapper Schoepp (Live from Anodyne, 2025)

October 8, 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 7, 2025: Tra...

Milwaukee Record Recommended Events: October 6-12, 2025

October 6, 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...

Milwaukee Irish Fest announces first 2026 headliner