Record Recommended: April 18-24
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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...
Supper Club Jazz honors the career of Miles Davis
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In September of 1991, following a long and incomparable run in which he released close to 50 studio albums (and more than 70 compilations and live records combined), launched the careers of an untold num...
Watch Lex Allen perform “This Is Our Year” for 88Nine Radio Milwaukee and Cream City Soundcheck
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If you're looking to enjoy the best and brightest in live Milwaukee music but can't swing the late hours, 88Nine Radio Milwaukee's 414 Music Live is for you. The Thursday afternoon series has featured ev...
Here’s the venue-by-venue schedule for Tasty Fest 2016
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Last month we revealed the rock-solid lineup for the inaugural Tasty Fest, a four-day, three-venue musical blowout coming this summer from local DIY label Tasty Tapes. Now, we're ready to dole out the fu...
50 Cent is coming back to the area to sign vodka bottles
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Last summer, we broke the story that rapper and financially troubled booze peddler 50 Cent would be signing bottles of Effen brand vodka at the Woodman's in Oak Creek. Then we attended said signing. Then...
Exclusive: Stream Heat Death’s dour, damn good ‘9 Steps To A Happier Life’
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Benjamin Franklin famously said, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." This April 15, those inevitable forces will arrive in unison, as tax day will be chased with a ...
Direct Hit! breaks down fourth wall in “Chemical Ability” video
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Among of the most overdone music video tropes is the one in which a band is filmed rocking out in a dingy practice space. The singer lip-syncs along to the pre-recorded song with fabricated intensity as ...
Brett Newski exhales in anxious “Cigaretiquette” video
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Milwaukee-by-way-of-the-world troubadour Brett Newski has done it all—penned tampon commercial jingles in Vietnam, angered Shaquille O'Neal as a young boy. It's enough to set anyone on edge. Perhaps that...
Get inside Mark Borchardt’s head with two-song Soup Moat video
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There's a moment in 1999's American Movie when forever-put-upon Milwaukee film director Mark Borchardt recounts cleaning a shit-covered cemetery bathroom. "I had to clean it up, man, but before that, for...
Record Recommended: April 11-17
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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: 14 ways Milwaukee is celebrating Record Store Day 2016
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Love it or hate it, it's safe to say Record Store Day is here to stay. What started as an honest-to-goodness movement to encourage listeners to get out and support independent music retailers who were su...
Prepare for Arte Para Todos with the ‘2016 Festival Compilation’
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Last month, we unveiled the incredible and genre-jumping collection of more than 100 Milwaukee bands, rappers, DJs, and visual artists that compose the lineup of the second annual Arte Para Todos. By now...
Ani DiFranco opens up, digs deep at Turner Hall
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Far be it from Ani DiFranco to stay home during an election year. The relentless folk singer released Allergic To Water in 2014, and she's been touring almost nonstop since…well, since her career began. ...
Tracklist: The 31 most uplifting Danny Gokey song names, ranked
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According to a loose college friend's Facebook status, American Idol's final episode aired last night, following a long and inescapable run that spanned who gives a shit how many seasons and launched the...
Listen to the entire 16-track “Unintimidated: Wisconsin Musicians Against Scott Walker” comp
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Back in July 2015, IfIHadAHiFi and Body Futures drummer (and occasional Milwaukee Record contributor) DJ Hostettler announced an ambitious project called "Unintimidated: Wisconsin Musicians Against Scott...
Exclusive: Stream Low Down Sound’s “Sugar Sweet”
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Little over a year ago, we formally introduced you to Low Down Sound by way of the Milwaukee classic rock outfit's debut EP Ride Into The Sun, which we called "a five-song sampling of American-made class...
Kurt Vile presides over listless, occasionally lively show at Pabst Theater
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"Don't know much about history," Kurt Vile sang in his opening number, "Dust Bunnies," Tuesday night at the Pabst Theater. Indeed, despite the smattering of "I Voted" stickers on lapels throughout the crow...
Hear the actual rapping from Made Of Oak’s silent “Side Rides” rap video
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Under his longtime Made Of Oak moniker, former Milwaukeean/Decibully member (and current Sylvan Esso member) Nick Sanborn celebrated the release of his first solo EP, Penumbra, last fall. One of the stan...
Space Raft talks about opening for Bernie Sanders
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Bands typically try to avoid playing out in the final days before they're to release a new record. However, that unwritten rule can be broken when a band has been asked to play on the same stage as its p...
Gaze upon the glorious lineup for Gloss Records’ Gloss Weekend
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Milwaukee is currently home to many DIY record labels, and one of the best is Gloss Records. Founded in February 2015 by Harrison Colby (NO/NO) and Joe Peterson (Rio Turbo, Platinum Boys), Gloss has spen...