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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

Tyler Maas

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’

Matt Wild

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

Tyler Maas

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

Milwaukee Record Staff

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

Matt Wild

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

Tyler Maas

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

Matt Wild

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

Milwaukee Record Staff

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”

Tyler Maas

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

Tyler Maas

May 11, 2016

// The guy from Smash Mouth once famously said, "Somebody once told me the world was gonna troll me." At least I think that's how the lyric went. Was it "roll"? I know it was something like that, but who ca...

Mozaic and Zed Kenzo shimmer in “Imitation Diamonds” video

Tyler Maas

May 11, 2016

// Over the last year or so, Milwaukee rappers and filmmakers have shown an innate ability to forge outstanding videos with little-to-no budget. WebsterX's locally-shot videos for "Doomsday" and "Lately" ar...

Something To Do talks Adult Swim employment, the state of ska

Tyler Maas

May 11, 2016

// Depending on who you ask, ska on its deathbed. Though some have reduced the once-formidable genre to a cheap punchline, a small-but-passionate guild of musicians with horns and a proclivity for upstrokes...

Exclusive: Take a whiff of the latest from Lamb’s Legs, ‘A Dozen Torsos Within Spitting Distance’

DJ Hostettler

May 10, 2016

// It's been quite some time since we've heard from post-punk noise weirdos Lamb's Legs. Their last release, the six-song Summer of Lamb's Legs EP, was unleashed nearly three years ago, and in the time sinc...

Listen to a heavy new NO/NO track, “Television,” and pre-order ‘Sound And Light’ now

Matt Wild

May 6, 2016

// A lot of what makes the current Milwaukee music scene so vital and exceptional can be found in NO/NO. The alternately hard-edged and dreamy electro pop group, fronted by Harrison Colby and formed from th...

Eve 6 is playing at a sports bar in Sturtevant, really

Tyler Maas

May 6, 2016

// Ever since the music world was set ablaze last month with rumors Limp Bizkit would be playing a 4/20 show at a Dayton, Ohio gas station, there has been a growing online trend of people making fake Facebo...

Listen to Nineteen Thirteen’s mournful, all-too-brief “The Reason Why”

Matt Wild

May 5, 2016

// Nineteen Thirteen, as its name suggests, is a band out of time. The duo of Violent Femmes founding member Victor DeLorenzo and cellist Janet Schiff has been slowly creeping its way through the Milwaukee ...

Tracklist: 12 Milwaukee sibling bands

Tyler Maas

May 4, 2016

// Thursday night, Mike Krol will bring his hissy, police-impersonating power-pop stylings to Cactus Club. Despite the recent frequency of the L.A.-dwelling member of the Merge Records family's Milwaukee vi...

Here’s the Chill On The Hill lineup

Tyler Maas

May 4, 2016

// It's amazing that Chill On The Hill has only been around for 12 years. The concept of the mid-week Bay View occurrence is so simple: laying out on a blanket and imbibing food and beverages brought from h...

Here’s the lineup for the 2016 Summer Soulstice Music Festival

Matt Wild

May 3, 2016

// For the past 16 years, the East Side's annual Summer Soulstice Music Festival has celebrated the first day of summer with music, food, drinks, and that one guy who always shows up carrying a giant lizard...