The 25 best Milwaukee albums of 2015
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Assembling our annual list of the best Milwaukee albums of the year is both a joy and a challenge. A joy because there’s nothing better than immersing yourself in a year’s worth of terrific music and red...
Reunited Naked Raygun has strong Turner Hall showing
In some ways, the Naked Raygun story is a string of rock and roll clichés. They were massively influential on the U.S. post-punk era but, like their Milwaukee contemporaries in Die Kreuzen, they never really go...
Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band will play the BMO Harris Bradley Center March 3
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Bruce Springsteen may be forever linked to Milwaukee (hello, infamous bomb threat show at the Uptown Theater in 1975), but he hasn’t played the Brew City since 2009. That’s six years without “Born To Run...
Here are the 2015 Radio Milwaukee Music Awards winners
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A month ago, 88Nine Radio Milwaukee released its massive ballot for the 8th annual Radio Milwaukee Music Awards. From there, local listeners, the station’s employees, and even a few local entertainment w...
Take a trip on Trolley’s latest tripped-out album, ‘Caught In The Darkness’
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Like a black-and-white striped T-shirt or a pair of white mod pants, Trolley is of a time but timeless. Since 1995 (!) the Milwaukee band has thrown itself willy-nilly into the golden age of psychedelia—...
Exclusive: Spend 7 (or so) minutes in heaven with Midwives’ ‘Cowboy Songs’ EP
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Back in February, Midwives delivered its third release in under a year's time. At a trim 16 minutes spread between a 10-pack of songs, the blistering self-titled release displayed the band's uncommon abi...
Exclusive: Stream Greatest Lakes’ cover of The Beach Boys’ “All I Wanna Do”
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It’s a fine line, really. While most can agree there are few things in music that are more loathsome than watching a true blue cover band perform earnest bastardizations of other musicians’ material on s...
Exclusive: Stream Buffalo Gospel’s tragic EP, ‘Waiting For The Lights To Go Out’
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Buffalo Gospel possesses the uncanny ability of writing material that manages to be both immensely gorgeous and devastatingly sad. With an unmistakable nod to classic country and a penchant for bleary, b...
Moon Curse transcends stoner rock with ‘The Spirit Remains’
When stoner rock first bubbled up in the ’90s, it basically stood for Black Sabbath-worship. It was retro by definition and seemed like an untenable fad. Who could’ve guessed it would outlast grunge? As its roo...
Go on a high speed chase in Platinum Boys’ “Downtown” video
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Platinum Boys have enjoyed a pretty big year. The band's great debut album, Future Hits, was called a "solid get-wasted soundtrack" by Pitchfork—and similarly-flattering things by various other respected...
Cherish “One Moment” with the reunited Rusty P’s
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After two decades on stage, seven studio records, and a list of opening opportunities most rappers would kill for, Rusty Pelicans (since changed to Rusty P's) are an indisputable Milwaukee dynasty act. B...
Here’s the Riverwest FemFest lineup, schedule
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Way back in September, we revealed the—to quote our previous post—"crazy good" lineup for the second annual Riverwest FemFest, a female-focused festival that would return in January 2016 following a grea...
Scrimshaw’s ‘Welcome To The Henry Herschel Commercial’ is wonderfully weird, just plain wonderful
To enter the world of Scrimshaw is to enter a world where Dr. Demento rules the radio, Mad magazine is required college reading, and Don Knotts is People’s “Sexiest Man Alive” for the 10th year running. Milwa...
The Belle Weather packs light on ‘Suitcase’
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After more than three overcast years, the sun is beginning to shine favorably on The Belle Weather. The Sheboygan-based band first earned some awareness with 2013’s Hold On, 11 fair-to-middling songs fir...
Exclusive: Stream Bad Wig’s debut EP
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Late last month, we reported the band Milwaukee had come to know and love under the moniker The Midwestern Charm would forge on under the name Bad Wig. The change in identification came as a result of a ...
Skinny Puppy bring politicized industrial, over-the-top theatrics to The Rave
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The Milwaukee stop of Skinny Puppy’s “Down The SocioPath” tour graced The Rave Monday night, with opener Youth Code in tow. Canada’s Skinny Puppy, touring as a four-piece, including original members Ogre...
You’re invited to Milwaukee Record’s “From The Stage To The Booth” DJ set at Blackbird
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Way back in September, we announced the lineup for Blackbird’s “From The Stage To The Booth” DJ series, which finds a different musical act taking over the Bay View bar’s turntables from 10 until close e...
Record Recommended: November 16-22
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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 “Record Recommended” (patent pending) honor. Here are o...
Fourth annual Mad Planet Ugly Sweater Holiday Party lineup, date announced
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In its first three years, Mad Planet’s Ugly Sweater Holiday Party has combined some of Milwaukee’s best musical acts and worst seasonal garments into a wonderful yuletide event that has become as much a ...
Get fucked up (in more ways than one) with the video for Soul Low’s “Always Watchin’ Out”
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Soul Low is the kind of band you’d like to take home to your mom: youthful, charming, dapperly dressed. But even nice guys (or, in the parlance of Soul Low, nice dads) have a hard time meeting that speci...