Record Recommended: November 9-15
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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...
“Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage” will voyage to Riverside Theater March 13
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The Star Trek franchise will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2016. That’s five decades of Star Trek books, Star Trek comics, Star Trek video games, Star Trek action figures, Star Trek conventions, Star...
Exclusive: Stream GGOOLLDD’s new EP, ‘For The Night’
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It’s incredible to think that GGOOLLDD has only been around for two years. Originally intended to be a playful project that would dissolve after its inaugural show in an East Side attic three Halloweens ...
Let’s talk about excessive guest lists at shows, Milwaukee
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Earlier this week, Milwaukee musician Klassik, fresh from a Halloween show at Company Brewing, took to Twitter to speak his mind about a seemingly innocuous subject: guest lists at shows. Here’s what he ...
Cast your vote for the 2015 Radio Milwaukee Music Awards
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As the calendar turned to November, end-of-year award season officially arrived in Milwaukee. Though certain trusted publications are desperately soliciting your input for dumb shit like who (between Who...
Holy fucking shit the Brewers are giving away a Bob Uecker talking alarm clock next season
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Holy fucking shit the Milwaukee Brewers are giving away a Bob Uecker talking alarm clock next season. As revealed today by the club, the All-Fan Giveaway will be available at the July 10, 2016 Brewers/Ca...
Record Recommended: November 2-8
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 our reco...
The Get Down will return to Turner Hall for New Year’s Eve 2015
If there’s one constant in an ever-changing, ever-frustrating world, it’s The Get Down, Milwaukee’s long-running funk and soul dance party. For more than 10 years, DJs Andy Noble, Brent Goodsell, and Nesh have ...
Temple is breaking up
Friday, Milwaukee post-punk quartet Temple announced the band will be ending.
After forming early iterations of the project almost a decade ago when the members were high school students in Green Bay, the lo...
Say goodbye to The Midwestern Charm and hello to Bad Wig
There's a pivotal moment many bands face in which they must decide whether to trudge on with a name they no longer enjoy or risk confusing (or downright upsetting) loyal listeners and bookers by keeping an iden...
Madisen Ward And The Mama Bear captivate Colectivo
Writing captivating stories is a tough gig, and pairing those stories with song composition only increases the room for error. When done right, though, these musical narratives are able to take the listener on ...
Tracklist: 11 spooktacular Milwaukee music videos
Music videos come in all shapes and sizes: high-concept, lo-fi, jokey, performance-y, that one U2 video where it was just The Edge staring at the camera for five minutes, etc. But ever since Micheal Jackson thr...
They Might Be Giants will play Turner Hall in March
A They Might Be Giants show is one of the few live shows that requires an explicit “FOR AGES 14+ ONLY” warning. For the past 30 (!) years, Johns Flansburgh and Linnell have effortlessly moved and blurred the li...
Exclusive: Stream HoneyBee’s gorgeous ‘The Hollow Tree EP’
Milwaukee music is in the midst of a renaissance. Much of the rapid growth, inarguable improvement, and increased national attention to which the city has been privy lately can be largely explained by the ongoi...
New look Static Eyes set sights on new horizons
No matter what widely circulated memes, dated musician jokes, and frequent placement behind everyone but the drummer may lead you to believe, the bass player is an integral part of a band. Aside from rounding o...
Exclusive: Revel (and wallow) in the old-school country of Doghouse Flowers’ ‘Cold Comfort’
There exists a grey zone between radio-friendly mainstream country and critic-friendly alt-country. For all intents and purposes, let’s call that zone, well, “country.” Milwaukee’s Doghouse Flowers occupy that ...
Eaux Claires festival will return August 12-13, 2016
The inaugural Eaux Claires festival in Eau Claire, Wisconsin was a breath of fresh air in a music festival climate dominated by overhyped shit-shows like Coachella and Bonnaroo. The Justin Vernon- (Bon Iver) an...
Plug in and listen to BLAX’s “The Headphone Experiment Volume 1”
Since moving back to The Good Land from New York in 2013, Fresh Cut Collective co-founder Adebisi Agoro—who raps under the stage name BLAX—has worked hard to regain his footing in the hip-hop scene he’d tempora...
The Ex and Ken Vandermark join forces at…the Sugar Maple
For those unfamiliar with the sort of experimental jazz and noise shows that take place in the tiny brick cube that is the Sugar Maple’s back room, the news that legendary anarcho-punks The Ex were kicking off ...
Midnight Reruns’ latest is a ‘Force’ to be reckoned with
While the band's unpolished, distorted, and often self-deprecating songs routinely put its name in close proximity to the term "slacker," Midnight Reruns aren't lazy. In fact, they work really hard. Lately, the...