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Dusty Medical 10th Anniversary Festival: A day-by-day recap

August 31, 2015

After putting out close to 50 releases from approximately 35 bands since 2005, Milwaukee's Dusty Medical Records absolutely has cause to celebrate. To mark the long-running label's decade-long run, founder/owne...

Tracklist: 11 non-Milwaukee acts that play Milwaukee a lot

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 31, 2015

// If you’re a regular Milwaukee show-goer, you’re bound to encounter dozens of local acts playing dozens of local shows a year. Miss your favorite band one week? No problem—they’ll be across the street lat...

Why do some Milwaukee musicians leave? Why do others stay?

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 27, 2015

On Saturday, August 29, glistening electro-pop outfit Dream Attics will mark its impending relocation to Austin, Texas by playing a goodbye show at Linneman’s. Milwaukee bands packing up shop and heading elsewh...

adoptahighway’s “Qualmness” video dresses in layers

Tyler Maas

August 27, 2015

Way back in February, adoptahighway—the experimental electronic venture of classically trained instrumentalist Barry Paul Clark—released A Fault, the project's first full-length release since 2010's I Can't Rem...

Label of love: Dusty Medical Records turns 10

Tyler Maas

August 25, 2015

These days, it takes little more than a name, some MP3 files, and a Bandcamp page to have a record label. With more bands than ever and less financial at risk in an exceedingly digital modern music landscape, i...

Exclusive: Listen to Testa Rosa’s shapeshifting third album, III

Matt Wild

August 25, 2015

The word “pretty” gets tossed around a lot when talking about Testa Rosa. It’s easy to see why: Over the course of two full-length albums—2007’s I and 2011’s II—the veteran Milwaukee band has trafficked in lovi...

Sink your teeth into Yo-Dot’s Burleigh Bodega appetizer, “Until”

Tyler Maas

August 25, 2015

If there's a release that's akin to Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy, Leonard Cohen's Ten New Songs or Dr. Dre's 2001 in Milwaukee hip-hop, it's the long-delayed and meticulously tinkered with likes of Yo-Dot's...

Exclusive: Stream three songs off Pharaoh Mac & DMT’s SYMBOLS

Tyler Maas

August 21, 2015

Not long ago, Milwaukee hip-hop was in dire straits. Local rappers were either overlooked altogether or found marginal area attention with regional redressing of artists from other, more established hip-hop mar...

35mm screenings of Jaws, The Shining highlight MFF2015’s Cinema Hooligante program

Matt Wild

August 20, 2015

The 2015 Milwaukee Film Festival is one month and four days away. That’s one month and four days to prepare for an onslaught of films ranging from the highbrow and challenging to the rowdy and crowd pleasing. A...

Three. Stacks. Eliot starts strong with debut record, The Message Is Real

Tyler Maas

August 20, 2015

As shocking as it is, Three. Stacks. Eliot's days old album is also the jazz-rooted (mostly) instrumental band's first release to date. It's not easy to be thrown, what with the group's frequent presence behind...

WC Tank finds new direction with Vanishing Points

Tyler Maas

August 18, 2015

Last fall, Milwaukee rapper, filmmaker, and visual artist Wesley Charles Tank—aka “WC Tank”—released Almost Forever, a five-song EP the eccentric art-rapper wrote and self-produced in its entirety, along with s...

Under The Sun Tour brings ’90s nostalgia to State Fair

Tyler Maas

August 13, 2015

In Sugar Ray’s last known hit, 2001’s “When It’s Over,” singer Mark McGrath asks, “When it’s over is it really over?” For the SoCal pop-rock band, yes, it pretty much was, despite the two albums that followed b...

So, uh, Kip Winger is playing in Cudahy (again) October 15

Tyler Maas

August 12, 2015

Hey, remember when we told you that Kip Winger, the eponymous frontman of second-tier hair metal band from the late-’80s and early-’90s, Winger, was playing in Cudahy March 7? Pretty fucking weird, right? Well,...

Exclusive: Stream a re-recorded version of Direct Hit! rarity “Say Whatever”

Tyler Maas

August 11, 2015

Since 2010, Milwaukee’s premier pop-punk project Direct Hit! has routinely released material that ranged in scope from short-run splits and EPs to its well-received apocalyptic 2013 concept record, Brainless Go...

Watch the gorgeous, cinematic video for WebsterX’s “Lately”

Matt Wild

August 10, 2015

There are few Milwaukee musicians working today with as much tenacity, confidence, and forward momentum as WebsterX. Ever since the release of Desperate Youth in 2013, the tireless rapper—a.k.a. Sam Ahmed—has b...

Tracklist: 17 Milwaukee band names inspired by famous, real-life people

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 10, 2015

// Band names tend to come in two flavors: evocative and meaningful, and just plain random. For every 10 Metallicas, Guided By Voices, and Run The Jewels there are just as many Limp Bizkits, Toad The Wet Sp...

Phylums’ debut LP, Phylum Phyloid, is a giddy slab of thoughtful three-chord rock and roll

Matt Wild

August 10, 2015

Much like film noir, “gonzo” journalism, and CSI shows, three-chord rock and roll is easy to replicate but hard to perfect. Any band can slap together some ’60-inspired surf guitars and a handful of bubblegum m...

Primus and Dinosaur Jr. bring double dose of ’90s alt-rock to The Rave

Cal Roach

August 7, 2015

Primus frontman Les Claypool isn’t the type of guy who caters to his fans. He does whatever the hell he wants, and his core cult of diehards doggedly follows, because he is probably the greatest living bass gui...

Exclusive: Listen to two songs from The Scarring Party’s final album, End Times

Matt Wild

August 6, 2015

It’s perhaps surprising that a band specializing in defiantly out-of-time music should make it to its 10th anniversary. But for The Scarring Party, standing apart from musical trends both locally and nationally...

A Milwaukeean’s guide to Mile Of Music

Tyler Maas

August 6, 2015

During last year's Mile Of Music, the second such iteration of the "handcrafted artisan festival" in the northeast Wisconsin city of Appleton, a combined 39 of the 200 bands and solo artists booked to play hail...