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...
Twin Brother’s “Bury Me Dear” is black, white, and sad all over
Back in June, Milwaukee folk quintet Twin Brother played an extra special show at Club Garibaldi. Not only was it one of the band's first outings as a five piece and a homecoming for frequent show partner Old E...
Local Coverage tickets are on sale now
Last Thursday, we announced the date and lineup for our second Local Coverage benefit concert. On Friday, January 15, an eclectic and talented group of 10 Milwaukee bands and rappers will take the stage at Turn...
Tracklist: 15 Milwaukee Halloween shows
Yeah, we know there's still one weekend sitting between now and Halloween, but with the holiday falling on a Saturday, there seems to be even more awesome concerts, comedy shows, and other entertainment ameniti...
The Fatty Acids use best parts of old footage for “Worst Part” video
On top of The Fatty Acids' energetic live shows and steady wave of increasingly great records (including Boléro, which we called the third best Milwaukee album of the 2010s last year), the synth-pop outfit is k...
Hello Death and friends go crazy with “Prince Uncovered” for Alverno Presents
If you’re angling to include Prince in the Great American Songbook, situating him alongside such tintype legends as Stephen Foster, you’re eventually going to have to contend with lyrics like “I sincerely want ...
Rx Drugs cure Joe Crockett’s creative ailments
For more than a decade, Joe Crockett served as the unmistakable voice and bandleader of locally-lauded folk band The Championship. At the tail end of that time, though, the gaps between shows grew wider as Croc...
Milwaukee Record presents Local Coverage 2016
This past January, Milwaukee Record hosted the inaugural Local Coverage at Club Garibaldi. The benefit found eight different Milwaukee acts across the age, neighborhood, and stylistic board covering one another...
Stream Old Earth’s European single, “Pretty Steep”
It's been about a year since Oak Creek native Todd Umhoefer, the mad genius behind experimental folk project Old Earth, up and moved, taking his moving and criminally under-appreciated tunes to the artistic enc...