Here’s the Brady Street Festival lineup
With the exception of Up & Over shows, the occasional Nomad event, and two years of the East Side Music Tour, Brady Street isn’t exactly the first place you’d think of when it comes to seeing live music in ...
50 Cent is coming to the Woodman’s in Oak Creek for some reason
If his lyrics are to be believed, one can usually find 50 Cent in the club with a bottle full of bub. However, between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Wednesday, July 29, suburban shoppers will find the internationally kn...
Talib Kweli shows Turner Hall why he’s lasted 20 years strong
Brooklyn was in the house Thursday night as Milwaukee played host to one of independent hip-hop's most influential artists, Talib Kweli. With a career spanning 20 years, Kweli has pumped out six solo albums, ne...
Cocoon Room is closing
Lame news for Milwaukee’s music and art scenes: Riverwest’s Cocoon Room, located at 820 E. Locust St., has announced it will be closing up shop at the end of the month. The building’s landlord is electing not t...
Here’s the MishMash Fest 2015 lineup
One event we failed to mention in our otherwise thorough and exhaustive Summer Festival Guide was MishMash Fest. Since The Fatty Acids unofficially christened the inaugural event with an amp fire back in 2011, ...
Heed the call of Siren’s “Queen Medusa”
Milwaukee event planners have a knack for cramming in as much entertainment as possible into the year’s three or four non-awful months—i.e. summer. The same can be said for Milwaukee artists. Take Siren, for ex...
Exclusive: Get lost in the childlike psychedelia of Ravi/Lola’s 20-song sophomore album
The psych revival currently sweeping Milwaukee and the rest of the country tends to lean toward a heavier, rock-inspired sound. Reverb-drenched guitars, reverb-drenched vocals, reverb-drenched...well, you get t...
Let your freak flag fly with D’Amato’s awesome “BPA Free”
With modern home recording technology and this thing we call the Internet, it’s entirely possible to write, record, and release a full-length album in the span of a long weekend. Whip up a few songs, track them...
An actual Smash Mouth fan’s review of last night’s show
Sammy Arechar is one of the funniest comedians in Milwaukee. The up-and-coming comic also holds the distinction of being the one and only person Milwaukee Record has encountered who truly enjoys the band Smash ...
Dearly beloved, Gabriel Sanchez and The Prince Experience will play Turner Hall November 28
If the just-wrapped Summerfest 2015 taught us anything, it’s that there is no shortage of cover and tribute bands playing in and around Milwaukee. U2 tribute bands, Led Zeppelin tribute bands, The Who tribute b...
An entirely local weekend at Summerfest
Though Summerfest books bands from all corners of the country and brings in a fair amount of international talent, The Big Gig has recently gone about narrowing the disparaging gap between its hometown talent a...
Some questions (and answers) for last night’s glorious “Weird Al” show at Summerfest
“Weird Al” Yankovic is a national treasure. The wild-and-wacky song parodist has been lightly skewering popular music (and culture) for more than 30 years, turning radio hits of yesteryear into songs about food...
The Avett Brothers bring big time energy to Marcus Amphitheater
It’s the Fourth of July at Summerfest at the Marcus Amphitheater before The Avett Brothers are to perform their headlining set. The venue was sparsely populated during openers Warren Haynes and Brandi Carlile, ...
Watch Jack Tell’s endearingly simple “My Name Is Jack” music video
Milwaukee's collective music video game is strong these days. In the last year alone, local artists have given their music visual representation in a series of impressive, ambitious just plain inventive ways in...
Brand New and Manchester Orchestra make Summerfest sing
With a 15-year track record, Brand New is anything but. Since reaching semi-consciousness way back in 2001 with Your Favorite Weapon, the New York band has taken incremental steps to transition from mid-eschael...
Local H and The Faint heat up chilly night at Summerfest
If there’s one thing Summerfest does well—and let’s be honest, it does a lot of things well—it’s stock its overstuffed schedule with plenty of hidden gems. Take Wednesday night, for instance, which found Illino...
Obsoletes return for two-show reunion
Even the snobbiest Milwaukee music historian wouldn’t fault you for not knowing who the Obsoletes were. After all, two-thirds of the band’s members lived upwards of 100 miles outside Milwaukee for the vast majo...
Peeper & Le Play made one of the best, weirdest Milwaukee albums of the year
A common gripe against music coverage in Milwaukee—and music coverage in general—is that the media pays attention to only a small handful of bands. These bands tend to be safe, predictable, and career-oriented....
Meat Puppets will return to Club Garibaldi on August 28
Though Club Garibaldi’s stage will be empty for the entirety of July and most of August, the vastly underrated venue will come back strong with some great shows between the end of summer and the beginning of fa...
Hating Summerfest, loving Summerfest
Sometimes you hate Summerfest. Sometimes you get to the grounds on a late Sunday afternoon and note that there are more people waiting to see Paris Hilton in four hours than there were to see Public Enemy all o...