Music

March 3, 2025

In 2022, Old Pup—the pet project of Milwaukee multi-instrumentalist Will Hansen—introduced listeners to its winning mixture of psych, folk, and country with the release of Incognito Lounge. Since then, Hansen a...

X-Ray Arcade announces “Accessible Entryway Construction Fundraiser” events and merch

February 28, 2025

It’s tough to remember a time before X-Ray Arcade. Frankly, we don’t want to think about it. Amazingly, in spite of seeming like it’s been a fixture in Milwaukee-area music forever, the Cudahy-based arcade and ...

Milwaukee Music Roundup: February 2025

February 28, 2025

Looking for new music? Looking for new Milwaukee music? Then look no further than our monthly Milwaukee Music Roundup! LPs AND EPs OF NOTE 5pm To Nowhere - City Of Light, Act I Bryan Cherry - Anything ...

Get in the Seances spirit with the “Forgiveness” music video

February 27, 2025

If you listen to Milwaukee-made music with any regularity, there's a good chance you're familiar with Eric Arsnow's work. Over the last 10-plus years, he's had lengthy stints playing bass in Tigernite and Devil...

Music streaming injustices: A call for indie musicians to stick up for themselves

Brett Newski

February 26, 2025

In 2016 I made a song called "Fuck You Spotify." I recorded it during a performance at Paste Studios in New York City. For years, I hesitated to push this track, worried that Spotify would suppress my reach or ...

No matter the season, Danny Arcane will heat things up with “Girl”

February 26, 2025

Milwaukee singer-songwriter Danny Arcane largely travels in the indie-pop lane, but he's no stranger to some good old fashioned slow jams. Back in 2023, The U.S.- and U.K.-raised Arcane released the smooth "Do ...

Fuzzysurf does anything but blend in on ambitious, genre-jumping double LP, ‘Chameleons’

February 25, 2025

Since the band's 2017 origin, Fuzzysurf has become known for its tremendous, next-level music videos that are routinely paired with upbeat, indie-tinged surf rock compositions. It's been a pattern you could rel...

Milwaukee Record Recommended Events: February 24 – March 2, 2025

February 24, 2025

broadstreet.zone(152022); Milwaukee is chock full of things to do, but only a handful of Milwaukee events are worthy of the lofty honor of "Record Recommended" (patent pending). Here are our recommendations—br...

Old 97’s to kick off Tosa Tonight’s 2025 season

February 24, 2025

Since 2000, the Tosa Tonight summer concert series has brought free and family-friendly live music to Rotary Performance Pavilion in Wauwatosa’s Hart Park. Thankfully, Tosa Tonight won't just be returning for a...

Jimmy Flemion of The Frogs has been uploading musical gems to YouTube since 2021

February 24, 2025

In the history of Milwaukee bands that broke into the mainstream—albeit briefly—no group leaves a stranger mark than The Frogs. Brothers Jimmy and Dennis Flemion formed the aggressively lo-fi and subversive alt...

The Keystones stay on the grind with synth-flavored “SHINJUKU”

February 21, 2025

Everything's a grind, right? Eking out a living, maintaining our jobs, maintaining our relationships, releasing a new five-song EP that deals with the very concept of grinding and working and working some more ...

Talking new Milwaukee music with WUWM’s Lake Effect (January 2025)

February 21, 2025

Once a month, Milwaukee Record's own Matt Wild sits down with WUWM's Lake Effect and discusses some of his favorite new Milwaukee records and songs. Listen to the latest installment HERE. This month, Matt...

MKE Music Rewind: Canopies, s/t EP (2011)

February 20, 2025

In MKE Music Rewind we revisit notable Milwaukee music that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014. This week: Canopies' self-titled debut EP from 2011. If you dig into the archive...

Bug Moment goes supersonic on “Chaos Emerald”

February 19, 2025

Last fall, Milwaukee's premier "emo-adjacent rock melancholia" group Bug Moment released a terrific new single, "Arbiter." The band followed it with the fantastic "Purple Guy." And now comes the dramatic (and t...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Alicia Rytlewski

February 19, 2025

WMSE's local and live in-studio showcase, Local/Live, airs Tuesdays 6-7 p.m. You can find past episodes HERE, or on this handy Soundcloud playlist. milwaukeerecord · WMSE's Local/Live, February 18, 2025: A...

Milwaukee Record Recommended Events: February 17-23, 2025

February 17, 2025

broadstreet.zone(152022); Milwaukee is chock full of things to do, but only a handful of Milwaukee events are worthy of the lofty honor of "Record Recommended" (patent pending). Here are our recommendations—br...

Billy Judge Baldus scratches quirky itch on ‘Signature Moves’

February 17, 2025

Jonathan Coulton. Jonathan Richman. Half Japanese. They Might Be Giants. If the mention of those artists makes you smile, read on. If it makes you recoil in horror, feel free to revisit the time we waited in li...

Listen to some of the best Milwaukee songs of the season (so far) on our “Winter 2025” playlist

February 14, 2025

Even though winter isn’t typically a season Milwaukee looks at with much fondness, at least a lot of great Milwaukee music has been released between late December 2024 and now (near the middle of winter and cur...

Hey! Here’s the 2025 Summerfest lineup!