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Welcome to February: Here’s what you’re doing this month

February 2, 2015

February can be a strange month in Milwaukee music. Traditionally, bookers are still dealing with the occasional show-free Friday or Saturday that’s known to plague venues between late December and most of Janu...

Lineup for Turner Hall’s Milwaukee Day show announced

Tyler Maas

February 2, 2015

Originally founded after a realization that Milwaukee’s area code (414) contains the same sequence of numerals as the date April 14, Milwaukee Day has quickly blossomed from a noble celebration of civic pride t...

Listen to Joe Wong talk to Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty in first episode of The Trap Set

Matt Wild

January 29, 2015

You can find a podcast dedicated to just about anything these days—cats, bad movies, Milwaukee—but one subject has gone curiously unexamined: drummers. Seriously, we can have 8,000 tedious hours of a gussied-up...

Exclusive: Stream Low Down Sound’s EP, Ride Into The Sun

Tyler Maas

January 28, 2015

Low Down Sound’s debut EP, Ride Into The Sun, is a five-song sampling of American-made classic rock that’s unapologetically tied together with the ideals of freedom and a nomadic exploration of the wild west (p...

Listen to three songs off The Bang Bang’s self-titled debut

Tyler Maas

January 27, 2015

Young Milwaukee-bred blues rockers The Bang Bang have quietly been kicking around town since playing their first show last April. Thus far, the quartet has been cutting its teeth by playing semi-regular gigs at...

The big questions and simple answers of Jon Mueller’s “Death Blues: Ensemble”

Matt Wild

January 27, 2015

The story goes like this: In 2011, Jon Mueller was walking through the streets of New Orleans. The post-Katrina city was buzzing, full of life, optimistic—despite the fact that another hurricane was all but ine...

MKEPunk’s Martin Defatte discusses his new WMSE show

Tyler Maas

January 27, 2015

Since 2009, MKEPunk.com has done an admirable job preserving out-of-print music spanning four decades, numerous genres, and all corners of the state. So far, the two-man staff of Martin Defatte and Jeremy Ampe ...

Here’s the unbelievable lineup for Arte Para Todos

Tyler Maas

January 26, 2015

Milwaukee music has been especially generous lately. Both Borg Warm and, ahem, Local Coverage showcased numerous local acts to raise thousands for Girls Rock Milwaukee earlier this month. Pablove 6 saw a flurry...

Say hello to Blonder and stream “Yellow”

Tyler Maas

January 21, 2015

Do you guys remember Cousins? No, you say? That's cool, since the short-tenured band post-punk band called it quits roughly two months after releasing its entirely great first/final record...and 30th best Milwa...

Riverwest FemFest organizer Olivia Doyle talks about her inaugural benefit show

Tyler Maas

January 20, 2015

Though there’s certainly lots of room for growth and tons of progress that still must be made, there’s likely never been more female representation in Milwaukee music than there is right now. Despite the growin...

Jenny Lewis will play Turner Hall May 19

Matt Wild

January 20, 2015

Jenny Lewis’ résumé includes everything from child actor (The Wizard), frontwoman for a beloved early-’00s indie band (Rilo Kiley), member of a one-off Traveling Wilburys update (“Handle With Care”), and adored...

Watch Twin Brother’s video for “If Heart Was Enough”

Tyler Maas

January 19, 2015

Twin Brother’s emotionally-wrought and all-around wonderful 2014 album Swallow The Anchor was a coming of age record that vaulted the fringe Milwaukee folk act to greater local consciousness and near the top of...

Preview, pre-order adoptahighway’s new album, A Fault

Tyler Maas

January 16, 2015

Earlier this week, our Tracklist on great local-on-local covers rightfully included compelling redressings of Faux Fir songs on behalf of Milwaukee's premier classically trained experimental electronic instrume...

Beat the winter blues with Klassik’s soul-warming Winter EP

Matt Wild

January 15, 2015

Milwaukeeans love to boast about their heartiness and resolve when it comes to the seemingly endless seasonal drag known as winter. We’re a tough and resilient people, we tell ourselves, able to endure the kind...

Pablove 6 gives the gift of GGOOLLDD

Tyler Maas

January 15, 2015

If you read this site semi-regularly, take even a passing interest in Milwaukee music, or have turned on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee within the last hour, you assuredly already know GGOOLLDD. On the weight of its cr...

Sat. Nite Duets recorded a bittersweet ode to Packers backup QB Matt Flynn

Matt Wild

January 14, 2015

The NFL career of perennial backup quarterback Matt Flynn has been a long and strange one. Originally drafted by the Green Bay Packers in 2008, Flynn spent the next few season backing up the one and only Aaron ...

Listen to At Latl’s long overdue return EP, Best Friends

Tyler Maas

January 14, 2015

Unless you caught some of the band's sparing shows in 2011 or 2012, you haven't heard dick from mathy Milwaukee alt-rockers At Latl since 2010's Safe, Sound And Temporary. That came out four and a half years ag...

Get buzzed with the video for The Rashita Joneses’ “Mosquito”

Matt Wild

January 14, 2015

If the name “The Rashita Joneses” brings to mind only the magnetic Parks And Recreation actress (spelled “Rashida,”) and not, say, an up-and-coming garage-psych band, you shouldn’t feel bad. The misspelled Milw...

New Jon Mueller record will be called Initiation, won’t actually be a record

Matt Wild

January 13, 2015

It’s hard to overstate the raw power and beauty of Jon Mueller’s 2014 Death Blues album, Ensemble. We placed the haunting, otherworldly, and emotionally devastating instrumental post-rock record at no. 2 on our...

Tracklist: 12 Milwaukee-on-Milwaukee covers

Tyler Maas

January 12, 2015

If you haven’t heard, Milwaukee Record is putting on a little show Friday, January 16. Essentially, the inaugural Local Coverage will feature some great local bands playing at Club Garibaldi as part of a Girls ...