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Pele will play its first Milwaukee show in over a decade April 18 at Cactus Club

January 8, 2015

Legendary Milwaukee post-rock outfit Pele disbanded in 2004, but its influence on local music remains strong to this day. Members of the instrumental three-piece (Jon Mueller, Chris Rosenau, Matt Tennessen) hav...

So, uh, Kip Winger is playing in Cudahy March 7

Tyler Maas

January 8, 2015

Cudahy gets a bad rap. Sure, the industrial Milwaukee suburb is a little rough around the edges, but it’s also home to vibrant third shift nightlife (daylife?), an ambitious brew pub that might be the only plac...

Mount Rush-Mor: An interview with Rush-Mor Records’ Dan DuChaine

Lauren Keene

January 8, 2015

Standing on the corner of Kinnickinnic and Potter, Rush-Mor Records is a landmark in Milwaukee’s Bay View neighborhood. Founded in 1971, Rush-Mor is Milwaukee’s oldest and longest running record store. Since 19...

Paul Collins’ Milwaukee connection: As told by him and local musicians

Tyler Maas

January 8, 2015

Power-pop icon Paul Collins has strong ties to both New York and Los Angles with the 40-or-so years he’s spent on stage in noted projects on both coasts, including The Beat, The Nerves, and Paul Collins Beat. T...

Here’s the lineup for Mitten Fest 2015

Tyler Maas

January 6, 2015

You know a show is going to be great when close to a thousand people on Facebook have already committed to going without even knowing who’s playing. In its first two years, Burnhearts’ annual Mitten Fest ser...

Listen to “Andromeda,” a spacey track from Klassik’s upcoming Winter EP

Matt Wild

January 5, 2015

We’ve already told you about the big year awaiting Milwaukee rapper/musician/producer/video director Kellen “Klassik” Abston, a year that will see the release of four EPs that will eventually lead to a new albu...

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

Matt Wild

January 5, 2015

January is an exciting time: a time of renewal, a time of promise, and a time when we inevitably refuse to make New Year’s resolutions because we’ve been burned in the past and that shit never works anyway. It’...

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Soul Low: Kind Spirit

Matt Wild

January 5, 2015

If there were a war for Milwaukee’s most affable band—an exceedingly polite and well-mannered war, mind you—the victor would undoubtedly be Soul Low. On 2013’s excellent UNEASY, the young group offered up eight...

Klassik is poised for big things in 2015

Tyler Maas

December 26, 2014

Since hitting the scene in 2011, Kellen Abston (better known by his hip-hop moniker of "Klassik") has been in a state of perpetual motion. After making a name for himself in Milwaukee by way of 2012's In The Ma...

Watch the trailer for GGOOLLDD’s new “Boyz” video

Tyler Maas

December 24, 2014

Ever since GGOOLLDD released its so, so, so great EP $tandard$ this summer, Wisconsin was left to wonder what the exciting band's fifth recorded song would yield. Honesty time: we don't exactly know the answer ...

Tracklist: 10 amazingly tolerable Milwaukee-made holiday songs

Tyler Maas

December 23, 2014

Along with unending department store lines, wrapping gifts, trying (and inevitably failing) to attend every holiday gathering you’re supposed to, and the threat of receiving an Arby’s gift card, the constant wa...

Twin Brother’s Sean Raasch hits his stride in 2014

Tyler Maas

December 23, 2014

If you hadn't heard of Milwaukee indie-folk trio Twin Brother prior to this summer, not only do we forgive you for the oversight, we're ashamed to admit we were right there with you. It wasn't until the materia...

TARDIS party: Inside The Time Lords’ Ball at Turner Hall

Rob Wieland

December 23, 2014

Milwaukee rarely lacks options for celebrating the end of the year. From the bottle service pub-crawls on Water Street to the packages in the ’burbs that allow guests to get shitty in a ballroom and stumble bac...

Watch Temper Temper’s 2005 “Cactus Nights” appearance

Tyler Maas

December 18, 2014

We've said it before and we'll say it again: 2014 is/was Milwaukee music's finest year in recent memory. Before this especially fruitful annal in local music, we'd probably point to the early-to-mid 2000s as th...

The Disclaimer: Best Milwaukee concerts of 2014

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 18, 2014

Every Wednesday at noon, Ryan Schleicher, Evan Rytlewski, and Matt Wild take to the WMSE airwaves to discuss all things Milwaukee. This half-hour fun-fest is called The Disclaimer, so named because none of the ...

Exclusive: Listen to Whips’ undeniably awesome new album, Turn It On

Matt Wild

December 16, 2014

Midway through Whips’ swaggering, scorching debut LP, Turn It On, the band lets off the throttle and switches gears for an out-of-character surprise: a piano ballad. “I won’t forever glow / I won’t forever glow...

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NO/NO: X.O.

Matt Wild

December 16, 2014

It should come as no surprise to fans of Milwaukee’s gone-but-not-forgotten Delphines that the band that quickly formed from the group’s ashes, NO/NO, has already released two EP’s worth of material. The Delphi...

The 15 best Milwaukee concerts of 2014

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 15, 2014

There was a time, not too long ago, when Milwaukee was on the “don’t-bother-playing” list for big-ticket touring acts, and regularly lost big-ticket shows to Madison and Chicago. Now, anyone claiming the latter...

Here’s your monthly Local Coverage reminder

Tyler Maas

December 12, 2014

Can you remember all the way back to mid-October? Barack Obama was President. Milk, bread, and gasoline were all sold for approximately as much as they are now, and a plucky young publication announced a benefi...

The Disclaimer: Best Milwaukee music of 2014

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 11, 2014

Every Wednesday at noon, Ryan Schleicher, Evan Rytlewski, and Matt Wild take to the WMSE airwaves to discuss all things Milwaukee. This half-hour fun-fest is called The Disclaimer, so named because none of the ...