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Messed up: The short, troubled history of Space Heater

February 10, 2015

“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” - Vince Lombardi December 7 Packers win over Atlanta Falcons, 43-37. Temperature: 34° Linneman’s Riverwest Inn is packed with approximately...

Violent Femmes (and Barenaked Ladies and Colin Hay) will play the BMO Harris Pavilion June 13

Matt Wild

February 10, 2015

Fact #1: Summer is approximately 8,000 years away. Fact #2: Nothing makes us pine for summer more than summer concert announcements—especially good ones. So while we wait for that inevitable “Weird Al” Summerfe...

Tracklist: 8 couples in Milwaukee bands

Milwaukee Record Staff

February 9, 2015

Love is in the air. Even if you don't buy into the fabricated sham holiday that is Valentine’s Day, the sheer volume of mushy, emotional stuff permeating your senses the second week of each February causes even...

Exclusive: Stream Breadking’s winter compilation, Coal

Tyler Maas

February 9, 2015

As anyone who was at Mitten Fest Saturday can attest, spring is on its way. Still, despite the slowly rising temperatures, the increased amount of daylight, and Brewers pitchers and catchers mere days from repo...

Milwaukee Record’s favorite moments from Mitten Fest 2015

Milwaukee Record Staff

February 9, 2015

Three years ago, beloved Bay View bar Burnhearts concocted a crazy scheme: stage an outdoor block party in the dead of winter. Even crazier was the fact the from the get-go, Mitten Fest was an instant success, ...

The Replacements will play The Rave May 2

Matt Wild

February 9, 2015

Legendary rock band The Replacements split up in 1991, walking away from a career that, while never fully embraced by the mainstream, could only be described as incalculably influential. Against all odds, front...

WAMI releases people’s choice ballot, sets awards show date

Tyler Maas

February 6, 2015

Wisconsin Area Music Industry (better known as "WAMI") has recognized the accomplishments of in-state musicians for the last 34 years. For almost as long, people have bemoaned the organization—sometimes with go...

Watch Milwaukee freak out over a Marilyn Manson concert in 1999

Matt Wild

February 5, 2015

// This Saturday, shock-rock icon Marilyn Manson will do his Marilyn Manson thing at The Rave. Manson—a.k.a. Brian “Brian Isn’t A Very Spooky Name” Warner—is currently touring behind a new and well-reviewed...

Get to know Towers, Mitten Fest’s (relative) mystery band

Tyler Maas

February 5, 2015

In about a year's time, Milwaukee rock quintet Towers has gotten off the a quick start with a cluster of shows. However, if you showed up late to any of the young band's gigs, you probably missed the perpetual ...

Painted Caves learn to trust their instincts after life-altering trip to India

Cal Roach

February 4, 2015

Remember last November, that initial bitter cold attack of winter? That was about the time the members of Milwaukee’s Painted Caves hopped on a plane, flew to India, and headlined an outdoor music festival in t...

There’s a suspicious Summerfest-sized hole in “Weird Al” Yankovic’s 2015 tour schedule

Matt Wild

February 3, 2015

According to Summerfest’s ever-ticking countdown clock (think of it like those “death clocks,” but with less death and more picnic-table dancing), there are four months, 20 days, 23 hours, 48 minutes, and 26......

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

Tyler Maas

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...