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Trapper Schoepp to play Aloft Milwaukee Downtown this Thursday

November 4, 2014

Don’t let the recent dearth of news coming from the Trapper Schoepp & The Shades camp fool you—Schoepp and his band have been busy. The group just finished up a three-week tour with The Jayhawks, and a new ...

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Eric & Magill: In This Light

Tyler Maas

November 4, 2014

Since 2010’s solid debut, All Those I Know, tangential Milwaukee dream-pop duo Eric & Magill (ex-Camden, Decibully, The Promise Ring) has been putting out material at a greater rate and of a higher quality ...

Listen to a new, politically charged Testa Rosa song (and don’t forget to vote)

Matt Wild

November 4, 2014

It’s been almost four years since the pop chameleons of Testa Rosa dropped the exceedingly lovely II, which landed on our list of the 50 best Milwaukee albums of the 2010s (so far). Now, in the wake of frontwom...

Beware of Cinnaminiatures’ Halloween release, Haunt’s Catsup

Tyler Maas

October 31, 2014

Milwaukee's self-annointed "premier, all girl, punk rock, holiday jam band" Cinnaminiatures are back and in the Halloween spirit. In honor of the spooky season, the unabashed novelty band released its chilling ...

Take a bite of the debut album from Brat Sounds

Matt Wild

October 31, 2014

There are Milwaukee albums that arrive after months of anticipation (Space Raft, the upcoming Canopies), and there are Milwaukee albums that just show up on your doorstep, unannounced but thoroughly welcome (Si...

Soul Low’s “Blatz Beat” video will make you happy, thirsty

Tyler Maas

October 31, 2014

After Soul Low came out of nowhere with its incredible debut, UNEASY (a debut that’s firmly a top 10 local album this decade) in the summer of 2013, the city that had just met the indie rock prodigies—who, at t...

The Olives take to the woods in the “Haunt Me” video

Tyler Maas

October 31, 2014

The Olives have been delighting gallery spaces, clubs, and Riverwest basements (and upcoming Milwaukee Record benefit shows) with its instantly-fun brand of Great Lakes surf punk for a few years now. The all-fe...

The Disclaimer: Jordan Lee talks Miltown Beat Down

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 30, 2014

Every Wednesday at noon, WMSE’s Ryan Schleicher, Shepherd Express’ Evan Rytlewski, and Milwaukee Record’s Matt Wild take to the WMSE airwaves to discuss all things Milwaukee. This half-hour fun-fest is called T...

Jayke Orvis returns to Milwaukee on his own

Jared Blohm

October 30, 2014

Milwaukee native Jayke Orvis reached a crossroads in 2007. While his band—the .357 String Band—was beginning to garner attention outside of Wisconsin, his personal life was crashing around him. He was going thr...

Crack a beer and watch the new Platinum Boys video for “Candy”

Tyler Maas

October 30, 2014

Those rapscallions in Platinum Boys are fresh off a mischievous summer that saw the Riverwest rock quartet dosing Milwaukee’s festivals, block parties, and clubs with pristine party anthems about indulging in t...

The return (and unwritten future) of All Messed Up

Thomas Michalski

October 29, 2014

Taking 64 Milwaukee-area musicians and randomly shuffling them into 16 ad hoc ensembles, All Messed Up, now entering its fifth year, has transformed from a creative way for local players to stave off the winter...

Exclusive: Listen to Drag, the debut EP from NO/NO (ex-Delphines)

Matt Wild

October 28, 2014

The Delphines were one of the best Milwaukee bands of the 2010s, firing forth a series of EPs and singles stuffed with jittery, sexy, reverb-drenched gloom-rock. But soon after the group finally got around to r...

The Sleater-Kinney show has been moved to Riverside Theater

Matt Wild

October 28, 2014

Due to overwhelming demand—a.k.a. this sucker sold out in 30 minutes—the February 15 Sleater-Kinney show at Turner Hall has been moved to the Riverside Theater. New tickets will go on sale today at noon. Accord...

Exclusive: Listen to Ladders’ excellent debut album, Suha

Matt Wild

October 24, 2014

In just five short years, the Riverwest-based Breadking collective has made its mark on the city’s music scene by nurturing a seemingly endless number of young bands, and by providing an informal support networ...

The Disclaimer: The (sorry) state of music criticism

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 23, 2014

Every Wednesday at noon, WMSE’s Ryan Schleicher, Shepherd Express’ Evan Rytlewski, and Milwaukee Record’s Matt Wild take to the WMSE airwaves to discuss all things Milwaukee. This half-hour fun-fest is called T...

El-Shareef’s Nonchalant EP is anything but

Matt Wild

October 22, 2014

The digital age has made it possible for artists to record and release their music at a stunningly rapid rate. Hip-hop, in particular, has embraced this accelerated production schedule in the form of mixtapes—q...

Come out to Cactus Club October 29 for “Wednesday Night Off!” with Milwaukee Record

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 22, 2014

Wednesday nights can be slow for local music venues, what with the majority of shows falling on Thursday, Friday, or Saturday. Bay View’s venerable Cactus Club, however, has been filling the mid-week void with ...

Field Report goes all in on Marigolden

Tyler Maas

October 21, 2014

You could hear it from the chapel steps. As the volume of the acoustic guitar and the lone singer’s wavering, vulnerable voice subsided, it was overtaken with thunderous applause of close to 500 people seate...

Brett Newski’s “Vs The World” video shows the plight of life on the road

Tyler Maas

October 21, 2014

Milwaukee folk rocker Brett Newski lives a largely nomadic lifestyle that finds him touring the vast majority of each year. His musical wanderlust has found him touring in six continents (Sorry, Antarctica!), a...

Burnhearts, Three Floyds partner for inaugural “Punk House Kegger Party” November 12

Tyler Maas

October 20, 2014

Hop-heads and punkers alike have reason to rejoice. In an effort to fill that cruel show-free gap that sits between the Burnhearts/Pabst Street Party each June and the annual February street celebration that...