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Lorde punches above her weight at BMO Harris Pavilion

September 27, 2014

Ever since becoming a worldwide pop sensation at 16 with last year’s Pure Heroine, New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde has straddled the line between “aw-shucks” teenager and canny superstar-in-the-making. She’...

Aaron Freeman leaves Ween behind at Turner Hall

Cal Roach

September 26, 2014

One could almost look at Aaron Freeman in child-star terms. The erstwhile Gene Ween began making prank music with partner Mickey Melchiondo (a.k.a. Dean Ween) in eighth grade, eventually scoring a novelty hit w...

Blackbird’s “From The Stage To The Booth” DJ series returns for second year

Milwaukee Record Staff

September 25, 2014

Last year, Blackbird Bar launched the unique "From The Stage To The Booth" DJ series with a simple concept: allow Milwaukee bands get behind the turntables every Friday night and play whatever the hell they wan...

Caught on tapes: Milwaukee’s place in Cassette Store Day

Tyler Maas

September 25, 2014

The vinyl resurgence is no secret. However, as audiophiles returned to the forgotten format in droves, most leapfrogged over another musical medium that stood squarely between wax and mp3s on the recorded music...

Herman Astro is breaking up

Tyler Maas

September 24, 2014

In a status posted to its Facebook page Wednesday afternoon, established soulful Milwaukee alternative outfit Herman Astro announced it will be calling it quits. The seemingly amicable exodus comes as a result ...

Volcano Choir’s Repave tour will come to an end at Turner Hall this November

Milwaukee Record Staff

September 24, 2014

Has it only been a year since Volcano Choir’s explosive Repave was unleashed onto the world? While certainly of its time, there’s something ageless about the album, as if Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) and his Collec...

Exclusive: Stream Grasping At Straws’ debut full-length

Tyler Maas

September 24, 2014

Riverwest is presently riding a wave of talented twenty-somethings who are pitching in oodles of enthusiasm, classical training, and a host of styles that are equally eclectic and inventive to forge an understa...

What to listen for at the 2014 Milwaukee Noise Fest

DJ Hostettler

September 24, 2014

Of all the musical genres forced to endure willfully ignorant “it all sounds the same to me” comments, one would assume that noise would be the one for which it’s tragically apt. Of course, anyone who actually ...

Ben Conrad puts care and collaboration in concert for MACC Fund benefit

Tyler Maas

September 23, 2014

Among the hundreds of people likely to be in attendance for Friday night’s Concert 4 MACC at Turner Hall, most will undoubtedly be on hand because they want to see noted Wisconsin-sired heavyhitters Cory Chisel...

The Midwest Beat challenges you to a staring contest in new music video

Tyler Maas

September 23, 2014

After releasing a music video; streaming its album; and playing four combined release shows in Milwaukee, Green Bay, and Madison, you’d think The Midwest Beat’s latest and greatest album, Free Of Being, has bee...

Exclusive: Stream Greatest Lakes’ self-titled debut album

Tyler Maas

September 22, 2014

We’re living in an age where an artist can conceivably wake up, write a song, record that song on a personal computer, and make the hours-old rendering available to listeners in any Internet-equipped nook of th...

Iron & Wine calls for requests in solo Pabst Theater outing

Tyler Maas

September 19, 2014

Though it’s close to a decade removed from its commercial peak as go-to indie flick score and default audio accompaniment for that “play an entire song and show different characters doing stuff at the end of th...

Dana Coppa and SPEAK Easy look back at their “Golden Girls” in new single

Tyler Maas

September 18, 2014

Directly inspired by Jay Z’s “Girls” (down to the presence of a sample) and “the girls of past,” veteran Milwaukee rappers Dana Coppa (or Dana Coppafeel) and SPEAK Easy pool their adolescent romantic histories...

Spoon plays to its strengths at Riverside Theater, pays tribute to Jay Reatard

Matt Wild

September 18, 2014

The word “journeymen” gets tossed around a lot when talking or writing about Spoon. On the surface, it’s something of a compliment: The Austin, Texas band has been at it for more than two decades, releasing alb...

Bob Mould turns back the clock and blazes ahead at Turner Hall

DJ Hostettler

September 18, 2014

There’s a 1985 Hüsker Dü live show from London on YouTube that will wind-tunnel your face if you sit through the whole thing. The band’s at the frenzied height of its powers, blasting through jams from New Day ...

Watch the hypnotic video for Death Blues’ “Languaging”

Matt Wild

September 17, 2014

When we awarded a perfect five-out-of-five stars to Ensemble, the latest release from Jon Mueller’s sprawling Death Blues project, it wasn’t because it was necessarily better than any other Milwaukee album we’v...

The Get Down will return to Turner Hall for New Year’s Eve 2014

Matt Wild

September 16, 2014

If there’s one constant in an ever-changing, ever-frustrating world, it’s The Get Down, Milwaukee’s long-running funk and soul dance party. For more than 10 years, DJs Andy Noble, Brent Goodsell, and Nesh have ...

Vonny Del Fresco joins Three. Stacks. Eliot for a living room session

Tyler Maas

September 16, 2014

No A-side/B-side necessary: Milwaukee’s music scene can absolutely be too insular at times. With the number of local bands who are prone to tour in pairs, and populate Groundhog Day-esque local show bills toget...

Listen to Allen Coté’s absinthe-fueled Sublimative Sessions Vol. 2: Darling Hall (RIP)

Matt Wild

September 16, 2014

If you had to name Milwaukee’s finest utility musician, you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone better than Allen Coté. The Austin, Texas transplant has been a familiar presence in the linear notes of some of the ...

Donivan from Blessed Feathers (truly) needs your help

Tyler Maas

September 15, 2014

Milwaukee has no shortage of people looking to Kickstart their dreams by soliciting donations to get their band in the studio, help fund a tour, or "promote and grow the Urban Redneck life." While we're not in ...