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“People don’t know that I play guitar”: Bartees Strange kicks off first-ever solo tour at Vivarium

November 3, 2025

“I’ve never toured like this before,” said Bartees Strange regarding his current three-week jaunt through the Midwest and West Coast. Sunday at Vivarium was the opening night of the singer/songwriter’s first tr...

Milwaukee Music Roundup: October 2025

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 31, 2025

broadstreet.zone(159870); Looking for new music? Looking for new Milwaukee music? Then look no further than our monthly Milwaukee Music Roundup! LPs AND EPs OF NOTE 414BigFrank - If U Ain't First Bowv...

Troubled Hubble’s Chris Otepka talks ‘Making Beds In A Burning House’ reissue, Cactus Club show

Rick Katschke

October 30, 2025

On November 9, Josh Modell and Dan Didier’s Foreign Leisure record label will be hosting a Cactus Club concert that features artists from three of their latest releases. Joining The Hallelujah Ward and Clem Sni...

The agony and the irony are killing me (and WLUM-FM 102.1)

Tad Kriofske Mainella

October 29, 2025

"One morning I showed up and Norm Macdonald was waiting at the door!" No, this isn't the beginning of a Lorne Michaels story or an outtake from Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend. This is an end-of-days true state...

Ladybird shoots its shot on country classic ‘Clementine’

Matt Wild

October 29, 2025

There's a warmth that radiates from Clementine, the second full-length album from Milwaukee alt-country band Ladybird. It's there in the good-times songs about rock star dreams and barstool camaraderie. It's th...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Zang! (2025)

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 29, 2025

WMSE's local and live in-studio showcase, Local/Live, airs Tuesdays 6-7 p.m. You can find past episodes HERE, or on this handy Soundcloud playlist. milwaukeerecord · WMSE's Local/Live, October 28, 2025: Za...

Driveway Thriftdwellers return, take pop detour with “Dance With You”

Matt Wild

October 28, 2025

Has it really been seven years since Milwaukee/Madison rock/Americana band Driveway Thriftdwellers released new music? "So it's been seven years since we've released new music and we think that's long enough," ...

WMSE will broadcast special “Hustle & Faux” show live from The Hop on November 10

Matt Wild

October 28, 2025

What do you get when you combine one of Milwaukee's favorite non-commercial radio stations with one of Milwaukee's favorite non-controversial modes of public transportation? "Hustle & Faux," WMSE 91.7FM's u...

Milwaukee Record Recommended Events: October 27 – November 2, 2025

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 27, 2025

broadstreet.zone(152022); Milwaukee is chock full of things to do, but only a handful of Milwaukee events are worthy of the lofty honor of "Record Recommended" (patent pending). Here are our recommendations—br...

Fuzzysurf’s “Don’t Go Overboard” video is an aquatic adventure

Tyler Maas

October 27, 2025

You can always count on Fuzzysurf to release some of the most inventive, ambitious, and all-around impressive music videos in Milwaukee. The indie rock outfit’s astounding body of visual work includes puppetry,...

Experimental rock duo Mute Gospel sets sail for ‘Banks Of Nowhere’

Cal Roach

October 27, 2025

"Banks Of Nowhere is the place that signifies both arrival and departure, familiar and alien, home and far from home," says multi-instrumentalist Zak Koehn, one half of Milwaukee experimental rock duo Mute Gosp...

Get into the gloom with Genau’s “Live By The Water,” “Margaret In Dub”

Matt Wild

October 24, 2025

It's been faaaaar too long since we checked in with dreamy post-punk duo Genau. We wrote about the Milwaukee group's self-titled debut way back in 2016 ("If you're feeling a little bit noisy and a little bit go...

MKE Music Rewind: Milwaukee Hometown Music Scene Documentary (1991)

Matt Wild

October 23, 2025

broadstreet.zone(159870); In MKE Music Rewind we revisit notable Milwaukee music that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014. This week: the Milwaukee Hometown Music Scene Documentar...

Berlin-based Queen Quail looks back at her Milwaukee roots in “Southside”

Tyler Maas

October 22, 2025

In addition to documenting much of the wonderful music that's being made in and around Milwaukee itself, we here at Milwaukee Record also try to keep tabs on new output from musicians who previously called the ...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Overhand (2025)

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 22, 2025

WMSE's local and live in-studio showcase, Local/Live, airs Tuesdays 6-7 p.m. You can find past episodes HERE, or on this handy Soundcloud playlist. milwaukeerecord · WMSE's Local/Live, October 21, 2025: Ov...

Milwaukee Metal Monthly: Psychic Shiv talks ‘Wearing Black,’ Imprecation Of Love talks black metal

Steve Lampiris

October 21, 2025

Welcome back to another edition of Milwaukee Metal Monthly. For this installment, our story begins a coupl’a weeks back with me browsing around Bandcamp for Milwaukee bands. I used filters for “Milwaukee” and “...

Milwaukee Record Recommended Events: October 20-26, 2025

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 20, 2025

broadstreet.zone(152022); Milwaukee is chock full of things to do, but only a handful of Milwaukee events are worthy of the lofty honor of "Record Recommended" (patent pending). Here are our recommendations—br...

Milwaukee “twee punk band” Chit Chat returns to find “Love In A Graveyard”

Matt Wild

October 20, 2025

If the name Chit Chat doesn't ring a bell in your Milwaukee music brain, you can hardly be blamed. It's been nearly four years since the trio of Harrison Colby, Carmella D'Acquisto, and Jeremy Ault released the...

Brandy and Monica reignite old “rivalry” and heat up Fiserv Forum

Tyler Maas

October 18, 2025

Individually, Brandy and Monica have each been responsible for a steady stream of chart-climbing hits, served as musical touchstones and inspirations for countless people, and have enjoyed careers that started ...

Breakup Tour mixes memes and melancholy on ‘Sorry For Your Loss’

Matt Wild

October 16, 2025

About halfway through Sorry For Your Loss, the debut album from Milwaukee "bubble grunge" group Breakup Tour, two characters grapple with the unrelenting march of time. "The older that you get, the harder the h...