Music

July 31, 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: Soul Low's UNEASY, from 2013. Time has a w...

Milwaukee Music Roundup: July 2025

July 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 Alley Eyes - Bondage In The Afternoon b...

Ghost brings two hours of unabashed Satanic glam to Fiserv Forum

Cal Roach

July 30, 2025

Swedish hard rock band Ghost's first visit to Milwaukee back in 2013 was met with a mixture of rapture and bewilderment by a sparse Turner Hall Ballroom crowd. This was the group's first headlining tour and mos...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Robot Witch (2025)

July 30, 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, July 29, 2025: Robot...

Read an exclusive excerpt from ‘Don’t Say Please: The Oral History Of Die Kreuzen’

July 29, 2025

Few bands in Milwaukee music history have a legacy that even comes close to matching that of Die Kreuzen. The seminal outfit defied genre distinction, anchored the local scene, toured relentlessly, and was a fa...

Milwaukee Record Recommended Events: July 28 – August 3, 2025

July 28, 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...

Talking new Milwaukee music with WUWM’s Lake Effect (July 2025)

July 24, 2025

Once a month, Milwaukee Record's Matt Wild sits down with WUWM's Lake Effect and discusses some of his favorite new Milwaukee records and songs. Listen to the latest installment HERE. This month, Matt sca...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Alley Eyes

July 23, 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, July 22, 2025: Alley...

Milwaukee Record Recommended Events: July 21-27, 2025

July 21, 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...

Socially Suspect’s “Empire Of Rust” is the feel-bad song of the summer

July 21, 2025

A recent Guardian article suggests that the song of the summer is...nothing. "Chart analysts say that 2025 has produced the fewest new hit songs in US history," The Guardian says. Maybe it's just as well. Who c...

A day-by-day Milwaukee guide to Mile Of Music

July 18, 2025

From July 31 through August 3, a total of 27 Milwaukee bands and solo artists will make the 100-mile trek north on US 41—or I-43, if they want to take the scenic route—to partake the Mile Of Music festival in d...

BLAX honors fallen Milwaukee music icons in “Take A Picture”

July 18, 2025

The last few years have been hard on Milwaukee music. In 2023, De La Buena lifeblood Cecilio "Ceeloe" Negrón, Jr. died at the age of 47. In 2024, hip-hop force of nature Antoine "Twan" Mack died at the age of 5...

WMSE’s Local/Live: White Dry Pages

July 16, 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, July 15, 2025: White...

I listened to my sister’s Milwaukee radio mixtape from 1988: “Good Songs on Lazer + QFM”

Tad Kriofske Mainella

July 15, 2025

The Excitement of a Song You May Only Hear Once Dig if you will a 1988 bedroom: Ratt's Out Of The Cellar album cover is taped to the closet door, a guinea pig rambles the shag red carpet, a phone cord snakes...

Summerfest announces 2025 attendance (up 8%!), 2026 dates (same three-weekend format!)

July 15, 2025

The annual Big Milwaukee Question—"What was the Summerfest attendance this year?"—has been answered. On Tuesday, Summerfest parent company Milwaukee World Festival, Inc. (MWF) announced that 602,231 folks at...

Shout-out to Jack White for kicking in some serious cash for Cactus Club’s new ramp

July 14, 2025

If you've been to Bay View's Cactus Club in recent weeks, you've seen all the construction going on outside. The construction is for Cactus' long-in-the-works accessibility ramp, part of an equally long-in-the-...

Milwaukee Record Recommended Events: July 14-20, 2025

July 14, 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...

Here’s the 2025 Center Street Daze music lineup

July 14, 2025

Center Street Daze Festival—which began way back in 1997 and is organized by the Riverwest Business Association—will make its triumphant return to Center Street (between Holton and Humboldt) on Saturday, August...

Please enjoy the charming-as-hell “Ducks,” from Milwaukee solo artist Floryence