Music

May 2, 2025

After a breakout 2022 and an even more accomplished 2023, last year proved to be an uncharacteristically quiet one for NilexNile. Besides a select few local outings (including a direct support slot before Jack ...

Xposed 4Heads issue call to arms on ‘Crack The Sky’

May 2, 2025

When we last checked in with Xposed 4Heads in January 2024, the veteran Milwaukee New Wave/art-rock band was in a mood. "It's messed up beyond belief / We've gone too far, we're in too deep," cried frontman Mar...

Here’s the Locust Street Festival music lineup (so far)

May 1, 2025

In case you missed the news, Locust Street Festival of Music and Art and its affiliated Locust Street Beer Run will be taking place in the heart of Riverwest on Sunday, June 1. For those of you keeping score at...

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds enthrall, entrance at Miller High Life Theatre

Cal Roach

May 1, 2025

Never one to shy away from taboo subjects, much of Nick Cave's output in recent years has been challenging in a very different sense than his past work. Over the past decade he has suffered the tragic losses of...

Here’s the 2025 Jazz In The Park lineup

April 30, 2025

In case you missed it, the Great Milwaukee Summer is back! Approximately 8,000 festivals, music series, and fairs are set to take over the city this summer. And one of those music series, the long-running and w...

Alley Eyes embrace the anthemic side of indie sleaze with excellent “No Good”

April 30, 2025

Are we in the midst of an "indie sleaze" revival? You know, that pocket of 2000s-era music and culture epitomized by bands like The Strokes, The Killers, and LCD Soundsystem? That moment in time when everyone w...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Vile Bees

April 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, April 29, 2025: Vile...

Milwaukee Music Roundup: April 2025

April 30, 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 Astronaut Husband - Into The Sun Into t...

After 18 years, Smiths/Morrissey tribute act The Salford Lads Club hangs up its flowers

April 29, 2025

For a band that was only active for five years, The Smiths cast a remarkably long shadow. Morrissey, Johnny Marr, Andy Rourke, and Mike Joyce formed The Smiths in 1982, and released their self-titled debut in 1...

Milwaukee Record Recommended Events: April 28 – May 4, 2025

April 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...

Astronaut Husband takes emotional journey ‘Into The Sun’

April 28, 2025

The words "astronaut husband" evoke distance—both physical and emotional. Somewhere out in the emptiness of space is Major Tom, asking Ground Control to tell his wife he loves her very much (she knows). Milwauk...

Puddler’s Hall to host 5th annual “Rock Party Block Party” on July 12

April 25, 2025

It's not even May yet and it’s already shaping up to be one of the busiest and best festival seasons in recorded Milwaukee history. Want yet another event to add to the ever-growing list of great summer enterta...

Here’s Third Ward Beer Garden at Catalano Square’s May to July live music schedule

April 25, 2025

If there’s something that Milwaukee can’t have too many of, it’s beer gardens. Our abundance of designated places where folks can enjoy a beverage, snacks, and maybe even live entertainment in an outdoor public...

“Think Fast” and listen to new single from Oh Geeez, Not Again

April 25, 2025

Think fast, hotshot: Do you like music of the pop-rock variety? If so, do you like your pop-rock to be extra sugary, hooky, 2000s-y, and polished to such a blinding shine that it should come with a complimentar...

Tosa Tonight announces another national headliner as full lineup reveal approaches

April 24, 2025

Since 2000, the Tosa Tonight summer concert series has brought free and family-friendly live music to Rotary Performance Pavilion in Wauwatosa’s Hart Park. Back in February, we alerted you to fact the series' 2...

Here’s the 2025 Chill On The Hill lineup

April 23, 2025

For two decades, Bay View Neighborhood Association’s Chill On The Hill music series —presented in partnership with Milwaukee County Parks—has brought music to Humboldt Park’s band chalet every Tuesday between t...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Higher Education Records

April 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, April 22, 2025: High...

Socially Suspect has something to add with cathartic “P.S.”

April 22, 2025

When we last checked in with Socially Suspect, the genre-flouting Milwaukee band was...releasing its own card game where players "experience the glamorous life of a DIY band"? It's true! Oh, and tickling listen...

Here are the Bank Five Nine Amphitheater headliners for the 2025 Wisconsin State Fair