And your 2025 WAMI winners are…
In case you missed it, WAMI (Wisconsin Area Music Industry) held its 2025 awards show Sunday night in West Allis. It’s true! Here’s a list of the 87 (!) winners, featuring everything from the state’s best music...
Braid will headline WMSE’s 15th annual Backyard BBQ August 23
For the past decade and a half, WMSE's Backyard BBQ has spiced up the waning days of summer with a shot of music, food, drink, and good vibes. And it's all free! Two years ago, the legendary Bob Mould headlined...
Milwaukee Psych Fest to be postponed “for the foreseeable future”
This past week, we posted our massive and ever-growing list of summer festivals happening in and around Milwaukee this summer. Unfortunately, Milwaukee Psych Fest will not be part of the festival fun this summe...
Mari Mari gets cagey as hell on “Mile Wide”
At this point, it's possible (if not probable) you've yet to hear Mari Mari. In its relatively brief history, the band—which features past members of Flat Teeth, John The Savage, Those Royals, and Saebra & ...
NilexNile precedes album release, crazy summer with new single
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’
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)
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
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
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”
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
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
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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
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After 18 years, Smiths/Morrissey tribute act The Salford Lads Club hangs up its flowers
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
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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’
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
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
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
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
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
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...