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.
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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
Into t...
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...
WMSE’s Local/Live: Higher Education Records
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.”
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
The 2025 Wisconsin State Fair is exactly 100 days away. That's 100 days until the sights, sounds, and smells of the State Fair take over West Allis from July 31 through August 10. As for the music, we already k...
Milwaukee Record Recommended Events: April 21-27, 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...
Jazz At The Vine music series returns to Humboldt Park for 8 more concerts in 2025
Beer gardens are starting to open for the season! Music series lineups are starting to be announced! And as of today, lineups for music series that will be taking place at beer gardens are starting to be announ...
My Morning Jacket keeps Milwaukee guessing, excited in Riverside Theater return
Nearing three decades as a band, My Morning Jacket have arrived at a rare career plateau: the sustainable-without-superstardom status. Since breaking through in 2005 with the critically-acclaimed Z album, the b...
Dirtnap Records to mark 25th anniversary with three-day festival August 29-31
After Dirtnap Records launched in the Pacific Northwest at the turn of the century and got its footing by putting dozens upon dozens of excellent garage rock and punk-tinged releases from acts all over the plac...
5pm To Nowhere gets jangly on “One More Chance”
Earlier this year, Milwaukee alt-rock group 5pm To Nowhere released the six-song City Of Light - Act I EP. It was a mostly moody and emotional affair, highlighted by crooning mid-tempo jams like "City Of Light,...
MKE Music Rewind: Hero Of A Hundred Fights, “You, Me, The Switch” (2000)
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In MKE Music Rewind we revisit notable Milwaukee music that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014. This week: Hero Of A Hundred Fights' "You, Me, The Switc...
Here’s the lineup for Wilson Center’s 2025 Starry Nights concert series
Last week, we gave you a look at the Sharon Lynn Wilson Center for the Arts' 2025-2026 Performing Arts Season. (Country legends! Jazz greats! More!) Today, we're focusing on a much smaller—but no less delightfu...