Music

June 24, 2024

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...

They Might Be Giants delight hardcore fans with two-night “Big Show” at Pabst Theater

June 24, 2024

The last time They Might Be Giants rolled into Milwaukee (weeks before the initial COVID lockdowns of 2020), they were touring behind the 30th anniversary of their classic album Flood. While that two-and-a-half...

Ms. Lauryn Hill, The Fugees will bring Miseducation Anniversary Tour to AmFam Amphitheater

June 24, 2024

The headline says it all, folks. Ms. Lauryn Hill and The Fugees will bring an extension of their co-headlining Miseducation Anniversary Tour to Milwaukee's American Family Insurance Amphitheater on Friday, Augu...

MATTHÚ traverses new territory on genre-bending “Lasso”

June 21, 2024

Back in late 2022, we introduced you to MATTHÚ. The project helmed by Kevin Bush—who is half of established sibling synthwave duo Immortal Girlfriend—instantly got on our radar by way of Montana, its exceptiona...

Take me back to Summerfest 1991: Club MTV (Bell Biv DeVoe, C+C Music Factory, Color Me Badd, more)

Vince Morales

June 20, 2024

Back in the days when the M in MTV stood for music and not "More Ridiculousness," there was a show called Club MTV. Club MTV was the channel's modern update on American Bandstand, featuring a room full of yo...

It’s summer! Celebrate with Oh Geeez, Not Again’s “Summer Weather”!

June 20, 2024

Hey! It's summer! Like, officially summer! Let's celebrate with a song about summer weather! Behold the aptly named "Summer Weather," the latest single from the delightfully named Milwaukee indie-pop band Oh Ge...

Milwaukee rap stars 414BigFrank and J.P. are on a charm offensive. We are all powerless to resist.

Evan Rytlewski

June 19, 2024

How do you make a sound as unpolished as Milwaukee lowend appeal to the masses? That's a puzzle it didn't take the city's rap scene long to solve. In its earliest incarnations just a few years ago, lowend wa...

A guide to Milwaukee acts playing Summerfest

June 19, 2024

Thursday marks the official start of another Summerfest. Now in its 56th year, the "Big Gig" has long been home to deep fried delicacies, prime people watching, and hundreds upon hundreds of musical acts from a...

WMSE’s Local/Live: BlueJets

June 19, 2024

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, June 18, 2024: BlueJ...

Record Recommended: Summerfest Weekend 1

June 18, 2024

broadstreet.zone(152022); Summerfest! Like the last three installments, “The World’s Largest Music Festival” is mixing things up in 2024 by staking out three Thursday-Friday-Saturday blocks instead of the trad...

Here’s the music and entertainment lineup for Bastille Days 2024

June 18, 2024

Milwaukee’s Bastille Days is just around the corner. From Thursday, July 11 through Sunday, July 14, the long-running celebration of all things French will pack Cathedral Square Park (and the area surrounding i...

Hear some of the season’s best local music with our “Spring 2024” playlist

June 18, 2024

Even though festival season is now in full swing and we've already experienced a few days with temperatures in the nineties, it's technically still spring for a couple more days. This spring has been bustling, ...

Ian Ash sets the mood for upcoming solo album, unveils “Sex Magic”

June 18, 2024

The world can be a cold, cruel, and corrosively divisive place. Need a break from all the negativity? Looking for a sun-kissed summertime pop ditty to take the blues away? Looking for a little sex, a little mag...

Milwaukee Record Recommended Events: June 17-23, 2024

June 17, 2024

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...

Bask in the warmth of Shorelining’s shimmering self-titled EP

June 17, 2024

While most music can be enjoyed all year long, we're firm believers in so-called "summer songs." Perhaps they were written and recorded during a different part of the year and, yeah, they can absolutely be list...

Scenes from Summer Soulstice Music Festival 2024

June 17, 2024

The summer solstice isn't until this Thursday; this past Saturday, however, was the East Side's Summer Soulstice Music Festival. Five stages, one DJ alley, dozens of bands and artists, too many vendors to count...

Wilco kicks off summer tour, smooths over brief crowd fracas at Riverside Theater

Cal Roach

June 13, 2024

Last month, the Chicago folk-rock veterans of Wilco celebrated their 20th anniversary as a band. Again. Yes, although many fans will recall the band's 2014 Milwaukee stop on its 20th anniversary tour, plenty do...

Opposites attract on Combustor and Tron Jovi’s ‘Bent & Snapped’ remix EP

June 12, 2024

As Milwaukee's music scene continues to strengthen and unify, we're seeing more instances of local artists covering, remixing, and otherwise re-imagining each other's material. Just a few semi-recent examples t...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Def Harmonic