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Garden Home goes through “The Worst Of It,” comes out on other side

March 1, 2024

"At times in life, you literally must 'feel the worst of it' to appreciate the good things in life and remind yourself to be grateful." Those wise words come from Dylan Mazurkiewicz, vocalist for Milwaukee p...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Exit Statements

Milwaukee Record Staff

February 28, 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, February 27, 2024: E...

“I put people on to stuff”: The musical universe of DJ Mosh Wah

Juan Miguel Martinez

February 27, 2024

The smell of a record store is like nothing else in the world. It takes you back to a time before cell phones, social media, and Spotify. If you're too young to remember the days when vinyl records were the onl...

Milwaukee Record Recommended Events: February 26 – March 3, 2024

Milwaukee Record Staff

February 26, 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...

Listen to new Cozy Danger song, buy Cozy Danger pizza cutter

Matt Wild

February 26, 2024

You know that painfully human thing of knowing you shouldn't do something, but doing it anyway? You know that gnawing, festering, erosive guilt that comes with it? Yeah, we all do. And so does Milwaukee indie-r...

Scam Likely teases sophomore album with winning new single, “Winner”

Matt Wild

February 23, 2024

When we last checked in with Scam Likely, the upstart alt/indie-rock band was busy releasing one of the best Milwaukee albums of 2023, Getting Worse. From the woozy goth-romantic vibe of "Domestic Bliss" to the...

Milwaukee indie/synth-pop band Sure Thing rejects modesty, is into “PDA Now”

Matt Wild

February 22, 2024

"You ever just wanna say 'fuck modesty' and make out with someone while the world watches?" That's the intriguing question posed by Milwaukee band Sure Thing (styled "sure thing") and its debut single "PDA N...

All-ages Vivarium opens on East Side with familiar vibe, local music

Matt Wild

February 21, 2024

The last few years have been filled with announcements about new concert venues coming to Milwaukee. Most of those proposed venues have yet to materialize, but on Tuesday night, a previous announcement became a...

Before “Inside A Dream: A Music Tribute To David Lynch,” my 10 favorite Lynch moments

Matt Wild

February 20, 2024

It. Is happening. Again. Yes, on Friday, February 23, "Inside A Dream: A Music Tribute To David Lynch" will take over Turner Hall Ballroom and transform it into a Lynchian dream/nightmare. The brainchild of ...

Spare a few minutes to watch Allison Mahal perform “18 Moving South” at Falcon Bowl

Tyler Maas

February 20, 2024

Among our favorite aspects of local music videos is their ability to show off Milwaukee landmarks in ways we've rarely (if ever) seen before. While enjoying a song from a local project, it's legitimately fun to...

PrideFest, Center Street Daze Festival announce 2024 dates

Matt Wild

February 20, 2024

Are you keeping up with the sudden release of Milwaukee summer festival dates? To sum up: Festa Italiana is moving to May 31 - June 2; Locust Street Festival is happening June 9; Summer Soulstice is going down ...

Milwaukee Record Recommended Events: February 19-25, 2024

Milwaukee Record Staff

February 19, 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...

Brett J.B. is “So Damn Happy”

Matt Wild

February 19, 2024

It's been a minute since we checked in with Brett J.B. Back in 2021, the Milwaukee singer-songwriter dropped "Make You Move," an "open-hearted indie-power-pop anthem about breaking through the drudgery of the d...

My 5 favorite shows from X-Ray Arcade’s first 5 years

Tyler Maas

February 16, 2024

It’s tough to remember a time before X-Ray Arcade. Frankly, I don’t want to think about it. Amazingly, in spite of seeming like it's been a fixture in Milwaukee-area music forever, the Cudahy-based arcade and c...

Vampire Weekend will play BMO Pavilion on August 1

Matt Wild

February 16, 2024

Boo! Vampire Weekend is back! Today, nearly five full years after the release of their last album (Father Of The Bride), Ezra Koenig and company dropped two new songs. "Capricorn" and "Gen-X Cops" (lol) are fro...

Watch Social Cig and Wave Chapelle play a packed, “unplugged” show at Riverwest Radio

Matt Wild

February 15, 2024

Back in January, a unique show took place at a unique location. Social Cig and Wave Chapelle—a.k.a. two of Milwaukee's best and busiest musicians—played a co-headlining show in the cozy confines of Riverwest Ra...

Great things are in store for “Lilliput After Hours” concert series

Tyler Maas

February 14, 2024

Since opening in the longtime home of The Exclusive Company (1669 N. Farwell Ave.) in the summer of 2022, Lilliput Records has quickly stepped in to become one of the city's and the state's finest independent r...

The 16 band names of All Messed Up XII, ranked by how funny they are

Matt Wild

February 14, 2024

Any event organizer worth their salt knows that chaos, randomness, and uncertainty are their enemies. But what if an event not only celebrates chaos, randomness, and uncertainly, but is practically built around...

Locust Street Festival announces 2024 date

Tyler Maas

February 14, 2024

It's only the middle of February and Milwaukee is already in a mad dash to release its festival dates. In case you blinked and missed all the action, allow us get you up to speed on some recent festival-related...

Listen to new Milwaukee country band Convoy (10-4, good buddy)

Matt Wild

February 14, 2024

Milwaukee is filled with both country-tinged bands and artists (think Trapper Schoepp and Long Mama) and straight-up country-country bands and artists (think Ladybird and the late-great Hughes Family Band). Add...