Category: Music

Hear songs from two upcoming Rx Drugs releases

March 24, 2021

Way back in the summer of 2016, Rx Drugs—the project of The Championship's Joe Crockett, which also features past and current members of The Promise Ring, Dashboard Confessional, and Trapper Schoepp And The Sha...

Milwaukee musicians reflect on one year of COVID, look ahead

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 23, 2021

It’s been more than one year since COVID-19. It’s been over a year since “pandemic” became an everyday word. And for countless Milwaukee musicians, it’s been roughly a year since everything changed. We checked ...

Stop, collaborate, and listen to this Elkhorn Ribfest parody of “Ice Ice Baby”

Tyler Maas

March 18, 2021

A few days ago, in a Mandatory Milwaukee column we wrote about "making the most of spring," we referenced the newfound excitement and optimism of being able to once again see concert announcements and lineup re...

Locust Street Festival, Riverwest Beer Run have been canceled. Again.

Matt Wild

March 18, 2021

For the second year in a row, the annual Locust Street Festival of Music & Art and the accompanying Riverwest Beer Run have been canceled. The 2021 installments were scheduled for Sunday, June 13. The fe...

KASE’s ‘Pop Art’ captures a formative night at The Highbury Pub

Tone Madison

March 17, 2021

The following piece by Scott Gordon was originally published on Tone Madison. Trumpeter Jaime Breiwick, producer/DJ Ian Carroll, and bassist John Christensen began their first show as KASE with a stop-start ...

Something To Do dabbles in “Deepfakes” in its “Let’s Break Some Laws” music video

Tyler Maas

March 17, 2021

Even though the COVID-19 crisis has made things incredibly difficult and altogether horrible for musicians, bands have managed to come up with resourceful and downright incredible ways to write and record new m...

Diet Lite’s new album is very good, doctor-certified COVID-free

Matt Wild

March 17, 2021

The world is out of control. Up is down, left is right, dogs and cats living together, etc. About the only thing one can depend on these days is dependable bands putting out dependable music to help ease the de...

Like the rest of us, Indonesian Junk is ‘Living In A Nightmare’

Matt Wild

March 16, 2021

A new record from Indonesian Junk is a cause for celebration. The Milwaukee glam-punk outfit has been serving up sneering and snotty songs since 2014, invoking classic acts like the New York Dolls and Dead Boys...

I wrote about Shellac’s Turner Hall show a year ago (and left out some important details)

DJ Hostettler

March 12, 2021

For most of my immediate friend group, last March's Shellac mini-tour, which happened exactly one year ago, was the last live music experience any of us were able to take in before COVID-19 shut the world down....

Caley Conway’s “I Love You So Much I Don’t Want To See You” video doesn’t mince any words

Tyler Maas

March 12, 2021

Caley Conway has a knack for writing pointed, personal songs that have the unique ability to cut to the core while simultaneously sounding downright beautiful. After a prolific 2019, the inimitable Milwaukee mu...

Delight in the dark pop goodness of You Win !!!’s new single, “Painmonger”

Tyler Maas

March 11, 2021

Last fall, we formally introduced you to You Win !!!, the young project consisting of multi-talented Milwaukee musician Amanda Huff and producer William Gardiner (who releases music under the moniker of This Ra...

11 Wisconsin Elvises can’t be wrong: Conversations with Elvis impersonators and tribute artists

Caleb Westphal

March 9, 2021

Elvis impersonators have been around since shortly after Elvis shook onto the scene in the mid-1950s. They range from informal impersonators to professional Elvis Tribute Artists (ETAs). In Wisconsin, they are ...

Devils Teeth channel spaghetti westerns, ‘Bloodsport,’ in excellent ‘La Leggenda Di Chong Li’

Matt Wild

March 5, 2021

Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. For Milwaukee garage-surf outfit Devils Teeth, our current extraordinary times have called for—what else?—releasing a self-recorded "spaghetti western garage...

Mark Waldoch & The Hallelujah Ward contemplate “86,000” heart beats in a day

Matt Wild

March 2, 2021

Any new song from Milwaukee treasure Mark Waldoch is a reason to celebrate. But what about a new Mark Waldoch song that gives you 86,000 reasons to celebrate? Enter the ethereal, enigmatic, and excellent "86,00...

This “No rap!” WKTI commercial from 1991 is, um, something

Matt Wild

March 2, 2021

Radio stations have formats. A rock station plays rock music, a country station plays country music. No big deal. But when was the last time a radio station went out of its way to single out a genre of music it...

Guerrilla Ghost address personal themes, nod to Wesley Snipes on ‘The Trumaine EP’

Tyler Maas

March 1, 2021

Now that March is here, we're nearing the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 crisis making its way to Milwaukee and, in the process, throwing a wrench into the gears of a music scene that was truly in the mid...

WMSE will celebrate 40 years on the air by going back to 1981

Matt Wild

March 1, 2021

Lordy, lordy, WMSE is 40. Yes, Milwaukee's beloved community-powered radio station is celebrating the big 4-0 in 2021, and it's doing it in style. Beginning March 17, the Big Sound Downtown will turn the clo...

Milwaukee Music Roundup: February 2021

Milwaukee Record Staff

February 28, 2021

Looking for new music? Looking for new Milwaukee music? Then look no further than our monthly Milwaukee Music Roundup. (Want to hear us discuss a few selections on WUWM’s Lake Effect? Click HERE.) LPs AND EPs ...

MKE Music Rewind: The Benjamins, ‘The Art Of Disappointment’

Rachel Seis

February 26, 2021

In our MKE Music Rewind series, we revisit notable Milwaukee music that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014. The first out-of-town destination I drove to after receiving my driv...

Milwaukee meets Madrid in melancholy ‘Moon Songs’

Matt Wild

February 24, 2021

There are long-distance collaborations, and then there are really long-distance collaborations. Take Milwaukee musician Alec Grefe (a.k.a. Astronaut Husband) and Madrid, Spain musician Ana Regatero (a.k.a. Blue...