Milwaukee Music Roundup: June 2023
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Take me back to Summerfest 2017: Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers at Summerfest amphitheater
Since moving to Milwaukee in 2009, I've been fortunate to be able to attend and cover Summerfest in some capacity every (non-pandemic) summer I've lived here. In that span, I've been able to catch a lot of conc...
Record Recommended: Summerfest Weekend 2
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Summerfest! It continues! Weekend 2 of the 2023 Big Gig takes over Henry Maier Festival Park June 29 - July 1, with Weekend 3 wrapping things up July 6-8. Looking for some Weekend 2 r...
WMSE’s Local/Live: Kia Rap Princess
WMSE's local and live in-studio showcase, Local/Live, airs Tuesdays 6-7 p.m. You can find past episodes HERE. Beginning in 2023, we're also collecting episodes on a handy Soundcloud playlist.
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Here’s the lineup for Black Cat Alley’s free “Black Cat Rising” concert series
If you dropped by Black Cat Alley during this year's Summer Soulstice Music Festival, you likely saw a block-long alley/outdoor art gallery teeming with people. That's because Black Cat—located between E. Kenil...
Milwaukee Record Recommended: June 26 – July 2, 2023
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Milwaukee is chock-full of things to do, but only a handful of events are worthy of the lofty honor of "Record Recommended" (patent pending). Here are our recommendations—brought to y...
Lou Barlow will perform at URSA on July 7
While the Milwaukee music community comes to terms with the upsetting news that Bug Moment (and a handful of other great Milwaukee and Madison bands) will no longer be playing a show at a local Culver's, we're ...
Here’s the 2023 Skyline Music Series lineup
Last month, we put out an extensive list of Milwaukee summer festivals and music series. While massive, we were fully aware we'd be adding more events to it as the summer progressed. For example, today we’ve le...
We ranked all the bleachers at Summerfest in advance of tonight’s Bleachers show
Bleachers play a pretty big part in Summerfest. We sit on them to get off our feet between bands. We use them as makeshift tables where we can set down our festival food. We use them as rendezvous points when m...
Culver’s cancels order for July 22 Bug Moment show
Culver's giveth and Culver's taketh away.
Just days after popular Milwaukee band Bug Moment announced a sure-to-be-delicious/packed show at the parking lot of the Bayshore Culver's on July 22, the Bayshore C...
Take me back to Summerfest 1995: Hootie & The Blowfish at Marcus Amphitheater
In the summer of 1995, I had my first job working as a dishwasher at a local tavern in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. The chef was a huge jerk who would fly off the handle about the smallest things, convinced in his m...
Shontrail announces new album, begins new era with “Red Rabbit”
Last year, we stumbled upon Shontrail by way of the Milwaukee-based singer's "Warm Heart" single. That standout song—which earned a spot on our Favorite Music Of 2022 year-end list—was part of Shontrail's Silve...
Listen to us talk about new Milwaukee music with WUWM’s Lake Effect (June 2023)
Once a month, Milwaukee Record's own Matt Wild gets his NPR on by sitting down with WUWM's Lake Effect and discussing some of his favorite new Milwaukee records and songs.
Listen to the latest installment HE...
Record Recommended: Summerfest Weekend 1
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Summerfest! Like the last two editions, “The World’s Largest Music Festival” is mixing things up in 2023 by staking out three Thursday-Friday-Saturday blocks instead of the traditiona...
A guide to Milwaukee acts playing Summerfest
Thursday marks the official start of another Summerfest. Now in its 55th year, the “Big Gig” has long been home to deep fried delicacies, prime people watching, and hundreds upon hundreds of musical acts from a...
Long Mama gets back to basics, lives simply on “Corduroy Road”
All a woman needs on Corduroy Road, according to the lovely new Long Mama song "Corduroy Road":
• A candle
• A match
• A good book to read
• A fire
• A sweet song
• A warm place to sleep
Ahhhh. Doesn...
The hills are alive with the sound of Oak You’s “Successors”
When we first met experimental folk-electronica outfit OQ back in December 2018, group members Cole Quamme (The Fatty Acids) and Liam O'Brien (Holy Sheboygan!) were prepping their debut EP, Paradice 1. The reco...
WMSE’s Local/Live: Scam Likely
WMSE's local and live in-studio showcase, Local/Live, airs Tuesdays 6-7 p.m. You can find past episodes HERE. Beginning in 2023, we're also collecting episodes on a handy Soundcloud playlist.
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Here’s the 2023 Brady Street Festival lineup
A couple months ago, we urged you to keep Saturday, July 29 open because Brady Street Festival—one of Milwaukee’s largest, longest-running, and all-around best summer block parties—would be taking over a nine-b...
Milwaukee band Bug Moment (and more!) will play Bayshore Culver’s July 22
UPDATE (6/23/23): The show has been canceled. More info HERE.
What do you get when you combine one of Milwaukee's best bands (that would be Bug Moment) with one of Wisconsin's most beloved fast food franchis...