WMSE’s Local/Live: Panalure
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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Milwaukee Record Recommended: April 24-30, 2023
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 for April 24-30 2023.
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The Show on Riverwest Radio: T!ny
Hosted by Kyle & Chris, The Show can be heard every day on WXRW 104.1 in Milwaukee. We interview people with stories to tell. Follow The Show on Twitter, Instagram, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.
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Trapper Schoepp uses old formats to tell new tales on ‘Siren Songs’
Today marks the release of Siren Songs, the latest album from tireless Milwaukee troubadour Trapper Schoepp. While the record is a brand new effort, Schoepp fashioned the 12-song release by drawing influence fr...
Honey Creek continues its reinvention with “Burnt Bitter” single, music video
Almost three years ago to the day, Honey Creek released its first album. While that LP, A Whole Year In Transit, is a great debut in its own right, it now exists as a springboard to propel the pop-punk outfit t...
“Thank you so much for changing plans for us so many times!” Bikini Kill (finally!) rocks Riverside Theater
In April of 1997, riot grrrl pioneer Bikini Kill embarked on a brief tour of Australia and Japan. These would be the last shows of the band's original eight-year run. Twenty-two years and many side projects lat...
WMSE’s Local/Live: Lost Tribes Of The Moon
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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After 3 years, 2 reschedules, and 1 venue change, Bikini Kill plays Riverside Theater this Wednesday
On November 6, 2019, the Pabst Theater Group dropped an exciting announcement: legendary '90s feminist punk band Bikini Kill would play Milwaukee as part of a rare North American reunion tour. The show was sche...
Here’s Downtown South Milwaukee’s 2023 “Music At The Market” lineup
Now that spring has (briefly) made its presence known, we can finally start to look forward to some of the fun outdoor activities that help make Milwaukee and its surrounding cities such a special place to live...
Milwaukee Record Recommended: April 17-23, 2023
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 for April 17-23 2023.
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10 ways Milwaukee is celebrating Record Store Day 2023
Love it or hate it, it’s safe to say Record Store Day is here to stay. What started as an honest-to-goodness movement to encourage listeners to get out and support independent music retailers who were suffering...
Polish Fest will return June 9-11. Here’s the musical lineup
Summer, we're told, is right around the corner—and with it, the Milwaukee Summer Festival Season™. We'll have a full summer festival guide when things thaw out in May, but until then, let's talk about Po...
On 40th anniversary of Violent Femmes’ debut, Milwaukee declares today Violent Femmes Day
It was 40 years ago today that Milwaukee's own Violent Femmes released their self-titled debut album. Yes, on April 13, 1983, the world got its first taste of a record that contains such stone-cold folk-punk cl...
Pay The Devil look back, forge ahead on ‘Turn To Gold’
Pay The Devil works at its own pace. As it turns out, that pace comes out to one album about every four years. Yes, the veteran Milwaukee folk/Americana amalgam released its first album, Wrong Side Of The River...
Triple Eye Industries to release picture discs, lathe cuts, exclusive action figure this Record Store Day
It isn't unusual for Triple Eye Industries to get in on the Record Store Day festivities. Though the Milwaukee label has been involved in some recent iterations of the consumer holiday, what they have planned f...
Bug Moment steps right up in sublime ‘The Flying Toad Circus’
There are songs on Bug Moment's excellent The Flying Toad Circus where the swamp-submerged carousel on the album's cover comes to life. Opener "Carousel" is preceded by a 30-second soundscape of crickets, night...
Wylie Jakobs trusts his instincts on quarantine-crafted ‘Seven Days’
Longtime Ahab's Ghost singer/guitarist Jake Wylie Hess has a knack for making the most of an unpleasant time. In early 2020, the Milwaukee musician—who performs and releases solo material under the "Wylie Jakob...
WMSE’s Local/Live: Resurrectionists
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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Take a pandemic-era tour of Riverwest in Resurrectionists’ “The New Winter” video
Let's take ourselves back to the early months of 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic is still hanging around, new variants are...no, wait, how about we don't take ourselves back to the early months of 2021. What's that...
Bob Mould (!) will headline WMSE Backyard BBQ on August 26
Yep, you read that right: legendary punk/alt-rock pioneer Bob Mould—he of Hüsker Dü, Sugar, and solo fame—will headline the WMSE Backyard BBQ in Humboldt Park on Saturday, August 26. Mould will be joined by his...