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A guide to Milwaukee acts playing Summerfest

June 21, 2022

Thursday marks the official start of another Summerfest. Now in its 54th year, the "Big Gig" has long been home to deep fried delicacies, prime people watching, and hundreds upon hundreds of musical acts from a...

Make it a sleazy summer with The Grovelers’ new record, ‘Misplaced Cars And Blackouts’

Matt Wild

June 21, 2022

The Grovelers don't mess with the formula. For the past seven years, the Milwaukee group has delivered album after album of greasy, grimy rock 'n' roll, all shot through with dashes of rockabilly, garage, and p...

Milwaukee Record Recommended: June 20-26, 2022

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 20, 2022

Our fat-free, dolphin-safe Milwaukee events calendar 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 recommendati...

Relive a slice of the 2022 Summer Soulstice Music Festival with these photos

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 20, 2022

After two pandemic years away, the East Side's long-running Summer Soulstice Music Festival looked a little different in 2022. Instead of a giant chunk of the North/Prospect/Farwell area serving as the fest's f...

Lap steel metal band Velocihamster covers “Ace Of Spades,” more on ‘Uncaged’

Matt Wild

June 20, 2022

As we all know, there can be only one lap steel metal band in the world. Luckily, Milwaukee is home to that lap steel metal band, Velocihamster. Yes, we've covered the unlikely band in these digital pages be...

Soundtrack your summer with L’Resorts’ breezy new record, ‘Explorers’

Matt Wild

June 15, 2022

There are countless Milwaukee summer traditions: festivals, block parties, complaining about the heat even though we just suffered through 8,000 months of winter. For the past three years, Milwaukee tropical-po...

Seventh Stanine Festival to make Milwaukee debut July 30

Tyler Maas

June 15, 2022

Milwaukee's sprawling summer festival season isn't just back, it's more massive and longer-lasting than ever before. Adding the already dizzying list of large-scale festivals, block parties, long-running weekly...

Join Ruth B8r Ginsburg on June 25 for a parade and fundraiser for reproductive freedom

Matt Wild

June 14, 2022

"We will not stop fighting for ourselves and each other. This event is part of that fight." That's a statement from venerable Milwaukee band Ruth B8r Ginsburg. For the past seven years, the femme-led force o...

Milwaukee Record Recommended: June 13-19, 2022

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 13, 2022

Our fat-free, dolphin-safe Milwaukee events calendar 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 recommendati...

Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood’s The Smile will play Riverside Theater November 29

Matt Wild

June 13, 2022

The Smile—a new band featuring Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, plus Sons Of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner—recently released its debut album, A Light For Attracting Attention. It's great. The Smile—a ...

Post Malone will play Fiserv Forum September 15

Matt Wild

June 13, 2022

And the (late) summer just keeps getting busier: Wildly popular/tattooed rapper Post Malone will make his Milwaukee debut Thursday, September 15 at Fiserv Forum. The show will be the fourth of Malone's 2022, 33...

WMSE’s Backyard BBQ returns to Humboldt Park August 27 with Seratones, more

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 13, 2022

If you thought the return of the Great Milwaukee Summer was complete, think again. Today, WMSE announced the lineup of its ever-popular Backyard BBQ. The 12th annual shindig will set up shop at Humboldt Park on...

Kristin Hersh lives up to (and exceeds) alt-rock-icon status at intimate Back Room show

Cal Roach

June 13, 2022

Alt-rock icon Kristin Hersh, unlike virtually all of her peers, never made much of a grab for stardom. Even at their most compelling, Hersh's songs are more likely to get under your skin than make you hum along...

Brad Dassey returns with new rap track and Tony Evers skit, “Free Brendan Dassey”

Matt Wild

June 10, 2022

It's been 17 years since photographer Teresa Halbach was murdered, and seven years since a Netflix documentary covering the case (and much more), Making A Murderer, kicked off the current true-crime craze. In t...

Roll down the windows, crank up the volume, and enjoy Mertles Acres’ new EP, ‘The American Dream’

Tyler Maas

June 9, 2022

Back in the spring of 2020, we introduced you to Mertles Acres. The pop-punk project—which was started by Direct Hit!'s former rhythm section, multi-instrumentalist Steve Maury and drummer Danny Walkowiak—annou...

Here’s the lineup for the 2022 Música del Lago series at Colectivo Lakefront

Matt Wild

June 9, 2022

Is there a day of the week that doesn't feature a free music series this summer? Our ever-growing guide to summer festivals, fairs, music series, and more says NO. Recently added to that guide is Colectivo's...

Here’s the 2022 Brady Street Festival lineup

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 8, 2022

You wanted the return of Milwaukee summer festivals? You got the return of Milwaukee summer festivals. Yes, Brady Street Festival is coming back! Following two pandemic-prompted summers off in 2020 and 2021, th...

Yep, there are even MORE Locust Street Festival alternatives happening Sunday, June 12

Matt Wild

June 7, 2022

Were you disappointed when this year's Locust Street Festival of Music & Arts—set for Sunday, June 12—was abruptly canceled? Were you cheered up when we told you that Black Husky Brewing would be hosting it...

PUP tears up Turner Hall in long-awaited Milwaukee return

Tyler Maas

June 7, 2022

A lot can change in five years. During the half-decade span since PUP made its Milwaukee debut at a half-full Turner Hall in the summer of 2017, the Canadian pop-punk quartet that fashioned a small-but-impassio...

Milwaukee Record Recommended: June 6-12, 2022

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 6, 2022

Our fat-free, dolphin-safe Milwaukee events calendar 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 recommendati...