Music

March 26, 2026

broadstreet.zone(159870); In MKE Music Rewind we revisit notable Milwaukee music that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014. This week: Perfect Pitch Inc.'s "Brewer Fever" basebal...

Play ball with Gold Steps and watch the “Jealousy” music video

March 25, 2026

Social media possesses the power to bring the world together. Unfortunately, it's also an effective tool that's used to tear us apart and—through follower counts, incessant marketing, and everyone now having th...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Maximiano

March 25, 2026

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, March 24, 2026: Maxi...

Milwaukee Record Recommended Events: March 23-29, 2026

March 23, 2026

broadstreet.zone(185613); 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 fo...

Royal Mill’s Matty Timmons goes it alone on “No Country”

March 23, 2026

Last March, we premiered "Faith Crisis," the latest single from self-described “existential indie rock” outfit Royal Mill. In the year that has followed, vocalist Matty Timmons—who also plays in Wildered—says h...

Journey holds on to that feeling, brings farewell tour to Fiserv Forum

Cal Roach

March 20, 2026

No city in the U.S.A. has undergone more radical cultural makeovers than San Francisco. For many, it still symbolizes the birthplace of the 1960s hippie movement; to others it’s more famous for tech bros and pr...

Out today: Rosenau & Sanborn LP, Vacancy Chain EP, Offend Your Friends video

March 20, 2026

It's Friday, that magical day of the week when magical new music is magically released into the magic/awful world. In Milwaukee, we have three new releases from groups that aren't strictly Milwaukee groups, but...

Milwaukee Metal Monthly: Going into battle (and fending off shrapnel) with WMSE’s metal DJs

Steve Lampiris

March 18, 2026

Welcome back to Milwaukee Metal Monthly, the column where I talk to people who hear Judas Priest on the radio and exclaim, “Turn that up!” This month’s installment includes interviews with three DJs—Jason El...

Here’s the lineup for Villa Terrace’s “Sopra Mare” daytime concert series

March 18, 2026

Milwaukee’s summer festival season pretty much has it all. However, if there’s one thing the overwhelming abundance of seasonal fests, block parties, and weekly music happenings shows a shortage of, it's concer...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Charlieboy

March 18, 2026

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, March 17, 2026: Charlie...

Milwaukee Record Recommended Events: March 16-22, 2026

March 16, 2026

broadstreet.zone(185613); 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 fo...

Listen to some of the best Milwaukee songs of the season on our “Winter 2026” playlist

March 16, 2026

Even though winter isn’t typically a season Milwaukee looks at with much fondness, at least a lot of great Milwaukee music has been released between late December 2025 and now (a soul-crushing day in which we'v...

Ratboys search for answers, sing to packed Vivarium

March 16, 2026

The title of Ratboys' instant-classic 2026 album Singin' To An Empty Chair refers to a therapeutic exercise in which a patient talks to an imagined person. "So this empty chair that I was singing to is meant to...

The Demix finds structure in destruction with ‘Action Building System’

March 12, 2026

We live in noisy, nihilistic times. Foundations are crumbling—both literally and figuratively—and the ground beneath our feet seems to shift at a moment's notice. But what's the sound of our fraught era? In Mil...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Reilly

March 11, 2026

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, March 10, 2026: Reil...

Talking new Milwaukee music with WUWM’s Lake Effect (March 2026)

March 10, 2026

Once a month, Milwaukee Record's Matt Wild sits down with WUWM's Lake Effect and discusses some of his favorite new Milwaukee records and songs. Listen to the latest installment HERE. This month, Matt plu...

Milwaukee Record Recommended Events: March 9-15, 2026

March 9, 2026

broadstreet.zone(185613); 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 fo...

Nineteen Thirteen unleashes new lineup with ‘The Jaguar’

March 9, 2026

It's been a minute since we've checked in with Milwaukee's premier drums-and-cello duo Nineteen Thirteen. It's been so long, in fact, that Nineteen Thirteen isn't even a duo anymore. A lot can happen in two yea...

Out today: New MKE music from Known Moons, God’s Outlaw, Lords Of Apricity