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June 9, 2014

The annual Locust Street Festival of Music & Art & Tai Chi Demonstrations marks the official start of Milwaukee’s summer street fest season. The busy Riverwest thoroughfare pulls out all the stops with ...

Exclusive: Listen to Calamity Janes And The Fratney Street Band’s debut, Easier, Better

June 9, 2014

The Calamity Janes have been a going Milwaukee concern for only a year or so, but they already feel as old as the city itself. That’s party due to the members’ deep ties to the local scene, but also because the...

VISIT Milwaukee’s “You Gotta Be Here” video is hilariously awful

June 6, 2014

Back in 2008, a strange video surfaced online called “This Is My Milwaukee.” The 11-minute clip was an upbeat tourism video touting the many benefits of the Brew City, hosted by an agreeably accented man named ...

Off Base: The worst of the Brewers team store

June 6, 2014

The Milwaukee Brewers are an altogether awesome organization. Miller Park is among the least expensive ballparks to see a Major League game. Even if fans don’t bring in their own food or plastic bottle non-alco...

Vampire Weekend breaks in BMO Harris Pavilion

June 5, 2014

PrideFest traditionally serves as the first in a long string of celebrations at Henry Maier Festival Grounds that runs all the way into September. That’s technically no different this year, but Wednesday’s Vamp...

Drop what you’re doing (and/or your pants) and listen to The Blue Mooners

June 5, 2014

Every so often, an album comes across our desks that defies explanation. It may be a particularly inept concept album, a bizarre collection of covers, a field recording of migratory geese set to smooth jazz, or...

The Disclaimer: Favorite Milwaukee music of 2014 (so far)

June 5, 2014

Every Wednesday at noon, WMSE’s Ryan Schleicher, Shepherd Express’ Evan Rytlewski, and Milwaukee Record’s Matt Wild take to the WMSE airwaves to discuss all things Milwaukee. This half-hour fun-fest is called T...

Where to go (and what to see) at Friday’s Bay View Gallery Night

June 4, 2014

For the past few years, Made In Milwaukee’s semi-annual Bay View Gallery Night has taken the tried and true citywide art exhibition and whittled it down to a single neighborhood. By staging many of its exhibits...

Bike-In Movie Series rolls out 2014 lineup

June 3, 2014

With events like Point Fish Fry & A Flick, Stand-Up Cinema, and the variety of between-fest screenings Milwaukee Film offers, there’s no shortage of ways for people in town to catch a movie in an uncommon l...

Watch The Midwest Beat drink, dance in its “High Life” video

June 3, 2014

Save for some periodic 7-inches, compilation contributions, and a comprehensive album of singles from previous releases, Milwaukee’s own The Midwest Beat hasn’t managed a proper LP since 2011’s Gone Not Lost. I...

Tracklist: 11 Milwaukee bars that could use rescuing

June 2, 2014

Last week, we revealed that Spike TV mainstay Bar Rescue is scouting a Milwaukee location to salvage with its tried and true bar-saving formula of screaming at people and using high-end technology given to them...

Exclusive: Listen to the new Calliope album, ORBIS

June 2, 2014

On its 2013 self-titled debut, Calliope sneered at current musical trends and offered up a sleazy, unabashed slab of dirty roadhouse blues. It was the kind of record that felt willfully out of time, something t...

Off Base: Will Smith lays fresh prints in Milwaukee

May 30, 2014

December 5, 2013 was a crazy time in the world. Latin music sensation Thalía was awarded a star on the lauded Hollywood Walk of Fame. Moviegoers were just eight days from celebrating A Madea Christmas, and Will...

Listen to new music from AUTOMatic, Yo-Dot

May 30, 2014

AUTOMatic and Yo-Dot are two of Milwaukee’s very best hip-hop acts, each cooly in control of their respective styles. Rapper A.P.R.I.M.E. and producer Trellmatic of AUTOMatic tend to favor jazzy, silky-smooth j...

Misery Signals announce “MaliceX” tour with original lineup

May 30, 2014

Monday marks the 10-year anniversary of Misery Signals releasing their celebrated debut full-length album, Of Malice And The Magnum Heart. While the then-Milwaukee metalcore magnates had experienced lineup chan...

K-Nation takes Summerfest sponsorship to a horrible level

May 29, 2014

The lineup for KNE New Music Stage was unveiled yesterday. At the risk of my Summerfest press pass being lost in the mail, the cast of performers announced was a supreme letdown. In just its second year at the ...

The Disclaimer: Why aren’t there more shows at the BMO Harris Bradley Center?

May 29, 2014

Every Wednesday at noon, WMSE’s Ryan Schleicher, Shepherd Express’ Evan Rytlewski, and Milwaukee Record’s Matt Wild take to the WMSE airwaves to discuss all things Milwaukee. This half-hour fun-fest is called T...

Exclusive: Listen to a new Sat. Nite Duets song, “On My Honor”

May 29, 2014

No Milwaukee band is better attuned to summer’s giddy highs and bittersweet lows than Sat. Nite Duets. The scrappy Riverwest outfit has grappled with the summer season on nearly all of its albums—hell, one of t...

A-side/B-side: Does Milwaukee need more all-ages venues?