An entirely local weekend at Summerfest

Tyler Maas
Though Summerfest books bands from all corners of the country and brings in a fair amount of international talent, The Big Gig has recently gone about narrowing the disparaging gap between its hometown talent a...

Obsoletes return for two-show reunion

Tyler Maas
Even the snobbiest Milwaukee music historian wouldn’t fault you for not knowing who the Obsoletes were. After all, two-thirds of the band’s members lived upwards of 100 miles outside Milwaukee for the vast majo...

Hating Summerfest, loving Summerfest

Matt Wild
Sometimes you hate Summerfest. Sometimes you get to the grounds on a late Sunday afternoon and note that there are more people waiting to see Paris Hilton in four hours than there were to see Public Enemy all o...

Old Earth treads new ground in California

Tyler Maas
Since New Berlin native Todd Umhoefer moved back to the region in 2012 after two years in San Francisco, the mastermind of experimental folk project Old Earth locked himself away in his downtown Milwaukee studi...

I hung out with the mayor of West Allis

Tyler Maas
Way back in March, we posted a video—once again, a video we had absolutely NO role in producing—that displayed a rough, unflattering, and altogether bleak view of West Allis that alleged it was “the worst city ...

Kiings reign supreme with true debut, WWYDF

Tyler Maas
WWYDF, the debut album from Kiings, is the Milwaukee-based electronic two-piece's crowning achievement. Though the 11-song effort—an acronym for "What Would You Die For"—is technically the production pair's fir...