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WMSE’s Local/Live: T&A Stocking Stuffers (Live from Anodyne)

Milwaukee Record Staff
December 3, 2025
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, December 2, 2025: T&...

Stuff your stocking with more holiday jams from Tyler Chicorel and Ashley Smith

Tyler Maas
December 16, 2024
What do you want for Christmas? Personally, I'd like peace on Earth, for my student loans to be paid off, and a Whips reunion. But since those are kind of big asks, I'd settle for some gift cards, a pair of soc...

Tyler Chicorel and Ashley Smith join forces on instant holiday classic, “Give It All Away”

Tyler Maas
December 9, 2021
Over the course of a few Decembers of Milwaukee Record's existence, we've rounded up a mess of amazingly tolerable local songs that have helped improve the largely unsatisfying holiday music genre. (You can che...

My First Band: Ashley Smith (Whips, Alive And Fine, Hover Craft)

Milwaukee Record Staff
November 19, 2021
broadstreet.zone(81112); These days, Ashley Smith stays busy as the owner and operator of Alive And Fine—a vintage shop in Milwaukee's Bay View neighborhood—and as one of the founders/organizers responsible fo...

Alive And Fine gives new life to vintage items in Bay View

Tyler Maas
November 16, 2016
Next weekend, as hoards of consumers are camped out in front of big box retailers in effort to get deals on brand new mass-produced items, a new shop in the heart of Bay View will open its doors with the inte...

The Disclaimer: Talking Girls Rock Milwaukee with Valerie Lucks and Ashley Smith

Milwaukee Record Staff
August 7, 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...

Girls Rock Milwaukee comes back bigger, better in year two

Tyler Maas
August 5, 2014
Yesterday, 11 new bands formed in Milwaukee. While none of these new bands have yet to finish writing their first song, and some of them won't last more than a week, each of these acts hold untold significance ...
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