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mewithoutYou, Cursive, The Appleseed Cast treat Turner Hall to a blast from the past (and the present)

May 7, 2019

The spirit of 2001 was alive and well in Milwaukee on Monday night.As the Milwaukee Bucks were dominating an Eastern Conference foe in an NBA playoff contest, a respectable crowd made its way to Turner Hall...

P!nk brightens up the bleak with acrobatic and uplifting Fiserv Forum performance

Tyler Maas

May 3, 2019

With three Grammys, 15 chart-topping singles, more 50 million records sold, and an endless string of sold-out arena tours throughout the planet over the course of a career that's now spanned two full decades, P...

Foals elegantly trot through its catalog in energetic performance at The Rave

Tyler Maas

April 29, 2019

Even though Foals hail from Oxford, England, the British band has been a somewhat frequent fixture in Milwaukee in recent years. The last few Foals outings in town have taken place at The Rave, and that trend c...

Interpol turns on the bright lights and gracefully traverses its catalog at Pabst Theater

Tyler Maas

February 10, 2019

Before the last time Interpol came to Pabst Theater in 2014, we referenced the two drastically different identities the seminal New York post-punk band has presented over the course of its lengthy run. The firs...

Metallica follows simple, winning formula in Fiserv Forum debut

Cal Roach

October 17, 2018

The last bastion of music industry consumerism rolled through the Fiserv Forum on Tuesday night for the first of three consecutive nights of massive concerts at the new arena. Metallica hasn’t released a really...

Hop Along takes Turner Hall on a joyride in Milwaukee debut

Tyler Maas

June 13, 2018

It's been a year of new experiences for Hop Along. In April, the Philadelphia quartet released Bark Your Head Off, Dog, the band's most anticipated album to date. The newfound attention—first set into motion by...

Pabst Theater receives King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard like conquering heroes in Milwaukee debut

Cal Roach

June 10, 2018

From a distance, everything about King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard seems like a gimmick: the goofy name; the preposterously psychedelic record and song titles; the album concepts (All the songs are the same...

Talib Kweli shows Turner Hall why he’s lasted 20 years strong

Phillip Martinez

July 10, 2015

Brooklyn was in the house Thursday night as Milwaukee played host to one of independent hip-hop's most influential artists, Talib Kweli. With a career spanning 20 years, Kweli has pumped out six solo albums, ne...

Iron & Wine calls for requests in solo Pabst Theater outing

Tyler Maas

September 19, 2014

Though it’s close to a decade removed from its commercial peak as go-to indie flick score and default audio accompaniment for that “play an entire song and show different characters doing stuff at the end of th...

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