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Here are some dumb pictures from the best Dummerfest to date

June 24, 2019

Last Saturday, while thousands flocked Summer Soulstice on Milwaukee's East Side and Lakefront Festival Of Art outside Milwaukee Art Museum, a few hundred folks made their way to a Cudahy venue for a different ...

A guide to Dummerfest 2019, the biggest and dumbest one yet

Tyler Maas

June 20, 2019

After two awesome Dummerfest installments that brought bands like Off With Their Heads, Negative Approach, 88 Fingers Louie, The Copyrights, PEARS, Meat Wave, Masked Intruder, Direct Hit!, and many more to The ...

Here’s the Dummerfest 2019 lineup

Tyler Maas

May 10, 2019

Last month, we announced that following a one-year hiatus (which organizers spent acquiring the former Metal Grill and renovating it to re-open as X-Ray Arcade), Dummerfest would be returning and The Lawrence A...

Dummerfest will return to Cudahy June 22, The Lawrence Arms announced as headliner

Tyler Maas

April 26, 2019

Back in June of 2015, a dozen (primarily) punk and hardcore bands hailing from five states came to The Metal Grill in Cudahy for an unforgettable day of all-ages fun known as Dummerfest. The festival returned t...

PEARS rank the best fruits to eat while on tour

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 22, 2017

To the majority of folks who have heard New Orleans band PEARS, the band is the pride of Fat Wreck Chords. PEARS' latest record, Green Star, is on the shortlist of 2016's best punk releases. To those who haven'...

Negative Approach’s John Brannon talks reunion, new material before first Milwaukee show

Dan Agacki

June 20, 2017

Detroit hardcore legends Negative Approach are arguably the quintessential Midwestern hardcore band. Their warp speed take on British Oi harnesses a power that few have matched. Brannon’s “throat full of broken...

Here’s the Dummerfest 2017 lineup

Tyler Maas

April 25, 2017

Back in June of 2015, a dozen (primarily) punk and hardcore bands hailing from five states came to The Metal Grill in Cudahy for an unforgettable day of all-ages fun known as Dummerfest. The inaugural festival ...

A decade of intensity: Get Rad looks back on 10 years

Tyler Maas

June 18, 2015

During its first five-plus years of existence, Get Rad was indisputably among the loudest, craziest, most intense, and least constrained bands in Milwaukee. Not long after the release of the great 2010 record I...

Milwaukee Record’s Dummerfest guide for dummies

Tyler Maas

June 17, 2015

Every so often, the stars align just right and Milwaukeeans are faced with the troubling dilemma of what to do. No, this isn't echoing the moronic assertion that "there's nothing to do here." Rather, every few ...

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