Jaill breaks free with Brain Cream
After six years and two records, Jaill is right back where it started. Since 2009 Burger Records debut There’s No Sky (Oh My My), the band—then called “Jail”—added a consonant, lost all but one member, signed t...
Public Enemy brings the noise (with help from Rusty P’s) on day two of Summerfest
Early in the Rusty P’s warm-up set for Public Enemy Thursday night at Summerfest, DJ “Madhatter” Lee announced the group would be digging deep into their old albums for the next few songs. “And when you’ve been...
Lineup for 10th annual Milwaukee Comedy Festival announced
Last month, we were excited to reveal that certified Comedian Of Comedy Brian Posehn would headline the final night of the 10th annual Milwaukee Comedy Festival, which is taking place at Turner Hall on Sunday, ...
Review: Taped Music at JoJo’s Martini Lounge (Summerfest)
Summerfest plays host to more than 800 acts each year. By the time the colossal 11-day Midwestern musical mainstay concludes, thousands of musicians will take the stage to perform energetic live sets for an est...
Dustin Diamond sentenced to appear in Saved By The Bell: The Prison Years
When you wake up in the morning for your sentencing hearing and the alarm gives out a warning that yes, today is the day you will learn your fate after being convicted of stabbing some dude in a Wisconsin bar o...
On The Record Episode 24: Mile Of Music, Concert Cafe, Fox Valley’s deep connection to Milwaukee music
For this installment of On The Record, host Tyler Maas took the show on the road. The Fox Valley expat drove 100-some miles north on Highway 41 to record this episode in his dad’s garage bar on the outskirts of...
Celebrate the first day of Summerfest with 6 videos of people screwing around on the Sky Glider
If there was a website called “Is it Summerfest yet?” today it would read “Yes.” The 48th annual Big Gig kicks off today at noon, and brings with it all the sights, sounds, smells, and jorts Milwaukee has come ...
Milwaukee Record’s field guide to Summerfest cover bands
Summerfest bills itself as the “World’s Largest Music Festival,” That’s technically true: few music fests are even in the same ballpark when it comes to the Big Gig’s 11-day lineup of 800-plus acts. The rub, of...
Maritime announces new album, release date
It seems like its been an eternity since Maritime’s last record came out. Though the longtime Milwaukee indie rock dream team—which we think we’re legally obligated to mention is composed of members from Promis...
The SummerRest: 15 non-Summerfest recommendations
With tonight’s Rolling Stones show, Summerfest has (unofficially) arrived. The Big Gig gets into full swing come Wednesday, bringing more than 800 acts to 11 stages—not even counting those weird side stages nea...
Exclusive: Stream VBIV’s debut EP, Control
Outside of serving as Calliope’s guitarist, Victor Buell IV is a skilled videographer, a graphic designer, an artist, and a more-than-capable producer (who recorded, mixed, and mastered Calliope’s last record)....
Taking The City By Storm will document Milwaukee’s early punk scene
Remember the days when the early history of Milwaukee’s punk scene was grossly undocumented and uncelebrated? Milwaukee Record remembers. Happily, those days are long gone. The last five years or so have seen a...
Dummerfest 2015’s most memorable moments
On Saturday, as many Milwaukeeans were enjoying the Summer Soulstice music festival, seeing bands at Lakefront Festival Of The Arts, or experiencing any of the other events happening within city lines on the pa...
Tracklist: 6 Safe House improvements we’d like to see
Local movie money moguls Marcus Corporation announced late last week their purchase of perennial tourist bar Safe House for an undisclosed sum. With nerd bars popping up all over the city and kitsch theme pubs ...
Peter Mulvey wrote a song for Charleston, and it’s spreading
The way in which we, the rank and file citizens of the United States, react to mass shootings in this country has become depressingly predictable. Our initial feelings of shock and grief almost instantly give w...
Belle And Sebastian, Courtney Barnett leave Pabst Theater dancing, wanting more
There were multiple moments during Friday night’s Belle And Sebastian show at the Pabst Theater when it was possible to mistake the proceedings for a ribald comedy show instead of a rock concert. “One of the an...
Is the Bucks arena deal on “life support”?
Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.
• Hot off pondering the great teenage-Redditor question of why a woman can hit ...
Exclusive: Stream Pharaoh Mac & DMT’s “Drift” featuring Greatest Lakes
Though there have always been assertions—yes, sometimes with proof—that Milwaukee musicians on the whole are unable and unwilling to venture beyond prominently-drawn genre boundaries and are hesitant to collabo...
A decade of intensity: Get Rad looks back on 10 years
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...
Learning to let go, lighten up, and love Sofar Sounds
Some of my first live music memories are of seeing shows in basements, attics, and living rooms. These were dingy, dirty affairs, with oodles of teenage crusty punks (and their dogs, always their dogs) crammed ...