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Let Arte Para Todos’ 2015 compilation guide your weekend

February 24, 2015

Without so much as a note having been played yet, the inaugural Arte Para Todos can already be called a success. The benefit has united 70 musical acts from all corners of the city’s sonic spectrum to play mish...

Exclusive: Stream Platinum Boys’ “Ride Free” and watch the LP teaser video

Tyler Maas

February 23, 2015

Since announcing its presence in 2013, Milwaukee classic rock quartet Platinum Boys—which features members of The Fatty Acids and Rio Turbo among its ranks—has been a refreshing part of local music with memorab...

Karaoke Underground passes the mic to punk and indie rock fans

Tyler Maas

February 23, 2015

Whether it's a weekly ritual or an occasional guilty pleasure, almost everyone out there has a love of (or at least tolerance for) karaoke. The pastime allows everyday people to wield a microphone and lay s...

Watch Tigernite’s lively “Witch” music video

Tyler Maas

February 23, 2015

Last year seemed to be a watershed moment for Milwaukee-made music videos, as local artists forged a myriad of visual renderings with incredible innovative concepts and a professional sheen that was rarely, if ...

We talk all things Milwaukee Bucks in Episode 7 of On The Record

Milwaukee Record Staff

February 20, 2015

We got a Basketball Jones over at Milwaukee Record HQ these days. Between the surprisingly great play a young and unabashedly rebuilding Milwaukee Bucks team has managed through 53 games this season and rampant...

Gloss Records founders see the big picture with small-run releases

Tyler Maas

February 20, 2015

Like many other aspects of the now semi-oxymoronic catch-all that is the modern “Music Industry,” a record label doesn’t necessarily hold the same weight it once did. Instead of waiting desperately for somebody...

Zoinks! Fox6 lands that exclusive Dustin Diamond interview you’ve been dying to see

Matt Wild

February 20, 2015

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • God bless the local TV news. Where else can you find endless chatter about th...

Here’s the lineup for the 2015 Milwaukee Psych Fest

Matt Wild

February 20, 2015

Since 2013, Milwaukee musician Andrew Shelp (Moss Folk) has given the city a loud, fuzzed-out, and reverb-drenched gift every spring: Milwaukee Psych Fest. The multi-day shindig has become a welcome staple on t...

Exclusive: Listen to Group Of The Altos’ unhinged masterpiece, R U Person Or Not

Matt Wild

February 19, 2015

“No one shares, no one shares, no one shares anymore / Just the kids, just the kids, just the kids and the poor.” So sing Group Of The Altos on “Learning To Share,” the opening track of their second record, R U...

Eagle Trace’s second EP is a family affair

Tyler Maas

February 19, 2015

Siblings playing together in a band isn’t an altogether unique concept in Milwaukee music. Acts like Juniper Tar, Ugly Brothers, and Calamity Janes (among many others) have shown that great things can come of f...

A horse apiece: Dead Horses jockey for position in two music scenes

Tyler Maas

February 18, 2015

During the five-year run of Dead Horses, the acoustic quartet's blend of traditional folk musicianship and airtight multi-part harmonies has found the band rising to hometown prominence—twice, to be exact. Born...

First Impression: Daddy’s Soul Food & Grille

Todd Lazarski

February 18, 2015

It’s easy to forget that we live in the most segregated city in the country. But cruise west out of Downtown on Wisconsin Avenue and there exists a microcosm of Milwaukee’s racial and economic divide: the plush...

Exclusive: Listen to Midwives’ brief, blistering self-titled LP

Cal Roach

February 17, 2015

For their third release in under a year, Midwives don’t go with a radically different formula, but this self-titled LP still feels like a significant step forward for the band’s sound. In terms of two-minute ha...

Lisan Wood constructs comedy out of her painful past

Tyler Maas

February 17, 2015

After a lifetime of comic curiosity, Lisan Wood finally crossed the stand-up comedy threshold last April and hasn’t looked back. In the 10 months since first stepping on stage, Wood has quickly become a fixture...

Janeane Garofalo is coming to Turner Hall April 28

Matt Wild

February 17, 2015

Janeane Garofalo was once asked for advice on making it in show business. “Meet Ben Stiller at the deli,” she replied. (Garofalo and Stiller met at L.A.’s Canter’s Deli in 1990; Garofalo would soon appear on Th...

Tracklist: 6 reasons to care about the Milwaukee Bucks

Tyler Maas

February 16, 2015

This season has seen the Milwaukee Bucks receiving exponentially more local attention than any year in recent history. Of course, the majority of that attention is funneled into the heated and deeply divisive d...

Sleater-Kinney keeps sold-out Riverside Theater on its feet

Cal Roach

February 16, 2015

Milwaukee Gen-Xers had two options for making themselves feel old Sunday night: SNL 40, or the Sleater-Kinney reunion tour, which made its stop at the Riverside Theater. The Washington trio released its comebac...

Watch GGOOLLDD’s “Boyz” music video

Tyler Maas

February 15, 2015

Last year, Milwaukee dance-pop quintet GGOOLLDD swiftly took over the city’s music scene on the weight of its great four-song EP, $TANDARD$, and a steady diet of unforgettable live shows in every nook of town. ...

We geek out over Milwaukee’s geek scene with Lynn Nilles and Rob Wieland in Episode 6 of On The Record

Milwaukee Record Staff

February 13, 2015

In advance of Anime Milwaukee, Matt and Tyler talk all things geeky, nerdy, and dorky with two experts on the subject: Lynn Nilles, co-owner of the wonderful nerd-themed downtown bar 42 Lounge; and Rob Wieland,...

Milwaukee Record’s guide to celebrating and/or escaping Valentine’s Day

Tyler Maas

February 12, 2015

Some of you are in a serious relationship, or at least involved in a budding romance. Others are happily (or perhaps miserably) single. No matter where your love life lands, the same thing holds abundantly true...

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