And your 2025 WAMI winners are…
In case you missed it, WAMI (Wisconsin Area Music Industry) held its 2025 awards show Sunday night in West Allis. It’s true! Here’s a list of the 87 (!) winners, featuring everything from the state’s best music...
Pro wrestlers, superheroes, and bobbleheads: Your 2025 Lakeshore Chinooks promo schedule
Though baseball season is already underway in Milwaukee and the Brewers are currently more than a month into the season, there’s another team in the region that’s getting ready to take the field. Yes, the Lakes...
Braid will headline WMSE’s 15th annual Backyard BBQ August 23
For the past decade and a half, WMSE's Backyard BBQ has spiced up the waning days of summer with a shot of music, food, drink, and good vibes. And it's all free! Two years ago, the legendary Bob Mould headlined...
Dig into the Trivia By Milwaukee Record that ran at Vivarium and Turner Hall in April
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In the mood for some trivia? In the mood for some Milwaukee trivia? Then you've come to the right place! It's another round of Trivia By Milwaukee Record!
Thanks to our friends at ...
Milwaukee Psych Fest to be postponed “for the foreseeable future”
This past week, we posted our massive and ever-growing list of summer festivals happening in and around Milwaukee this summer. Unfortunately, Milwaukee Psych Fest will not be part of the festival fun this summe...
Milwaukee Record Cat Of The Week: Boris
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Milwaukee Record is working in partnership with Urban Cat Coalition to help find loving homes for area cats. Each week, we—with generous sponsorship from Skilos, A Family Pet Store—pl...
Enjoy Every Fish Fry: Henry Flach’s in West Allis has steak, supper club vibe, fish
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Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow his never-ending adventures—sponsored by Miller High Life—HERE. This week: fish fry #591, at Henry Flach's in West Al...
They’re gonna remove the Milwaukee Boat on Tuesday. For real this time. Weather permitting.
After more than 200 days, nearly seven months, and more than a week after Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson himself said the infamous abandoned Milwaukee Boat would be gone by day's end, it seems the Boat's days...
Mari Mari gets cagey as hell on “Mile Wide”
At this point, it's possible (if not probable) you've yet to hear Mari Mari. In its relatively brief history, the band—which features past members of Flat Teeth, John The Savage, Those Royals, and Saebra & ...
NilexNile precedes album release, crazy summer with new single
After a breakout 2022 and an even more accomplished 2023, last year proved to be an uncharacteristically quiet one for NilexNile. Besides a select few local outings (including a direct support slot before Jack ...
Xposed 4Heads issue call to arms on ‘Crack The Sky’
When we last checked in with Xposed 4Heads in January 2024, the veteran Milwaukee New Wave/art-rock band was in a mood. "It's messed up beyond belief / We've gone too far, we're in too deep," cried frontman Mar...
Here’s the Locust Street Festival music lineup (so far)
In case you missed the news, Locust Street Festival of Music and Art and its affiliated Locust Street Beer Run will be taking place in the heart of Riverwest on Sunday, June 1. For those of you keeping score at...
Welcome to May: Here’s what you’re doing this month
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May in Milwaukee usually serves as the calm before the storm that is summer festival season. By this time next month, we’ll be inundated with block parties, weekly concerts, and a mas...
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds enthrall, entrance at Miller High Life Theatre
Never one to shy away from taboo subjects, much of Nick Cave's output in recent years has been challenging in a very different sense than his past work. Over the past decade he has suffered the tragic losses of...
A sailor’s response to the Milwaukee Boat origin story / “review”
This article is a response to THIS story/review, allegedly written by one of the owners of the infamous and long-beached Milwaukee Boat.
Since October, I've often found myself thinking about what could have ...
Broken Bat Brewing to release Malört beers this weekend
Whether you love it, you hate it, or you have trained your brain to feel mostly indifferent to it after initially hating it, Jeppson's Malört holds a special place in the hearts of Midwestern drinkers. The pola...
Here’s the 2025 Jazz In The Park lineup
In case you missed it, the Great Milwaukee Summer is back! Approximately 8,000 festivals, music series, and fairs are set to take over the city this summer. And one of those music series, the long-running and w...
Alley Eyes embrace the anthemic side of indie sleaze with excellent “No Good”
Are we in the midst of an "indie sleaze" revival? You know, that pocket of 2000s-era music and culture epitomized by bands like The Strokes, The Killers, and LCD Soundsystem? That moment in time when everyone w...
WMSE’s Local/Live: Vile Bees
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, April 29, 2025: Vile...
Milwaukee Music Roundup: April 2025
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Looking for new music? Looking for new Milwaukee music? Then look no further than our monthly Milwaukee Music Roundup!
LPs AND EPs OF NOTE
Astronaut Husband - Into The Sun
Into t...