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Sylvan Esso goes back to the beginning with surprise, sold-out show at Cactus Club

Matt Wild
September 14, 2022
On Sunday, critically acclaimed and fan-beloved electro-pop duo Sylvan Esso—a.k.a. Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn—threw out a dual first pitch before the Brewers-Reds game at American Family Field.On Monday,...

Frankie And The Witch Fingers work up a sweat in Cactus Club return

Catherine Jozwik
July 14, 2022
Scrappy power-psych/garage rockers Frankie And The Witch Fingers served up a heady concoction of heavy-hitting tunes during a sold-out Wednesday night show at the Cactus Club.Before the headliner took the s...

Milwaukee’s “Wu-Tang realtor” reviews Saturday’s Wu-Tang show at Summerfest

Milwaukee Record Staff
June 26, 2022
Milwaukee realtor Jon Frost made headlines this spring with his "Low mortgage rates are Temporary. WU-TANG IS FOREVER" billboard. When we learned Wu-Tang Clan was scheduled to headline Summerfest on June 25 (wi...

Enjoying Summerfest despite [gestures broadly at everything]

Matt Wild
June 25, 2022
On Friday morning, my partner in crime/business, Tyler Maas, sent me a message: "Well, the country has (officially) somehow become even worse. If you want to have our 27,000th day of no promos, that's fine with...

Kristin Hersh lives up to (and exceeds) alt-rock-icon status at intimate Back Room show

Cal Roach
June 13, 2022
Alt-rock icon Kristin Hersh, unlike virtually all of her peers, never made much of a grab for stardom. Even at their most compelling, Hersh's songs are more likely to get under your skin than make you hum along...

Weird Al fortunately returns to Milwaukee with “Unfortunate Return” of non-parody tour

Cal Roach
May 25, 2022
broadstreet.zone(72091); Welcome to Milwaukee Record’s Weird Al Week, sponsored by Lakefront Brewery! Want daily Al-related articles culminating in a recap of Al’s May 24 show at the Marcus Performing Arts Cen...

The Cactus Blossoms bring dreamy harmonies back to The Back Room

Matt Wild
March 24, 2022
The return of live music has come in fits and starts. Venues have reopened and re-closed. Shows have been rescheduled and re-canceled. Big arena concerts have felt weirdly fine, while smaller gigs have felt uns...

Mitski makes triumphant Milwaukee return, dazzles fans at sold-out Miller High Life Theatre show

Lauren Keene
March 16, 2022
The last time Mitski performed in Milwaukee, we were living in a different world. Donald Trump was president, people were eating Tide Pods, and Zoom was most commonly known as a wacky PBS Kids show. Back then, ...

Courtney Barnett takes her time, shreds at Pabst Theater

Cal Roach
January 21, 2022
The Pabst Theater Group catches flak whenever the "all the good tours skip Milwaukee" conversation flares up, so due credit to those in charge for snagging Courtney Barnett late in the game. This leg of her U.S...

Billy Strings goes electric (and acoustic, and electric again) in sold-out Riverside Theater show

Cal Roach
November 4, 2021
Bluegrass is one of the most popular genres of music that still has fierce gatekeepers and rules—all of which Billy Strings has made his name disregarding. The attitude is evidently paying off.While most to...

Shellac drops knowledge, new material, and classic jams at Turner Hall

DJ Hostettler
March 13, 2020
Fans of Shellac's notorious between song question-and-answer sessions didn't have to wait long for their fix at Thursday's night Turner Hall show. Thanks to an equipment malfunction on stage right (Steve Albini...

8 questions (and answers) for last night’s They Might Be Giants show at Pabst Theater

Matt Wild
March 6, 2020
Thursday night, They Might Be Giants played a sold-out show at Milwaukee's Pabst Theater. It was a lot of fun! Here are eight questions (and answers) for said show:Q: This was a 30th anniversary show for 19...

Mandolin Orange pay a lovely first visit to Pabst Theater

Josh Hoppert
January 30, 2020
Mandolin Orange first hopped onto our radar at Eau Claire’s Blue Ox Music Festival in 2018. The Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based duo of Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz played sweet-but-transfixing American root...

Tool still invincible at Halloween costume-clad Fiserv Forum show

Cal Roach
November 1, 2019
Photos and video recordings were not allowed during Thursday night's sold-out Tool concert at the Fiserv Forum. It's a hip policy these days, ostensibly to force an audience to be present and focused on the sta...

Trey Anastasio refuses to play it safe at rewarding Riverside Theater show

Cal Roach
October 19, 2019
It’s been another uneventful year for Phish frontman Trey Anastasio. He didn’t write a single Broadway musical, nor did he perform with any symphony orchestras. Phish didn’t even release an album or invent an i...

Heart anything but a nostalgia act at deep-cut Fiserv Forum show

Cal Roach
October 13, 2019
Sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson have helmed Heart for more than four decades, almost entirely responsible for the group's success through more personnel and stylistic changes than the average fan could even keep t...

Stereolab remain relevant, revelatory at sold-out Turner Hall show

Cal Roach
October 5, 2019
Lætitia Sadier and Tim Gane probably didn’t set out to change the landscape of popular music forever, but that’s essentially what happened. The duo responsible for Stereolab didn’t simply inspire the creation o...

MasterChef Junior Live! serves up laughs, cooking tips, fun for all ages at Riverside Theater

Tyler Maas
October 5, 2019
Downtown Milwaukee was buzzing Friday night.A sold-out Turner Hall was bouncing to the genre-blending mastery of Stereolab. Across the street, Fiserv Forum was hosting a star-studded show featuring The Blac...

Mac DeMarco balances mellow and “Rock’n” tunes, shows local love at Riverside Theater

Joey Grihalva
October 2, 2019
Back in November 2015, the last time Mac DeMarco headlined Milwaukee on his own (he co-headlined the Eagle's Ballroom with The Flaming Lips in 2017), Milwaukee Record didn't know what to make of the Canadian in...

A B-movie icon brings his A-game for “An Evening with Bruce Campbell” at Pabst Theater

Rob Wieland
September 29, 2019
Who knew that a low-budget film trilogy featuring crawling severed hands, literal fountains of blood, a chainsaw montage, and a time travel finish would launch two of the longest-lived careers in Hollywood? The...
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