Tagged Show Review

Tool still invincible at Halloween costume-clad Fiserv Forum show

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...

Brian Wilson and The Zombies bring “Something Great From ’68” to Riverside Theater

Catherine Jozwik

September 23, 2019

It's been more than half a century since British Invasion and California groups like The Zombies and The Beach Boys took the American pop charts by storm. During Sunday night's Riverside Theater performances, T...

Hip Hop DNA: Volume 1 celebrates, investigates hip-hop history at Marcus Center

Cal Roach

September 14, 2019

Three weeks ago, Milwaukee's second-annual Hip Hop Week wrapped up, and the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts played an important part, hosting Ladies First: The Women Of Classic Hip Hop And R&B at its ...

Beach House brings good vibes, Milwaukee love to Riverside Theater

Catherine Jozwik

August 9, 2019

For a decade and a half, Beach House has been blending 1990s shoegaze with 1960s West Coast pop, surf music, and reflective lyrics. The Baltimore-based duo has released eight albums since 2006, including B-Side...

Ron Funches is fun and freewheeling in Turner Hall return

Tyler Maas

July 15, 2019

In August 2017, Ron Funches threw cookies and stole hearts at Turner Hall. In the roughly two years since that long-overdue stop in Milwaukee, the comedian and actor amassed tons of film and television credits,...

Semisonic treats Summerfest to greatest hits and brand new material in first Milwaukee show in 18 years

Rick Katschke

July 7, 2019

When the official Summerfest lineup was unveiled in spring, one of the biggest surprises was that Semisonic would be returning to the Big Gig after an absence of nearly two decades. The 2001 edition of Summerfe...

Watch Guided By Voices play in the rain for the very first time (allegedly)

Matt Wild

July 1, 2019

Here are the facts: Sunday afternoon, legendary Dayton, Ohio rock band Guided By Voices played the Miller Lite Oasis during day five of Summerfest. The band, led by the absurdly prolific Robert Pollard, played ...

Let Andrew W.K.’s simple advice carry you through the weekend (and the rest of Summerfest)

Matt Wild

June 28, 2019

When we last checked in with eternal party-rocker Andrew W.K., we took the dude shopping at American Science & Surplus. Later that night, W.K. played The Rave and did a rousing Milwaukee version of his song...

Our return trip to Blue Ox Music Festival sure was something

Josh Hoppert

June 18, 2019

Last year, we packed up our Toyota Camry with granola bars and Outkast CDs and made our first ever voyage to Eau Claire, Wisconsin's fourth annual Blue Ox Music Festival. It was great. The fest was incredibly w...

Violent Femmes played a free “Cheers to Milwaukee” show at the Riverside and it was good

Matt Wild

June 7, 2019

There are two groups of Milwaukee music fans: the group that enthusiastically answers "Violent Femmes!" when asked to name the city's most influential band, and the group that rolls its eyes when confronted wit...

Milwaukee Record’s favorite moments from Riverwest FemFest 2019

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 3, 2019

"I think moving forward, we'd love to see FemFest as a thing that just happens all the time, everywhere." That was festival organizer Ellie Jackson in the closing moments of this year's eight-day, multi-venue, ...

Snarky Puppy brings jam band prowess (and cheese curd references) to Pabst Theater

Cal Roach

May 24, 2019

To self-identify as a jam band used to be a rare thing. The stigma that comes with the term is a vague, squicky feeling of nth-generation white American men trying to play funk, and it’s certainly not an unearn...

Johnny Marr treats Pabst Theater to a winning mix of old and new

Catherine Jozwik

May 15, 2019

Johnny Marr has been working as a professional musician since he was 15 years old—and it shows.The 55-year-old former guitarist of the influential 1980s post-punk group The Smiths has worked with many bands...

Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington bring their delightfully demented On Cinema to Turner Hall

Tommy Ciaccio

April 20, 2019

An increasingly abusive relationship. A shift to militant far-right zealotry. The tragic and wholly avoidable death of a toddler son. The general showcasing of histrionic psychosis. These are not exactly orthod...