Tagged Show Review

The Cactus Blossoms bring dreamy harmonies back to The Back Room

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...

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 ...