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Guided By Voices played Turner Hall, and shit yeah, it was cool

September 2, 2016

Dayton Ohio's Guided by Voices have come to epitomize the sound of '90s indie rock, a remarkable feat considering their near-dissolution after years of failed successes. Fueled by the prolific songwriting p...

Bon Iver, Chance The Rapper, and black metal: Eaux Claires goes big, weird in 2016

Cal Roach

August 15, 2016

// A festival curated by two indie-rock dudes is bound to be a niche event. The inaugural edition of Eaux Claires featured a handful of oddball choices filling out the lineup (Melt-Banana? Not that we're co...

Deerhoof keeps the party going at post-Center Street Daze Mad Planet

Cal Roach

August 8, 2016

// Hours after most folks had stumbled home from the chaos of Center Street Daze on Saturday night, the party raged on indoors at most of the usual Riverwest venues. The Mad Planet after-show was the only e...

Brady Street Festival 2016: A minute-by-minute recap

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 1, 2016

// For those keeping score at home, this past weekend featured the Riverwest 24, MishMash Fest, German Fest, Milwaukee Brewfest, and probably 14 other FestFests. With all that ridiculous summer action, it w...

John Carpenter builds wall of sound at Pabst Theater

Rob Wieland

July 19, 2016

// The social feeds of anyone that grew up in the '80s were lit up over the weekend by gushing praise for Stranger Things, a Netflix series coated in a thick frosting of nostalgia and references to genre fi...

Paul McCartney still had something to prove at last night’s Marcus Amphitheater show

Cal Roach

July 9, 2016

// When Paul McCartney came to Miller Park in July of 2013, Milwaukeeans made some silent calculations and determined that this would probably be our last chance to see the Beatle perform. Some 43,000 of us...

Mike D drops the beat (and the ball) at Summerfest DJ gig

Phillip Martinez

July 7, 2016

// For better or worse, expectations play a big part in experiencing live music. When Paris Hilton was scheduled for a DJ set at last year's Summerfest, expectations were low—same with seeing Dead Kennedys ...

Built To Spill plays to unconventional strengths at Turner Hall

Cal Roach

June 20, 2016

// The definition of "indie rock" may have changed over the years, but the sound of the music has not. Take everything in your iTunes library assigned to that genre, make a giant playlist and hit shuffle: s...

I actually had fun seeing Bubba Sparxxx in Cudahy

Andrew Winistorfer

May 2, 2016

// There was a moment, about six minutes into Bubba Sparxxx’s 45-minute set at the City Lounge in Cudahy on Saturday, that I realized I was not going to be capable of writing the article you might expect to...

Milwaukee Record’s favorite moments from Arte Para Todos 2016

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 26, 2016

// Last year's inaugural Arte Para Todos—or "art for everyone"—set loose approximately 80 Milwaukee bands and artists in 15 venues across three neighborhoods over the course of three nights, ultimately rais...

Ani DiFranco opens up, digs deep at Turner Hall

Cal Roach

April 11, 2016

// Far be it from Ani DiFranco to stay home during an election year. The relentless folk singer released Allergic To Water in 2014, and she's been touring almost nonstop since…well, since her career began. ...

Kurt Vile presides over listless, occasionally lively show at Pabst Theater

Cal Roach

April 6, 2016

// "Don't know much about history," Kurt Vile sang in his opening number, "Dust Bunnies," Tuesday night at the Pabst Theater. Indeed, despite the smattering of "I Voted" stickers on lapels throughout the crow...

Puscifer pushes crude humor, lucha libre wrestling at Riverside Theater

Cal Roach

March 28, 2016

// It's difficult to fathom an enjoyable concert derived solely from the recorded works of Puscifer. Whether or not you're a fan of Maynard James Keenan's voice and/or lyrics, Puscifer albums have trended m...

Carly Rae Jepsen (and Bob Saget?) takes Turner Hall on bumpy, fun adventure

Monica Reida

March 12, 2016

// Carly Rae Jepsen will forever be known best for "Call Me Maybe," the hit single the Canadian singer released in 2012. If you were near anything that emitted sound during that summer, you heard the song. ...

Jason Isbell soars, celebrates at sold-out Pabst Theater

Rachel Seis

February 24, 2016

// Jason Isbell has been through a lot since his first few solo outings at Milwaukee's Shank Hall nearly a decade ago. After being kicked out of the seminal alt-country band Drive-By Truckers—allegedly due ...

Lizzo brings the party (and a message) to Turner Hall

Cal Roach

February 22, 2016

// The Brew City has seen a lot of Lizzo over the past year or so. The Minneapolis-based rapper (no, she's not on Rhymesayers, and no, she's not in Doomtree) impressed attendees as the unorthodox opening ac...

Godspeed You! Black Emperor ascends, evolves at Turner Hall

Cal Roach

February 15, 2016

// Milwaukee has been spoiled on the post-rock front thus far in 2016. Three weeks ago, Mad Planet somehow landed a Tortoise performance—only the band's second live date following the release of its first n...

Christopher Porterfield and company explore the obscure for Alverno Presents’ “How To Write A Popular Song”

Cal Roach

February 1, 2016

// The radio promos for Saturday's Alverno Presents show at Pitman Theatre suggested that you ought to have heard of Charles K. Harris, but you probably haven't. He was a Poughkeepsie native who grew up and...

Milwaukee Record’s favorite moments from Riverwest FemFest 2016

Milwaukee Record Staff

January 25, 2016

// Four days, four venues, more than 50 acts, and nary a hitch. Based on those stats alone, the second annual Riverwest FemFest would be considered a success. But with more than $10,000 (!) raised for Date ...

Malled by bears: A review of the Leonard Bearstein Symphony Orchestra at the Shops of Grand Avenue

Justin Kern

December 8, 2015

// Three facts: 1. Should a sleuth of real bears gather at the center of a mall, people would scatter in terror. 2. No self-respecting human symphony could be denigrated into playing among the clamor of a s...

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