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Bizhiki defies genres, maybe creates new one at life-affirming Vivarium show

Cal Roach
September 12, 2024
Way back in the before-times, there was a festival called Eaux Claires, an outdoor music fest that did away with most of the annoyances and hype of your typical festival and focused on music and spontaneous col...

Third Eye Blind brings host of hits to Potawatomi’s Outdoor Stage

Harrison Colby
September 1, 2024
"Is Third Eye Blind still a band?" and "Is that the doot doot doot band?" are two questions a 3EB fan may have heard throughout the last two decades of the California band's three-decade long existence. And to ...

They Might Be Giants delight hardcore fans with two-night “Big Show” at Pabst Theater

Matt Wild
June 24, 2024
The last time They Might Be Giants rolled into Milwaukee (weeks before the initial COVID lockdowns of 2020), they were touring behind the 30th anniversary of their classic album Flood. While that two-and-a-half...

Wilco kicks off summer tour, smooths over brief crowd fracas at Riverside Theater

Cal Roach
June 13, 2024
Last month, the Chicago folk-rock veterans of Wilco celebrated their 20th anniversary as a band. Again. Yes, although many fans will recall the band's 2014 Milwaukee stop on its 20th anniversary tour, plenty do...

Alvvays returns to Pabst Theater for instantly iconic performance

Matt Wild
April 23, 2024
Back in March, indie-pop band Charly Bliss scored a semi-viral tweet about fellow indie group Alvvays: if a venue doesn't play "archie, marry me" before a three band indie rock bill you can report them to the c...

“Come on, we don’t get to play in Milwaukee every day!” Marc Ribot brings Jazz-Bins to Vivarium

Cal Roach
April 11, 2024
After years of honing his craft in obscurity, Marc Ribot got his big break in the mid-'80s playing guitar for Tom Waits. Listening to those records now—Rain Dogs and intermittently onward—you hear a restrained ...

“I got a connection with you.” Herbie Hancock delights, inspires at sold-out Pabst Theater

Cal Roach
April 3, 2024
Before launching into a two-hour-plus set with his band Tuesday night, Chicago jazz legend Herbie Hancock spent several minutes addressing the sold-out Pabst Theater crowd. "The first really professional gig th...

Cat Power covers Bob Dylan, captivates Pabst Theater

Matt Wild
March 4, 2024
In 1998, director Gus Van Sant released a "shot-for-shot" remake of Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1960 film Psycho. When asked the inevitable question of "Why?" Van Sant offered up a number of answers: it was an e...

Buffalo Nichols comes home, plays the blues to chatty Vivarium crowd

Cal Roach
March 3, 2024
Most articles you'll find about Carl Nichols these days wrangle with definitions of the blues. Musicians and songwriters of this genre provided a framework that gave rise to most of modern popular music, yet an...

The Back Room @ Colectivo closes its doors with show from Chicago’s Bitchin Bajas

Cal Roach
December 16, 2023
It's time to say farewell to The Back Room @ Colectivo. The performance space on Prospect Avenue opened up in 2015 and has served as a great intimate space for local and traveling acts for almost a decade, but ...

Angel Olsen gives raucous Turner Hall crowd something to cry about

Cal Roach
December 1, 2023
"Thursday is the day of sin, don't you know,” said Angel Olsen from the Turner Hall Ballroom stage—after asking the audience what day it was. She was in a typically conversational mode in Milwaukee, the second ...

Mudhoney delivers the (new) hits at sold-out X-Ray Arcade

Cal Roach
October 20, 2023
When the Seattle grunge scene blew up in the early 1990s, the scramble for underground cred began immediately. It all seems tragically moot now, as few of the alt-rock superstars of the day remain except Pearl ...

Watching the river flow: 2,300 words about Bob Dylan’s October 12 show at Riverside Theater

Zack Pieper
October 13, 2023
Say what you will, Bob Dylan is a worker. After touring almost nonstop for more than 30 years as part of his "Never Ending Tour," he announced a slew of dates named after his acclaimed 2020 album Rough And Rowd...

Bonnie Raitt pays tribute to John Prine, Paul Cebar, Hamm’s Beer at Riverside Theater

Cal Roach
October 11, 2023
The first generations of rock and rollers didn't have long-term career plans; maybe they hoped they'd die before they got old, or maybe they figured on some day getting haircuts and getting real jobs. Now in th...

Dethklok and Babymetal team up for night of metal mastery at The Rave

John Schulze
October 6, 2023
The Babyklok tour lived up to its promises Sunday, September 24 at The Rave, delivering a night of metal mastery that will resonate in the hearts of fans for years to come. Opening act Jason Richardson set t...

Nick Cave enthralls the faithful at sparse, powerful Riverside Theater show

Cal Roach
September 28, 2023
Nick Cave's most recent studio release is a 2021 duo album with multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis called Carnage. Given that Cave's current tour is a rare one without the Bad Seeds backing him, it seemed a goo...

Goose fly into Miller High Life Theatre for night of polished groove-rock

Cal Roach
September 18, 2023
Everybody skips Milwaukee—it's a tired lament, and one that jam band fans can't chime in on, at least not this year, as nearly every artist from that sprawling community has stopped or will stop by the Brew Cit...

Extreme and Living Colour bring signature tunes (and more) to Pabst Theater

Cal Roach
August 16, 2023
At first glance, the pairing of Extreme and Living Colour—a couple of American rock bands whose last charting singles came out in the mid-'90s—for a tour in 2023 seems odd. Both bands are dangerously close to o...

Stevie Nicks wows, pays tribute to fallen collaborators at Fiserv Forum

Cal Roach
August 9, 2023
Is Fleetwood Mac still a band? Following the passing of Christine McVie late last year, the group has at least been on hiatus, with only three members remaining from Mac's '70s-'80s heyday. However, while Mick ...

“I think we all need this night.” Paramore delivers, delights at Fiserv Forum

Cal Roach
August 2, 2023
When Hayley Williams asked a sold-out Fiserv Forum late Tuesday night if it was anyone's first Paramore show, at least half the crowd screamed in delight. They knew they were the lucky ones; as any pandemic-era...
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