Tagged Show Review

Our return trip to Blue Ox Music Festival sure was something

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...

Pixies played The Rave and they were great and here’s what they played and said between songs

Matt Wild

April 2, 2019

Similar to our "Pixies played Summerfest and they were great and here's what they played and said between songs" review from July 2018, let's keep this short and sweet: Legendary alternative rock band Pixies pl...

After 45 years, Mott The Hoople return to Milwaukee for stunning Miller High Life Theatre show

Caleb Westphal

April 2, 2019

When Mott The Hoople last played in Milwaukee, the Domes were less than a decade old, Summerfest was approaching its seventh season, and Richard Nixon was in the last throes of his presidency. The date was May ...

Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets brings weakened pulse of Pink Floyd to Riverside Theater

Cal Roach

April 2, 2019

Nick Mason stressing that his Saucerful Of Secrets tour is not a tribute act smacks of Spinal Tap to be sure. Okay, fine: It's a Pink Floyd cover band, how's that? And one of only about three in the whole world...

John Maus turns anguish into therapy you can dance to at Turner Hall

Cal Roach

February 28, 2019

Is this going to be a concert review or a dissertation? Rarely does one come across any discussion of John Maus's music that doesn't drift into metaphysics, despite his own evident disdain for such overthinking...

Colter Wall captivates Turner Hall with songs of the plains

Tyler Maas

February 23, 2019

Friday night, a one-block stretch of Vel R. Phillips Avenue in downtown Milwaukee simultaneously hosted two of modern music's most promising young voices. While the brand new Fiserv Forum was privy to what was ...

Milo says goodbye to Milo at sold-out Cactus Club show

Tanner Owen

February 15, 2019

On the heels of his latest album, Budding Ornithologists Are Weary Of Tired Analogies, Rory Ferreira, a.k.a. Milo, rapped for a sold-out crowd at Cactus Club Thursday night. Milo has dubbed this tour "MILO'S FI...

Neil Young remains restless, reflective at Riverside Theater

Cal Roach

January 24, 2019

What possible reason could Neil Young have for continuing to work at such a pace? A perennial inspiration to all subsequent generations of guitar-based music, Young is also the world's most prolific septuagenar...

Thom Yorke stays solo in uncompromising Riverside Theater show

Cal Roach

December 6, 2018

Like most Gen-X music icons who aren't dead, Thom Yorke's most celebrated outfit (that would be Radiohead) has been relegated to part-time status lo these decades since its commercial peak. And why not? Sure, R...

Pale Waves go goth at Black Friday show at The Rave

Tanner Owen

November 24, 2018

Friday was Black Friday, so who better to bring to The Rave than goth-pop quartet Pale Waves? With makeup (black, of course), sad lyrics, upbeat dance tunes, and Doc Martens sitting on six-inch platforms, Pale ...

Mystery Science Theater 3000 LIVE! was a great homecoming for Joel, a fine showcase for Jonah

Rob Wieland

November 16, 2018

Inevitably, when an influential band breaks up, its members gravitate back toward the thing that made the band famous. Thirty years have passed since Mystery Science Theater 3000 turned an activity once confine...

Thrice casts a spell on The Rave

Steve Lampiris

November 10, 2018

Rock and roll was alive and well at The Rave Friday night when Thrice came to town with a pair of bands from Los Angeles, Teenage Wrist and The Bronx. Teenage Wrist kicked things off with a promising and confid...

Fleetwood Mac blends old with new at Fiserv Forum show

Lauren Keene

October 29, 2018

Despite various marriages, divorces, breakups, and makeups, the members of Fleetwood Mac have continually performed alongside one another for nearly half a century. Aside from a repertoire of legendary tunes, t...

Courtney Barnett is a force to be reckoned with at sold-out Pabst Theater show

Lauren Keene

October 18, 2018

Australian native Courtney Barnett made a stop in Milwaukee Wednesday night, traveling halfway across the world from her hometown of Melbourne to perform in front of a sold-out crowd at the Pabst Theater. The f...

Liz Phair makes things girly again at career-spanning Turner Hall show

Cal Roach

October 13, 2018

The '90s were an odd decade. Back then, a young, impressionable person could discover an artist through Rolling Stone and still feel like they were "underground." Such was the case with Liz Phair; her 1993 debu...