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Talking new Milwaukee music with WUWM’s Lake Effect (October 2026)

October 28, 2026

Once a month, I (Matt) sit down with Joy Powers of WUWM's Lake Effect to discuss some of my favorite new Milwaukee records and songs. Listen to the latest installment HERE. This month, I pour my heart out...

Prepare for another Something To Do record with “I Only Notice The Beat”

Tyler Maas

September 8, 2026

Believe it or not, Something To Do has been active since way back in 2003. Arguably even more impressive than the Milwaukee-Madison ska-punk project's longevity are both the volume and the quality of the output...

Should you watch Something To Do’s “Don’t Be Honest” video? Signs point to yes

Tyler Maas

July 8, 2025

Back in March, Wisconsin ska-punk stalwarts Something To Do released an inventive music video for "No I Don’t Want To See Your Tattoo," which found the band asking fans and friends within the music scene to sen...

View a few tattoos in Something To Do’s new music video debut

Tyler Maas

March 6, 2025

Last year, Something To Do released two excellent music videos in support of its latest album, Here Comes The Panic. "Draw Me Like One Of Your French Girls" was a wine-fueled and sip and paint-inspired music vi...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Something To Do + Combustor (Live from Chill On The Hill)

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 14, 2024

WMSE's local and live in-studio showcase, Local/Live, airs Tuesdays 6-7 p.m. You can find past episodes HERE, or on this handy Soundcloud playlist. milwaukeerecord · WMSE's Local/Live, August 13, 2024: Som...

Unending Zoom brings impending doom in Something To Do’s “Sweet Caffeination” video

Tyler Maas

April 24, 2024

When we last checked in with Something To Do back in January, the veteran Milwaukee-Madison ska project had just put out a wine-fueled and sip and paint-inspired music video for a single from its album, Here Co...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Something To Do (Live from Anodyne)

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 6, 2024

WMSE's local and live in-studio showcase, Local/Live, airs Tuesdays 6-7 p.m. You can find past episodes HERE, or on this handy Soundcloud playlist. milwaukeerecord · WMSE's Local/Live, March 5, 2024: Somet...

Sip and paint with Something To Do in the band’s “Draw Me Like One Of Your French Girls” video

Tyler Maas

January 9, 2024

If you like ska music and live anywhere in or around the Midwest, you almost certainly know and love Something To Do. The Milwaukee-Madison project has been playing out regularly and releasing music since 2003,...

Watch Something To Do’s doggone dramatic “Am I Still Coming Over?” music video

Tyler Maas

August 13, 2021

During the thick of the (still-ongoing) COVID-19 crisis, musicians were forced to come up with unique and unusual ways to stay productive in a socially-distant and suddenly show-less period in American history....

Something To Do dabbles in “Deepfakes” in its “Let’s Break Some Laws” music video

Tyler Maas

March 17, 2021

Even though the COVID-19 crisis has made things incredibly difficult and altogether horrible for musicians, bands have managed to come up with resourceful and downright incredible ways to write and record new m...

Something To Do announces new album, premieres single

Tyler Maas

September 21, 2020

When we last checked in with Something To Do, the veteran Milwaukee-Madison ska outfit was urging people to stay inside with a quarantine-specific song the band's members recorded in their own homes. Since rele...

Heed the advice of Something To Do’s quarantine ska jam, “Stay Inside”

Tyler Maas

April 21, 2020

You simply won't find a longer-tenured or better ska band in Wisconsin (or the Midwest?) than Something To Do. The Milwaukee-Madison sextuplet has been playing out regularly and releasing music since 2003, surv...

Something To Do’s “That Good Life” video is just one huge, hilarious dance montage

Tyler Maas

November 28, 2018

When we last checked in with Something To Do, the veteran Milwaukee-Madison ska band was performing its Gob Bluth-channeling single, "I've Made A Huge Mistake," in the digitized presence of a bustling cityscape...

Not watching Something To Do’s “I’ve Made A Huge Mistake” music video would be a huge mistake

Tyler Maas

July 23, 2018

Way back in early May (three days after "Cinco de Cuatro," to be exact), we debuted a Gob Bluth-channeling new single from Something To Do. The veteran Milwaukee-Madison ska band's "I've Made A Huge Mistake" in...

Hear Something To Do channel Gob Bluth on new single, “I’ve Made A Huge Mistake”

Tyler Maas

May 7, 2018

When we last checked in with Something To Do, Wisconsin's premier ska outfit was pining for Tina Fey in the multi-cam music video for "Tina Fey II." In the year-plus since that video's release, the band has bee...

Something To Do’s “Tina Fey II” music video phones it in

Tyler Maas

February 27, 2017

Aren't videos shot on phones the worst? Between the low definition picture, high likelihood of user error—seriously, stop filming things vertically, people!—and garbled audio, there's not much reason to captu...

Exclusive: Stream Something To Do’s ‘Not Making A Sound’

Tyler Maas

September 6, 2016

When we last checked in with Something To Do, the band was riding high, having recorded the music for an Adult Swim show. With the money the band earned scoring Gigglefudge USA, the state's premier ska outf...

Public Domain: Something To Do performs “Any Little Girl, That’s A Nice Little Girl, Is The Right Little Girl For Me”

Milwaukee Record Staff

July 29, 2016

// Milwaukee Record is proud to present Public Domain. The video series features Milwaukee musicians setting up at Colectivo's new Back Room performance space at its Prospect Avenue cafe to adapt some of th...

Something To Do talks Adult Swim employment, the state of ska

Tyler Maas

May 11, 2016

// Depending on who you ask, ska on its deathbed. Though some have reduced the once-formidable genre to a cheap punchline, a small-but-passionate guild of musicians with horns and a proclivity for upstrokes...

Skank and sulk through the season with Something To Do’s “Happy Holidays”

Tyler Maas

December 2, 2014

With Thanksgiving now in the rear view mirror and calendars turned to their final page, the holiday season is officially upon us. Right beside shopping, snowfall, inevitable weight gain, and the growing tension...

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