Tag: Trapper Schoepp

Trapper Schoepp gets back on the horse in the stunning “Kentucky Derby” music video

October 13, 2025

It could be said of pretty much any annal in recent memory, but it's been a big year for Trapper Schoepp. The tireless Milwaukee troubadour's 2025 consisted of the usual cluster of festival appearances and high...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Trapper Schoepp (Live from Anodyne, 2025)

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 8, 2025

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, October 7, 2025: Tra...

Talking new Milwaukee music with WUWM’s Lake Effect (May 2025)

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 20, 2025

Once a month, Milwaukee Record's Matt Wild sits down with WUWM's Lake Effect and discusses some of his favorite new Milwaukee records and songs. Listen to the latest installment HERE. This month, Matt get...

Dr. Mark Borchardt will see (and overprescribe) Trapper Schoepp now in “Loaded” video

Matt Wild

May 29, 2025

Every Trapper Schoepp album/era features an unexpected twist. There was the one with Mark Maron on guitar. There was the one with that guy from Office Space. There was the one where Trapper finished a Bob Dylan...

Watch Trapper Schoepp play an impromptu concert in front of the Whitefish Bay sinkhole

Tyler Maas

July 5, 2024

While Trapper Schoepp spends much of each year on the road and has found fans all over the world, the tireless Milwaukee troubadour makes sure to regularly pay homage to Wisconsin in his work. In recent years, ...

Trapper Schoepp helps friend in need with “Meet Me At The End Of The World” cover

Matt Wild

March 1, 2024

When he's not busy writing songs about Lawrencia Bembenek (!), recording albums in Johnny Cash's cabin (!!), getting co-writing credits on Bob Dylan songs (!!!), or shooting videos with the "Jump To Conclusions...

Lawrencia Bembenek gets another musical tribute with Trapper Schoepp’s haunting “Bambi”

Matt Wild

January 11, 2024

Four decades after she became a notorious Milwaukee name, Lawrencia "Laurie" Bembenek is having a moment. Last fall, the Milwaukee Rep produced a rock musical called Run Bambi Run (with original songs from V...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Trapper Schoepp (Live from Anodyne)

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 3, 2023

WMSE's local and live in-studio showcase, Local/Live, airs Tuesdays 6-7 p.m. You can find past episodes HERE. Beginning in 2023, we're also collecting episodes on a handy Soundcloud playlist. milwaukeereco...

Trapper Schoepp uses old formats to tell new tales on ‘Siren Songs’

Tyler Maas

April 21, 2023

Today marks the release of Siren Songs, the latest album from tireless Milwaukee troubadour Trapper Schoepp. While the record is a brand new effort, Schoepp fashioned the 12-song release by drawing influence fr...

Trapper Schoepp makes a pilgrimage to Johnny Cash’s cabin in “Cliffs Of Dover” video

Matt Wild

January 20, 2023

Back in 2019, Milwaukee troubadour Trapper Schoepp published a long-lost Bob Dylan song called "On, Wisconsin," becoming the youngest musician to share a co-writing credit with Dylan in the process. (What did y...

Watch Trapper Schoepp (and Leroy the dog) take a tour of Milwaukee in “I Am A Rider” video

Matt Wild

September 7, 2022

Some Milwaukee songs and videos practically bleed Milwaukee. Others are literally called "Milwaukee." Back in 2019, tireless Milwaukee troubadour Trapper Schoepp delivered a Milwaukee-heavy video for his Bob Dy...

Music returns to Mitchell Park Domes September 29 with “Rhythm & Brews,” Trapper Schoepp

Matt Wild

August 8, 2022

If you've been back to the Mitchell Park Domes since the early COVID lockdowns, you know that they remain Milwaukee's most idiosyncratic (and endangered) treasures. But one thing hasn't returned to the Domes si...

Trapper Schoepp’s “Little Drop Of Medicine” video breaks the mold

Tyler Maas

June 22, 2021

When we last caught up with Trapper Schoepp, the tireless Milwaukee singer-songwriter had just released an outstanding music video for "River Called Disaster," the first single from his latest album (May Day). ...

Trapper Schoepp takes you behind the scenes of disastrous “River Called Disaster” video

Matt Wild

March 30, 2021

You may or may not know that tireless Milwaukee singer-songwriter Trapper Schoepp has a new record coming out May 21 called May Day. You may or may not know that the first single from May Day is called "River C...

Enjoy Milwaukee’s OTHER cover of Sheryl Crow’s “If It Makes You Happy,” this one by Trapper Schoepp

Matt Wild

February 17, 2021

Okay, we didn't make this up: Back in December, one of the ultra-specific categories in our Favorite Milwaukee Music Of 2020 piece was "Favorite Milwaukee Cover Of An Old Sheryl Crow Song." The winner of that p...

My First Band: Trapper Schoepp

Milwaukee Record Staff

September 11, 2020

broadstreet.zone(81112); Through the years, Trapper Schoepp has released four excellent albums, played hundreds of shows all over the U.S. and Europe, shared the stage with some of music's most noted names, ha...

Let’s play “spot the local celebrity” with Trapper Schoepp’s “On, Wisconsin” video

Matt Wild

July 12, 2019

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed (formerly Off The Record, which is now the name of our print-only Colectivo publication) looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout th...

Public Domain: Trapper Schoepp performs “Fare Thee Well (Dink’s Song)”

Milwaukee Record Staff

July 26, 2018

Milwaukee Record is proud to present Public Domain. The monthly video series features Milwaukee musicians setting up at Colectivo Coffee to adapt some of the world’s best-known songs in ways they’ve never been ...

Watch Trapper Schoepp party with Richard “Office Space” Riehle in “Settlin’ Or Sleepin’ Around”

Matt Wild

June 1, 2016

// Trapper Schoepp's new Rangers & Valentines is the kind of big, bold, brassy album that practically begs to be played at porch parties nationwide. (It would have made our "22 Milwaukee summer songs" T...

Tracklist: 7 Milwaukee artists playing SXSW 2016

Matt Wild

March 14, 2016

// Once upon a time, dozens upon dozens of Milwaukee bands would make the annual trek to Austin, Texas for the city's South By Southwest music, film, interactive, and Doritos festival. A few years later, on...

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