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Ratboys search for answers, sing to packed Vivarium

March 16, 2026

The title of Ratboys' instant-classic 2026 album Singin' To An Empty Chair refers to a therapeutic exercise in which a patient talks to an imagined person. "So this empty chair that I was singing to is meant to...

Dance like no one in Vivarium is watching in CoCoBees’ “You Can Go Again” video

Matt Wild

November 14, 2025

We're rapidly approaching end-of-year lists season, and it's very, very safe to say that Collections Of Colonies Of Bees' 2025 album Celebrities will be all over our best/favorite Milwaukee music lists. It's a ...

Take a trip back to last November with Maximiano’s ‘Live At The Vivarium’ album

Tyler Maas

June 11, 2025

It's safe to say 2024 was an unparalleled year for Maximiano Janairo. The Milwaukee-based singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and namesake of Maximiano garnered heaps of well-deserved praise from the rel...

Meshell Ndegeocello brings ‘Gospel Of James Baldwin’ to Vivarium

Cal Roach

January 28, 2025

For the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, the Recording Academy created three new competitive categories; one of these, Best Alternative Jazz Album, went to Meshell Ndegeocello in its inaugural year, for her 2023 reco...

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...

All-ages Vivarium opens on East Side with familiar vibe, local music

Matt Wild

February 21, 2024

The last few years have been filled with announcements about new concert venues coming to Milwaukee. Most of those proposed venues have yet to materialize, but on Tuesday night, a previous announcement became a...

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