Eccentric, often-pantless pop superstar Lady Gaga will perform at the Bradley Center on Sept. 1, as part of the second leg of her Monster Ball Tour, the venue announced this morning. The tour promises to be another high-production spectacle with more than

When Public Image Ltd., the post-Sex Pistols band of singer John Lydon, announced its first live shows in 17 years late last year, few people would have pegged Milwaukee as one of the band’s stops, but the band will stop at the Pabst Theater on Frid

The Flaming Lips will bring their standard truckloads of confetti and space-themed props to the Riverside Theater for an April 21 show, the venue announced this morning. Though they could have been easily forgotten as '90s one-hit wonders for their flu

Philadelphia producer RJD2 will play a March 14 concert at the Rave, the venue announced today. RJD2 made a fast name for himself with his 2002 debut for Def Jux records, Deadringer, one of the few masterpieces of the instrumental hip-hop genre. On that a

Critically acclaimed singer/songwriter/harpist Joanna Newsom will perform at the Pabst Theater on Friday, April 2, the venue announced today. It will be her first concert in Milwaukee since her well-received 2007 performance with a 30-piece orchestra.

Trey Anastasio spent the bulk of 2009 on the road with Phish, the superstar jam band that reunited last March after a five-year hiatus, then toured hard throughout the year, playing to massive audiences and also releasing a new studio album, Joy. The tire

With their novel mix of indie-pop and African undertones, Vampire Weekend became the breakout band of 2008, dominating the covers of every major music magazine even before they released their first album. That self-titled album lived up to its hype and be

The Pabst Theater foundation this morning announced a slew of its 2010 shows, including: * David Bazan, the former Pedro the Lion singer-songwriter (and, as his latest solo album outlines, fallen Christian), at the Pabst Theater on Sunday, April 4, w

Norah Jones emerged in the early 2000s as one of jazz’s biggest crossover stars in ages, an accomplished pianist and sultry singer with a delicate touch and an ear for pop melodies. Over the course of four albums, she’s continued to refine her

The Turner Hall Ballroom today announced two of its shows for 2010: Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar on Saturday, Jan. 30, and Henry Rollins on Thursday, April 8. Gibbard and Farrar are touring behind this fall's One Fast Move or I'm Gone, the first c

A one-time staple of the Milwaukee music scene who managed the city’s most successful acts from the ’90s including The Gufs, Citizen King and The Promise Ring, Jeff Castelaz has assembled a litany of big names in Milwaukee music past and prese

Lest there be any doubt that next year's Summerfest will include country music, the festival has announced its first Marcus Amphitheater headliner for 2010—and a good deal earlier than usual. It's country star and Summerfest standby Tim McGraw, who

Remember Weezer? The alternative-rock group that released a couple of your favorite records from the '90s, then returned to record a succession of legacy-squandering new albums, each worse than the last? Yeah, that Weezer. Well, you'll get a chance to see

More good news from the Riverside Theater: The venue will bring back the sister-sister indie-pop duo Tegan and Sara for a March 25 concert next year. That should give the audience plenty of time to digest the duo's upcoming record, their sixth, Sainthood,

The Riverside Theater is giving Cake the year off from their recent New Year's Eve shows and has instead booked Austin indie-rockers Spoon to headline their annual bash. For Spoon, the performance will cap a year in which the band returned to the road and

Widespread Panic has been playing its swampy jam-rock since the mid-’80s, when there was no organized jam scene for them to lean on, but the emergence of jam in the late-’90s as its own genre—with its own business model—turned the once-obscure band into a

This morning the Riverside Theater announced that as part of Justin Vernon's roll as the honorary chair of this year's AIDS Walk Wisconsin, his band Bon Iver will headline a concert at the venue following the walk on Sunday, Oct. 11 at 8 p.m. On t

Bruce Springsteen is insatiable. The Boss and his Legendary E Street Band have added another 25 concert dates to their “Workin’ On a Dream” tour, which has already sold over 1.5 million concert tickets this year. With these extra dates, they're expected t

Ridiculously prolific sometimes Pixies frontman Frank Black, still touring under his Pixies-era nom de plume Black Francis, will return to Shank Hall next month for a $20, 8 p.m. show on July 12. The show promises to be a break from his recent performance

Spoon last came through Milwaukee as part of their breakthrough year in 2007, touring behind their album Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga with a well-received show at Summerfest, then a return to the city that October for a long, heated performance at the Pabst Theater, wh

Striking while the Hannah Montana iron is still hot, Miley Cyrus will return to Milwaukee this fall as part of a 45-stop tour. The 16-year-old Disney pop singer will play the Bradley Center on October 10, with openers Metro Station, a pop band with ample

Good news for those who missed Fall Out Boy at their sold-out show at the Rave this month, not to mention those who missed Blink-182 period during the pop-punk band's long hiatus: Blink-182's summer reunion tour will take the band through Milwaukee's Marc

Summerfest revealed its final 2009 Marcus Amphitheater headliner today, and it's an inspired one: KISS, the iconic, heavily merchandised hard-rock band. Though Ace Frehley (the Spaceman) and Peter Criss (meow) left the band earlier this decade, Gene Simmo

A quarter century into their existence, Sonic Youth is still recording some of the best, most vital music of their career. The pioneering noisy alt-rock band is currently riding a three-album winning streak that began with 2002's critical comeback Murray

Now that's what we're talking about: Summerfest has announced Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson as the latest Marcus Amphitheater headliners; the two will split a July 1 bill that, with any luck, will find time for plenty of duets and collaborations. Tickets go