Rock the Green, the environmentally minded, "near-zero waste" music festival that got off to a rainy start last September, will return to Veterans Park for a se

Richard LaValliere, one of the great innovators of the early Milwaukee punk scene, passed away Sunday night. LaValliere was the bassist for The Haskels, one of the city's first punk bands, in the late-'70s, and then the frontman for Oil Taster

I suspect I could save myself a lot of time going forward if I kept the above headline on macro. Prolific Milwaukee rapper Gerald Walker, who sometimes seems to record as much new music in a month as the average person listens to, has released another new

Milwaukee has had a strong presence on Daytrotter over the last couple months, with great sessions from Maritime,

Radio Milwaukee has posted the ballot for its fifth annual Radio Milwaukee Music Awards listener poll, with categories for best song, album, solo artist

Bay View's Tuesday night Chill on the Hill concert series has put out an open call for bands interested in playing this summer. According to the event's website

After making a bit of news last week, Bon Iver performed on "Saturday Night Live" this

Brian Sherman, one of the morning "Sherman and Tingle Show" on Chicago's now-defunct WKQX (Q101) alternative station, has joined FM 102.1's part-time on-air staff, the local alt-rock station announced this afternoon

The Milwaukee punk trio Absolutely swung by the University of Minnesota's student station Radio K last month, where they played three songs, "Denim on Denim," from their 2011 debut Learns To Love Mistakes, and

The Cranberry Show's new sophomore album, Paranormal Karaoke, doesn't remotely feel like the work of the same group that released Sex and Pencil Shavings just two years ago. That 2010 debut wa

Milwaukee's spring concert calender was fleshed out considerably over the last week, with big announcements from several venues. Among the performers visiting the city in the coming months are rappers Tyga and Tech N9ne, dubstep star Nero,

Sub Pop's speaker-denting avant hip-hop collective Shabazz Palaces will play Mad Planet on Wednesday, April 4, the local music blog Seizure Chicken

Remember when the Black Keys headlined the Marcus Amphitheater last summer and everybody was shocked—shocked—that the little old Black Keys were playing such a big venue? Well, today the festival announced its third 2012 M

Melissa Czarnik is planning on recording a new album in France this spring, and she's turning to fans to help her fund the project. The local rapper/poet has been accepted to a two-month residency program in Maranay-Sur-Seine, a commune about an hou

Following last year's Summerfest performance opening for the Black Keys, Florence and the Machine will return to Milwaukee for a show at the Rave on Saturday, April 28, the venue announced this morning. Tickets go on sale Friday, Jan. 27 at 10 a.m.

On Saturday, Jan. 28, the Milwaukee rap crew KingHellBastard will play an album release show at Mad Planet behind their latest full-length, The War Room, but they won't be the only ones on the bill celebrating a new release. Ope

As crass as it is to celebrate an artist's misfortune, many Death Cab For Cutie fans couldn't help but feel a twinge of a joy upon reading reports last November that Ben Gibbard's two-year marriage to actress Zooey Deschanel was

In what they hope to make an annual tradition, last March beatmakers, musicians and friends Dylan Thomas, Charles English, Haz Solo, Jason Jones, Victor Yañez-Lazcano and Miguel Rodriguez retreated to a lodge in wooded Tomahawk, Wis., spared no exp

I'm guessing the timing on this one wasn't a coincidence. This afternoon Gerald Walker released a new track, produced by frequent collaborator Cardio, called "Rain.Hail.Sleet.Snow.," another celebration of work ethi

It's not nearly as high-tech as the Daytrotter sessions, where touring bands record in a small Rockford, Ill. studio, but it's even more intimate: The website Switchboard

Daytrotter.com has posted the Collections of Colonies of Bees session the band recorded last month, a set of unreleased songs titled after some of Seasame Street's core sponsors ("G," "E," &am

Returning to Milwaukee after last summer's Summerfest performance at the Marcus Amphitheater, The Black Keys will headline the Bradley Center on Wednesday, May 16, the venue announced this morning. The blues-rock duo is touring behind its latest alb

Worrier lays claim to one of the most singular Milwaukee releases of 2010, SOURCEERrORSSPELLS, an album of jumpy, polyrhythmic art-punk cryptograms. That record was distinguished by its jittery energy—each track sprung

Klassik is one of Milwaukee's most imaginative young rappers and beatsmiths, drawing zealously from jazz, electronica, old-school hip-hop and '90s R&B with an unusually sharp sense of composition. The producer has been fairly prolific ov

Milwaukee musician Jay Flash is off to a punctual start for the new year. Yesterday he released his fourth full-length, Collapsing, for free streaming and name-your-price download on