Fan-belt Feature 3

“The Weird Al Yankovic of Goth”

“The Weird Al Yankovic of Goth”

Gothic folk hero Voltaire comes to Club Anything tonight.

LGBT Film Fest preview: Le Tigre On Tour
LGBT Film Fest preview

Le Tigre On Tour

With a riotous live show, Le Tigre makes public the pain of sexual/gender inequality and incites their audience to overcome it.

Review: The Thermals @ The Annex, Madison
Review

The Thermals @ The Annex, Madison

“This guitar was too sensitive. This isn’t a sensitive show,” said Hutch Harris after he'd broken a string. It couldn't handle his Mighty Rock Power.

Stripwax: Grinderman Goes After Middle Age With A Baseball Bat
Stripwax

Grinderman Goes After Middle Age With A Baseball Bat

Getting old and slowly coming undone isn’t so bad when there’s guys like Nick Cave around to share the pain and lend a little perspective.

Review: Pavement at the Pabst Theater
Review

Pavement at the Pabst Theater

How, exactly, am I supposed to review my favorite band of all time? Very carefully, I suppose.

Support your local noisemakers

Support your local noisemakers

The Borg Ward was created with concepts of sustainability and shared responsibility at its core.Three years later, the collective is thriving in Walker's Point.

Stripwax: Les Savy Fav –It’s A Like Affair
Stripwax

Les Savy Fav –It’s A Like Affair

September marks the end of summer, and the release of TONS of new music. It makes the transition a bit more bearable.

Stripwax: !!! Is All About The Groove
Stripwax

!!! Is All About The Groove

!!!'s latest elpee "Strange Weather, Isn't It?" comes full force and flexes some pretty strong dance-rock muscle.

Riverwest Fest: Championing Milwaukee Music
Riverwest Fest

Championing Milwaukee Music

The Eagle's Nest quickly made its mark on the music scene -- and also with the MPD. Rather than shutter another underground venue, a few locals are (creatively) fighting back.

Something Wicked This Way Goes: Dear Astronaut Plays Their Last Show
Something Wicked This Way Goes

Dear Astronaut Plays Their Last Show

Dear Astronaut's Jeb Ebben talks about five years spent as Milwaukee's answer to epic sludge-rock as the band calls tonight's show at the Cactus Club their last.

Stripwax: Menomena Means Nothing But Innovative Sound
Stripwax

Menomena Means Nothing But Innovative Sound

They take the most seemingly incompatible textures and make them work together. They’ve created a sound that is truly their own, and sometimes, that sound is truly astonishing.

The show that almost wasn’t: Lightning Bolt at Studio Deep End
The show that almost wasn’t

Lightning Bolt at Studio Deep End

Jeb Ebben and 200-some other people somehow managed to find the Lightning Bolt show on Friday. Here's what he had to say about it.