Breaking and Entering hosted a hip hop showcase featuring Mad Static and MoCity at Summerfest’s WAMI Stage on Thursday. It was both rappers’ first time performing at Summerfest; friends, family, and music lovers gathered to attend in numbers. Mad Static has been performing and releasing music since the 2000s. He is known as co-host of the podcast “Beats, Rhymes and
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A review of The National Parks at Summerfest 2023.
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Breaking and Entering hosted an afternoon of Milwaukee music at The Ground Floor Stage at Summerfest on Saturday, featuring an eclectic mixed genre bill of Hanna Simone, Dashcam, Eli $tones and Scam Likely. Dashcam is the electronic project of Donny Jankowski; he launched it in 2014 out of participating in a long-term creative challenge called WeeklyBeats. “You had to make
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Pop star Charli XCX arrived at Summerfest Friday night taking the stage at BMO Harris Pavilion. It was her second time at Summerfest and fourth time in Milwaukee overall. Charli XCX hails from England. Her musical career started when she’d post songs on Myspace as a teenager, eventually attracting the attention of a promoter who started booking her for warehouse
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Now famed classic rockers Black Crowes took to the Generac stage on Friday night to a packed crowd of old and new fans alike for a raucous old-fashioned rock show that was sure to please everyone involved. The Black Crowes, now going on 40 years of being a band took to the Summerfest stage in the traditional fashion of greeting
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My one and only day of Summerfest was this past Friday, and thankfully the two acts I wanted to see this year were both on the same night. We got to the grounds right around 8PM and I was anxious that we’d miss the beginning of the first’s set, but luckily they stalled for fifteen minutes so everything worked out.
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A review of Iration at Summerfest 2021.
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We talked with the pair of DJs before their headlining set at the Johnson Controls World Sound Stage.
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We talk to Marc and Shawn from the band after their set at the festival.
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A review of Drive-By Truckers
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We catch up with the R&B songstress to discuss her set at the Miller Lite Oasis.
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I had a bit of Deja Vu last night because I was at this show but 3 years ago. Even though it was the same time of year and the same venue, last night’s show was different from the last time. It was the same old Leon Bridges with his infinite amount of soul and swagger but for some reason,
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We talk to the pair of DJs about their headlining set at Summerfest 2021.
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We talk to the dark indie pop duo at Summerfest 2021.
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It feels good to be back. Back to writing about music. Back to Summerfest. Back to discovering new and upcoming artists to talk about. Last night I checked out up and coming artist FOUSHEÉ (pronounced foo-shay) at the Johnson Controls World Stage to a humble crowd. The young artist just dropped her first album and is known for her song
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Allen Halas & Patrick Carroll break down this year’s festival.
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In the wake of the current Covid-19 crisis, Summerfest announced today that this year’s festival will still take place, although in September. Read the full statement from Summerfest below:
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The announcement marks the second big pop show of Summerfest 2020.
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The band brought a new experience to the final night of Summerfest.
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A trio of hip hop heavyweights shut down the American Family Insurance Amphitheater on Sunday.
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“Thanks for looking at us. We love looking at you.” A line that uttered many times by Slug, the lead singer from Atmosphere. It was a reassuring statement as it was clear that the creator of the Rhymesayers label loved being there. Atmosphere’s show was packed full of unbreaking songs from their long list of songs over the past 20
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Saturday night was a cathartic release for a band in the middle of making an album.
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The trap music pioneer showed us why he’s still king on Friday night.
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The band turned out a solid hour and a half set on Thursday night.
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Barnett kept it simple and shined on Thursday night.
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