MUR Classroom Session: CASE
Alec Fischer, Assistant Music Director
April 18, 2018
Filed under Artist Interview, Artist Live, Arts & Entertainment, Entertainment, Featured, MUTV, Radio
If you haven't already had the pleasure, meet CASE — the five-piece urban folk band currently taking Chicago by storm. The group happened to be in the Milwaukee area for a few weekend shows and somehow found the time to stop in for an exclusive MUR Classroom Session. We talked about Milwaukee in co...
New Music Monday: AWillThaGreat
Alec Fischer, Assistant Music Director
April 17, 2018
Filed under Artist Interview, Arts & Entertainment, Featured, Music Reviews, Podcasts, Radio, Uncategorized
“That’s A-W-I-L-L-T-H-A-G-R-E-A-T, and no you’re not hearing things, it’s T-H-A.” AWillThaGreat, or AWill if you will, just so happens to be one of the most promising up-and-coming rappers in Milwaukee right now, and Marquette Radio was lucky enough to recently have him on for New Music Mo...
88Nine Radio Milwaukee launches Backline
Nicholas Cordonnier, Audio Content Director
April 10, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Featured, Podcasts, Radio
88Nine Radio Milwaukee is launching "Backline," an initiative aimed at helping Milwaukee musicians succeed in the industry and establishing Milwaukee's reputation as an emerging music city. The Marquette Radio staff was able to attend the Backline launch party April 5 and got a quick interview with A...
Julien Baker makes it hurt less at Turner Hall
Jimmy Drenovsky, Radio, Assistant General Manager
April 10, 2018
Filed under Artist Live, Arts & Entertainment, Concert Review, Featured, Music Reviews, Radio
It can’t be easy to be Julien Baker on stage every night. Many artists have emotionally heavy lyrics, but very few are as bare and raw in their performances as her. There is nothing to hide behind in her songs’ sparse arrangements. Her lyrics of despair and depression travel a short path from her...
Feels like December: Shortly, The Decemberists take Milwaukee
Nicholas Cordonnier, Audio Content Director
April 9, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Concert Review, Music Reviews, Radio
The soundtrack to my sophomore year of high school was mostly comprised of three bands: Bon Iver, The Avett Brothers and The Decemberists. It only seems fitting that I'd be capping off my sophomore year of college by making The Decemberists my first concert experience. When people ask me to rattle...
PODCAST: Men’s, women’s lacrosse entering bulk of conference play.
Jack Phillips, Audio Producer
April 6, 2018
Filed under Men's Lacrosse, Podcasts, Radio Sports, Sports, Women's Lacrosse
Lacrosse beat writers Brendan Ploen and Meghan Rock examine women's lacrosse's program-best start to BIG EAST play. Plus, how long are men's lacrosse's growing pains going to last? ...
Three new albums for your listening pleasure
Joey Hess, MUR DJ
April 5, 2018
Filed under CD Review, Featured, Radio
The Stone Temple Pilots return to the music scene with their first new full length album in eight years, and with the addition of a new lead vocalist: Jeff Gutt. This album is not like what the band has released in years past. The tone of the album has a more modern, smooth sound and has a lot less...
A day in the neighborhood of South by Southwest
Mike Heinz, Radio Freelancer
March 29, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Concert Review, Music Reviews, Radio
In a van full of Florida oranges, crawfish carcasses, and Buc-ee’s gear and snacks, a group of young men and a young lady set out to travel to Austin, Texas, for one of America’s biggest cult gatherings. The cult is indie music. The gathering: Austin’s annual South by Southwest Festival — known...
Brian Castner talks writing on Marquette Radio
Nicholas Cordonnier, Audio Content Director
March 26, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Featured, Featured, Podcasts, Radio
Between covering the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Liberia, having his war-time memoir adapted into an opera, and paddling the 1,200-mile Mackenzie River, Brian Castner's career has been nothing short of remarkable. Back in Milwaukee after the release of his newest book, "Disappointment River," this award-...
Alvvays Concert Review
Mackane Vogel, Executive A&E Editor
March 25, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Concert Review, Featured, Music Reviews
The Canadian dream pop band, Alvvays, graced Milwaukee with their presence March 24 at the Pabst Theater. Upon taking the stage, front woman Molly Rankin said, "It's great to be here," followed by a joke about how she has the same chandelier hanging in her living room. "We usually play in basements,"...
Penning A Belated Valentine for Mitski
March 22, 2018
Filed under Artist Live, Concert Review, Featured, Music Reviews, Radio
In an ideal world, I write this review on pink Valentines that dispense sprinkles and candy upon opening. The kind with glitter, the herpes of arts and crafts supplies, that sticks to one’s clothes for days. That would be paramount to my childlike, animal love for Mitski’s music, and to the lingering...
SXSW 2018: Artists you should be listening to
Mike Heinz, Radio Freelancer
March 21, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Concert Review, Featured, Music Reviews, Radio
After spending four days at Austin’s SXSW music festival, there is a lot that could be said. This is the short takeaway of the artists you should be listening to. So listen, or don’t, but your life will be enriched should you decide the former. With that said, after seeing them all live, each of t...
