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Fitz and the Tantrums album artwork. Photo via: fitzandthetantrums.com

Fitz and the Tantrums provide perfect summer soundtrack

Ian Schrank, Radio General Manager August 2, 2017

Have you been looking for some new summer jams? Do you need a new album to listen to in order to get you through the work week? If you enjoyed the latest hit from Fitz and the Tantrums, “Handclap,”...

Roger Waters Us + Them is exhilarating experience from start to finish

Roger Waters Us + Them is exhilarating experience from start to finish

Dennis Tracy, Executive Entertainment Producer July 28, 2017

“Together we stand, divided we fall” — Roger Waters from “Hey You” off of Pink Floyd’s album, “The Wall,” in 1979. 8 p.m., as people are finding their way to their seats, the projector...

Jonah Ray with his robot friends Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot. Photo via: Brianna Griepentrog/PTG Live Events

Mystery Science Theater 3000 bring riffs and laughs to the Pabst Theater

Ian Schrank and Dennis Tracy July 16, 2017

The Pabst Theater welcomed the cast of critically acclaimed TV show "Mystery Science Theater 3000” to Milwaukee this weekend. Dennis Tracy and Ian Schrank of the Marquette Wire give their thoughts on...

Photo via: Pabst Theater Group

Wilco is trying to break your heart

Morgan Hughes, Executive Opinions Editor June 20, 2017

I wonder what it must feel like to be on the other side of this, down on the stage looking up at all the people who are in love with you? I've loved Wilco for a very long time. I used to think Jeff...

Paul Simon performing live on the Stranger to Stranger tour. Photo via: facebook.com/paulsimon

Paul Simon is still crazy after all these years

Dennis Tracy, Executive Entertainment Producer June 18, 2017

Reader, I was a dumb child. For some inexplicable reason, I really hated Simon and Garfunkel growing up. Why? I don’t know, I just knew whenever my dad played “Cecilia” I remember groaning and...

Photo via: facebook.com/summerfest

HUGHES: Music is for Everybody

Morgan Hughes, Executive Opinions Editor June 15, 2017

My torrid relationship with rock and roll began with a children's First Act guitar. My younger brother had an affinity for hitting things with other things, my older sister was passionate about being in...

Photo via Facebook.com/MilwaukeeRockTheatre

Milwaukee Rock Theatre Company brings new life and personality to “American Idiot”

Ian Schrank, Radio General Manager June 13, 2017

The Tenth Street Theater next to Straz Tower is a spot many students miss when they walk through campus, but it was impossible to miss last weekend when Milwaukee Rock Theatre Company brought Green Day’s...

Hoops at Cactus Club

Hoops showcase new album in Milwaukee debut

Jimmy Drenovsky, Radio, Assistant General Manager June 4, 2017

On this Friday’s Bay View Gallery Night, there was plenty to do along Kinnickinnic Avenue. With businesses all down the street opening their doors to music, art, and evening perusing, the neighborhood...

Graduation bucket list

Graduation bucket list

Lucie Sullivan, Audio Content Director May 4, 2017

From curd crawls to a Raynor rave, underclassmen students reflect on what they hope to check off their bucket lists before graduating from Marquette.

Appeal to sponsors: Bring back New Music Stage

Appeal to sponsors: Bring back New Music Stage

GM Powell, Assistant Music Director May 3, 2017

Last summer when I pulled up Summerfest’s website I was crestfallen to find the New Music Stage, which hosted many local and up-and-coming acts, had been nixed. Grafton’s K-Nation Entertainment, who...

Photo by Anabelle McDonald

Behind the byline: Suicide awareness in LGBTQ community

Lily Wellen, Marquette Radio General Manager May 3, 2017

Marquette Radio General Manager Lily Wellen chats with Journal Editor Steph Harte to discuss her story on suicide awareness in the LGBTQ community on Marquette's campus. This story is part of the...

Album review: Sylvan Essos What Now

Album review: Sylvan Esso’s ‘What Now’

GM Powell, Assistant Music Director May 3, 2017

Sylvan Esso’s “What Now” asks just that.  Following their 2015 breakout debut album, Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn (a Milwaukee native!) had to fight their way through the turbulence of their newfound...

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