Music

Nick Lowe talked with “BETA” about his newest album and his musical quirks ahead of a performance with Los Straitjackets in Milwaukee.

Today is Public Radio Music Day — a day for showcasing the role of public radio in amplifying music for communities throughout Wisconsin. WPR’s Sile Shigley shares some of her favorite tracks at the moment.

The First German Lutheran Church in Manitowoc spent two years planning to restore its pipe organ to mark the 150th anniversary of the building of its church.

The record to beat was 802 dancers in Germany in 2013, according to Guinness World Records. On Saturday, more than 4,000 people registered for the dance.

Ojibwe singers Dylan Bizhikiins Jennings and Joe Rainey say that powwow music has changed their lives. Now, they hope to bring the tradition to new listeners.

A new management company hopes to provide a fresh start for the embattled Oshkosh Arena, home to the Milwaukee Bucks’ G-League affiliate.

Anna Jacobsen of Elk Mound and Andy Deitrich joined WPR’s Robin Washington on “Morning Edition” to talk their experience as part of Mucca Pazza, a band that consists of 30-odd musicians playing diverse instruments who are performing Sept. 13 as part of the Big Top Chautauqua concert series.

To help tell the story of House and Techno In Chicago Nick Karounos, John Curley, and Stuart Hackley founded the ARC Music festival in 2021, which has been held on Labor Day weekend each year since. 

Pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen’s new release is “Reformation,” an album featuring early keyboard music by composers influenced by the English Reformation.

The Wisconsin Folk Song Collection comprises the work of scholars, musicians and Wisconsinites pre- and post-World War II who helped record and archive this part of our state’s history, such as Helene Stratman-Thomas and Sydney Robertson Cowell.