Music

Foals bring their “Holy Fire” to Turner Hall

Foals bring their “Holy Fire” to Turner Hall

The Foals will debut their emotionally charged new tracks and newly refined sounds from "Holy Fire" at Turner Hall Sunday.

Lush sounds echo in the Basilica to end the MSO series

Lush sounds echo in the Basilica to end the MSO series

The Milwaukee Symphony ends its Basilica series with an all-strings program.

Skylight: “Porgy & Bess,” distilled at 150 proof
Skylight

“Porgy & Bess,” distilled at 150 proof

The Skylight Music Theatre's "Porgy and Bess" is gripping, intense in Bill Theisen's chamber version of the Gershwin opera.

Skylight: Bill Theisen, exiting with “Porgy and Bess”
Skylight

Bill Theisen, exiting with “Porgy and Bess”

Gershwin's great American opera crowns Theisen's ninth and final year as Skylight Music Theatre's artistic director.

Of Montreal returns to The Pabst

Of Montreal returns to The Pabst

The theatrical psychedelic pop band brings their wildly entertaining show to Milwaukee for the third time in a year on Thursday.

Frankly Music: Maestro Almond closes the season
Frankly Music

Maestro Almond closes the season

Frankly Music's season ends on happy notes of Mendelssohn, Dvorak and Haydn.

MKE This Week: Swans, spider women, and Tupperware
MKE This Week

Swans, spider women, and Tupperware

Milwaukee Ballet performs the classic "Swan Lake," Marcus Center hosts Dixie's Tupperware Party, "Porgy and Bess" opens at Skylight, and Bill Cosby comes to town.

Frankly Music’s maestro conducts a concluding concert

Frankly Music’s maestro conducts a concluding concert

Frank Almond puts down his violin and picks up a baton for Frankly Music's season finale Monday at Wisconsin Lutheran College.

Arlo Guthrie, aging gracefully

Arlo Guthrie, aging gracefully

Arlo spins true-life yarns, sings the old songs at a packed theater in South Milwaukee.

The Florentine’s “Marriage of Figaro”: Glorious, funny, poignant
The Florentine’s “Marriage of Figaro”

Glorious, funny, poignant

A brilliant cast and canny direction bring Mozart's score and da Ponte's libretto into full bloom.

Stripwax: The Cell Phones stand alone
Stripwax

The Cell Phones stand alone

Chicago-based rockers The Cell Phones, led by an epic frontwoman, are the ones really saving rock and roll.

Florentine Friends: Soprano Jamie-Rose Guarrine, Mezzo Adriana Zabala
Florentine Friends

Soprano Jamie-Rose Guarrine, Mezzo Adriana Zabala

Two lead singers in the Florentine's "Le Nozze di Figaro" go way back -- to Rome.