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Instigation Festival encourages musicians to indulge freely in improvisational collaborations and experience the joy between timid flirtation and fiery collision.

Here is a listing of area live music and online music happenings for the weekend and week of Friday, February 23 through Thursday, February 29. Among the highlight live music events happening around the region this weekend is the 12th annual “Rock the 80s Concert” benefit, happening Saturday evening at the State Theatre in State […]

First up: Guitarist Jeff Parker and his jazz quartet, the New Breed, on Jan. 25.

Somehow Superchunk doesn't get their due these days. The indie rock legends have released 12 great albums over 34 years, and we rank 'em all.

Edition Redux is the latest in a sequence of bands that Ken Vandermark has formed that permit him to explore the intersection of planning, spontaneous action and the ways music changes when either combined within or spilled out of stylistic containers. It also continues Vandermark’s reckoning with the fact that he has been around for quite a while, and the time has come for him to pass on what he knows. Edition Redux isn’t just a vehicle for his musical ideas; it’s a chance to impart them ...

Pause for Peace, a Benefit Concert for Ukrainian Soldiers Prosthetics, Winter Wonder Woods @ Hawthorn Glen, Jon Langford and Sally Timms’ Holiday Art and Music Show, Sleighriders annual benefit concert at Shank and more—This Week in Milwaukee!

‘It means a lot to be able to give exposure to local artists who might not get it otherwise,’ the longtime fest’s artistic director says.

This trio had already been making records indirectly together for decades before convening officially to record “Light From a Curious Sky.”

The German saxophonist whose brash, tempestuous outpourings set an imposing standard for free improvisation, and helped define the terms for a postwar European avant-garde.