WMSE this afternoon announced its plans for Radio Summer Camp, a four-day, multi-venue music festival scheduled to begin August 20, teasing it with the line-up for its featured event: � ��We will be slowly unveiling the full club line-up in the coming weeks, but today we are proud to unveil the artists playing the featured event of Radio Summer Camp, The Backyard BBQ. The BBQ will be...

Bay View’s popular Chill on the Hill summer concert series returns to the expansive band shell in Humboldt Park tonight with a performance from one of the city’s most celebrated musicians: Paul Cebar, who is nearly synonymous with Milwaukee (his longtime band was even christened The Milwaukeeans), even though he draws from sounds born far to the south of us, namely the steamy, Cajun-spiked R&B of New Orleans. A haven for...

Thursday, May 28, Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers @ Vnuk’s Lounge, 8:30 p.m. While the resilient “King of the Hill” probably keeps royalties flowing to Roger Clyne, who penned the show’s theme song with his ’90s country-rock band, The Refreshments, Clyne has spent the...

David Greenberger met Herb on a trip to Palm Springs, Calif., when he was in his 20s, and their encounter changed his life. Herb wasn't like anyone Greenberger had ever met, and they quickly hit it off. Although Herb was more than three times Greenberger's age, Greenberger didn't view him as just some octogenarian. He saw him as a friend.

The Bay View Neighborhood Association has announced the 2009 line-up of its summer Tuesday-night concert series at the Humboldt Park band shell, Chill on the Hill. The series has grown in the past four years to become one of the neighborhood's flagship events, filling the park's band shell with 1,500-plus patrons and picnickers on especially clement nights. As usual, this year's line-up  features...

Although Paul Cebar is synonymous with Milwaukee (for years his band was even named “The Milwaukeeans”), much of his appeal is that his music sounds nothing like anything us from our cold, snow-covered Midwestern city. Cebar instead taps the southest of the south—steamy, New Orleans-inspired R&B and shades of tropical world music—which should make his 8 p.m. show at Shank Hall tonight a welcome respite from...

Who better to headline Friday night of Bastille Days, Milwaukee’s annual four-day, French-culture celebration, than Paul Cebar, the man who, with his Milwaukeeans, made danceable, New Orleans-styled R&B a staple of our city’s music scene? Tonight at 7 p.m., Cebar performs with his new outfit, Tomorrow...

Blackberry Smoke @ Shank Hall, 8 p.m. While diverse stylistic range is often the hallmark of profound musical study, sometimes there’s something equally admirable about cornering and perfecting a specific niche. That’s the path taken by Atlanta’s Blackberry Smoke, who’ve wholeheartedly devoted themselves to the cause...

Paul Cebar is in many respects synonymous with Milwaukee (his band is even named “The Milwaukeeans”), so it’s ironic that much of his appeal is that his music sounds nothing anything else in the city. Cebar instead taps the sound of the south—steamy, New Orleans-inspired R&B and shades of tropical . . .