In 2024, I recommended 141 local albums, EPs and songs in my monthly "Must-Hear Milwaukee Music" column. It still wasn't enough. We're kicking off 2025 with 14 great releases that came in toward the ...

Musically speaking, Al Jarreau's spectacular genre-crossing voice was also his great career challenge. Kurt Dietrich develops that theme throughout his new biography of the Milwaukee native, "Never ...

*In the biography “Never Givin’ Up: The Life and Music of Al Jarreau” (Wisconsin Historical Society Press), Kurt Dietrich, a three-time author and Professor Emeritus of Music at Ripon College in ...