Milwaukee is small enough that you can catch a national touring act at the Riverside on a Tuesday and end the night at a Bay View basement show. OutMKE pulls the live-music calendar together from a few of the venues that publish their lineups in a machine-readable way — the Pabst Theater Group (covering the Pabst, Riverside, Turner Hall, and the Back Room @ Colectivo), plus the community Google Calendar that bar-and-club folks add to themselves.

This page lists every upcoming music event in our dataset, sorted by the next thing happening tonight. Tap a show to see set time, venue, ticket links, and a quick way to add it to your phone's calendar. If we're missing a venue you love — most of the smaller rooms (Cactus Club, Linneman's, the Cooperage, Cooperage, X-Ray Arcade, Anodyne) don't publish iCal feeds yet — that's why their listings are thinner here than the reality on the ground.