10 standout Milwaukee EPs of 2018

In the post-everything world of 2018, there's little distinction left between "albums" and "EPs." And yet distinguish we do, dedicating our annual 25 best Milwaukee albums list to releases with five or more son...

The 25 best Milwaukee albums of 2018

It's tempting to call it a day for "the album." After all, who has time to sit down and listen to an entire record? Hell, who has time to record one? And yet, year after year, "the album" remains something that...

Requiem for a reluctant deer hunter

2014 I've been in my tree stand for an hour when a deer walks out in front of me. It appears from nowhere, absurd in its size, absurd in its very presence. It ambles its way to the dead center of my field of v...

26 Milwaukee Halloween weekend events

broadstreet.zone(32806); Our weekly Tracklist is brought to you by the 2018 Milwaukee Film Festival. It technically isn’t Halloween until next Wednesday, but the vast majority of Milwaukee’s seasonal celebr...

5 Milwaukee area Big Boy burger impostors

Last month, we took a boat all the way to Michigan to eat at a Big Boy restaurant. As we'd assumed would be the case with a beloved burger chain that tragically left Wisconsin during our youth, we loved it. In ...

So long, Soul Low

Sad news, Milwaukee music fans: Soul Low, one of the city's best bands, has called it quits. The writing has been on the wall for some time (band members moved to different parts of the country last year), but ...