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October 1, 2021

broadstreet.zone(81112); Last year, Milwaukee-based musician, producer, actor, and videographer Wes Tank went viral by rapping Dr. Seuss books over beats made by Dr. Dre. Those early-pandemic videos garnered m...

Relive summer with Wes Tank and Jump Rope Squad’s “Jump Around” video

October 5, 2020

Wes Tank had a good year. Amidst a howlingly awful 2020, the Milwaukee musician found internet fame with his rap versions of classic Dr. Seuss books—and, later, with his own StoryRaps series for Kidoodle.TV. Ch...

Check out Wes Tank’s new ‘StoryRaps’ children’s series

August 7, 2020

When we last caught up with Wes Tank, the Milwaukee musician, producer, actor, and videographer had just gone viral by rapping Dr. Seuss books over beats made by Dr. Dre. In the months since Tank garnered milli...

Catch up on videos of Wes Tank rapping Dr. Seuss books over beats by Dr. Dre

May 27, 2020

In late March, we showed you "a new trick" where Milwaukee musician, producer, actor, and videographer Wes Tank rapped the words of Dr. Seuss' book Fox In Sox over a beat made by Dr. Dre. In the months since we...

Here’s a new trick: Watch Wes Tank rap ‘Fox In Socks’ by Dr. Seuss over beats by Dr. Dre

March 29, 2020

Ever find yourself stuck at home with a bunch of unruly children as you await the end of a national quarantine and the green light to go back to work and to send the little rugrats back to school? A purely hypo...

Bremen Block Party brings music, vendors, charity to Riverwest July 22

June 27, 2023

Now that Locust Street Festival is behind us and Center Street Daze isn't happening until mid-August, Riverwest is in desperate need of an event to hold the neighborhood over between its two biggest summer unde...

Milwaukee World Festival, Inc. confirms access to Northwestern Mutual Community Park through August 8

Press Release

July 29, 2021

Milwaukee World Festival, Inc. Confirms Access to Northwestern Mutual Community Park through August 8 The new Northwestern Community Park has proven popular with families hosting thousands of children since ...

Comparing Riverwest Stein NA to R.L. Stine YA

June 9, 2021

Last week, the fine folks at Lakefront Brewery officially announced the release of a non-alcoholic version of Riverwest Stein, the delicious flagship beer it's been making for 34 years. The new release, Riverwe...

Milwaukee Record’s favorite moments from Riverwest FemFest 2018

June 4, 2018

Twenty-eighteen saw some important changes for Riverwest FemFest. The fourth annual benefit was moved from winter to late spring/early summer, and it expanded its footprint from five days to eight. But the fest...

Public Domain: WC Tank scales Colectivo’s roof and performs “Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral”

January 31, 2018

Milwaukee Record is proud to present Public Domain. The monthly video series features Milwaukee musicians setting up at Colectivo Coffee to adapt some of the world’s best-known songs in ways they’ve never been ...

WC Tank revives Stumblesome project, releases “workout record”

May 20, 2016

// "I move around a lot, not because I'm looking for anything, really, but because I'm getting away from things that get bad if I stay. Auspicious beginnings, you know what I mean?" So says Jack Nicholson's...

WC Tank duels with the devil in “27th And National” music video

February 22, 2016

// Between his directorial work on Busdriver, milo, and adoptahighway projects (among others), Milwaukee filmmaker Wes Tank can be routinely relied upon to put out some of the most innovative and visually s...

I floated in a sensory deprivation tank at Float Milwaukee and, well, it was something

September 1, 2015

The first thing to know about Float Milwaukee—the city’s newest and only sensory deprivation flotation tank business—is that the folks who run it have heard all the Altered States jokes before. The 1980 sci-fi ...

WC Tank finds new direction with Vanishing Points

August 18, 2015

Last fall, Milwaukee rapper, filmmaker, and visual artist Wesley Charles Tank—aka “WC Tank”—released Almost Forever, a five-song EP the eccentric art-rapper wrote and self-produced in its entirety, along with s...

The age of Enlightened: Milwaukee’s newest, smallest brewery now on tap

March 11, 2015

There's an unwritten rule that's well-known but rarely followed that prohibits discussing matters of politics, religion, and philosophy when alcohol is present. Combining suds or spirits with spirited debate al...

WC Tank discusses his musical mixed media assemblage, Almost Forever

August 29, 2014

It would be a disservice to merely refer to WC Tank as a rapper without also making mention of the artsy emcee’s body of work that finds him providing visuals for nationally recognized rappers, making excellent...

On Milwaukee Day 2024, it’s time to “Reimagine Milwaukee”

April 14, 2024

It's April 14 (4/14), so happy Milwaukee Day / 414 Day / 414 Milwaukee Day / 414 MKE Day, Milwaukee. (Our area code is 414, dontcha know.) Get out there and do some some stuff and enjoy some deals. Also, it's t...

‘Hundreds Of Beavers’ (the film, not the real beavers) will return to Oriental Theatre January 31

January 24, 2024

If you attended the 2023 Milwaukee Film Festival and you have vague memories of a bunch of costumed critters running around outside the Oriental Theatre, it wasn't a dream (and it wasn't just another night on t...

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