Author Matt Wild

WebsterX announces “Lost Ones” headlining tour for spring 2016

March 28, 2016

//Fresh off a string of shows at this year's South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, tireless Milwaukee musician WebsterX has announced a headlining tour for spring 2016. "The Lost Ones" tour will ta...

Is the “redesign the Milwaukee flag” thing REALLY trying to redesign the Milwaukee flag?

Matt Wild

March 24, 2016

//The official flag of Milwaukee was adopted 61 years ago, in 1955. Efforts to redesign the flag—a flag haphazardly stuffed with barley stalks, boats, and something that looks like a UFO—have been going on...

Here are the 10 most wonderful/ridiculous grounds stage headliners for Summerfest 2016

Matt Wild

March 23, 2016

//Do you like summer? Do you like music? Do you like bands that are both wonderful and ridiculous? Good, because then you'll be over the moon with the just-announced list of grounds stage headliners for Su...

WMSE will release a live Sylvan Esso 7-inch for Record Store Day 2016

Matt Wild

March 22, 2016

//Last year saw beloved Milwaukee indie radio station WMSE throw its hat in the Record Store Day ring with a live Field Report 7-inch—the station's first foray into vinyl. Now, WMSE is gearing up for Recor...

Sheriff Clarke is “not encouraging” Trump supporters to “hit first,” except he totally is

Matt Wild

March 21, 2016

//Over the weekend, Milwaukee's favorite political troll who occasionally moonlights as a county sheriff, David Clarke, appeared on Fox And Friends to squeeze out his no-holds-barred, straight-shootin', co...

Bill Murray wasn’t a fan of Wisconsin’s NCAA Cinderella story

Matt Wild

March 21, 2016

//March Madness continued to dole out the upsets Sunday night when No. 7 Wisconsin beat No. 2 Xavier via a last-second three-point shot from Bronson Koenig. The state rejoiced as the Badgers advanced to th...

Was The Spot 4MKE a boon or a bust? It depends on who’s reporting

Matt Wild

March 16, 2016

//Late last week, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel business reporter Tom Daykin broke the news that The Spot 4MKE, a highly touted "placemaking" project from Creative Alliance Milwaukee, had been put on "indefin...

Two-night “String Fling” coming to Hotel Foster in April

Matt Wild

March 15, 2016

//The Milwaukee area may be the birthplace of the electric guitar (thanks to Waukesha's own Les Paul), but there has always been plenty of acoustic music floating through the Brew City air. To celebrate th...

Milwaukee’s National Diorama Month goes big by going small

Matt Wild

March 15, 2016

//Among its many oddities—beer, the Bronze Fonz, Bob Uecker—Milwaukee is home to the world's first museum diorama. In 1890, Carl Akeley, a.k.a. the "father of modern taxidermy," created a muskrat colony di...

Tracklist: 7 Milwaukee artists playing SXSW 2016

Matt Wild

March 14, 2016

//Once upon a time, dozens upon dozens of Milwaukee bands would make the annual trek to Austin, Texas for the city's South By Southwest music, film, interactive, and Doritos festival. A few years later, on...

Here’s the undeniably awesome lineup for the 2016 Milwaukee Day show at Turner Hall

Matt Wild

March 14, 2016

//On Thursday, April 14, Milwaukeeans young and old will join as one, raise their voices to the heavens, and celebrate the greatest holiday to be based on an area code. Yes, we're just one month away from ...

Here’s the lineup for the 2016 Milwaukee Psych Fest

Matt Wild

March 14, 2016

//Since 2013, Milwaukee musician Andrew Shelp has given the city a loud, fuzzed-out, and reverb-drenched gift every spring: Milwaukee Psych Fest. The multi-day shindig has become a welcome staple on the ci...

The Living Statues sidle up to the bar in slick, sexy “Valicity” video

Matt Wild

March 10, 2016

//Who among us, man or woman, hasn't sidled up to a bar one lonely night and stewed over love lost or discarded? And who among us, man or woman, hasn't done so at The Hotel Foster while the object of our o...

Here’s an up-to-date timeline of the Mitchell Park Domes saga

Matt Wild

March 9, 2016

//On January 29, 2016, a fallen chunk of concrete was discovered in one of the Mitchell Park Domes, thus kicking off a heated and increasingly confusing battle over the fate of the beloved-but-aging Milwau...

What can two commercial jingles from the ’80s teach us about the Milwaukee of today?

Matt Wild

March 8, 2016

//Imagine Kraftwerk played by a kindergartener. Imagine a John Carpenter soundtrack piped through a Commodore 64. Imagine Daniel Johnston getting ahold of a busted synth and trying to sell you a couch and ...

Here are the winners of WMSE’s 14th annual Rockabilly Chili Fundraiser

Matt Wild

March 7, 2016

//This past Sunday, thousands of Milwaukeeans flocked to the MSOE Kern Center for WMSE's 14th annual Rockabilly Chili Fundraiser; several hours later, they all went home and found a nice place to curl up a...

Stream all three songs from Northless’ pummeling ‘Cold Migration’

Matt Wild

March 7, 2016

//There's a reason terms like "pummeling" and "heavy as fuck" get tossed around when talking about Northless—the band's music tends to be, well, pummeling and heavy as fuck. For nearly a decade, the Milwau...

Here’s the rock-solid lineup for the inaugural Tasty Fest

Matt Wild

March 7, 2016

//Spring is in the air, and with it, summer festival announcements. Summerfest has already announced a handful of Marcus Amphitheater headliners (including Sting, Peter Gabriel, and Def Fucking Leppard), a...

Brewers confirm that Hank the Dog is, in fact, the real Hank the Dog

Matt Wild

March 4, 2016

//Friday morning, at an alternately silly and very, very serious press conference held at the Wisconsin Humane Society, Milwaukee Brewers officials confirmed that Hank the Dog is, in fact, the real Hank th...

FOX6 meteorologist Vince Condella is retiring

Matt Wild

March 2, 2016

//For the past 34 years, Vince Condella has been Milwaukee's favorite Harley-riding, cool-uncle-vibing, occasionally mustachioed TV weatherman. Sadly, all good things (and all good stylin' meteorologists' ...