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Sprecher will bring five “Feasts on the Beach” to the Traveling Beer Garden at Doctors Park

May 10, 2018

What's better than Milwaukee County Parks? How about beer in Milwaukee County Parks, courtesy of the ever-popular Traveling Beer Garden? And what's better than beer in Milwaukee County Parks, courtesy of the ev...

Here’s who’s playing the Riverwest Public House stages at Locust Street Festival 2018

Matt Wild

May 9, 2018

The annual Locust Street Festival of Music & Art is one of the city's best street fests, celebrating all that is good, right, and drum circle-y in Riverwest. On Sunday, June 10, the 42nd installment of the ...

Justin Timberlake and Ringo Starr: 15 standout (non-festival) summer shows

Matt Wild

May 8, 2018

Summertime musical entertainment in Milwaukee typically finds a home at the city's 8,000 street fests, or, you know, that whole Summerfest thing. But look beyond the temporary street stages and the sea of dance...

8,000 years and dozens of lawsuits later, Silk Exotic is finally opening a downtown strip club

Matt Wild

May 4, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • Yep, after many, many years and many, many lawsuits, that downtown Silk Exoti...

‘American Gods’ has started filming at House on the Rock

Matt Wild

May 4, 2018

Last summer, we paid a visit to the most quintessential of bat-shit Wisconsin oddities, House on the Rock. "House on the Rock is a glimpse into the mind of a madman," we said back in August 2017. "It's an illus...

People are still talking about those Milwaukee UFOs that were really a flock of seagulls

Matt Wild

May 3, 2018

In the early morning hours of February 27, Milwaukee's FOX6 WakeUp program caught a glimpse of some strange lights flying over downtown. "Are those fireworks? What is that?" the crew initially wondered, before ...

The Delphines will reunite May 19 for the third annual Gloss Weekend

Matt Wild

May 2, 2018

On Saturday, May 19, seminal Milwaukee band The Delphines will reunite for a one-night only show at Mad Planet. The previously hinted-at headlining performance will be part of Gloss Records' third annual Gloss ...

Someone just gave the Friends of the (Mitchell Park) Domes a cool $2M

Matt Wild

May 2, 2018

The last time we checked in on the Mitchell Park Domes, the embattled icons were no longer falling apart and were instead hosting the delightfully old-fashioned Kooky Cooky House. Fun! Even more fun: the non-pr...

Christopher Moore will bring a touch of ‘Noir’ to Boswell Books May 2

Matt Wild

May 1, 2018

In a career that stretches back more than 25 years, Christopher Moore has tackled it all. Christianity, lovelorn vampires, Shakespeare's England, put-upon "death merchants," and pesky demons have all populated ...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (April 22-28)

Matt Wild

April 30, 2018

Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a "renaissance" or a "reinvention." Or maybe it's a "reboot" or a "reimagining," like that crappy Tim Burton version of Planet Of Th...

Like the flags themselves, the Milwaukee vs. Reno flag controversy is really dumb

Matt Wild

April 27, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • Are we really going to talk about the "People's Flag of Milwaukee" again, a m...

Smash that “like” button for Soup Moat’s “Navel Gaze,” from the upcoming ‘Harvester Of Likes’

Matt Wild

April 26, 2018

Soup Moat describes its sound as "heavy, silly sludge." Over the course of seven years, a pair of full-length albums, and a handful of EPs and demos (not to mention a host of lineup changes), the band has lived...

Remembering the New Barbarians / MECCA Arena riot of 1979

Matt Wild

April 25, 2018

Buried in the long, storied, and debauched history of The Rolling Stones is a peculiar footnote: The New Barbarians. A side project, of sorts, of Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood, the band formed in the spring of 1...

Here’s the day-by-day, stage-by-stage headliner schedule for Summerfest 2018

Matt Wild

April 24, 2018

Summerfest 2018. Coming to Henry Maier Festival Park June 28-July 1, and July 3-8. Tons of music. Tons of food. Tons of people. Tons of stages. Here the day-by-day headliner schedule for those stages (minus JoJ...

Gloss Weekend returns for third year May 17-20, promises “surprise headliner”

Matt Wild

April 24, 2018

For the past four years, Gloss Records has been responsible for producing and promoting some of the finest groups and artists Milwaukee has to offer. The small-run vinyl and cassette label has worked with every...

Soda Road sends for “Four White Horses” in lovely, hand-crafted video

Matt Wild

April 24, 2018

There's a resigned wistfulness blowing through Varsity Of Winter, the debut album from Milwaukee's Soda Road. Written by former Sat. Nite Duets member Stephen Strupp during the Polar Vortex of 2014, it's a mela...

Vegan eatery Celesta, Downer Ave. Stone Creek get approval from Licenses Committee

Matt Wild

April 24, 2018

A vegan pop-up restaurant will have a brick-and-mortar home on Milwaukee's East Side. Celesta, operated by Beatrix Foods chef-owner Melanie Manuel, will open in the former location of Jow Nai Fouquet, 1978 N. F...

Here’s the 2018 River Rhythms lineup

Matt Wild

April 23, 2018

When marketing people talk about "activating space," they're basically describing what events like River Rhythms do every year: make something happen in an area that doesn't usually see a lot of action (in the ...

Buried treasure and missing statues: 5 unsolved Milwaukee mysteries

Matt Wild

April 23, 2018

Mysteries: everyone loves 'em, from amateur detectives and podcast hosts to Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts and Robert Stack. Here are five—including the infamous "Milwaukee treasure"—that hit close to home: Milwa...

Show announcements: Chvrches at Riverside Theater, David Cross at Pabst Theater

Matt Wild

April 23, 2018

Do you like shows? Do you like show announcements? If so, you're in luck, because we have two solid ones for Milwaukee this morning. First up is Scottish synth-pop favorites Chvrches, who are set to play the Ri...

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