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Let’s listen to some really rare Weird Al rarities

July 26, 2019

broadstreet.zone(72091); Hey! Welcome to the second annual Weird Al Week! Over the course of seven days, Milwaukee Record will fill your feed with fresh, funny, and slightly fanatical Al-related materiel. It a...

Watch Violent Femmes go back to their Oriental Theatre roots in “I’m Nothing” video

Matt Wild

July 25, 2019

Everyone knows the story of how Milwaukee's most famous folk/punk/weirdo export Violent Femmes were "discovered" playing outside the Oriental Theatre by members of The Pretenders in 1981. So what would happen i...

Sit down, shut up, and watch some clips from Al TV

Matt Wild

July 25, 2019

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The drive-in lives on at Highway 18 Outdoor Theatre in Jefferson

Matt Wild

July 24, 2019

broadstreet.zone(66838); Summer in Milwaukee is the best. Join Milwaukee Record and Miller High Life July 22-29 as we search the city and beyond for the Spirit Of Summer. "The drive-in will never die." T...

Exploring the beauty (and the fishing spots) of Lakeshore State Park

Matt Wild

July 23, 2019

broadstreet.zone(66838); Summer in Milwaukee is the best; summer in the Midwest is even better. Join Milwaukee Record and Miller High Life July 22-29 as we search the city and beyond for the Spirit Of Summer. ...

Who’s fat? 8 more Weird Al songs that probably shouldn’t be played today

Matt Wild

July 23, 2019

broadstreet.zone(72091); Hey! Welcome to the second annual Weird Al Week! Over the course of seven days, Milwaukee Record will fill your feed with fresh, funny, and slightly fanatical Al-related materiel. It a...

It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood with Ravi/Lola’s “Winter In Winter”

Matt Wild

July 23, 2019

Let's just get this out of the way: Milwaukee psychedelic band Ravi/Lola has a new album coming out on August 9 called Neighborhood Daydream. The album contains a song about Milwaukee historian John Gurda. We'v...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (July 14-20)

Matt Wild

July 22, 2019

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...

Reminder: A new poké place is coming to Brady Street

Matt Wild

July 22, 2019

Ever find yourself wandering around Brady Street on a beautiful early Sunday evening, thinking about how that big Walgreens used to be a creepy video store (there was porn on the second floor!), and then stumbl...

Weird Al Week begins (again) with everything we’ve ever written about Weird Al

Matt Wild

July 21, 2019

broadstreet.zone(72091); Hey! Welcome to the second annual Weird Al Week! For the next seven days, Milwaukee Record will fill your feed with fresh, funny, and slightly fanatical Al-related materiel. It all lea...

People continue to ride The Hop, but let’s figure out how to complain about it anyway (again)

Matt Wild

July 19, 2019

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed (formerly Off The Record, which is now the name of our print-only Colectivo publication) looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout th...

16 pictures of the ribbon-cutting ceremony for Wisconsin Avenue’s new Gateway Mural

Matt Wild

July 19, 2019

Back in March, Downtown Milwaukee announced an open call for the Gateway Mural Project. It was an initiative to bring a bit of color and action to the west-facing facade of 622 W. Wisconsin Ave., on the northea...

Don’t worry, there are plenty of rooms left at Sybaris for the 2020 Democratic National Convention

Matt Wild

July 18, 2019

Wednesday afternoon, the Milwaukee Business Journal published a story that was an instant frontrunner for Headline of the Year: "Milwaukee DNC 2020 hotel pickings slim, expensive—room left at Sybaris." The piec...

Listen to the new Arctic Sleep album, ‘Kindred Spirits,’ and watch the creation of its cover art

Matt Wild

July 18, 2019

Arctic Sleep doesn't make albums—it makes experiences. Take Kindred Spirits, the seventh full-length record from the local atmospheric metal outfit. It's the followup to 2014's Passage Of Gaia, and another spra...

The final overbid: Milwaukee PBS is dropping the Great TV Auction

Matt Wild

July 16, 2019

Awful, awful news for fans of local public television and hypnotically watchable auctions: Milwaukee PBS plans to drop its long-running Great TV Auction, which has been a delightfully homegrown staple since 196...

Listen to a cut from The Hatchets’ Woody Guthrie concept album, ‘The Uncounted Blue Jillions’

Matt Wild

July 16, 2019

Milwaukee has a thing for Woody Guthrie. In February 2018, an all-star cast of Milwaukee musicians (led by Johanna Rose) paid tribute to the folk icon with the GuthrieUNCOVERED show at Turner Hall. In November ...

Watch the 1985 Great Circus Parade, hosted by Pat Sajak and Vanna White

Matt Wild

July 14, 2019

It's Sunday and it's beautiful outside, so let's keep this short and sweet: Here's the entire two-hour-plus Great Circus Parade from July 14, 1985, held in downtown Milwaukee and hosted by...Pat Sajak and Vanna...

Happy Giannis Antetokounmpo Day, Milwaukee!

Matt Wild

July 14, 2019

Today, from 2-5 p.m. on the plaza outside Fiserv Forum, Milwaukee is invited to celebrate Giannis Antetokounmpo's first MVP award at the aptly named "Giannis MVP Celebration." Fans will be able to see kids from...

Please enjoy 22 pictures of the new Zócalo food truck park in Walker’s Point

Matt Wild

July 13, 2019

Hey! Zócalo Food Park, a.k.a. the city's first food truck park, is celebrating its grand opening today! Zócalo is located at 636 S. 6th St. in Walker's Point, one block west of the former La Fuente! It's pretty...

Let’s all share our theories about why Summerfest had its lowest attendance in more than 30 years

Matt Wild

July 13, 2019

By now you've probably heard the news, but if you haven't, here it is: Summerfest—a.k.a. The World's Largest Music Festival, a.k.a. The Big Gig, a.k.a. Sure, I Guess I'll See Guided By Voices At 4 P.M.—posted i...

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