Author Matt Wild

Watch the video for The Delphines’ “Screen Door”

May 12, 2014

Last month, we premiered two tracks from one of our most anticipated Milwaukee albums of the year, The Delphines’ Hush. Our love for the group isn’t exactly a secret, so it’s no surprise that a recently release...

Honey, remember when we blew up the car (for Milwaukee)?

Matt Wild

May 9, 2014

It’s been almost two years since local ad agency Flipeleven changed Milwaukee forever with its “LoveMKE. Blow Up A Car” campaign. The Kickstarter campaign set out to raise $10,000 to film a car blowing up for u...

Let’s translate the latest “Creational Trails” press release

Matt Wild

May 8, 2014

Back in May 2013, the Greater Milwaukee Committee and a slew of overlapping and cryptically named local arts groups (ART Milwaukee, MiKE, beintween, probably 8,000 more) were awarded a $350,000 ArtPlace America...

Hamlet A.D.D. will make its Milwaukee premiere May 15 at the Oriental

Matt Wild

April 30, 2014

Earlier this month, we hipped you to the fact that Special Entertainment’s long-, long-, long-in-the-works feature film, Hamlet A.D.D., would finally see the light of day. Andrew Swant and Bobby Ciraldo’s surre...

Watch the Super 8 video for Altos’ “Never Named”

Matt Wild

April 29, 2014

Altos’ self-titled 2011 debut is a record that still hums and reverberates three years on, filling the air with a post-rock din that alternates between plainly gorgeous and deeply unnerving. It’s a record that ...

Help make KPolly’s “Fake A$$ Rappers” a reality

Matt Wild

April 25, 2014

The music world is filled with plenty of outsized personalities better suited to seizure-inducing Japanese cartoons (Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, etc.), and artists who blur the line between artist and...

The cheap buzz of “Bring PBR Home”

Matt Wild

April 24, 2014

To call last night’s “Bring PBR Home” town hall meeting at Best Place a stunning waste of time would be an insult not only to legitimate wastes of time—staring at a wall, checking your phone while taking a dump...

Milwaukee Record’s guide to Milwaukee Psych Fest 2014

Matt Wild

April 22, 2014

Beginning Thursday, April 24, Bay View’s venerable Cactus Club will play host 20 bands from Milwaukee, the United States, and beyond that fall somewhere in the hazy “psych” genre. Effects-laden guitars, whirlin...

Ponder life’s mysteries with this Milwaukee tape measure unboxing video

Matt Wild

April 22, 2014

Deep within the strange but largely harmless bowels of the Internet, somewhere near furry forums and zit-popping subreddits, there exists the world of “unboxing videos.” Everyday people with terrifying amounts ...

Here’s Carlos Gomez’s bench-clearing brawl soundtracked by the Benny Hill song

Matt Wild

April 21, 2014

There’s nothing better than a friendly game of baseball on Easter Sunday—especially if that friendly game isn’t friendly at all, and involves a bench-clearing, knock-down, drag-out brawl. Yes, yesterday’s Carlo...

Talk, talk, talk: Alverno Presents hosts Jeanine Durning’s “inging”

Matt Wild

April 17, 2014

“You’re talking a lot, but you’re not saying anything.” As sung by David Byrne in “Psycho Killer,” it’s a lyric that serves as a put-down at best, a condemnation from a deranged mind at worst. But as practiced ...

It’s Tuesday, which means there’s a new task force trying to fix the Grand Ave.

Matt Wild

April 15, 2014

Downtown’s beleaguered Shops of Grand Avenue (or the Grand Ave., if you’re nasty) has been a source of consternation for nearly two decades. The cavernous mall is more empty than full, and the only places worth...

Check out the trailer for the next high-flying installment of Mondo Lucha

Matt Wild

April 15, 2014

Last night at the official Milwaukee Day show at Turner Hall (ICYMI: Decibully and Juniper Tar reunited, and Byron Kilbourn and Solomon Juneau did some improv comedy), homegrown lucha libre wrestling outfit Mon...

Tracklist: 5 reasons why the Milwaukee Art Museum addition is like the Xbox One

Matt Wild

April 14, 2014

Local art circles threw a French Impressionist-sized fit last week when the Milwaukee Art Museum released the design for its proposed 17,000-square-foot addition. The expansion would give MAM more space and a n...

Hello Death to premiere “Settlers” video during May 10 show at Anodyne

Matt Wild

April 14, 2014

Moody folk outfit Hello Death excels at sparse, haunting music that works its way into your bones like a winter chill. Made up of members of Altos (Marielle Allschwang, Nathaniel Heuer, Shawn Stephany, Erin Wol...

Mapping the mysteries of Alverno Presents’ “Solo Flight”

Matt Wild

April 11, 2014

For more than five decades, Alverno Presents has been the city’s premiere performing arts series, bringing challenging, one-of-a-kind, and thrillingly impermanent live performances to Milwaukee. In recent years...

Dream Attics get, well, dreamy on debut EP

Matt Wild

April 10, 2014

The hybrid soul of Kane Place Record Club and the wide-eyed folk of The Gazettiers wouldn’t seem to have much in common. What’s more, combining elements from both groups wouldn’t seem to be the best idea. But c...

Wait…there’s a new Celebrated Workingman album?

Matt Wild

April 9, 2014

The Celebrated Workingman was always one of Milwaukee’s finest bands, releasing two terrific full-lengths (2008’s Herald The Dickens and 2011’s Content Content) before finally calling it quits last year. Highli...

4 reasons why Milwaukee should NOT “bring Pabst home”

Matt Wild

April 9, 2014

If you’ve been perusing local social media lately, you’ve no doubt come across a curious online campaign: a push to bring Pabst Brewing Company back to Milwaukee. The eye-catching effort was launched after the ...

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Animals In Human Attire: Ourmegadawn

Matt Wild

April 8, 2014

Like the Denver-based Elephant 6 collective of the ’90s, Milwaukee’s Bread King collective has come to define a specific time and place—in this case, Milwaukee circa present day. Part of that dominance is due t...