Author Matt Wild

It’s our 2nd anniversary, so here are some terrible site names we considered before settling on Milwaukee Record

April 7, 2016

//Back in 2012, Historic Milwaukee and the Pabst Theater staged an event called "Envisioning The Seen," a roundtable discussion featuring a group of local movers and shakers pondering the future of Milwauk...

Hear the actual rapping from Made Of Oak’s silent “Side Rides” rap video

Matt Wild

April 5, 2016

//Under his longtime Made Of Oak moniker, former Milwaukeean/Decibully member (and current Sylvan Esso member) Nick Sanborn celebrated the release of his first solo EP, Penumbra, last fall. One of the stan...

Gaze upon the glorious lineup for Gloss Records’ Gloss Weekend

Matt Wild

April 5, 2016

//Milwaukee is currently home to many DIY record labels, and one of the best is Gloss Records. Founded in February 2015 by Harrison Colby (NO/NO) and Joe Peterson (Rio Turbo, Platinum Boys), Gloss has spen...

Get your garden on and sign up for the Great Milwaukee Victory Garden BLITZ

Matt Wild

April 5, 2016

//Since 2009, Milwaukee's Victory Garden Initiative has built more than 2,500 raised-bed urban gardens for the city and its residents. The group's goal of creating a "community-based, socially just, enviro...

John Carpenter will perform music from his films this summer at Pabst Theater

Matt Wild

April 4, 2016

//Over the course of five decades (!), master filmmaker John Carpenter has left an indelible and idiosyncratic mark on horror and sci-fi with films like Halloween, Escape From New York, The Thing, Big Trou...

Revisiting 4th Base, the West Milwaukee bar from the end of ‘Major League’

Matt Wild

April 1, 2016

//The semi-raunchy 1989 baseball flick Major League is known for a lot of things: star turns from Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Wesley Snipes, Renee Russo, and Corbin Bernsen; a glorious and endlessly quota...

Listen to the dreamy/dreary goodness of Genau

Matt Wild

March 31, 2016

//For all its sunny reinvention and chipper boosterism, Milwaukee can be a cold and gloomy place. Maybe that's why so many Brew City bands take inspiration from the dreamy-but-dreary shoegaze sound of the ...

Record Recommended: March 28-April 3

Matt Wild

March 29, 2016

Our fat-free, dolphin-safe Milwaukee calendar is chock-full of things to do, but only a handful of events contained therein are worthy of the lofty "Record Recommended" (patent pending) honor. Here are our...

Grand Ave. barber Tony Pullara wants to cut your hair (and be your mayor)

Matt Wild

March 29, 2016

Tucked away in a far-off corner of the cavernous Shops of Grand Avenue, above the T.J. Maxx and facing the second-story Chase Bank skywalk, is a barbershop called Shear Perfection. Floor-to-ceiling windows reve...

Fudgy preps double album release show with “actual reality” videos, no live music

Matt Wild

March 29, 2016

//When we last checked in with Fudgy, a Milwaukee supergroup (of sorts) featuring members of Crappy Dracula 2 and Scrimshaw, the band that's "barely a band" was releasing a song called "Dispensational Trut...

WebsterX announces “Lost Ones” headlining tour for spring 2016

Matt Wild

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...