Author: Matt Wild

Watch Lex Allen perform “This Is Our Year” for 88Nine Radio Milwaukee and Cream City Soundcheck

April 14, 2016

// If you're looking to enjoy the best and brightest in live Milwaukee music but can't swing the late hours, 88Nine Radio Milwaukee's 414 Music Live is for you. The Thursday afternoon series has featured ev...

Here’s the venue-by-venue schedule for Tasty Fest 2016

Matt Wild

April 14, 2016

// Last month we revealed the rock-solid lineup for the inaugural Tasty Fest, a four-day, three-venue musical blowout coming this summer from local DIY label Tasty Tapes. Now, we're ready to dole out the fu...

Great Job, Milwaukee! The New York Times thinks we’re good and cheap

Matt Wild

April 13, 2016

// Dusty and long-dormant, Milwaukee Record's sentient Great Job, Milwaukee Bot 8000 has whizzed and whirred back to life—R2-D2-in-The-Force-Awakens-style—to bring you this important news: In a New York Tim...

Brett Newski exhales in anxious “Cigaretiquette” video

Matt Wild

April 13, 2016

// Milwaukee-by-way-of-the-world troubadour Brett Newski has done it all—penned tampon commercial jingles in Vietnam, angered Shaquille O'Neal as a young boy. It's enough to set anyone on edge. Perhaps that...

Here’s the shocking, inevitable connection between Gov. Scott Walker and Dustin Diamond

Matt Wild

April 12, 2016

// The state of Wisconsin was rocked by two big, ridiculous stories yesterday. The first involved Gov. Scott Walker suggesting folks could help him pay off his failed presidential campaign debt by purchasin...

Milwaukee Taco Fest is under fire for cultural appropriation

Matt Wild

April 12, 2016

// On Sunday, June 5, the third annual Milwaukee Taco Fest will set up shop at the Harley-Davidson Museum. Presented by SWARMM Events (creators of Milwaukee's Shamrock Shuffle), the fest aims to " together ...

Get inside Mark Borchardt’s head with two-song Soup Moat video

Matt Wild

April 12, 2016

// There's a moment in 1999's American Movie when forever-put-upon Milwaukee film director Mark Borchardt recounts cleaning a shit-covered cemetery bathroom. "I had to clean it up, man, but before that, for...

“Mini-golf tavern” coming to vacant space below Beans & Barley

Matt Wild

April 11, 2016

// Earlier this year we rounded up eight "cursed" Milwaukee business locations—locations that, for one reason or another, can't seem to hold on to steady tenants. One of them was the space below Beans &...

Pizza Man is opening a new location in Oak Creek

Matt Wild

April 11, 2016

// Last month we rounded up 15 Milwaukee bars and restaurants with multiple locations. The venerable Pizza Man made the list with it's East Side location and its Tosa spot. Now, the Milwaukee staple that wa...

Record Recommended: April 11-17

Matt Wild

April 11, 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 honor of "Record Recommended" (patent pending). Here ar...

Milwaukee-themed emojis are now a thing

Matt Wild

April 10, 2016

// Depending on who you are, the emoji-fication of modern communication is best represented by either an adorable whistling smiley face, or an equally adorable pile of poop with eyes. Now, the word-wary phe...

Listen to the entire 16-track “Unintimidated: Wisconsin Musicians Against Scott Walker” comp

Matt Wild

April 8, 2016

// Back in July 2015, IfIHadAHiFi and Body Futures drummer (and occasional Milwaukee Record contributor) DJ Hostettler announced an ambitious project called "Unintimidated: Wisconsin Musicians Against Scott...

Remembering the world’s largest Pac-Man tournament at County Stadium in 1982

Matt Wild

April 7, 2016

// Video games are currently a billion dollar industry, but it's easy to forget how ubiquitous they were in their infancy. Consider Pac-Man, the pellet- and ghost-chomping quarter-sucker that took the world...

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

Matt Wild

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 ...

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