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Zoinks! Edgar Cantero and Milwaukee Record will talk ‘Meddling Kids’ June 14 at Boswell Book Company

June 12, 2018

For readers of a certain age and sensibility, Edgar Cantero's Meddling Kids will go down as easy as a bowl of sugar-choked cereal on a Saturday morning. In the summer of 1977, a group of Scooby-Doo-esque teen d...

Watch Brett Newski play a show at Walmart, get kicked out

Matt Wild

June 12, 2018

Love him or refuse to listen to him, Brett Newski is a man of the people. Dude will do anything, play anywhere, and pull whatever stunt is needed to bring his bright-eyed indie rock to the masses. Travel the wo...

MKE Music Rewind: Sugar Stems, “Love You To Pieces”

Matt Wild

June 12, 2018

In our weekly MKE Music Rewind, we revisit a notable Milwaukee song that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014. Is there a subgenre of rock music more elusive than power pop? Prob...

Locust Street Festival 2018: A waterlogged and increasingly sporadic minute-by-minute recap

Matt Wild

June 11, 2018

Let's just get this out of the way: the weather was pretty lousy for Locust Street Festival of Music & Art 2018. It was cold (low 50s), it was cloudy (the sun was entirely absent), and it rained for a good ...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (June 3-9)

Matt Wild

June 11, 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...

Hannibal Buress will return to Riverside Theater September 22

Matt Wild

June 11, 2018

When Milwaukee last saw Hannibal Buress in 2016, the wildly popular Chicago-born comedian/writer/actor was DJing at Tonic Tavern under his "DJ Burger Feet" moniker, following a sold-out Eric Andre Live! show at...

And this year’s “Cheers to Milwaukee” secret band is…[insert band name here]

Matt Wild

June 8, 2018

After a week of feverish speculation, whispered rumors, and "It's gonna be Elton John" jokes, the identity of the band playing tonight's "Cheers to Milwaukee" show at Riverside Theater can finally be revealed. ...

Let’s recap Giannis Antetokounmpo’s delightful reviews of American junk food, shall we?

Matt Wild

June 8, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • Unless you've been living under a rock for the past week—or, thank god for yo...

Gobble up The Unitaskers’ “Tide Pods”

Matt Wild

June 8, 2018

Remember 8,000 years ago when people were eating/not really eating Tide Pods? Truly a more innocent time. Well, goofball Milwaukee indie rock outfit The Unitaskers remember. Last week, the band released its fir...

What’s new, and what’s coming soon to the East Side

Matt Wild

June 7, 2018

Back in July 2016, we asked a simple question: Is the East Side dying? Alarmist and eye-catching to be sure ("Is the East Side slowly changing in order to better accommodate current and ever-shifting trends in ...

Jalisco, Thai Kitchen, and ghosts of Milwaukee dining past

Matt Wild

June 7, 2018

broadstreet.zone(66112); Welcome to Food/Drink Week at Milwaukee Record, brought to you by Milwaukee's new favorite import, Bofferding. From May 31 through June 7, belly up and enjoy a fresh smattering of rest...

Bucks Senior VP: You’re “damn right” the new arena will have gender-neutral bathrooms

Matt Wild

June 6, 2018

The new Milwaukee Bucks arena—brought to you by Fiserv, okay definitely not Fiserv, okay probably Fiserv—is more or less complete. It opens this fall. And when it does, it'll have something that few NBA arenas ...

We demand to know more about this 1984 commercial for Giggles nightclub

Matt Wild

June 6, 2018

The internet is a wonderful and awful place. Wonderful because a near-infinite amount of human knowledge is instantly available at our fingertips; awful because despite that near-infinite amount of human knowle...

All 21 Sculpture Milwaukee 2018 sculptures, ranked

Matt Wild

June 5, 2018

Take a stroll down Wisconsin Avenue this summer and you'll see something familiar, yet different. Yes, it's Sculpture Milwaukee, the "outdoor art gallery" that first populated downtown with world-class sculptur...

MKE Music Rewind: The Celebrated Workingman, “A Lover’s Waltz”

Matt Wild

June 5, 2018

In our weekly MKE Music Rewind, we revisit a notable Milwaukee song that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014. If someone were to make a list of current Milwaukee music MVPs (ser...

Joel, Jonah, and the Bots are bringing ‘MST3K’ back to Riverside Theater November 15

Matt Wild

June 4, 2018

Remember when Mystery Science Theater 3000 riffed on 1962's The Brain That Wouldn't Die? Well, 30 years after MST3K first premiered on a low-budget television station in Minneapolis, it's clear that it, too, wo...

Incredible and inspiring “People’s Flag of Milwaukee” may become official flag of Milwaukee

Matt Wild

June 1, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • After years languishing as an incredible and inspiring icon/T-shirt that coul...

Old 97’s will headline WMSE’s 9th annual Backyard BBQ

Matt Wild

June 1, 2018

There should be a law against thinking about the end of August (the end of summer!) at the beginning of June (the beginning of summer!), but we'll make an exception for WMSE's Backyard BBQ. On Saturday, August ...

Let’s get our hopes up again and guess the mystery band playing the “Cheers to Milwaukee” show

Matt Wild

June 1, 2018

Do you like shows? (Yes!) Do you like free shows! (YES!) Do you like free shows where the headliner remains a secret? (Um...) Well, you're in luck, because Miller Brewing and Riverside Theater are teaming up fo...

Want to swim the Milwaukee River? Um, now you can at the inaugural Cream City Classic

Matt Wild

June 1, 2018

The Milwaukee River is a lot of things: a playground for boats, pontoons, kayaks, and even water taxis. An inviting place for swimmers? Not so much. But all of that is about to change, sort of, with the Cream C...

Author Matt Wild