Author Matt Wild

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Lisa Ridgely & The Fainting Room: Heart Hot

May 15, 2014

Lisa Ridgely & The Fainting Room’s 2012 EP Wine In Bed was the kind of debut that garnered faint praise like “nice.” Its dark-hued Americana was pleasant enough to pass the time, but not quite bold enough t...

It’s Tuesday, which means the Grand Ave. is being sold at auction

Matt Wild

May 13, 2014

In accordance with a federal law that states any and all news surrounding The Shops of Grand Avenue must be reported, we’re required to inform you that the long-beleaguered mall is scheduled to be sold at aucti...

Chronicling the city with “Content Milwaukee”

Matt Wild

May 13, 2014

Two months ago, a blog named Content Milwaukee quietly entered the ever-growing local publication scene. At first, its scope and ambition seemed as humble as its name: a collection of mostly black-and-white pic...

“In your face, Milwaukee!” 11 classic Milwaukee insults

Matt Wild

May 12, 2014

Milwaukeeans have long known that the city they call home is a wonderful place. A city faced with plenty of challenges, yes, but a wonderful place. But to many outsiders (and more than a few insiders), Milwauke...

Watch the video for The Delphines’ “Screen Door”

Matt Wild

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...