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Exclusive: Punctuate your summer with two songs from (ORB)’s Inside Voices

July 21, 2015

Take one glance at the curious punctuation surrounding the name of Milwaukee/Chicago synth-rock duo (ORB), and you wouldn’t be blamed for dismissing the band as an aside, an afterthought. Both of the band’s mem...

Wisconsin punk bands take on Scott Walker with ‘Unintimidated’ project

Matt Wild

July 20, 2015

In case you missed it, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is running for President of the United States. The former Milwaukee County Executive officially announced his candidacy last week at the Waukesha County Fairgr...

Who Said It Best (And Worst): July 13-17

Matt Wild

July 17, 2015

Who Said It Best (And Worst) rounds up the week’s best and worst quotes from notable Milwaukee figures and folks-about-town. SAID IT BEST Senator Chris Larson, on the Senate approval of the Bucks arena deal...

Anything happen in Milwaukee lately? Kind of a boring week, huh?

Matt Wild

July 17, 2015

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • So, anything new in Milwaukee? Kind of a boring week, huh? Yawn. Sure, there ...

Pabst is coming back to Milwaukee (sort of)

Matt Wild

July 15, 2015

Back in 2014, a grassroots effort sprung up with the aim of bringing Pabst Brewing Co. back to Milwaukee. The so-called “Bring PBR Home” campaign turned out to be more froth than beer, but the dream remained: b...

Bleach Athletixx’s “Squatter’s Rights” is the druggy summer song you’ve been waiting for

Matt Wild

July 15, 2015

Back in March, Milwaukee got its first taste of Bleach Athletixx, the newest project from former Young Holidays mastermind Max Holiday. Debut single “California Future” was everything we’d come to expect from H...

Exclusive: Stream The Grovelers’ delightfully trashy debut, Derelicts And Screw-Ups

Matt Wild

July 14, 2015

If you’re looking for subtlety in your music—poetic and tender lyrics, intricate and feather-light instrumentation—The Grovelers are not the band for you. “When you wear your Sunday best / I tear you up and I e...

Watch John Oliver take down Bucks arena in takedown-iest takedown ever

Matt Wild

July 13, 2015

How is it that Last Week Tonight host and indestructible “takedown” cyborg John Oliver hasn’t already ripped the idea of public financing for sports stadiums—and, by extension, the arena proposed by the Milwauk...

UWM Union Theatre announces new name, admission policy

Matt Wild

July 13, 2015

The UWM Union Theatre is one of those hidden-but-not-really-hidden gems that makes Milwaukee (and Milwaukee’s East Side, in particular) such a wonderful place to live. Since 1972, the unassuming movie theater l...

Here’s a picture of that new apartment complex planned for Brady Street

Matt Wild

July 10, 2015

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • Take a look around town and you’ll notice that once-distinctive streets and c...

Cocoon Room is closing

Matt Wild

July 9, 2015

Lame news for Milwaukee’s music and art scenes: Riverwest’s Cocoon Room, located at 820 E. Locust St., has announced it will be closing up shop at the end of the month. The building’s landlord is electing not t...

Heed the call of Siren’s “Queen Medusa”

Matt Wild

July 9, 2015

Milwaukee event planners have a knack for cramming in as much entertainment as possible into the year’s three or four non-awful months—i.e. summer. The same can be said for Milwaukee artists. Take Siren, for ex...

Summerfest on low attendance: “It’s not my fault!”

Matt Wild

July 8, 2015

There were a lot of weird things (including “Weird Al”) about the recently wrapped Summerfest, but one thing we welcomed was the absence of crushing crowds. Even on the fest’s biggest days, it was possible to m...

Exclusive: Get lost in the childlike psychedelia of Ravi/Lola’s 20-song sophomore album

Matt Wild

July 8, 2015

The psych revival currently sweeping Milwaukee and the rest of the country tends to lean toward a heavier, rock-inspired sound. Reverb-drenched guitars, reverb-drenched vocals, reverb-drenched...well, you get t...

Milwaukee Film announces grant program for cash-strapped local filmmakers, i.e. all local filmmakers

Matt Wild

July 8, 2015

When it comes to things that are really, really expensive to do well, making a film ranks somewhere between building a house and raising a child. Even in the gleaming future of relatively inexpensive digital eq...

Let your freak flag fly with D’Amato’s awesome “BPA Free”

Matt Wild

July 7, 2015

With modern home recording technology and this thing we call the Internet, it’s entirely possible to write, record, and release a full-length album in the span of a long weekend. Whip up a few songs, track them...

Bacon Bottom Porker Pizza, “Hot Mess” burger top list of 101 new State Fair food things

Matt Wild

July 7, 2015

Wisconsin is filled with many traditions—the first day of Summerfest, the rubber-duck race at Mayville’s annual Audubon Days—but none reach the giddy and artery-clogging heights of the Wisconsin State Fair. Whe...

Dearly beloved, Gabriel Sanchez and The Prince Experience will play Turner Hall November 28

Matt Wild

July 6, 2015

If the just-wrapped Summerfest 2015 taught us anything, it’s that there is no shortage of cover and tribute bands playing in and around Milwaukee. U2 tribute bands, Led Zeppelin tribute bands, The Who tribute b...

Some questions (and answers) for last night’s glorious “Weird Al” show at Summerfest

Matt Wild

July 5, 2015

“Weird Al” Yankovic is a national treasure. The wild-and-wacky song parodist has been lightly skewering popular music (and culture) for more than 30 years, turning radio hits of yesteryear into songs about food...

Local H and The Faint heat up chilly night at Summerfest

Matt Wild

July 2, 2015

If there’s one thing Summerfest does well—and let’s be honest, it does a lot of things well—it’s stock its overstuffed schedule with plenty of hidden gems. Take Wednesday night, for instance, which found Illino...

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