Author: Matt Wild

Welcome to January: Here’s what you’re doing this month

January 5, 2015

January is an exciting time: a time of renewal, a time of promise, and a time when we inevitably refuse to make New Year’s resolutions because we’ve been burned in the past and that shit never works anyway. It’...

Go on a Packers vision quest with Calliope’s Al Kraemer

Matt Wild

January 5, 2015

On Sunday, January 11, the Green Bay Packers will square off against the Dallas Cowboys at Lambeau Field for what will undoubtedly be a nail-biting, edge-of-your-bleacher-seat playoff game. At stake is the priv...

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Soul Low: Kind Spirit

Matt Wild

January 5, 2015

If there were a war for Milwaukee’s most affable band—an exceedingly polite and well-mannered war, mind you—the victor would undoubtedly be Soul Low. On 2013’s excellent UNEASY, the young group offered up eight...

County Board votes to preserve the majesty of O’Donnell Park

Matt Wild

December 19, 2014

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • If you’ve heard it once you’ve heard it a thousand times: Downtown Milwaukee ...

First Impression: Riverwest Pizza

Matt Wild

December 17, 2014

It’s a scientific fact that pizza will never go out of style. Stuffed-crust, fancy, or frozen, pizza is a universal constant that transcends age, gender, and taste. Still, the everyman/woman food is enjoying a ...

Great job, Milwaukee! Yahoo Food says we have good food

Matt Wild

December 16, 2014

If, like our patented Great Job Milwaukee-Bot (not to be confused with OnMilwaukee’s Jeff Sherman-Bot 8000), you enjoy seeing Milwaukee pop up on online lists, and enjoy the consumption of food, we have just th...

Y’all ready for this? It’s time to save the Milwaukee Diamond Dancers

Matt Wild

December 16, 2014

In addition to watching a competitive team, enjoying the amenities of a world-class stadium, and eating cheese-drenched waffle fries out of a plastic helmet, one of the pleasures of attending a Brewers game at ...

Exclusive: Listen to Whips’ undeniably awesome new album, Turn It On

Matt Wild

December 16, 2014

Midway through Whips’ swaggering, scorching debut LP, Turn It On, the band lets off the throttle and switches gears for an out-of-character surprise: a piano ballad. “I won’t forever glow / I won’t forever glow...

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NO/NO: X.O.

Matt Wild

December 16, 2014

It should come as no surprise to fans of Milwaukee’s gone-but-not-forgotten Delphines that the band that quickly formed from the group’s ashes, NO/NO, has already released two EP’s worth of material. The Delphi...

3-D Bud Selig hologram, “Selig Experience” coming to Miller Park in 2015

Matt Wild

December 15, 2014

The Milwaukee Brewers’ 2015 season may be approximately 8,000 years away, but that doesn’t mean we can’t dream of green grass, golden-brown hot dogs, and the dulcet tones of Robert G. Uecker calling the game. H...

Watch the haunting, nurse-filled video for Death Blues’ “Onward”

Matt Wild

December 10, 2014

Death Blues’ incredible album Ensemble landed at #2 on our list of the 25 best Milwaukee albums of 2014, but it really deserved to be on a list by itself: Jon Mueller and William Ryan Fritch’s dense, heavy, and...

Neutral Milk Hotel will play Riverside Theater April 24

Matt Wild

December 10, 2014

For a certain slice of indie-rock fandom, Neutral Milk Hotel’s landmark 1998 album In The Aeroplane Over The Sea remains a musical and emotional Holy Grail. It was certainly a high-water mark for singer-songwri...

It’s Wednesday, which means Silk Exotic is applying for a downtown license again

Matt Wild

December 10, 2014

If there’s one piece of news Milwaukeeans can count on hearing about time and time again—other than the streetcar, the Grand Ave., and Bar Rescue—it’s the plight of Silk Exotic and its never-ending quest to ope...

Canopies maximize their scope with Maximize Your Faith

Matt Wild

December 9, 2014

“There are a million bands and a million songs. We were in no hurry to do something mediocre.” The five members of Canopies are huddled around a back table at Burnhearts, and guitarist-songwriter Nolan Treol...

Look on the Pat McCurdy bobblehead, ye Mighty, and despair

Matt Wild

December 8, 2014

We just released our list of the 25 best Milwaukee albums of 2014, and sadly, tireless local comedic songwriter Pat McCurdy and his stunning 1992 album, Pat In Person, didn’t make the cut. But in a year that sa...

Watch two ridiculous clips from Bar Rescue’s Y-Not III/Nick’s House episode

Matt Wild

December 5, 2014

Are we really running another post about Bar Rescue’s upcoming Y-Not III/Nick’s House episode? To paraphrase BR host John Taffer, “YOU’RE GODDAMN RIGHT WE ARE!!! NOW COME DOWNSTAIRS FOR A STAFF MEETING!!!” Yes,...

The Midwestern Charm go on date from hell in video for “General Drag”

Matt Wild

December 5, 2014

If there’s one theme running through The Midwestern Charm’s thoroughly enjoyable 2014 album Growing Pains, it’s the difficulties in grappling with the humdrum realities and low-level indignities of adulthood. N...

Listen to Canopies’ excellent new LP, Maximize Your Faith, via Spin

Matt Wild

December 4, 2014

Advance tracks from Canopies’ debut full-length album, Maximize Your Faith, have been floating through the online ether for months now, teasing what will hopefully be a stunning effort from Milwaukee’s beloved ...

Everything you need to know about the two-woman Home Alone remake, Abode Solo

Matt Wild

December 3, 2014

// For moviegoers of a certain age, the holiday season wouldn’t be complete without the dutiful viewing of a certain classic Christmas film. No, not It’s A Wonderful Life or Die Hard: Home Alone, the 1990 J...

Hugh Masterson talks Nashville move, Hustle’s future, goodbye show

Matt Wild

December 3, 2014

For the past few years, Hugh Bob And The Hustle have been a reassuring and reliable Milwaukee music presence, effortlessly playing no-nonsense, honkey-tonk-indebted country to any bar full of buzzed patrons wil...

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