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Exclusive: Listen to three songs from Sugar Ransom’s bittersweet ‘Hopefiend’

September 20, 2016

The title of Sugar Ransom's sophomore album, Hopefiend, can be read two ways. One implies something nefarious, a villain who preys on hope and the hopeful. The other is more upbeat, if only slightly, suggesti...

Hide your pets and make your out-of-town plans now: Milwaukee Air & Water Show will return in 2017

Matt Wild

September 19, 2016

If summer 2016 seemed more quiet than past summers, there's a good reason: the Milwaukee Air & Water Show, long a source of SCREAMING SUPERSONIC JETS BUZZING THE ENTIRE CITY FOR DAYS ON END took a break...

How did Kato Kaelin feel about last night’s Packers game? Glad you asked

Matt Wild

September 19, 2016

Hey! Remember Kato Kaelin? If you're a People v. O. J. Simpson fan, you probably know him as Simpson's former floppy-haired houseguest. If you're a Green Bay Packers fan, you probably know...

Listen to the new AUTOMatic single, “Talkin Bout Love”

Matt Wild

September 19, 2016

Has it really been four years since AUTOMatic released its last full-length album, Art Imitates Life? Yes, yes it has. Not that the Milwaukee hip-hop duo has been laying low: APRIME and Trellmatic released ...

Inside Black Cat Alley, the East Side’s new “street art destination”

Matt Wild

September 18, 2016

On Sunday, September 18, the East Side's new "street art destination," Black Cat Alley, celebrated its grand opening. The two-block alley, located between Kenilworth Blvd. and Ivanhoe Place between the Orie...

I went to NEWaukee’s Night Market and it was nice

Matt Wild

September 16, 2016

Wednesday night, as I surveyed the action of my very first NEWaukee Night Market from the balcony of the desolate Shops of Grand Avenue food court, a woman asked me what, exactly, my beef had been with the ...

Watch “We Like,” the new Rusty Pelicans’ video featuring GGOOLLDD’s Margaret Butler

Matt Wild

September 15, 2016

This Saturday, Milwaukee's venerable Rusty Pelicans will take to the stage of Company Brewing and celebrate the release of a new album, Apartment 7. Ahead of the show, the long-running group has unveiled a ...

Go back to the 18th century in Dad’s video for “17th Century”

Matt Wild

September 15, 2016

Born in the 1970s, hip-hop has become the dominant musical art form of the early 21st century. Fought between the years 1775–1783, the Revolutionary War has become the defining event in the early history of...

Watch the hilariously deadpan Milwaukee-made feature film ‘The College Girl’

Matt Wild

September 14, 2016

College is a thrilling gateway into adulthood and freedom, a means of declaring one's independence, and a shot at reinvention and discovery. Yes, a new school year comes complete with the promise of new exp...

Doors Open, Adventure Rock, and the ever-changing face of Milwaukee

Matt Wild

September 13, 2016

I'm scaling a 30-foot indoor rock climbing wall—in jeans and a button-up, because I'm an idiot—and all I can think about is empty space. Air, grass, an open field, an unobstructed view. A break from the mon...

Relive Foreign Goods’ Summer Soulstice performance with live EP, video

Matt Wild

September 13, 2016

If you somehow failed to catch a show from jazz/blues/funk/hip-hop collective Foreign Goods this summer, you clearly weren't trying. The group, led by the ever-busy Jay Anderson, was practically in 10 place...

Milwaukee Record’s 2016 fall concert preview

Matt Wild

September 12, 2016

broadstreet.zone(32806); Fall is the best! Fall concerts are the best! Here are some concerts that fall between September 22 and December 20, a.k.a. fall! Thursday, September 22 Blitzen Trapper Songbook:...

Hey everyone! There’s ANOTHER Pokemon Go meeting tomorrow at the County Courthouse!

Matt Wild

September 12, 2016

Remember last week's bat-shit-crazy Pokemon Go meeting in Lake Park? Judging from the eight zillion of you who read our equally bat-shit-crazy recap, of course you do. But hey! Guess what! There's now ANOTH...

Relive Milwaukee’s noisy past with newly digitized New Blind Nationals albums

Matt Wild

September 9, 2016

Technology has made it insanely easy to produce and share new music, as well as dig up and preserve music from the past. In Milwaukee, sites like MKE Punk and the Activities Archive have made it their missi...

Lake Park’s Pokemon Go meeting was boring, livid, and gloriously absurd

Matt Wild

September 8, 2016

On the evening of Wednesday, September 7, in the year of our Lord 2016, nearly 100 grown adults and several weeping children gathered in the Marcia Coles Community Room located below Bartolotta's Lake Park Bist...

Blyth Renate Meier greets a changing city in “Good Morning, Milwaukee”

Matt Wild

September 7, 2016

Blyth Renate Meier was born in Milwaukee but raised in North Dakota. After returning to Milwaukee and earning a master's degrees in art and film at the UWM, she took a job at Milwaukee Film. It was during t...

Back to school: Milwaukee Record reads a poem about a “giant masturbating machine” at UWM

Matt Wild

September 6, 2016

Let's take a moment to remember Bob Watt: poet, artist, self-styled "dirty old man." After moving to Milwaukee in 1951, Watt established himself as a counterculture poet and outsider artist, focusing on "so bad...

Steel your nerves for the 2016 Milwaukee Paranormal Conference

Matt Wild

September 6, 2016

Despite the recent rash of 80-degree weather, fall is in the air. Leaves are changing, sweaters are appearing, and CVS is going all-in on the Halloween junk. Oh, and the 2016 Milwaukee Paranormal Conference...

Listen to the new Sylvan Esso single, “Radio”

Matt Wild

September 1, 2016

Sylvan Esso may hail from Durham, North Carolina, but the hot-as-shit two-piece electro act has some serious Milwaukee connections. Nick Sanborn, of course, is a former Milwaukeean and former member of the ...

Sign up for Milwaukee Record’s “There Will Be Bowling,” coming to the 2016 Milwaukee Film Festival

Matt Wild

August 30, 2016

Is there anything better than the annual Milwaukee Film Festival? No. Is there anything better than bowling? Strangely, also no. So why not combine the two? From September 22 through October 6, the screens ...

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