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Great Job, Wisconsin! People wonder why we’re so “cold,” “humid,” and “drunk”

October 18, 2016

Here at Milwaukee Record, we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job, Milwaukee! Bot to keep track of the city's many appearances on dopey online lists, as well as any time a national publication dei...

Xposed 4Heads’ “Save All Monsters” is a graveyard smash

Matt Wild

October 18, 2016

When we last checked in with Xposed 4Heads, the on-again, off-again, three-decades-and-counting Milwaukee goof-rock band was celebrating the holidays—all the holidays—with a wacky tune called "Sing Along Agai...

Phox is going on “indefinite hiatus,” will play Pabst Theater in February

Matt Wild

October 17, 2016

There was a moment when Wisconsin-based Phox was on the verge of becoming the "next big thing." The band's 2014 self-titled debut was a gorgeously rendered collection of dreamy, heavy-lidded folk-pop highligh...

Hey you guys! Sheriff Clarke is totally going to beat up Daniel Bice by the bike racks after school!

Matt Wild

October 17, 2016

Over the weekend, professional internet troll, hat-wearer, television pundit, podcast host, speaker, and, oh yeah, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke made headlines when he tweeted it was "pitchforks and t...

“Slap Fights With Kpolly” brings James Spader drawings, butts to Hot Pop

Matt Wild

October 14, 2016

When we last caught up with Milwaukee artist Kristopher Pollard—a.k.a. Kpolly—he was fulfilling his duties as Milwaukee Film Membership Manager by donning a blue bathrobe and dancing seductively before a scre...

Great Job, Milwaukee! Our rent went up another 7% from September to October

Matt Wild

October 13, 2016

Here at Milwaukee Record, we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job, Milwaukee! Bot to keep track of the city's many appearances on dopey online lists, as well as any time a national publication dei...

Oh yeah, Judge’s on North Ave. will probably become luxury apartments, too

Matt Wild

October 12, 2016

Like Joni Mitchell once sang: they paved an East Side dive bar, and put up some luxury apartments. Yes, Judge's Irish Pub, located at 1431 E. North Avenue, vacant since 2013, and once a beacon for so...

Cue up debut demo from Milwaukee’s scandalous, sleazy Sex Scenes

Matt Wild

October 11, 2016

Depending on your age, your first exposure to sex likely involved one of the following: finding a stack of Playboys in the woods; watching a scrambled Skinemax channel on TV; the internet. Whatever that porta...

2016 Milwaukee Film Festival attracted 76,899 attendees (an 8% increase over 2015)

Matt Wild

October 11, 2016

Yesterday we rounded up our 13 standout moments from the recently wrapped 2016 Milwaukee Film Festival. Today, Milwaukee Film has revealed a few highlights of its own. 76,899 of them, to be exact. Yes, tha...

PokeStops are slowly disappearing from Lake Park

Matt Wild

October 6, 2016

Back in September, we gave you a blow-by-blow account of a contentious, ridiculous, boring, and ultimately "gloriously absurd" meeting between Milwaukee County officials and Pokemon Go players. The meeting wa...

Milwaukee celebrates life of Dave Monroe with birthday spin, memories

Matt Wild

October 6, 2016

Last year, Milwaukee mourned the death of a true original: Dave Monroe. The ever-present Monroe was a familiar face behind the turntables at decades' worth of DJ nights and dance parties, spinning everything ...

Hey Milwaukee: If we want to save the Domes we should probably start going to the Domes

Matt Wild

October 5, 2016

In late September, Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory's Tropical Dome became the second of the park's three iconic domes to reopen to the public. As every Milwaukee man, woman, and child will recall, coun...

Here are your Milwaukee-area “creepy clown” updates for Wednesday, October 5

Matt Wild

October 5, 2016

Plug "creepy clowns" into the ol' Google machine and you'll be flooded with countless headlines about mysterious and malevolent-looking clowns being spotted throughout the U.S. and beyond. Seriously, this shi...

Charlie Sykes is leaving Milwaukee radio, finally

Matt Wild

October 4, 2016

Charlie Sykes, insanely popular conservative talk show host, author, and full-time college hater, is leaving Milwaukee radio. According to the Milwaukee Business Journal, Sykes will depart from the WTMJ-AM (6...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee

Matt Wild

October 3, 2016

Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a "renaissance" or a "reinvention." Or maybe it's a "development boom" or a "construction boom." Or maybe it's a "reimagining," li...

Great Job, Milwaukee! We’re the 5th most dangerous city in America

Matt Wild

September 30, 2016

Here at Milwaukee Record, we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job, Milwaukee! Bot to keep track of the city's many appearances on dopey online lists. In the past, the infernal machine has brought ...

Fact-checking Lewis Black’s “Drinking in Wisconsin” rant

Matt Wild

September 27, 2016

Comedian Lewis Black is no stranger to Wisconsin. He's also no stranger to drinking in Wisconsin. On Black's first album, 1999's The White Album (recorded in Madison), the perpetually pissed-off stand-up goes...

Watch Maritime’s “Roaming Empire” video, featuring plenty of air guitar and Mark Waldoch

Matt Wild

September 26, 2016

In case you missed it, long-running Milwaukee rock outfit Maritime debuted a video for "Roaming Empire"—a track from 2015's Magnetic Bodies/Maps Of Bones—last week at the Milwaukee Film Festival. Now, Dangerb...

Exclusive: Listen to New Boyz Club’s three-song EP (the first in a trilogy), ‘G l O r Y g L o R y’

Matt Wild

September 26, 2016

Milwaukee's New Boyz Club describes itself as a "glitter folk punk" outfit, but that only hints at the group's expansive sound and its far-flung influences. The eight-piece band, formed in 2014 by upright bas...

Bob Watt exhibition, “The Last of the Bohemians,” coming to Grove Gallery

Matt Wild

September 23, 2016

Earlier this month, in observance of the new school year, we read a poem called "Giant Machine," which details the ins and outs of a fanciful "masturbating machine" for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee...

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