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“Mini-golf tavern” coming to vacant space below Beans & Barley

April 11, 2016

// Earlier this year we rounded up eight "cursed" Milwaukee business locations—locations that, for one reason or another, can't seem to hold on to steady tenants. One of them was the space below Beans &...

Pizza Man is opening a new location in Oak Creek

Matt Wild

April 11, 2016

// Last month we rounded up 15 Milwaukee bars and restaurants with multiple locations. The venerable Pizza Man made the list with it's East Side location and its Tosa spot. Now, the Milwaukee staple that wa...

Record Recommended: April 11-17

Matt Wild

April 11, 2016

// Our fat-free, dolphin-safe Milwaukee calendar is chock-full of things to do, but only a handful of events contained therein are worthy of the lofty honor of "Record Recommended" (patent pending). Here ar...

Milwaukee-themed emojis are now a thing

Matt Wild

April 10, 2016

// Depending on who you are, the emoji-fication of modern communication is best represented by either an adorable whistling smiley face, or an equally adorable pile of poop with eyes. Now, the word-wary phe...

Listen to the entire 16-track “Unintimidated: Wisconsin Musicians Against Scott Walker” comp

Matt Wild

April 8, 2016

// Back in July 2015, IfIHadAHiFi and Body Futures drummer (and occasional Milwaukee Record contributor) DJ Hostettler announced an ambitious project called "Unintimidated: Wisconsin Musicians Against Scott...

Remembering the world’s largest Pac-Man tournament at County Stadium in 1982

Matt Wild

April 7, 2016

// Video games are currently a billion dollar industry, but it's easy to forget how ubiquitous they were in their infancy. Consider Pac-Man, the pellet- and ghost-chomping quarter-sucker that took the world...

It’s our 2nd anniversary, so here are some terrible site names we considered before settling on Milwaukee Record

Matt Wild

April 7, 2016

// Back in 2012, Historic Milwaukee and the Pabst Theater staged an event called "Envisioning The Seen," a roundtable discussion featuring a group of local movers and shakers pondering the future of Milwauk...

Hear the actual rapping from Made Of Oak’s silent “Side Rides” rap video

Matt Wild

April 5, 2016

// Under his longtime Made Of Oak moniker, former Milwaukeean/Decibully member (and current Sylvan Esso member) Nick Sanborn celebrated the release of his first solo EP, Penumbra, last fall. One of the stan...

Gaze upon the glorious lineup for Gloss Records’ Gloss Weekend

Matt Wild

April 5, 2016

// Milwaukee is currently home to many DIY record labels, and one of the best is Gloss Records. Founded in February 2015 by Harrison Colby (NO/NO) and Joe Peterson (Rio Turbo, Platinum Boys), Gloss has spen...

Get your garden on and sign up for the Great Milwaukee Victory Garden BLITZ

Matt Wild

April 5, 2016

// Since 2009, Milwaukee's Victory Garden Initiative has built more than 2,500 raised-bed urban gardens for the city and its residents. The group's goal of creating a "community-based, socially just, enviro...

John Carpenter will perform music from his films this summer at Pabst Theater

Matt Wild

April 4, 2016

// Over the course of five decades (!), master filmmaker John Carpenter has left an indelible and idiosyncratic mark on horror and sci-fi with films like Halloween, Escape From New York, The Thing, Big Trou...

Revisiting 4th Base, the West Milwaukee bar from the end of ‘Major League’

Matt Wild

April 1, 2016

// The semi-raunchy 1989 baseball flick Major League is known for a lot of things: star turns from Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Wesley Snipes, Renee Russo, and Corbin Bernsen; a glorious and endlessly quota...

Listen to the dreamy/dreary goodness of Genau

Matt Wild

March 31, 2016

// For all its sunny reinvention and chipper boosterism, Milwaukee can be a cold and gloomy place. Maybe that's why so many Brew City bands take inspiration from the dreamy-but-dreary shoegaze sound of the ...

Record Recommended: March 28-April 3

Matt Wild

March 29, 2016

Our fat-free, dolphin-safe Milwaukee calendar is chock-full of things to do, but only a handful of events contained therein are worthy of the lofty "Record Recommended" (patent pending) honor. Here are our...

Grand Ave. barber Tony Pullara wants to cut your hair (and be your mayor)

Matt Wild

March 29, 2016

Tucked away in a far-off corner of the cavernous Shops of Grand Avenue, above the T.J. Maxx and facing the second-story Chase Bank skywalk, is a barbershop called Shear Perfection. Floor-to-ceiling windows reve...

Fudgy preps double album release show with “actual reality” videos, no live music

Matt Wild

March 29, 2016

// When we last checked in with Fudgy, a Milwaukee supergroup (of sorts) featuring members of Crappy Dracula 2 and Scrimshaw, the band that's "barely a band" was releasing a song called "Dispensational Trut...

WebsterX announces “Lost Ones” headlining tour for spring 2016

Matt Wild

March 28, 2016

// Fresh off a string of shows at this year's South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, tireless Milwaukee musician WebsterX has announced a headlining tour for spring 2016. "The Lost Ones" tour will ta...

Is the “redesign the Milwaukee flag” thing REALLY trying to redesign the Milwaukee flag?

Matt Wild

March 24, 2016

// The official flag of Milwaukee was adopted 61 years ago, in 1955. Efforts to redesign the flag—a flag haphazardly stuffed with barley stalks, boats, and something that looks like a UFO—have been going on...

Here are the 10 most wonderful/ridiculous grounds stage headliners for Summerfest 2016

Matt Wild

March 23, 2016

// Do you like summer? Do you like music? Do you like bands that are both wonderful and ridiculous? Good, because then you'll be over the moon with the just-announced list of grounds stage headliners for Su...

WMSE will release a live Sylvan Esso 7-inch for Record Store Day 2016

Matt Wild

March 22, 2016

// Last year saw beloved Milwaukee indie radio station WMSE throw its hat in the Record Store Day ring with a live Field Report 7-inch—the station's first foray into vinyl. Now, WMSE is gearing up for Recor...

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