Author: Matt Wild | Page 210 | Milwaukee Record

Watch Trapper Schoepp party with Richard “Office Space” Riehle in “Settlin’ Or Sleepin’ Around”

June 1, 2016

// Trapper Schoepp's new Rangers & Valentines is the kind of big, bold, brassy album that practically begs to be played at porch parties nationwide. (It would have made our "22 Milwaukee summer songs" T...

Say yes to NO/NO’s gorgeous ‘Sound And Light’ LP

Matt Wild

May 31, 2016

// The origin story of Milwaukee electro-pop project NO/NO is well-worn territory, but it's worth repeating one last time: The group formed from the ashes of The Delphines in 2014, keeping that band's sense...

I humiliated myself in front of one of the dudes from Cherry Pie

Matt Wild

May 26, 2016

// You find yourself backstage at a play, moments before your entrance, unable to remember your lines. A creeping wave of terror washes over you. Oh god, what am I doing here? What is this? I'm doomed. Mayb...

Dustin Diamond is back in jail for violating his probation

Matt Wild

May 25, 2016

// Zoinks! According to FOX6, Dustin Diamond, a.k.a. Screech from Saved By Bell, is back behind bars at the Ozaukee County Jail, a month after he was released for a 2014 Christmas Day stabbing incident in a...

“Highlights” from Dustin Diamond’s post-jail interview with Mario Lopez

Matt Wild

May 24, 2016

// In the annals of close-but-not-quite-Milwaukee-related pop-culture ephemera, Dustin Diamond's arrest and subsequent jail time for stabbing a motherfucker in a Port Washington bar on Christmas Day sits lo...

Tracklist: 11 unofficial Milwaukee theme songs

Matt Wild

May 23, 2016

// In case you missed it, Milwaukee Record has a theme song now. Courtesy of local auto detailing and carpet cleaning professional Joshua Jones, the song touts our "music and news" coverage, while the accom...

WC Tank revives Stumblesome project, releases “workout record”

Matt Wild

May 20, 2016

// "I move around a lot, not because I'm looking for anything, really, but because I'm getting away from things that get bad if I stay. Auspicious beginnings, you know what I mean?" So says Jack Nicholson's...

Leon’s Frozen Custard owner wants to settle things “the old-fashioned American way, in the alley”

Matt Wild

May 19, 2016

// Leon's Frozen Custard, long a symbol of Milwaukee's old-fashioned American Happy Days charm, is currently is some old-fashioned American hot water. It seems that old-fashioned American and Leon's owner R...

Bounce Milwaukee is offering non-English-speaking customers a free scoop of Purple Door Ice Cream

Matt Wild

May 19, 2016

// In the wake of Leon's Frozen Custard's controversial "English-only" policy (and threatened alley fight), many Milwaukeeans are up arms, taking to the Internet to voice their pleasant, sensible, and toler...

Pondering (and calling) the Miller Park Roof Hotline

Matt Wild

May 19, 2016

// It's happened to all of us: You're staring off into space, alone, tired, afraid, wondering if the Miller Park roof will be open for the day's big game. A quick peek outside tells you the weather is certa...

Fly The Hullmen’s anything-but-pretty ‘Pretty Red Flags’

Matt Wild

May 17, 2016

// When we last heard from The Hullmen, the down-and-dirty sleaze rockers were refining their sound on the 6-song EP Expensive Taste. The (relatively) slick affair was a welcome update of the band's lo-fi S...

Nick’s House is having a going-out-of-business “yard sale”

Matt Wild

May 16, 2016

// Earlier this month we brought you news that Nick's House—the former Y-Not III that was given a Bar Rescue overhaul in 2014—was, in the parlance of Bar Rescue host John Taffer, SHUTTING IT DOWN. Now, the ...

Louis C.K. is coming to the BMO Harris Bradley Center August 1

Matt Wild

May 16, 2016

// If you had to choose a single comedian to represent an entire generation, you could do worse than Louis C.K. From his incisive and hilariously honest stand-up to his critically adored FX series, C.K. has...

Here’s the lineup for the 2016 Locust Street Festival

Matt Wild

May 15, 2016

// The annual Locust Street Festival of Music & Art is one of the city's best street fests, celebrating all that is good, right, and drum circle-y in Riverwest. On Sunday, June 12, the 40th (!) installm...

Great Job, Milwaukee! Rolling Stone likes Summerfest

Matt Wild

May 13, 2016

// Here at Milwaukee Record, we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job, Milwaukee! Bot (similar to OnMilwaukee's Jeff Sherman Bot 8000) to keep track of the city's many appearances on dopey online...

Milwaukee Film Festival unveils 2016 campaign art, launches early ticket sales

Matt Wild

May 12, 2016

// It's practically obscene to think about fall when summer is still around the corner (and during our Summer Preview Week, no less), but it's easy to let things slide when it comes to the Milwaukee Film Fe...

Celebrate our Summer Preview Week with videos of people cruising Hwy 100

Matt Wild

May 9, 2016

// Summer in Milwaukee is the shit. After a seemingly never-ending winter that leaves you wondering why you choose to live in such a godforsaken place, and a frustrating spring that leaves you wading in sea...

Listen to a heavy new NO/NO track, “Television,” and pre-order ‘Sound And Light’ now

Matt Wild

May 6, 2016

// A lot of what makes the current Milwaukee music scene so vital and exceptional can be found in NO/NO. The alternately hard-edged and dreamy electro pop group, fronted by Harrison Colby and formed from th...

Listen to Nineteen Thirteen’s mournful, all-too-brief “The Reason Why”

Matt Wild

May 5, 2016

// Nineteen Thirteen, as its name suggests, is a band out of time. The duo of Violent Femmes founding member Victor DeLorenzo and cellist Janet Schiff has been slowly creeping its way through the Milwaukee ...

May the 4th be with you: Celebrating “Star Wars Day” in Milwaukee and beyond

Matt Wild

May 3, 2016

// We used to think "Star Wars Day" was a bunch of mumbo-jumbo. A magical faux-holiday celebrated on May 4, held together by a date-related pun, "May the 4th/Force be with you"? Crazy thing is...it's true. ...

Author Matt Wild