First Impression: Riverwest Pizza
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
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
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
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.
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
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”
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
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
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
“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
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
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”
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
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
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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
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...
Watch a semi run into The Rave’s marquee
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For decades, The Rave has stood on the western fringes of Wisconsin Avenue like a fortress, beckoning Milwaukee show-goers with the promise of GWAR shows, Insane Clown Posse shows, and $14 mix drinks. It...
Tracklist: 8 pop-culture institutions with Milwaukee ties
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In the bright, gleaming Milwaukee of the 21st century, the only thing more tired than huffing about how the city is so much more than beer and cheese is, well, claiming the city is nothing more than beer...
Volcano Choir wraps up Repave tour at Turner Hall (with help from surprise guest Sylvan Esso)
On paper, last night should have been a terrible night for a show in Milwaukee. It was a Sunday—the last Sunday of a long Thanksgiving weekend—and the Packers had played earlier in the afternoon. (What was that...
Go back to happier times with this Global Union video
Has the world gone insane? Is our society breaking down? Have we lost all sense of justice, goodwill, and peace? What’s up with this weather? If these questions have been plaguing you for, oh, 24 hours or so, l...