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Milwaukee Film’s 2014 Cream City Cinema to feature Hamlet A.D.D., two-part “Milwaukee Show”

August 28, 2014

Just when you thought it was safe to write about the upcoming 6th Annual Milwaukee Film Festival without mentioning yet another fest highlight, along comes Cream City Cinema. Today, Milwaukee Film revealed the ...

Tupac has always been “dead” for incoming college freshmen, notes dumb Beloit Mindset List

Matt Wild

August 26, 2014

For the past 17 years, Beloit College’s annual Mindset List has attempted to give college professors and administrators a peek inside the minds and world-views of incoming college freshmen. “So-and-so has never...

That Pizza Underground band with Macaulay Culkin is playing Hotel Foster this fall

Matt Wild

August 24, 2014

Oh Christ, let’s just get this over with: Remember late last year when a weary and tired nation learned that former Home Alone moppet Macaulay Culkin was playing in a pizza-themed Velvet Underground cover band ...

“Annual” Rock The Green festival canceled, again

Matt Wild

August 22, 2014

At what point does an “annual” music fest cease to be an annual music fest? It’s a question as old as time (not really), and one that eco-minded Milwaukee festival Rock The Green seems intent on answering. Acco...

Listen to a ridiculously great garage/pop-punk demo from Sin Bad

Matt Wild

August 22, 2014

Every few years, a local release comes out of nowhere and gives the city’s music scene a much-needed kick in the teeth. Canopies, Young Holidays (R.I.P.) and Bliss & Alice all fit that bill, as does Sin Bad...

Milwaukee is the new Portland (and the 5th most dangerous city in the U.S.)

Matt Wild

August 22, 2014

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • Memo to the Internet: If you need some fast, easy clicks, just write something with the wo...

Strangelove, Spinal Tap top 2014 Milwaukee Film Fest’s Cinema Hooligante program

Matt Wild

August 21, 2014

It’s hard to pin down a single highlight of the annual Milwaukee Film Festival, but for our money, there’s nothing better than the Cinema Hooligante program. For the past three years, the late-night series has ...

According to people unfamiliar with Snopes, “The Purge” is coming to Milwaukee this Friday

Matt Wild

August 20, 2014

// In the dystopian world of last year’s The Purge and this year’s The Purge: Purge Harder Anarchy, society is granted an annual 12-hour period of complete lawlessness. Theft, murder, and anything else desp...

Lose yourself in the awesomely trippy video for Calliope’s “Casino”

Matt Wild

August 20, 2014

One of the biggest surprises in Milwaukee music this year has been Calliope’s ORBIS, a big, brash, unapologetic slab of psyched-out goodness that’s miles removed from the band’s previous efforts. With swirling ...

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Sugar Stems: Only Come Out At Night

Matt Wild

August 20, 2014

It’s fitting that Sugar Stems’ 2010 debut was titled Sweet Sounds Of The Sugar Stems. Over the course of three full-length albums—including the new Only Come Out At Night—the Milwaukee power-pop purveyors have ...

Field Report album release show set for October 22 at Pabst Theater

Matt Wild

August 19, 2014

The last few weeks have seen the premieres of two new songs from Field Report’s ridiculously anticipated second album, Marigolden. There’s likely more to the come before the record’s October 7 release on Partis...

Heavy Hand visits the motherfucking zoo in “Motherfucking Bobcat” video

Matt Wild

August 18, 2014

Last month, pop-minded post-punk trio Heavy Hand released a trippy video for “David Bowie Wants To Steal Your Baby,” the first single from its excellent new LP, Northwoods Knives. The video featured various bod...

Exclusive: Stream Arctic Sleep’s heavy, gorgeous new album, Passage Of Gaia

Matt Wild

August 18, 2014

Like rock, hip-hop, and nearly every other genre of music known to man, metal comes in a variety of subtle but recognizable flavors: classic, speed, doom, sludge, Norwegian death, etc. The metal embraced by Mil...

Here’s a video of Paul Ryan awkwardly milking a goat

Matt Wild

August 15, 2014

Lest you think U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan has been taking it easy and/or working on his ’ceps since his failed 2012 vice presidential bid, think again. The Janesville Republican is still the golden child of his party,...

Bublr Bikes (not WatrFountain Bikes) hit Milwaukee streets

Matt Wild

August 15, 2014

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • We’re forever barred from making jokes about NEWaukee’s NEWaukeean of the Week (sponsored ...

Milwaukee Film announces music docs, live music series for 2014 fest

Matt Wild

August 14, 2014

The sixth annual Milwaukee Film Festival is just over a month away (cue another round of heart attacks at Milwaukee Film), which means the fest is in full announcement mode. Programs spotlighting Mexican cinema...

Tracklist: 10 dubious Milwaukee listicle appearances

Matt Wild

August 11, 2014

If there’s one thing Milwaukee is good at, it’s appearing on dopey online lists—or “listicles,” if you’re nasty. Yes, there’s something about the Brew City that makes it a perennial go-to name for lists of 10 C...

Exclusive: Listen to Body Futures’ terrific debut album, Brand New Silhouettes

Matt Wild

August 5, 2014

Let’s take a moment to honor those bands that refuse to play the kind of music that typically gets streamed on NPR. Let’s take a moment to pay tribute to bands that stick to their noisy, straight-up rock-and-ro...

Hayward Williams previews new album at Walker’s Point Anodyne residency

Matt Wild

August 5, 2014

Back in the spring of 2012, Milwaukee’s gone-but-not-forgotten Juniper Tar set up shop at The Hotel Foster for four Wednesdays in a row, previewing songs from their then-upcoming album Since Before, and collabo...

Welcome to August: Here’s what you’re doing this month

Matt Wild

August 1, 2014

Is there anything more punch-worthy than saying “It’s August already? Where did the summer go?” Probably not, so we won’t say it. Instead, we’ll look ahead (past this weekend’s Breadfest/Center Street Daze mayh...

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