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Listen to a previously unreleased (and totally bad-ass) Hollowz track, “Heist”

July 29, 2014

It’s been a few years since Milwaukee hip-hop duo The Hollowz have dropped new music on the city—three years to be exact, which is when the group’s last LP, Dreams Of Sex And Flying, was released. Not that rapp...

Postmodern dance, heavy metal, and venturing outside one’s comfort zones

Matt Wild

July 29, 2014

This past Sunday, I went to the Lynden Sculpture Garden to see a retrospective performance from the Trisha Brown Dance Company, which kicked off Alverno Presents’ 2014-15 season. To say I knew nothing—and still...

6 reasons to get excited for Alverno Presents’ 2014-15 season

Matt Wild

July 24, 2014

For more than five decades, Alverno Presents has pollinated the city with some of the most original and rewarding performing arts in the world. International music and dance have long been staples of Alverno’s ...

Exclusive: Listen to the putrid new Drugs Dragons album, II & I/II

Matt Wild

July 24, 2014

Some albums instantly reward listeners with big hooks, sparkling production, and an eagerness to please. Other albums offer up complex arrangements and knotty lyrics, challenging listeners to unlock the rewards...

Great job, Milwaukee! Milwaukee named 4th unhappiest city in U.S.

Matt Wild

July 23, 2014

For a few months out of the year, Milwaukee is a magical place, filled with festivals, fireworks, and babes and bros on the beach. But the fleeting summer months hide an ugly truth: Milwaukee is a deeply unhapp...

Milwaukee Film adds Times Cinema as venue for 2014 festival

Matt Wild

July 22, 2014

If our calculations are correct, the 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival is little more than two months away. (Cue heart attacks from everyone at Milwaukee Film.) Like past fests, the sixth annual installment—schedule...

Jack White at The Rave or: In defense of good artists playing bad venues

Matt Wild

July 22, 2014

Walk into the Cactus Club and you’ll see a silk-screened 12” record created by Milwaukee artist Von Munz promoting The White Stripes’ first out-of-state show, November 13, 1999, in which they opened for The Mis...

September Sylvan Esso show at Cactus Club moved to Pabst Theater

Matt Wild

July 21, 2014

Durham-by-way-of-Milwaukee electro-pop duo Sylvan Esso have been having what music industry insiders call “a really, really, really big year.” Amelia Meath and former Milwaukeean Nick Sanborn met at a Cactus Cl...

Video for “Weird Al” Yankovic’s “Mission Statement” created by Wisconsin company

Matt Wild

July 21, 2014

For fans of perennial song parodist/national treasure/greatest human alive “Weird Al” Yankovic, the past eight days have been bliss. In honor of what will likely be his last proper album, Mandatory Fun, Yankovi...

Tracklist: 8 bizarre Milwaukee Kickstarter campaigns

Matt Wild

July 21, 2014

Recently, the Internet has done what it does best—flip the fuck out—over a Kickstarter campaign dedicated to making potato salad. What started as a lark with a $10 goal (tagline: “Basically I’m just making pota...

Let’s find some dumb ideas in the city’s “Action Agenda”

Matt Wild

July 18, 2014

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • Milwaukee has plenty of wonderful qualities—music, art, food, festivals, sports, cheap booze...

Check out new Juiceboxxx video, new Juiceboxxx facial hair

Matt Wild

July 17, 2014

Remember when longtime Milwaukee rapper Juiceboxxx singlehandedly set the city’s hip-hop scene back 20 years by experiencing technical difficulties while performing on a local TV show? Yeah, neither do we. Hype...

Here’s the lineup for the 2014 Center Street Daze Festival

Matt Wild

July 17, 2014

With many of the big street fests of 2014 already behind us (Locust Street, Burnhearts/PBR), and another taking place in a few weeks (Brady Street), it would seem that the curtain is slowly being drawn on anoth...

Relive the Burnhearts/Pabst Street Party with this awesome video

Matt Wild

July 16, 2014

Is it too early to be reminiscing about summer 2014? Probably, but a snap of unseasonably cool weather has us thinking back to a time when we were young, idealistic, and a little bit warmer. You know, like last...

Spend a minute with the video for Heavy Hand’s “David Bowie Wants To Steal Your Baby”

Matt Wild

July 15, 2014

There was a time when music videos blurred the line between video and short film—think of all those ridiculous videos from Michael Jackson’s Dangerous—though there’s something to be said for videos that get in ...

Help keep Global Union free by contributing to “$15,000 in 15 days” campaign

Matt Wild

July 15, 2014

Let’s face it: being forced to think about the end of summer in the middle of July is downright cruel. But like all things, summer 2014 must pass, even though it feels like it started a week ago. Happily, there...

851,879 people enjoyed Summerfest this year (and 181,758 enjoyed those mini donuts)

Matt Wild

July 11, 2014

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • As much as we love Summerfest (and as much as we love continuing the tradition of gently m...

The Disclaimer: Local media, Bar Louie dress codes, and living room shows

Matt Wild

July 10, 2014

Every Wednesday at noon, WMSE’s Ryan Schleicher, Shepherd Express’ Evan Rytlewski, and Milwaukee Record’s Matt Wild take to the WMSE airwaves to discuss all things Milwaukee. This half-hour fun-fest is called T...

It’s time to establish some rules for using (or not using) cell phones at concerts

Matt Wild

July 10, 2014

A few weeks ago, mere hours before Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds took the stage at Milwaukee Theater, I made a joke about the show on Twitter: “MKE drinking game: Take a shot for every Nick Cave picture you see i...

Here’s the lineup for the 2014 Brady Street Festival

Matt Wild

July 8, 2014

The lumbering beast known as Godzilla Summerfest has finally lumbered back into Lake Michigan, content to slumber for another year while plotting the destruction of the city more great music and entertainment f...

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