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Hugh Masterson talks Nashville move, Hustle’s future, goodbye show

December 3, 2014

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

Matt Wild

December 2, 2014

// 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

Matt Wild

December 1, 2014

// 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)

Matt Wild

December 1, 2014

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

Matt Wild

November 25, 2014

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...

Tracklist: 7 things Milwaukee can be thankful for

Matt Wild

November 24, 2014

Thanksgiving is a time for taking stock of the year gone by; stuffing your face; and participating in an elaborate, multi-family holiday bowling tournament that has gone on for seven years now, and involves det...

This Milwaukee Bucks/Rocky IV mashup will break you

Matt Wild

November 18, 2014

If there’s one thing more protracted and arduous than the drama surrounding the Milwaukee Bucks—terrible teams, new owners, new arenas, terrible teams—it’s the endless montage scenes in Rocky IV. Chief among th...

Shirley Manson of Garbage will play the next Pablove Benefit Concert

Matt Wild

November 17, 2014

For the past six years, Milwaukee’s annual Pablove Benefit Concert has assembled some of the area’s best musical acts on one stage in order to raise awareness and funds for pediatric cancer research. Co-founded...

The Decemberists will return to Riverside Theater March 25

Matt Wild

November 17, 2014

Look up “quintessential ’00s indie-rock band” in the dictionary, and you’ll find a picture of The Decemberists. Beginning with 2002’s Castaways And Cutouts, and culminating with 2009’s The Hazards Of Love, the ...

Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes will close out MPM’s Sci-Fi Film Fest

Matt Wild

November 13, 2014

The voters have spoken, and they’re voting for the “classics”: 1978’s Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes—a cautionary tale of what happens when the ketchup industry goes criminally unregulated—will close out the Mil...

Watch the gorgeous, animated, epic video for Altos’ “Begong Ava Begong Hele”

Matt Wild

November 13, 2014

Things have been relatively quiet in the Altos camp lately—impressive, since there are approximately 75 members in the band. (Real number: 15-ish.) Still, a terrific show at Cactus Club last month (with Scrimsh...

UWM fitness center has banned sleeveless shirts because they’re “intimidating”

Matt Wild

November 12, 2014

// Is there anything more terrifying than walking into a gym in order to get a gym-toned body, only to find yourself surrounded by people flaunting their own gym-toned bodies? No, no there is not. Happily, ...

Futura Extra Bold celebrates 100 years of design in unlikely style

Matt Wild

November 11, 2014

When it comes to 100th anniversary blowouts, Milwaukeeans would be hard pressed not to think of Harley-Davidson, a sea of leather-clad bikers, and a floundering Elton John. One 100-year-old group that probably ...

Fine, here’s video of last weekend’s My Little Pony convention

Matt Wild

November 11, 2014

// Last weekend, more than 600 people gathered at the Hyatt Regency in Downtown Milwaukee for the city’s first My Little Pony convention, which is a thing where My Little Pony fans—including grown men calle...

Journal Sentinel’s PolitiFact site is fact-checking Bob Seger songs now

Matt Wild

November 10, 2014

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel readers are likely familiar with PolitiFact Wisconsin, a JS-affiliated fact-checking site that finally brings fact-checking to journalism. It’s a useful tool for determining the hones...

Kind of like the time Seth MacFarlane was at Lucille’s Piano Bar…

Matt Wild

November 7, 2014

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • It’s been a crazy few weeks for Milwaukee: a contentious election, speculation on the loca...

Awesome Con Milwaukee has been canceled

Matt Wild

November 5, 2014

The state of Wisconsin has been dealt a huge blow today, with news that evil has triumphed and good has been vanquished. We’re talking, of course, about the cancelation of Awesome Con Milwaukee. The inaugural c...

Vote now! (For MPM Sci-Fi Film Fest’s “biggest sci-fi turkey of all time”)

Matt Wild

November 4, 2014

Last month, we informed you that nature had found a way, and Milwaukee Public Museum would be kicking off its new Sci-Fi Film Fest with Jurassic Park. The six-movie, six-week festival continues this Thursday an...

Trapper Schoepp to play Aloft Milwaukee Downtown this Thursday

Matt Wild

November 4, 2014

Don’t let the recent dearth of news coming from the Trapper Schoepp & The Shades camp fool you—Schoepp and his band have been busy. The group just finished up a three-week tour with The Jayhawks, and a new ...

Listen to a new, politically charged Testa Rosa song (and don’t forget to vote)

Matt Wild

November 4, 2014

It’s been almost four years since the pop chameleons of Testa Rosa dropped the exceedingly lovely II, which landed on our list of the 50 best Milwaukee albums of the 2010s (so far). Now, in the wake of frontwom...

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