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

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...

Sylvan Esso to perform on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon July 9

Matt Wild

July 7, 2014

Sylvan Esso may hail from Durham, North Carolina, but the hot-as-shit two-piece electro act has some serious Milwaukee connections. Nick Sanborn, of course, is a former Milwaukeean and former member of the gone...

8 (mostly) dead websites from Milwaukee’s past

Matt Wild

July 7, 2014

It’s been said the Internet is written in ink, not pencil. Nothing ever truly disappears from the ol’ World Wide Web, even (and some might say especially) the embarrassing stuff. Thanks to handy tools like the ...

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Sat. Nite Duets: Los DJs

Matt Wild

July 3, 2014

Give Sat. Nite Duets credit where credit is due: For a band that has long cultivated an image of scruffy, tongue-in-cheek good-time dudes who are prone to use hashtags like #blessed and #tite on Twitter, they’v...

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The New Red Moons: Mesmérisme

Matt Wild

July 1, 2014

Taking disparate musical influences and shaping them into something new and/or fresh is an art many bands profess proficiency in, but few ever truly master. Collect a nickel for every group that claims its musi...

Sylvan Esso’s Nick Sanborn talks breakout year, coming full circle

Matt Wild

June 26, 2014

Nick Sanborn and Amelia Meath of Sylvan Esso have just landed at Milwaukee’s General Mitchell International Airport. “A preemptive apology: We might have to stop and restart this interview,” Sanborn says. “We’r...

The evolution of Summerfest drunk dancing

Matt Wild

June 25, 2014

In case you were wondering, that low, dull roar emanating from Milwaukee’s lakefront is not Godzilla, king of the monsters. It’s Summerfest, which kicks off its 47th installment today at noon. And what better w...

Winter Bear’s “Take It Back” is your new summer jam, Milwaukee

Matt Wild

June 25, 2014

The highly sought-after “summer jam” is an elusive thing, and can cover anything from sci-fi-flecked power-rock to feel-good hip-hop. In other words, crafting a summer jam isn’t an exact science—except when it ...

First Impression: Goodkind

Matt Wild

June 24, 2014

If the concept of a musical supergroup can be ported over to the world of food and drink, then the newly opened Goodkind (2457 S. Wentworth Ave., 414-763-4706) certainly fits the all-star bill. Owned and operat...

Here’s a pretty awful “judgmental map of Milwaukee”

Matt Wild

June 24, 2014

Milwaukee is a terrific city, filled with incredible music, amazing food, and approximately 8,000 places to enjoy a drink after all that music and food. (One might say “You Gotta Be Here!”) But it’s also a city...

Okka Fest improvises, goes big for 2014

Matt Wild

June 20, 2014

For the past six years, Okka Fest has brought some of the world’s most talented improvisational and free jazz artists to Milwaukee’s doorstep. The brainchild of Palm Tavern and Sugar Maple owner Bruno Johnson, ...

Watch Klassik search for a “Light” in new video

Matt Wild

June 17, 2014

In just a few short years, Klassik has established himself as one of the city’s best (and most versatile) artists, deftly mixing hip-hop, R&B, jazz, and pop into a smooth, crowd-pleasing cocktail. 2012’s In...

Let’s look at the very ’90s program for Lollapalooza ’94

Matt Wild

June 17, 2014

This article is from 2014. Dates have been updated for 2024. Since 2005, venerable music festival Lollapalooza has taken over Chicago’s Grant Park for a two-day summer celebration of the world’s hottest musi...

Investigative piece on Wisconsin iron mine to air on Al Jazeera America

Matt Wild

June 12, 2014

Since 2011, the controversy surrounding a proposed iron mine in northern Wisconsin’s Penokee mountain range has split the state into two camps: those who see the construction of the $1.5 billion open-pit mine b...

It’s all right! It’s okay! Mark Borchardt to star in new web series!

Matt Wild

June 12, 2014

It’s been 15 years (!) since Chris Smith’s documentary American Movie introduced the world to embattled Milwaukee filmmaker Mark Borchardt. That film famously tagged along with Borchardt and lotto-loving BFF Mi...

Plastic tray dining: A tour of Milwaukee’s downtown cafeterias

Matt Wild

June 11, 2014

When people talk about Milwaukee’s “downtown dining” scene, they’re usually talking about upscale restaurants that wouldn’t feel out of place in a tourism video scored by Peaches’ “Downtown.” Millioke, Carnevor...

Exclusive: Hear two new songs (and watch one new video) from Heidi Spencer And The Rare Birds

Matt Wild

June 10, 2014

Let’s talk about Heidi Spencer’s voice. It’s a voice like a waking dream: sleepy-eyed but lucid, lost in the wilderness but always in control. Over the course of four albums and more than 10 years, it’s a voice...

VISIT Milwaukee’s “You Gotta Be Here” video is hilariously awful

Matt Wild

June 6, 2014

Back in 2008, a strange video surfaced online called “This Is My Milwaukee.” The 11-minute clip was an upbeat tourism video touting the many benefits of the Brew City, hosted by an agreeably accented man named ...

Drop what you’re doing (and/or your pants) and listen to The Blue Mooners

Matt Wild

June 5, 2014

Every so often, an album comes across our desks that defies explanation. It may be a particularly inept concept album, a bizarre collection of covers, a field recording of migratory geese set to smooth jazz, or...

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