First Impression: Goodkind
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”
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
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
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
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
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!
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
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
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
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
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...
Where to go (and what to see) at Friday’s Bay View Gallery Night
For the past few years, Made In Milwaukee’s semi-annual Bay View Gallery Night has taken the tried and true citywide art exhibition and whittled it down to a single neighborhood. By staging many of its exhibits...
Listen to new music from AUTOMatic, Yo-Dot
AUTOMatic and Yo-Dot are two of Milwaukee’s very best hip-hop acts, each cooly in control of their respective styles. Rapper A.P.R.I.M.E. and producer Trellmatic of AUTOMatic tend to favor jazzy, silky-smooth j...
Listen to the new Canopies single, “Getting Older”
Canopies' self-titled 2011 EP was only five songs long, but that was enough to land it at a lofty number four on our list of the 50 best Milwaukee albums of the 2010s (so far). A sparkling, dreamy, and ridiculo...
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The Delphines: Hush
The Delphines have always been a singles band. The A-side/B-side and EP formats seemed especially suited to the group, whose sly, sinewy, lo-fi garage rock was best enjoyed in short bursts, leaving an aftertast...
Help The Scarring Party fund its final album, End Times
The Scarring Party has been mostly silent since its excellent 2010 album Losing Teeth, and Milwaukee has been a lot less creepy for it. The twisted “end-timey” outfit filled the early ’00s with a sinister blend...
Marc Maron played guitar on a new Trapper Schoepp & The Shades song
Stand-up comic Marc Maron is best known as the agreeably neurotic/TMI host of his insanely popular WTF podcast, as well as the star of his own IFC show, Maron. Fellow stand-ups are the most frequent WTF guests,...
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Lisa Ridgely & The Fainting Room: Heart Hot
Lisa Ridgely & The Fainting Room’s 2012 EP Wine In Bed was the kind of debut that garnered faint praise like “nice.” Its dark-hued Americana was pleasant enough to pass the time, but not quite bold enough t...
It’s Tuesday, which means the Grand Ave. is being sold at auction
In accordance with a federal law that states any and all news surrounding The Shops of Grand Avenue must be reported, we’re required to inform you that the long-beleaguered mall is scheduled to be sold at aucti...
Chronicling the city with “Content Milwaukee”
Two months ago, a blog named Content Milwaukee quietly entered the ever-growing local publication scene. At first, its scope and ambition seemed as humble as its name: a collection of mostly black-and-white pic...