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We’re partnering with Lion’s Tooth for a monthly Music Book Club

May 12, 2025

Do you like books? Do you like music? Do you like books about music? Then you're in luck, because we're partnering with beloved Bay View bookstore Lion's Tooth (2421 S. Kinnickinnic Ave.) for a monthly Music Bo...

A clue-by-clue solution to our 2025 Milwaukee Film Festival treasure hunt

Matt Wild

May 9, 2025

In case you missed it, the 2025 Milwaukee Film Festival wrapped up Thursday night. It was a blast! (The line for the Closing Night film, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, went around the block.) Oh, and something el...

Summerfest boosts 2025 lineup with Third Eye Blind, Local H, numerous Milwaukee acts, more

Matt Wild

May 8, 2025

It looks like we need to update our easy-to-read Summerfest 2025 lineup article, because the Big Gig just juiced its lineup with a bunch of new names. Leading the pack are Third Eye Blind and The Gufs, who w...

Here’s the 2025 lineup for Lake Park’s Musical Mondays

Matt Wild

May 8, 2025

Milwaukee summers are absolutely stuffed with outdoor music series. (Need proof? Here you go!) But none of those outdoor music series are quite as cozy—or quite as eclectic—as Musical Mondays. The free summerti...

Mandatory Milwaukee: The wonderful world (and programs) of Milwaukee Recreation

Matt Wild

May 8, 2025

broadstreet.zone(77472); Some Milwaukee things come and go, while some become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. This week: Milwaukee Recreation! Milwaukee Recreation is the best. For more ...

Boat gone

Matt Wild

May 7, 2025

After nearly seven months of being stranded on the Milwaukee shores of Lake Michigan between Bradford and McKinley beaches, the Milwaukee Boat—a.k.a. the S.S. Minnow, the S.S. Milwaukee, Deep Thought, or just t...

Sendik’s on Downer temporarily closed by health department due to “escalating pest activity”

Matt Wild

May 5, 2025

UPDATE (5/7/25): Nehring's Sendik's has reopened. Says the Milwaukee Health Department: "During today's re-inspection, MHD confirmed that all pest-related violations have been addressed. Affected areas have bee...

Braid will headline WMSE’s 15th annual Backyard BBQ August 23

Matt Wild

May 5, 2025

For the past decade and a half, WMSE's Backyard BBQ has spiced up the waning days of summer with a shot of music, food, drink, and good vibes. And it's all free! Two years ago, the legendary Bob Mould headlined...

They’re gonna remove the Milwaukee Boat on Tuesday. For real this time. Weather permitting.

Matt Wild

May 2, 2025

After more than 200 days, nearly seven months, and more than a week after Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson himself said the infamous abandoned Milwaukee Boat would be gone by day's end, it seems the Boat's days...

Xposed 4Heads issue call to arms on ‘Crack The Sky’

Matt Wild

May 2, 2025

When we last checked in with Xposed 4Heads in January 2024, the veteran Milwaukee New Wave/art-rock band was in a mood. "It's messed up beyond belief / We've gone too far, we're in too deep," cried frontman Mar...

Alley Eyes embrace the anthemic side of indie sleaze with excellent “No Good”

Matt Wild

April 30, 2025

Are we in the midst of an "indie sleaze" revival? You know, that pocket of 2000s-era music and culture epitomized by bands like The Strokes, The Killers, and LCD Soundsystem? That moment in time when everyone w...

After 18 years, Smiths/Morrissey tribute act The Salford Lads Club hangs up its flowers

Matt Wild

April 29, 2025

For a band that was only active for five years, The Smiths cast a remarkably long shadow. Morrissey, Johnny Marr, Andy Rourke, and Mike Joyce formed The Smiths in 1982, and released their self-titled debut in 1...

The owners of the Milwaukee Boat speak (allegedly, via a wild Google Maps review)

Matt Wild

April 28, 2025

After nearly 200 days, the Milwaukee Boat—a.k.a. The Minnow, the S.S. Minnow, the S.S. Milwaukee, Deep Thought, or just The Boat—is still stranded on the Milwaukee shores of Lake Michigan, between Bradford and ...

Astronaut Husband takes emotional journey ‘Into The Sun’

Matt Wild

April 28, 2025

The words "astronaut husband" evoke distance—both physical and emotional. Somewhere out in the emptiness of space is Major Tom, asking Ground Control to tell his wife he loves her very much (she knows). Milwauk...

“Think Fast” and listen to new single from Oh Geeez, Not Again

Matt Wild

April 25, 2025

Think fast, hotshot: Do you like music of the pop-rock variety? If so, do you like your pop-rock to be extra sugary, hooky, 2000s-y, and polished to such a blinding shine that it should come with a complimentar...

Breakfast at Mayville’s Sherwood Family Restaurant, which used to be a Pizza Hut

Matt Wild

April 24, 2025

A few weeks ago, when I learned that the 2025 Milwaukee Film Festival (April 24 - May 8) would feature a documentary about businesses that occupy former Pizza Huts, my eyes lit up. "This movie is kind of a hard...

Rejoice, typewriter enthusiasts, for there’s now a Christopher Latham Sholes bobblehead

Matt Wild

April 23, 2025

Do you love bobbleheads? Do you love typewriters? Do you love bobbleheads that pay tribute to the inventor of the first commercial typewriter? Then have we got news for you! The National Bobblehead Hall of F...

My wildly ambitious, never-gonna-happen-but-I’ll-try-anyway MFF25 itinerary

Matt Wild

April 22, 2025

The 2025 Milwaukee Film Festival cometh! From April 24 through May 8, 96 feature films and 112 short films will light up the screens of the Oriental and Downer theatres. (The full lineup can be found HERE. Tick...

Socially Suspect has something to add with cathartic “P.S.”

Matt Wild

April 22, 2025

When we last checked in with Socially Suspect, the genre-flouting Milwaukee band was...releasing its own card game where players "experience the glamorous life of a DIY band"? It's true! Oh, and tickling listen...

Here are the Bank Five Nine Amphitheater headliners for the 2025 Wisconsin State Fair

Matt Wild

April 22, 2025

The 2025 Wisconsin State Fair is exactly 100 days away. That's 100 days until the sights, sounds, and smells of the State Fair take over West Allis from July 31 through August 10. As for the music, we already k...

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