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Enjoy this bootleg recording of Stevie Ray Vaughan at Oriental Theatre in 1985

March 10, 2025

Milwaukee's Oriental Theatre isn't just a historic movie palace, it's a historic concert venue. Dedicated musical concerts at the East Side theater may be few and far between these days, but, over the decades, ...

Bug Moment sets new high score with ‘The Lazer Collection’

Matt Wild

March 7, 2025

On 2023's The Flying Toad Circus, Milwaukee "emo-adjacent rock melancholia" group Bug Moment spun a hushed and haunting spell. There were moments of brilliant noise and anguished cries, but the bulk of the reco...

MKE musicians headed to SXSW; wish them luck at tonight’s Cooperage sendoff party

Matt Wild

March 6, 2025

Beginning this weekend, the 2025 South by Southwest music conference/festival/blowout will take over every venue/bar/corner of Austin, Texas. And amidst all the madness will be a contingent of artists giving Au...

Food/Drink Roundup: Milwaukee named 8th best beer city in U.S., which seems low

Matt Wild

March 5, 2025

Looking for a roundup of Milwaukee food and drink news? Then take a bite of our cleverly titled, bi-weekly Food/Drink Roundup! This week: Milwaukee is only the 8th best beer city in the U.S.? • Milwaukee exi...

Money talks, rockets launch in Highland Community School’s ‘A Very Special Visit’

Matt Wild

March 4, 2025

More than two dozen 4th, 5th, and 6th graders dash around a dimly lit gymnasium. Discussions of money and morality are punctuated by the sounds of fire alarms and mid-period Styx. The richest person in the worl...

Here’s Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson’s 2025 State of the City address

Matt Wild

March 4, 2025

Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson delivered his 2025 State of the City address at the Baird Center on Monday. He was introduced by his predecessor, former Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett. Johnson's wide-ranging a...

Oriental, Downer theaters will go cashless beginning March 10

Matt Wild

March 3, 2025

The 2025 Milwaukee Film Festival is set to run April 24 through May 8 at the Oriental Theatre and Downer Theatre. (Sorry, MFF films won't be screening at the Avalon or Times this year.) It will feature approxim...

McBob’s would like to remind you not to scream at your server if they give you root beer instead of Dr Pepper

Matt Wild

February 28, 2025

In February 2024, business partners Katy Klinnert and Sara McConville assumed ownership of beloved neighborhood treasure McBob's Pub & Grill (4919 W. North Ave.; 414-871-5050). "I looked around and I though...

George Webb on Oakland is closed; building owner would like something that’s NOT George Webb

Matt Wild

February 26, 2025

After more than 15 years of dedicated service, affordable burgers, and eternally sketchy vibes, the George Webb at 2935 N. Oakland Ave. on Milwaukee's East Side has closed. The news was first reported on Tuesda...

Here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (February 12-25, 2025)

Matt Wild

February 26, 2025

broadstreet.zone(154824); Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a "renaissance" or a "reinvention." However you want to define it, it's safe to say that Milwaukee is cur...

No matter the season, Danny Arcane will heat things up with “Girl”

Matt Wild

February 26, 2025

Milwaukee singer-songwriter Danny Arcane largely travels in the indie-pop lane, but he's no stranger to some good old fashioned slow jams. Back in 2023, The U.S.- and U.K.-raised Arcane released the smooth "Do ...

Orange two-sided anchor tied to the Milwaukee Boat: The Milwaukee Record Review

Matt Wild

February 25, 2025

The beloved Milwaukee Boat—a.k.a. the S.S. Milwaukee, the S.S. Minnow, the Minnow, Deep Thought, or just "The Boat"—ran ashore on October 13, 2024. But this article isn't about who owns the thing or why it hasn...

Let’s vote on when the Marcus Center snow pile will melt this year (2025 edition)

Matt Wild

February 24, 2025

Hey! Guess what? It's time to vote on when the Marcus Center snow pile will melt THIS year! You know the pile. It's that big snow pile in downtown Milwaukee, at 929 N. Water St. The one on the side of the Ma...

Jimmy Flemion of The Frogs has been uploading musical gems to YouTube since 2021

Matt Wild

February 24, 2025

In the history of Milwaukee bands that broke into the mainstream—albeit briefly—no group leaves a stranger mark than The Frogs. Brothers Jimmy and Dennis Flemion formed the aggressively lo-fi and subversive alt...

Watch Bob Uecker give a (wacky) tour of his home circa 1985

Matt Wild

February 24, 2025

It's been just over a month since Milwaukee/baseball/broadcasting/universe legend Bob Uecker passed away at age 90. Since then, we've been regularly revisiting the wealth of clips from Uecker's unique career: i...

The Keystones stay on the grind with synth-flavored “SHINJUKU”

Matt Wild

February 21, 2025

Everything's a grind, right? Eking out a living, maintaining our jobs, maintaining our relationships, releasing a new five-song EP that deals with the very concept of grinding and working and working some more ...

Avalon Theater will be one long smorgasbord at our March 19 screening of ‘Tremors’

Matt Wild

February 20, 2025

In a recent retrospective for The Reveal, Keith Phipps calls 1990's Tremors a "five-star three-star movie." "It doesn't aim as high as, say, Born On The Fourth of July, the 1989 holdover that topped the box off...

MKE Music Rewind: Canopies, s/t EP (2011)

Matt Wild

February 20, 2025

In MKE Music Rewind we revisit notable Milwaukee music that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014. This week: Canopies' self-titled debut EP from 2011. If you dig into the archive...

Bug Moment goes supersonic on “Chaos Emerald”

Matt Wild

February 19, 2025

Last fall, Milwaukee's premier "emo-adjacent rock melancholia" group Bug Moment released a terrific new single, "Arbiter." The band followed it with the fantastic "Purple Guy." And now comes the dramatic (and t...

Food/Drink Roundup: That cursed space on Locust and Weil might be something else now

Matt Wild

February 19, 2025

Looking for a roundup of Milwaukee food and drink news? Then take a bite of our cleverly titled, bi-weekly Food/Drink Roundup! This week: • You know that restaurant space at 1000 E. Locust St.? That space ac...

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