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Summerfest announces Isley Brothers, Eric Benét, more for Juneteenth celebration

February 5, 2025

Summerfest 2025 is set for June 19-21, June 26-28, and July 3-5. That opening night—Thursday, June 19—is also Juneteenth Day. To celebrate, Summerfest is partnering with Northcott Neighborhood House to bring Ju...

Here’s when Summerfest will announce its 2025 lineup, and that’s it

Matt Wild

February 5, 2025

Wednesday, February 12 at 6 a.m. Want more Milwaukee Record? Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter and/or support us on Patreon. RELATED ARTICLES • Summerfest announces Isley Brothers, Eric Benét...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Renaissance Books is a unique destination in Milwaukee’s airport

Matt Wild

February 4, 2025

broadstreet.zone(77472); Some Milwaukee things come and go, while some become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. This week: Renaissance Books! Even in a world rife with digital distractions...

Behold the power of Art Of 3’s “Amen”

Matt Wild

February 4, 2025

"It's a new year and we are back with a new banger." That's the short, simple, and almost comically understated message that accompanies "Amen," the latest single from Milwaukee hip-hop outfit Art Of 3. Why ...

Here are the Brewers’ 2025 giveaways and theme nights, and that’s it

Matt Wild

February 4, 2025

GIVEAWAYS • Saturday, April 5 – Brewers Long Sleeve Hoodie, courtesy of Quartz • Monday, April 14 – Wisconsin Artist Series 414 T-Shirt Tuesday*, courtesy of Hupy and Abraham • Saturday, April 19 – Brewe...

Food truck park, “facial authentication-based ticket validation system” coming to AmFam Field in 2025

Matt Wild

February 3, 2025

Your Milwaukee Brewers' home opener is set for Monday, March 31 against the Kansas City Royals. That's two months away! What to do in the meantime? How about diving into (and probably arguing about) all the new...

As Oak previews new album with “Nightmares On Wax”

Matt Wild

February 3, 2025

Back in 2022, we described indescribable Milwaukee band as Oak as a group in possession of "a strange and unclassifiable energy that penetrates every bone and pore and follicle in your body." The band's 2022 EP...

The Next Bar is the next bar coming to former Eastsider/Upper East space

Matt Wild

February 3, 2025

It's been a busy/confusing few years for the bar formerly known as the Eastsider, located at 1732 E. North Ave. The Eastsider closed in 2017 after an impressive run of nearly 20 years. After that, the space bec...

Benson Boone will headline Summerfest on July 3

Matt Wild

February 3, 2025

Did you catch Benson Boone at last night's Grammy Awards? How about the part where he got "stripped" by Heidi Klum and Nikki Glaser? How about his "aggressive crotch grab" that was so aggressive he had to kinda...

Hop in and watch the trailer for the Milwaukee-made TW Hansen doc ‘Now! More! Yes!’

Matt Wild

January 31, 2025

"A legally blind used car salesman drunkenly purchases an ambulance online with his boss's credit card." If you live outside Milwaukee, that sentence may sound like a Mad Lib tagline to a zany madcap comedy....

The Estate set to reopen (with music!) on weekends

Matt Wild

January 31, 2025

The last four years have been bumpy ones for beloved East Side club The Estate (2423 N. Murray Ave). There were openings and closings, kinda-sorta name changes (it was The Jazz Estate but it's just The Estate n...

Andrew Jambura laments state of society, Pro Bowl, in video for “My God”

Matt Wild

January 31, 2025

The last time we checked in with Milwaukee musician and Silver City Studios engineer Andrew Jambura, the former Sat. Nite Duets member was releasing his first solo song in nearly a decade, "Can U Spell God?" Fa...

Northridge Mall demolition continues; former JCPenney razed this week

Matt Wild

January 30, 2025

Last summer we took a tour of the long-empty, super-trashed, and soon-to-be-demolished Northridge Mall. It was the last time folks could (legally) take a look inside the once-mighty mall before it started to (l...

Spring has sprung with the artwork for the 2025 Milwaukee Film Festival

Matt Wild

January 30, 2025

Have you been outside today? It's pretty nice! True, spring is still months away, but at least it kinda-sorta feels like spring today. And here's another taste of spring: the just-released artwork for the 2025 ...

MKE Music Rewind: 1984, ‘Rock Drill’ (2000)

Matt Wild

January 30, 2025

In MKE Music Rewind we revisit notable Milwaukee music that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014. This week: 1984's Rock Drill from 2000. There's a great line from Stephen King n...

Milwaukee made $559K from those darn electric scooters in 2024

Matt Wild

January 29, 2025

The last time we heard from the Milwaukee Department of Public Works on the issue of those darn electric scooters, the city had netted nearly $500,000 from the things. Now, at the beginning of 2025, the DPW has...

Here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (January 15-28, 2025)

Matt Wild

January 29, 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...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Remembering Bob Uecker (and everything else)

Matt Wild

January 28, 2025

broadstreet.zone(77472); Some Milwaukee things come and go, while some become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. This week: Uecker. On the morning of Thursday, January 16, I was planning on...

SereniTea Lounge will open this week in long-vacant Downer Avenue space

Matt Wild

January 28, 2025

For the first time in nearly two decades, a business will occupy a high-profile spot on the 2500 block of Downer Avenue. Well, a portion of that spot, anyway. SereniTea Lounge, a boba/bubble tea and cocktail...

10 Milwaukee names that are easy to get technically wrong

Matt Wild

January 27, 2025

In our semi-regular Tracklist feature we round up a bunch of Milwaukee things and present them in list form. Do people still enjoy lists? Yes? Well, enjoy! What's in a name? A sense of self, a sense of ident...

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