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Get lost in the dream-pop goodness of Brief Candles’ ‘Unfinished Nature’

October 22, 2024

In the final moments of David Lynch and Mark Frost's 2017 Twin Peaks revival, a puzzled and temporally adrift Agent Cooper asks "What year is this?" The same question comes to mind while listening to the music ...

Early in-person voting begins TODAY, Milwaukee

Matt Wild

October 22, 2024

There's a big election coming up on Tuesday, November 5. Perhaps you've heard of it? Well, if you're looking to skip the Election Day lines and avoid hanging out in a school gymnasium for 30 minutes while "e...

Here are the new food and beverage items coming to Fiserv Forum for the 2024-25 Bucks season

Matt Wild

October 21, 2024

Your Milwaukee Bucks kick off their 2024-25 this week (get your tickets HERE), which can mean only one thing: The Bucks are back, baby! And with them, a host of new food and beverage items coming to Fiserv Foru...

Enjoy new Halloween songs from Fuzzysurf, The Quilz

Matt Wild

October 21, 2024

It's that time of year, folks: Pumpkins! Pumpkin spice! Leaves! Scary movies! That old Garfield Halloween special where he fights ghost pirates or something! Oh, and spooky music! And spooky local music! So ...

14 photos of that boat that ran aground near Bradford Beach and has just been sitting there for a week

Matt Wild

October 18, 2024

UPDATE (10/23/24): Still there! Have you heard about that boat that ran aground near Bradford Beach—just south of MooSa's restaurant on Lincoln Memorial Drive—and has just been sitting there for a week? We...

Watch old Halloween TV shows (plus commercials!) with TV Grime, October 24 at X-Ray Arcade

Matt Wild

October 18, 2024

Back in 2022, Milwaukee author Luke Geddes released the first issue of his TV Grime zine. It was a 116-page collection of, in Geddes' words, "reviews and free associations of every Halloween episode I've ever s...

Watch “too-gross-for-theaters” trailer for 1994 Milwaukee-made horror film ‘Aswang’

Matt Wild

October 17, 2024

It's the spooky season, and Milwaukee Film is currently neck-deep in its vampire-tastic "Bite Club" series. On Saturday, October 26 at the Oriental Theatre, that series will go local with a screening of the 199...

Wave Chapelle and friends will play inaugural installment of Riverwest Radio Spotlight Series

Matt Wild

October 17, 2024

Back in January, a unique show took place at a unique location. Social Cig and Wave Chapelle played a co-headlining show in the cozy confines of Riverwest Radio. In case you missed it, here it is: https://ww...

The incredibly busy world of Nineteen Thirteen

Matt Wild

October 16, 2024

Victor DeLorenzo is throwing himself a birthday party—sort of—and everyone is invited. On Saturday, October 19, the veteran Milwaukee musician and Violent Femmes founding drummer will celebrate his 70th birt...

Entering final years, Milwaukee Public Museum unveils new exhibit about Milwaukee Public Museum

Matt Wild

October 16, 2024

Here's your gentle, semi-regular reminder that the Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM) as you know it—the weird, wild, wonderful, cavernous, and charmingly out-of-time museum that has stood at 800 W. Wells St. since ...

Here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (October 2-15)

Matt Wild

October 16, 2024

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...

Common Council keeps Milwaukee flag debate in limbo, congratulates Juvenile

Matt Wild

October 15, 2024

The nearly decade-long debate about Milwaukee's city flag stayed true to its history and went nowhere on Tuesday. The Milwaukee Common Council, having previously held the matter of whether or not to make the so...

Garden Home’s “The Worst Of It” video is one shot of pummeling perfection

Matt Wild

October 15, 2024

Back in April, Milwaukee screamo/post-hardcore band Garden Home released its excellent self-titled debut album. "Garden Home is now a band in full bloom," we said, "as its long-awaited debut album shows those s...

Diet Lite’s Max Niemann goes solo, hits the road with ‘The Fellow Travelers’

Matt Wild

October 14, 2024

One of the busiest and most beloved Milwaukee bands to make its name post-pandemic has been Diet Lite. The scruffy indie-rock outfit released the excellent Seems To Be The Way It Tends To Go in 2021, and follow...

Sushi restaurant 1033 Omakase planned for old 1033 MKE space at 1033 S. 1st St.

Matt Wild

October 14, 2024

Can't get enough of sushi restaurants? Neither can we, which is why we're excited to inform you that a new sushi restaurant is being planned for Walker's Point. What's the name of the new joint? 1033 Omakase...

Summerfest announces first 2025 headliner, Lainey Wilson, 254 long days ahead of time

Matt Wild

October 14, 2024

Wildly popular country artist Lainey Wilson will headline the American Family Insurance Amphitheater on Thursday, June 26, during Summerfest 2025. The Big Gig announced its first 2025 headliner on Monday—254 da...

The Hallelujah Ward comes to life (finally!) with ‘I Forced Myself To Live, Charlie Bee’

Matt Wild

October 11, 2024

It's a bright and bustling morning at Radio Milwaukee and Mark Waldoch is ready to begin the day. "They used to have this thing where they would frenetically interview somebody for eighty-eight seconds," he ...

Great Job, Wisconsin! We want to die while eating brats

Matt Wild

October 10, 2024

Here at Milwaukee Record we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job, Wisconsin! Bot to keep track of the state's many appearances on dopey online lists and studies, as well as any time a national publi...

Food/Drink Roundup: Support East Side businesses in their construction time of need

Matt Wild

October 9, 2024

broadstreet.zone(154824); 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: East Side businesses that need support while ...

Everybody loves Miller High Life, including Kamala Harris and the Real Housewives

Matt Wild

October 9, 2024

"Bottle of High Life?" That's what the bartender at Landmark Lanes says every time I (Matt) approach the bar. I've been going to the Landmark for 8,000 years, and they know that I drink Miller High Life. It'...

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