Author Matt Wild

Vote now! (For MPM Sci-Fi Film Fest’s “biggest sci-fi turkey of all time”)

November 4, 2014

Last month, we informed you that nature had found a way, and Milwaukee Public Museum would be kicking off its new Sci-Fi Film Fest with Jurassic Park. The six-movie, six-week festival continues this Thursday an...

Trapper Schoepp to play Aloft Milwaukee Downtown this Thursday

Matt Wild

November 4, 2014

Don’t let the recent dearth of news coming from the Trapper Schoepp & The Shades camp fool you—Schoepp and his band have been busy. The group just finished up a three-week tour with The Jayhawks, and a new ...

Listen to a new, politically charged Testa Rosa song (and don’t forget to vote)

Matt Wild

November 4, 2014

It’s been almost four years since the pop chameleons of Testa Rosa dropped the exceedingly lovely II, which landed on our list of the 50 best Milwaukee albums of the 2010s (so far). Now, in the wake of frontwom...

Take a bite of the debut album from Brat Sounds

Matt Wild

October 31, 2014

There are Milwaukee albums that arrive after months of anticipation (Space Raft, the upcoming Canopies), and there are Milwaukee albums that just show up on your doorstep, unannounced but thoroughly welcome (Si...

Exclusive: Listen to Drag, the debut EP from NO/NO (ex-Delphines)

Matt Wild

October 28, 2014

The Delphines were one of the best Milwaukee bands of the 2010s, firing forth a series of EPs and singles stuffed with jittery, sexy, reverb-drenched gloom-rock. But soon after the group finally got around to r...

The Sleater-Kinney show has been moved to Riverside Theater

Matt Wild

October 28, 2014

Due to overwhelming demand—a.k.a. this sucker sold out in 30 minutes—the February 15 Sleater-Kinney show at Turner Hall has been moved to the Riverside Theater. New tickets will go on sale today at noon. Accord...

Dave Chappelle (and Milwaukee) triumph at Pabst Theater

Matt Wild

October 28, 2014

Two questions dominated the conversation leading up to Dave Chappelle’s three-night, six-show stint at Pabst Theater, so let’s just get them out of the way:Q: Would Chappelle—somewhat notorious in recent ye...

Reminder: Please shut the f**k up at the Dave Chappelle shows (or you’ll be kicked out)

Matt Wild

October 24, 2014

Beginning Monday, October 27, the one and only Dave Chappelle will be setting up shop in Milwaukee for an extended three-day, six-show run at the Pabst Theater. Unsurprisingly, all six shows are sold out, meani...

Exclusive: Listen to Ladders’ excellent debut album, Suha

Matt Wild

October 24, 2014

In just five short years, the Riverwest-based Breadking collective has made its mark on the city’s music scene by nurturing a seemingly endless number of young bands, and by providing an informal support networ...

Help fund Christopher Darling, a local film about the underbelly of rock and roll

Matt Wild

October 23, 2014

On the surface, the life of a successful musician would seem to be one filled with endless pleasures, creative and emotional fulfillment, and “backstage changing tents” stocked with eager-to-please fans (Van Ha...

That Wisconsin Ebola thing is a hoax (but here are a bunch of alarmist local stories anyway)

Matt Wild

October 22, 2014

Staying true to its motto of “Leading the way with important local coverage of stuff we saw on Facebook,” WISN 12 assured viewers yesterday that a series of social media posts claiming Ebola had broken out in W...

El-Shareef’s Nonchalant EP is anything but

Matt Wild

October 22, 2014

The digital age has made it possible for artists to record and release their music at a stunningly rapid rate. Hip-hop, in particular, has embraced this accelerated production schedule in the form of mixtapes—q...

Here’s what Neil deGrasse Tyson will talk about at his Riverside shows this December

Matt Wild

October 21, 2014

In a time when ignorance is celebrated and grown adults camp out in parking lots for free chicken sandwiches, a public figure like Neil deGrasse Tyson is not only welcome, but needed. The celebrated astrophysic...

Brett Favre congratulates Peyton Manning on touchdown record, gets burned by Jenn Sterger

Matt Wild

October 20, 2014

History was made last night during the Denver Broncos-San Francisco 49ers game when Broncos quarterback/Papa John BFF Peyton Manning threw his 509th (and later, 510th) career touchdown pass, surpassing the prev...

Pop-culture blind spots, Patti Smith, and the unique pleasures of the unknown

Matt Wild

October 17, 2014

There’s a moment in The Blair Witch Project when Heather, stumbling aimlessly in the woods and refusing to admit she’s lost, calmly explains, “It’s very hard to get lost in America these days, and even harder t...

The 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival, by the numbers

Matt Wild

October 14, 2014

It’s easy to say things like, “The 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival was great!” or, “Holy shit! The 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival was the best damn f*#@ing film festival ever! Shit.” But for all those easy and obsce...

Dance, dance, dance! (To new Scrimshaw and Heavy Hand videos)

Matt Wild

October 14, 2014

Music videos can be used to communicate many things: the meaning of a song, the subtext of a song, or an elaborate story that has little or nothing to do with a song. Then there are music videos like the new on...

Milwaukee Public Museum spares no expense, opens Sci-Fi Film Fest with Jurassic Park

Matt Wild

October 13, 2014

Back in 1993, director Steven Spielberg thrilled the world with Jurassic Park, the tale of out-of-control dinosaurs, the hubris of man, and Jeff Goldblum’s bare, glistening chest. Now, 21 years, two sequels, an...

Exclusive: Get pummeled by Volunteer’s four-song EP, Goner

Matt Wild

October 9, 2014

In a time when the number of bands on planet Earth rivals the amount of water on planet Earth, it’s rare to find a “band’s band.” You know, a band that other bands respect, regardless of style or genre. Milwauk...

Put on your (orthopedic) dancing shoes for Scrimshaw’s “Hoopula” video

Matt Wild

October 8, 2014

If there’s a more willfully weird and gleefully enjoyable Milwaukee band working today than Scrimshaw, we haven’t found it. For the past few years, the oddball trio of singer-guitarist Robert Thomas, singer-dru...