Author Matt Wild

Watch WebsterX go public on PBS’ ’30-Minute Music Hour’

October 13, 2015

If you’re looking for a Milwaukee artist with big ideas and bigger ambitions, look no further than WebsterX. The last few years have seen the young rapper take the initial momentum of his terrific debut album D...

Found Footage Festival will return to Milwaukee in November with “Salute to Weirdos”

Matt Wild

October 12, 2015

For more than 10 years, Wisconsin natives Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher have been bravely scouring America’s cut-out bins, Goodwills, and dumpsters in order to find some of the most bizarre and delightful VHS od...

John Waters’ ‘Polyester’ will screen at the Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival in 35mm and “Odorama”

Matt Wild

October 12, 2015

Two of the many, many highlights of the recently wrapped 2015 Milwaukee Film Festival were screenings of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws and Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, both in glorious 35mm. But while it was incred...

Halloween Superstores Of The Damned: Discount Halloveen

Matt Wild

October 8, 2015

If there’s one holiday season that depends almost entirely on “mood,” it’s Halloween. Christmas and Easter have obvious religious ties, the Fourth of July has obvious national ties, and Thanksgiving has food. S...

Here’s what’s screening at “Shocktoberfest” at the Avalon, Rosebud, and Times

Matt Wild

October 6, 2015

It’s a scientific fact that nothing beats October. The weather is awesome, Halloween is lurking around the corner, and businesses go nuts with “Rocktober” and “Shocktober” events. In the case of the latter, the...

Tracklist: 26 horror films set in Wisconsin

Matt Wild

October 5, 2015

// If various tourism organizations are to be believed, Wisconsin is filled with natural beauty, endless outdoor and urban activities, and die-hard Packers fans. Water skiing is sometimes involved. If various...

Exclusive: Listen to WebsterX remix and “reslice” Airo Kwil’s “Tangerine Tint”

Matt Wild

October 5, 2015

In a Milwaukee musical landscape currently dotted with singular artists and cross-pollinated projects, it’s still easy to pick out Airo Kwil from the crowd. The outfit is the rapping alter-ego of New Boyz Club ...

MFF2015 Day 9: The Milwaukee Show II, ‘Turbo Kid’

Matt Wild

October 2, 2015

The 2015 Milwaukee Film Festival runs Thursday, September 24 through Thursday, October 8. Check out our list of 13 reasons to get excited for the fest here. If you’re looking for daily recommendations and/or wh...

Brandi Carlile goes big and gets intimate at stunning Pabst Theater show

Matt Wild

September 30, 2015

Before anything else is said about Brandi Carlile’s sold-out show at Pabst Theater Tuesday night, it should be noted that halfway through the evening the singer-songwriter performed the impossibly gorgeous and ...

Watch children ride, get pummeled by sheep in Dogs In Ecstasy’s “Do Me Ronnie” video

Matt Wild

September 29, 2015

We’re big rodeo fans here at Milwaukee Record, and even bigger “mutton busting” nuts. (Heh.) What’s mutton busting, you ask? Why, only the time-honored tradition of strapping small children to ornery sheep and ...

MFF2015 Day 1: ‘Youth,’ Opening Night Party

Matt Wild

September 24, 2015

// The 2015 Milwaukee Film Festival runs Thursday, September 24 through Thursday, October 8. Check out our list of 13 reasons to get excited for the fest here. If you’re looking for daily recommendations and/...

Return to Haunchyville

Matt Wild

September 22, 2015

// Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: There’s a place, somewhere deep in the woods of Muskego, where a group of mysterious little people have created their own pint-sized mini-utopia. Travel down a disu...

Steve Martin and Martin Short will bring double the Martin to Riverside Theater in November

Matt Wild

September 21, 2015

// There are comedy legends, and then there are Comedy Legends. Steve Martin and Martin Short clearly belong in the latter, capitalized category. Alone and together, the two Martins have redefined stand-up co...

I climbed to the top of City Hall and it was awesome and kind of terrifying

Matt Wild

September 17, 2015

// I’m climbing to the top of Milwaukee City Hall and there’s only one thing on my mind: death. Death, death, death. Not “lose-my-balance-and-plummet-to-Earth” death, though there’s that, too. Measuring 353 f...

Mayor Barrett dropped an unfortunate ‘Predator’ quote at a luncheon on Tuesday

Matt Wild

September 17, 2015

// On Tuesday, the Milwaukee Business Journal held a “Downtown Milwaukee Renaissance” luncheon at the Pfister Hotel. It was the kind of event where a bunch of people who have more money than you—Milwaukee Buc...

There will be a ‘Legend Of Zelda’ scavenger hunt at Saturday’s Doors Open Milwaukee

Matt Wild

September 15, 2015

// On Saturday, September 19 and Sunday, September 20, more than 150 Milwaukee-area buildings will open their doors for the fifth annual Doors Open Milwaukee. Historic Milwaukee’s massive, free-to-the-public ...

10 years of Global Union: The trials (and triumphs) of bringing the world to Milwaukee

Matt Wild

September 15, 2015

// It was 2008, outdoors at Humboldt Park, and storm clouds were threatening to put a serious damper on Alverno Presents’ annual world music festival, Global Union. Malian singer and guitarist Vieux Farka Tou...

Riverside Theater is getting a sweet new marquee and a 40-foot vertical sign

Matt Wild

September 14, 2015

// The Riverside Theater has seen a plethora of changes in its 87-year history. Originally opened in 1928 as an RKO vaudeville house (hosting everyone from The Three Stooges to Glenn Miller), the Wisconsin Av...

Vic And Gab open up about playing their final show as Vic And Gab

Matt Wild

September 10, 2015

// From 2012-2014, Vic And Gab were a reliable, near-constant presence in Milwaukee’s music scene. The sister duo of Victoriah and Hannah Gabriela were known to play their effervescent, impeccably crafted ind...

Robert Thomas recreates “Dropping A Han Dynasty Urn” by dropping a signed 50 Cent vodka bottle

Matt Wild

September 10, 2015

// Back in July, we made a pilgrimage to the Oak Creak Woodman’s and braved blistering temperatures, an endless line, and a runaway trash can to get a bottle of EFFEN Vodka signed by 50 Cent. We left feeling ...