Author Matt Wild

WMSE’s Friday Night Freak Show is returning to Times Cinema

July 28, 2016

//Rejoice, lovers of cult films and darkened theaters: After a 10-year break, WMSE's once-mighty Friday Night Freak Show is returning to the Times Cinema. Hell yes.The original incarnation of the midni...

Hamburger Mary’s is moving to the former La Perla building

Matt Wild

July 27, 2016

Less than two weeks after the abrupt shutdown of longtime Walker's Point restaurant La Perla (why does this sound so familiar?), the building that housed the business for more than two decades has a new ...

Pop-up cocktail bar, “Club Paradise,” set to pop up at All Purpose July 28

Matt Wild

July 27, 2016

//The concept of "pop-up" events has taken hold in Milwaukee in recent years, giving the city pop-up restaurants, pop-up art installations, and pop-up concerts. Now, a pop-up cocktail bar is set to take ov...

Visit The Globe East circa 1996 with Big Mother Gig video, prep for band’s reunion

Matt Wild

July 26, 2016

//For Milwaukee music fans of a certain age and temperament, The Globe East will forever hold a special place in their alcohol-blurred minds, their noise-damaged ears, and their rapidly wilting hearts. The...

The East Side Red Dot has closed

Matt Wild

July 26, 2016

//Less than two weeks after the abrupt shutdown of its kitchen, the East Side Red Dot Bar has shut down for good. According to Milwaukee Magazine, the Bartlett Ave. bar and restaurant recently put up a sig...

Great Job, Milwaukee! We’re the 12th best city for music fans

Matt Wild

July 26, 2016

//Here at Milwaukee Record, we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job, Milwaukee Bot to keep track of the city's many appearances on dopey online lists, or any time a national publication deigns ...

Watch a time-lapse video of hundreds of Pokemon Go players in Lake Park

Matt Wild

July 25, 2016

//Depending on whom you ask, Pokemon Go is either the harbinger of the end times or a miracle sent from the bosom of Jigglypuff itself that cures depression, loneliness, and probably death. Or, you know, t...

Here’s the menu for DanDan

Matt Wild

July 25, 2016

//Has there been a more anticipated Milwaukee restaurant opening in recent years than DanDan? Probably not. The new Asian-inspired restaurant from chefs Dan Van Rite and Dan Jacobs is slated to open in the...

Prep for Synth Fest MKE with Liquid City Motor’s mood-enhancing ‘Untitled 2’ EP

Matt Wild

July 21, 2016

//Dozens of electronic- and experimental-minded artists will set up shop at Acme Records and Cactus Club this weekend for the inaugural Synth Fest MKE. Among the fest's more well-known acts (Jon Mueller, a...

Premiere: Get pumped with NO/NO’s neon-drenched “Television” video

Matt Wild

July 20, 2016

//Nearly two months after its release, NO/NO's gorgeous Sound And Light continues to surprise. It's an album with surface pleasures aplenty—a glitter-and-gloom dream-pop vibe, insistent synth riffs, endles...

Drift away to KaneTheRapper’s druggy, Kurt Cobain-laden debut, ‘The Influence’

Matt Wild

July 19, 2016

//If you've been blindly stumbling around Milwaukee's music landscape wondering where to find the most energy, excitement, and ambition, look no further than the city's hip-hop scene. Spearheaded by the li...

Slenderman doc, more announced for 2016 Milwaukee Film Festival

Matt Wild

July 19, 2016

//By our count, the 2016 Milwaukee Film Festival is roughly two months away. That's two months of anticipation, mental planning, and more anticipation. Oh, and don't forget announcements: Today, Milwaukee ...

Counter-Craft Night Market prepares to light up Riverwest

Matt Wild

July 13, 2016

//Milwaukee's past and present are stuffed with maker-friendly arts-and-crafts extravaganzas. Influential events like Art Vs. Craft and Gallery Night And Day have laid the handmade groundwork for the Urban...

Introducing the “People’s Socks of Milwaukee”

Matt Wild

July 12, 2016

//On June 14, following a highly publicized contest that drew more than 1,000 entries, a group called "The People's Flag of Milwaukee" unveiled, well, the "People's Flag of Milwaukee." The new flag was mea...

Great Job, Milwaukee! Our rent is increasing faster than any other U.S. city

Matt Wild

July 12, 2016

//Here at Milwaukee Record, we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job, Milwaukee Bot to keep track of the city's many appearances on dopey online lists, as well as any time a national publication...

Milwaukee Public Museum will host an adult sleepover in September

Matt Wild

July 12, 2016

//The idea of sleeping overnight in a museum is a strangely irresistible one, having been explored in everything from The Royal Tenenbaums and From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler to the Ni...

Poor turnout at “People’s Flag” meeting points to potential problems with “People’s Flag” movement

Matt Wild

July 7, 2016

Wednesday night, in a show of community support not seen since that time 71 people signed a Change.org petition to book DJ Paris Hilton at every Summerfest until the apocalypse, a dozen people, three journali...

Here’s the music lineup for the inaugural Milwaukee Fringe Festival

Matt Wild

July 7, 2016

//On Saturday, August 27 and Sunday, August 28, the inaugural Milwaukee Fringe Festival will throw its hat into the delightfully crowded Milwaukee summer festival ring. The fest will showcase more than 50 ...

Nick’s House / Y-Not III has been demolished

Matt Wild

July 5, 2016

The building of the former Nick's House—the ultimately ill-fated Bar Rescue experiment that turned the Y-Not III into a '70s-themed bar—has been demolished. Per a photo from Urban Milwaukee, the property at 185...

Revel in the public domain weirdness of Scrimshaw’s “Town Lazer” video

Matt Wild

July 5, 2016

//There's no other Milwaukee band like Scrimshaw. Hell, there may be no other band anywhere like Scrimshaw. The delightfully weirdo art-rock band has been kicking it for more than a decade now, releasing alb...