Author: Tyler Maas

Jazz At The Vine music series returns to Humboldt Park for 8 more concerts in 2025

April 21, 2025

Beer gardens are starting to open for the season! Music series lineups are starting to be announced! And as of today, lineups for music series that will be taking place at beer gardens are starting to be announ...

We want YOU to be a vendor at Morgan Park Picnic!

Tyler Maas

April 21, 2025

In case you missed the news, Milwaukee Record and Busby’s are joining forces on a new springtime celebration that will bring big time fun to one of Milwaukee’s smallest parks. On Saturday, May 24, the inaugural...

Dirtnap Records to mark 25th anniversary with three-day festival August 29-31

Tyler Maas

April 18, 2025

After Dirtnap Records launched in the Pacific Northwest at the turn of the century and got its footing by putting dozens upon dozens of excellent garage rock and punk-tinged releases from acts all over the plac...

MKE Music Rewind: Hero Of A Hundred Fights, “You, Me, The Switch” (2000)

Tyler Maas

April 17, 2025

broadstreet.zone(159870); In MKE Music Rewind we revisit notable Milwaukee music that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014. This week: Hero Of A Hundred Fights' "You, Me, The Switc...

The Newport’s 20th Anniversary Block Party to bring music, food, philanthropy to Bay View on May 17

Tyler Maas

April 17, 2025

The Newport (939 E. Conway St., 414-486-1768) is a Milwaukee drinking institution. The Bay View bar is a wonderful place to enjoy a drink alongside a great cast of regulars and exceptional bartenders, get free ...

Blast off with Wisconsin Space Program’s “Sun In Your Hands” music video

Tyler Maas

April 16, 2025

While Wisconsin Space Program is still fairly young, local music aficionados may recognize the up-and-coming Milwaukee psych rock outfit as having former and current members of The Delta Routine, Antler House, ...

Milwaukee Record’s guide to 4/20-adjacent events and specials

Tyler Maas

April 15, 2025

It’s almost the 20th day of April and you know what that means, riiiiiiiight?! Yeah, you know! Love it, hate it, or feel absolutely indifferent to it, this unofficial holiday is reason for a sizable portion of ...

Here’s the lineup for Harley-Davidson Museum’s 2025 Thursday Bike Night concert series

Tyler Maas

April 14, 2025

With warm weather finally making its presence known, Milwaukee will soon be filled with the signature spring and summer sounds of motorcycles and live music played on outdoor stages. Every Thursday between the ...

The Mothership to celebrate 6th anniversary with guest bartenders, food trucks, giveaways

Tyler Maas

April 14, 2025

There’s no bar in Milwaukee—or the world, for that matter—quite like The Mothership. Since opening in April 2019, the Bay View bar has served up more Hamm’s and Campari than any other establishment in the state...

PrideFest announces 2025 headliners

Tyler Maas

April 11, 2025

Back in February, Milwaukee Pride Inc.—the parent organization of PrideFest—announced Wisconsin’s largest LGBTQIA+ event would return to Henry Maier Festival Park and help kick off the city’s festival season Ju...

Dak Wright is relentless, prolific as dak duBois

Tyler Maas

April 11, 2025

It would be an understatement to say Dak Wright has been keeping busy lately. The namesake and bandleader of dak duBois hit the ground running after moving to Milwaukee from Appleton two and a half years ago. I...

8 ways Milwaukee is celebrating Record Store Day 2025

Tyler Maas

April 9, 2025

Love it or hate it, it’s safe to say Record Store Day is here to stay. What started as an honest-to-goodness movement to encourage listeners to get out and support independent music retailers who were suffering...

Here are music lineups for West Allis’ Food Truck Friday and Summer Concert Series

Tyler Maas

April 8, 2025

West Allis rules. Beyond being the host city for Wisconsin State Fair, the misunderstood and maligned Milwaukee suburb is also home to some great bars and breweries, some excellent restaurants, and two places t...

Great Job, Milwaukee! We’re apparently a top U.S. city for nightlife and marathons

Tyler Maas

April 4, 2025

Here at Milwaukee Record we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job, Milwaukee! Bot. It keeps track of the city’s many appearances on dopey online lists and studies, as well as any time a national publ...

Pabst Brewing Company is introducing a new light lager

Tyler Maas

April 3, 2025

Pabst Brewing Company—which originated here in 1844 before closing its Milwaukee brewery in 1996—continues to make moves in the ever-changing brewing industry. While its classic flagship Pabst Blue Ribbon recip...

Mandatory Milwaukee/Wisconsin: Frozen Pizza

Tyler Maas

April 1, 2025

broadstreet.zone(77472); Some freezer section standbys come and go, while some become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. This week: frozen pizzas! Wisconsin loves its frozen pizzas. Even th...

There’s now a Front Row Amy bobblehead

Tyler Maas

March 31, 2025

If you've watched a Milwaukee Brewers home game on television at any point in the last 15 seasons, there's a pretty good chance you've seen Amy Williams. The Oshkosh, Wisconsin woman who's better known as "Fron...

Your Turner Hall Tiki Takedown winners are…

Tyler Maas

March 30, 2025

Saturday, a few hundred folks put on their finest Hawaiian shirt, donned some colorful leis, and made their way to the Turner Hall Tiki Takedown. The fifth installment of the sold out event brought great tunes ...

Greenfield’s best new cocktail bar is in a mini golf course’s clubhouse

Tyler Maas

March 28, 2025

In August 2023, a mini golf destination and family fun facility called Holey Mackerel (5401 W. Layton Ave.) officially opened in the former site of River Hills Family Fun Center, which had been a summertime sta...

The Hard Times (kind of) mentioned us in an article

Tyler Maas

March 28, 2025

If you're on the internet enough, you listen to a certain sect of music, and you like stuff like The Onion, there's a good chance you've read The Hard Times. The popular satire publication routinely publishes h...

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