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Hear some of the season’s best local music with our “Autumn 2025” playlist

December 19, 2025

Believe it or not, despite enduring weeks of frigid temperatures, steady snowfall, and icy sidewalks, it's technically not even winter yet. The new season officially begins on Sunday, meaning we're currently in...

Mentally prepare yourself to watch ‘Children Of Men’ with us at Avalon Theater

Tyler Maas

December 18, 2025

Imagine, if you can, a bleak and dystopian version of the world in the mid-2020s in which violence and division run rampant. Inhumane and deplorable immigration policies enacted by a totalitarian government are...

Here are the vendor lineups for both of our N/A Day “Dry January” beverage festivals

Tyler Maas

December 17, 2025

Are you looking to start 2026 on a sober note? Planning to make a lasting lifestyle change? Hoping to put a pause on partying after the holidays? Interested in sampling a wide range of products in the rapidly-g...

Let’s remember some former Milwaukee music venues

Tyler Maas

December 16, 2025

This article is NOT in any way intended to be a complete list of every former Milwaukee (and suburban Milwaukee) music venue that has ever existed. It's honestly just a list of some places that came to mind. Co...

Stuff your stocking with a new video for Fuzzysurf’s power pop holiday banger

Tyler Maas

December 15, 2025

It's been quite a year for Fuzzysurf. Following a self-imposed two-year hiatus, the accomplished Milwaukee indie rock outfit released its sprawling and genre-hopping Chameleons double LP (one of our favorite lo...

Some restaurants, bars, and breweries Milwaukee lost in 2025 (and a plea to help in 2026)

Tyler Maas

December 12, 2025

First we gave you our favorite Milwaukee music of the year. Then came our favorite Milwaukee music videos and favorite Milwaukee Record stories of the year. Now comes a year-end article that's on the somber sid...

Brave You preps for new EP with “HYENAS” music video

Tyler Maas

December 12, 2025

When we last checked in with Brave You, the Milwaukee synth-punk project was chasing its 2022 album LIFER with a one-off single that had a critically acclaimed music video. More than two years removed from the ...

Come “Face To Face” with TNGNT’s new single

Tyler Maas

December 10, 2025

Earlier this week, we wrote about some of our favorite Milwaukee music of 2025 and named some of our favorite local music videos of the year as well. Even though we're taking time to look back on our favorite M...

Ice Bear Fest roars back to Third Space Brewing on January 31

Tyler Maas

December 9, 2025

It's still technically autumn and there's a good chance you've already had it with winter in Wisconsin. It's already snowed a bunch and we're looking at single-digit temps this weekend. Once winter officially a...

Season’s streamings: Enjoy some new Milwaukee-made holiday songs

Tyler Maas

December 9, 2025

Milwaukee musicians can be quite festive from time to time. Through the years, local bands and solo artists have amassed an extensive playlist of legitimately impressive, creative, catchy, and funny holiday son...

Comedian AJ Grill will perform during the Milwaukee Record Halftime Show on December 20

Tyler Maas

December 8, 2025

Football has a "next man up" mentality. It's a long, arduous season, so when someone is lost to injury, suspension, or any other personal matters that take them off the field, another player is waiting to take ...

Save Strange Town

Tyler Maas

December 6, 2025

Earlier this week, Milwaukee collectively mourned as we learned the shocking, awful news that Beans & Barley will be closing its doors on January 31, 2026. Three days later, another East Side dining establi...

Love it or hate it, here’s a guide to Malört Fest 2025

Tyler Maas

December 4, 2025

Back in October, we let you know that our friends at Busby's (3475 S. Kinnickinnic Ave., 414-249-4766) would be hosting its second annual Malört Fest from noon to midnight on Sunday, December 7 to coincide with...

Here’s the lineup for Neighborhood Theater Group’s “Ho Ho Holiday Movie Bash”

Tyler Maas

December 3, 2025

Now that Thanksgiving is behind us and the city is currently covered in snow, it’s safe to say it: the holidays are right around the corner. Along with their approach also comes another annual seasonal traditio...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Walking to the closest neighborhood bar on a snowy day

Tyler Maas

December 2, 2025

broadstreet.zone(77472); Some Milwaukee things come and go while some become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. This week: walking to the closest neighborhood bar on a snowy day. In case yo...

Welcome to December: Here’s what you’re doing this month

Tyler Maas

December 1, 2025

broadstreet.zone(159870); Believe it or not, we’ve somehow already reached the last month of 2025. This year wasn’t particularly great. In fact it was pretty bad...and things will probably just get noticeably ...

MKE Music Rewind: Direct Hit!, ‘Brainless God’ (2013)

Tyler Maas

November 30, 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: Direct Hit!'s apocalyptic pop-punk masterpiec...

Alive And Fine will close “at the end of January”

Tyler Maas

November 29, 2025

On Thanksgiving weekend in 2016, Hover Craft co-founder and One Trick Pony mastermind Ashley Smith brought her ever-growing collection of amazing vintage clothing finds to 2652 S. Kinnickinnic Ave. and opened A...

Warm up with The Steph Lippert Project’s gorgeous new single, “Here Again”

Tyler Maas

November 26, 2025

Since its formation in 2021, The Steph Lippert Project has been a Milwaukee music mainstay, playing shows all around the city on a regular basis and being a fixture on local festival lineups. As prolific as the...

Ryan Necci talks new Buffalo Gospel album, long distance songwriting, 2026 plans

Tyler Maas

November 25, 2025

Even though Ryan Necci—the founding member, bandleader, and namesake of Ryan Necci And The Buffalo Gospel—now calls Tennessee home, we’ve continued keeping tabs on him since he left Milwaukee to start a career ...

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