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Tracklist: 14 ways Milwaukee is celebrating Record Store Day 2016

April 11, 2016

// 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 su...

Prepare for Arte Para Todos with the ‘2016 Festival Compilation’

Tyler Maas

April 11, 2016

// Last month, we unveiled the incredible and genre-jumping collection of more than 100 Milwaukee bands, rappers, DJs, and visual artists that compose the lineup of the second annual Arte Para Todos. By now...

Tracklist: The 31 most uplifting Danny Gokey song names, ranked

Tyler Maas

April 8, 2016

// According to a loose college friend's Facebook status, American Idol's final episode aired last night, following a long and inescapable run that spanned who gives a shit how many seasons and launched the...

Exclusive: Stream Low Down Sound’s “Sugar Sweet”

Tyler Maas

April 7, 2016

// Little over a year ago, we formally introduced you to Low Down Sound by way of the Milwaukee classic rock outfit's debut EP Ride Into The Sun, which we called "a five-song sampling of American-made class...

Maharaja owners review restaurant reviewers

Tyler Maas

April 6, 2016

// At a time in which people entrust their dining dollar on the opinions of strangers with Yelp accounts, Google usernames, or posting privileges on websites operated out of their mother's basement, the fat...

Space Raft talks about opening for Bernie Sanders

Tyler Maas

April 5, 2016

// Bands typically try to avoid playing out in the final days before they're to release a new record. However, that unwritten rule can be broken when a band has been asked to play on the same stage as its p...

Lucky Cat is closed

Tyler Maas

April 4, 2016

// Within nine months of Cocoon Room's closing and fewer than two months after Borg Ward's abrupt end, Milwaukee is down yet another all-ages venue. Lucky Cat is no more. The Riverwest art space's closing w...

Try our “Milwaukee Wrecker” sausage at The Vanguard

Tyler Maas

April 1, 2016

// Mid-market regional web-only entertainment journalism can be a largely thankless industry. The pay isn't great, the hours are long, and the comments can be vicious. But every now and then, something happ...

Here’s video of a fox (with prey) roaming downtown Milwaukee

Tyler Maas

March 31, 2016

// Despite all its amenities and hit-and-miss "placemaking" efforts, it's not unfair to suggest downtown Milwaukee's nightlife can be a little lacking at times. In the early hours of Thursday morning—within...

Exclusive: Stream Midwest Death Rattle’s “Feed Them To Each Other”

Tyler Maas

March 31, 2016

// Last month, Midwest Death Rattle broke more than three years of silence (at least in the recorded sense) with a public domain footage-packed lyric video for "Post-Apocalypso," the first single and title ...

I went to Wisconsin’s first “cat cafe” and it was pretty weird

Tyler Maas

March 30, 2016

// Excluding my dumb food- or drinking-related cries for help and whatever bullshit points I try to make on our podcast, I usually make a concerted effort to keep my personal life far away from this website...

Cream City Comedy Festival puts no price on premium stand-up

Tyler Maas

March 29, 2016

// Though they both relocated to Chicago last summer, up-and-coming comedians Sammy Arechar and Liz Ziner haven't forgotten where they got their start in stand-up. Aiming to "celebrate and raise awareness o...

Direct Hit! signs to Fat Wreck Chords

Tyler Maas

March 29, 2016

// About two weeks ago, Direct Hit! was announced as touring support for NOFX's "Hepatitis Bathtub Tour," which will span 14 shows in nine states this April. Today, the tour mates officially became label ma...

Tracklist: 12 Milwaukee record labels weathering the storm

Tyler Maas

March 28, 2016

// Tonight, Rush-Mor Records will welcome Lookout! Records co-founder Larry Livermore, who will discuss his new book, How To Ru(i)n A Record Label. The book tracks the origin of Livermore's label, the growt...

Exclusive: Hear Paper Holland make fresh prints on “Jazzy Jeff”

Tyler Maas

March 28, 2016

// If it seems like it's been forever since you've heard a new Paper Holland song, well, that's probably because it's been forever since there's been a new Paper Holland song. The indie-pop outfit's debut a...

Avalon brings ‘The Big Lebowski’ and more back to big screen in “Antihero April” series

Tyler Maas

March 25, 2016

// It's safe to say the Avalon has been killing it lately. The Bay View theater's recent Hayao Miyazaki anime film series went over so well that they've extended the screenings into April at Times Cinema, i...

Milwaukee Record’s comprehensive Brewers middle name rankings

Tyler Maas

March 25, 2016

// Now nestled deep into March, winter is finally officially over, which makes "Spring Training"—where some Milwaukee Brewers players have been since early February—an accurate name. On April 4, Miller Park...

Vans Warped Tour ’16 lineup is better than last year, still pretty bad

Tyler Maas

March 24, 2016

// Yesterday, when most of the city was navigating the flood of headliners announced for this year's Summerfest, the lineup of another annual Henry Maier Festival Park event was also made public. That's rig...

“Comedian” Carlos Mencia to bring “comedy” to Milwaukee “comedy club”

Tyler Maas

March 23, 2016

// Last year, we posited Milwaukee Comedy Cafe's relocation from the Brady Street space it occupied for 27 years to a smaller, second floor space above a restaurant on Old World Third Street officially dash...

Aaron Rodgers talks aliens, religion on Pete Holmes’ podcast

Tyler Maas

March 23, 2016

// Aaron Rodgers isn't your typical quarterback. Not only is the future Hall of Famer capable of otherworldly things on the field, but his sense of humor, level of intelligence, and unconventional spiritual...

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