Tucked Away: Bamboo Restaurant
Between beloved and well-established local staples and a steady wave of new bars and restaurants popping up in and around Milwaukee almost every week, worthwhile dining and drinking gems can occasionally get lo...
11 notable Milwaukeeans with even more notable names
We're all trying to make a name for ourselves. Whether it's in the form of worldwide fame or just a good reputation among friends and co-workers, everyone wouldn't mind some positive attention from others. Fort...
A comprehensive guide to finding dogs at Milwaukee Art Museum
Last February, figuring you needed a break from the endless stream of increasingly awful news and overwhelming negativity that dominates the internet, we suggested you step away from the computer and search for...
Post Animal (that band with Steve from ‘Stranger Things’ on guitar) is playing Cactus Club in April
Last fall, we delivered the unfortunate news that Post Animal—a Chicago psych rock band with Joe Keery (aka "Steve Harrington" from Stranger Things) on guitar—was forced to cancel its November 18 Cactus Club co...
Palm Tavern is for sale
Way back in 2003, long before Bay View was a bastion of bars and restaurants with excellent beer selections and hundreds of liquor options on hand, Palm Tavern opened. In the years that followed, the small neig...
Milwaukee Record’s comprehensive guide to Mama Tried
Later this week, throngs of local riders and motorcycle enthusiasts who have been cooped up since fall and whose choppers have been in storage for months will enjoy a brief escape from the cold, dark, dull bike...
Gypsy Taco has a new name
Mitch Ciohon, the owner of award-winning taco purveyor Gypsy Taco (and a Gypsy Burger offshoot), announced he would be changing the name of his business last month. “It has come to my attention that the name ar...
The Milwaukee Record Stage is returning to PrideFest
Last year's PrideFest—the 30th annual Milwaukee celebration—was the biggest and the best-attended one yet. In other words, it was awesome. Milwaukee Record was lucky enough to play a small part in the weekend. ...
Check out Eric Thames’ huge fucking truck
The Brewers reported to Spring Training today. While it's exciting—especially with the busy offseason Milwaukee had—to know the regular season isn't too far out, fans are still in line for about seven weeks of ...
Christopher Novak brings love, appreciation, enthusiasm to Milwaukee music
If you go to enough concerts in Milwaukee, you've probably encountered Christopher Novak. The 25-year-old can routinely be seen at a variety of local shows—almost always camped out near the front of the stage—s...
Milwaukee Day was a clue on Jeopardy!
It's been quite a week for Milwaukee Day. Just one day after we announced Company Brewing would be making a beer to honor the upstart area code-based holiday, Milwaukee Day was referenced on an episode of Jeopa...
Spend two and a half minutes in heaven with Eric & Magill’s makeout-heavy “A Softer Sound” video
If there's a band with Milwaukee ties whose catalog is better tailored to Valentine's Day than Eric & Magill's is, we haven't heard them. Ever since former Camden bandmates Eric Osterman and Ryan Weber star...
’18 And Life To Go: Herbal remedies aren’t what the doctor ordered, but they’re effective nonetheless
In the fairly short existence of Milwaukee Record, I’ve made a point to chronicle foolish adventures that have damaged my spirit, tested my eating endurance, and depleted both my physical and emotional well-bei...
Company Brewing is making a Milwaukee Day beer
It's been less than 10 years since a group of friends realized Milwaukee's 414 area code had a striking resemblance to the numerals in April 14 (or 4/14) and turned that laughable coincidence into a full-blown ...
8 (more) couples in Milwaukee bands
Love is in the air. Even if you don’t buy into the fabricated sham holiday that is Valentine’s Day, the sheer volume of mushy, emotional stuff permeating your senses the second week of each February causes even...
Merriment Social’s “March Madness Burger Series” returns with a charitable twist
It's almost that time of year again! March Madness is just around the corner, and its arrival also signals the beginning of other competitions that coincide with the culturally transcendent college basketball t...
Listen to “Forest,” the first Greatest Lakes single since 2014
It's been a minute since we've heard from Greatest Lakes. Well, more accurately, it's been approximately a million minutes since we've heard from them. Back in 2014, the Milwaukee (by way of Kenosha) folk and i...
Stream No No Yeah Okay’s long-awaited sophomore EP, ‘Cabal’
No No Yeah Okay formed in 2014 and quickly endeared Milwaukee to its indie-leaning electronic style by way of 2015's Dual, which garnered its fair share of local airplay, streams in the hundreds of thousands, a...
WMSE will release an Abby Jeanne 7-inch for Record Store Day 2018
Since 2015, local radio institution and chili competition curator WMSE has helped spread the good will and wonder of Record Store Day with a limited-edition release of a 7-inch from a Milwaukee (or Milwaukee-re...
20 ways to celebrate and/or avoid Valentine’s Day
Some of you are in a serious relationship, or at least involved in a budding romance. Others are happily (or perhaps miserably) single. No matter where your love life lands, the same thing holds abundantly true...