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Stream the new Platinum Boys EP, ‘We Don’t Dance (Anymore)’

January 12, 2018

Just two days ago, we posted a lengthy listing of Milwaukee releases we looked forward to hearing in 2018. We knew there were going to be oversights, but we had no idea such a notable omission would be brought ...

Give 3 “good” reasons for this week. (You can’t)

Tyler Maas

January 12, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • Milwaukee loves getting national attention. That is, unless that attention is...

25 reasons to vote Giannis Antetokounmpo to the 2018 NBA All-Star Game

Tyler Maas

January 11, 2018

Giannis Antetokounmpo is in the midst of an MVP-caliber season. Not only is the young Milwaukee Bucks star leading his team in points, assists, and rebounds so far this season, The Greek Freak is leading the Ea...

13 Milwaukee releases we’re excited to hear in 2018

Tyler Maas

January 10, 2018

It seems like we’re just days removed from celebrating the best albums and EPs Milwaukee managed in 2017. With all the promise a new year brings also comes the promise of new music. In the same way many of us r...

Bay View vintage shop Plume will open this weekend

Tyler Maas

January 9, 2018

Bay View is getting another vintage shop. After roughly a year of planning and more than six months after its original projected opening date, Plume will finally open on Saturday, January 13. Plume is locate...

Jokerz Comedy Club has closed

Tyler Maas

January 8, 2018

Milwaukee's already-lacking comedy club scene has sustained another sizable hit this month. Last Thursday, Jokerz Comedy Club announced it was closing after more than 10 years in business. Located in the bas...

7 reasons Packers fans should jump on the Buffalo Bills bandwagon

Tyler Maas

January 6, 2018

This weekend marks the beginning of the NFL playoffs. For the first time since the 2008 season, and only the fourth time this century, that doesn't mean a thing to Packers fans. Green Bay's week 17 loss was the...

Friends come together to make “apocalyptic western” music as Saebra & Carlyle

Tyler Maas

January 5, 2018

Though Saebra & Carlyle only started playing out in September, the duo's roots extend more than 10 years, all the way back to when the project's namesakes worked together at a shopping mall coffee chain. Th...

Here’s the Burnhearts Mitten Fest 2018 lineup

Tyler Maas

January 4, 2018

Now that New Year’s festivities have come and gone, folks in Milwaukee are forced to come to terms with the harsh realization that winter is here in full force and there’s not much to do outside. Fortunately, w...

Abby Jeanne releases new single, announces “Fire In February” residency

Tyler Maas

January 4, 2018

Last Sunday night, Abby Jeanne capped off a breakout 2017 with her "Electric New Year" show, an unofficial culmination of a year in which the owner of Milwaukee's most captivating voice released her well-receiv...

Faux Fiction sheds and shreds in “Skin” music video

Tyler Maas

January 4, 2018

Milwaukee musicians don't seem to be wasting any time starting 2018 on a strong note. Adding to the handful of post-New Year releases and album announcements we've already seen in this young year is Faux Fictio...

Holy shit! Hot Snakes are coming to Cactus Club

Tyler Maas

January 3, 2018

We're just three days into the year and it's already been made abundantly clear 2018 is going to be better than 2017 was. How can we be so certain? That's simple. You see, Cactus Club just announced Hot Snakes ...

Mark Yencheske gets in the driver’s seat on ‘Be Easy’

Tyler Maas

January 3, 2018

"I'm a goal-oriented person," says Mark Yencheske. That's a bit of an understatement. On New Year's Eve, he played a total of three sets, split between Paper Holland and backing duties for Abby Jeanne. That ...

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

Tyler Maas

January 2, 2018

It wasn’t too long ago that January was pretty much a vacant, blustery tundra of Milwaukee entertainment options. Between frigid conditions, uncertainties regarding Packers playoff seeding, and the post-holiday...

Milwaukee Record’s New Year’s Eve entertainment guide

Tyler Maas

December 27, 2017

It’s been a rough year, Milwaukee. Still, between the celebrity deaths, frightening political developments, and various other sources for internet outrage, at least a few decent things happened. Come Sunday, mu...

Bar Rescue’s own Campbell’s Irish Pub is for sale

Tyler Maas

December 27, 2017

In 2014, we broke news that Bar Rescue would be using its infallible tactics of serving sliders and overly complicated Smirnoff Vodka shaker cocktails to save not one, but two Milwaukee bars. The first one, Y-N...

What the hell, here are some more Milwaukee-made holiday songs

Tyler Maas

December 26, 2017

Almost every December of Milwaukee Record's existence, we've rounded up a mess of amazingly tolerable local songs that are helping to improve the predominately terrible holiday music genre. This year was no dif...

Remaking A Murderer: The rationale behind (and ramifications of) screening ‘My Friend Dahmer’ in Milwaukee

Tyler Maas

December 22, 2017

Last night concluded the theatrical run for a drama about a troubled, misunderstood, and forgotten high school kid growing up in the Midwest in the late 1970s. The low-budget indie film has grossed less than $1...

Hear another track from the forthcoming ‘Land By The Lake II’ hip-hop compilation

Tyler Maas

December 21, 2017

Throughout 2017, we've given you a few samples of Land By The Lake II, the forthcoming follow-up to a compilation that producer and engineer DSCRIBE curated to help “create a snapshot of Milwaukee's potent hip-...

Members of Carolina, Maritime, and The Championship resurface in Hello, Face

Tyler Maas

December 19, 2017

It isn't unnatural for a musician to take some time off between projects. Sometimes it takes somebody whose band just ended a little while to realign their creative focus and to get that itch to take the stage ...

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