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Hark! Now hear more locally-made songs for the holidays

December 19, 2017

Almost every year, we round up a mess of amazingly tolerable local songs that are helping to improve the predominately terrible holiday music genre. Just when we think we've found the last of them, area musicia...

Hanson’s Mmmhops and 14 other beers brewed for (or by) musicians

Tyler Maas

December 17, 2017

There are currently more breweries and more beers than ever before. As a result of the unprecedented growth the industry has experienced, more brewers are crafting new beer at a staggering rate, and the lines b...

Caley Conway’s ‘Heart Be Light’ EP rewraps and refines holiday classics

Tyler Maas

December 14, 2017

Though Caley Conway And The Lucy Cukes officially called it quits last year, the project's eponymous bandleader continues to go strong with occasional performances and an EP on the way sometime soon. Exactly ho...

Help Dream Attics and Kane Place Record Club member raise money for rare brain tumor treatment

Tyler Maas

December 14, 2017

Though Nick Tovarek now lives in Austin, the musician first made a name for himself in Milwaukee music as a member of Kane Place Record Club before moving to Texas in 2015 with his new indie-tinged electronic p...

Buffalo Gospel’s “Hard Labor Side Of Gettin’ On” video blends a timeless tune with classic toons

Tyler Maas

December 12, 2017

Buffalo Gospel has kept a fairly low profile since releasing its outstanding full-length, We Can Be Horses in 2013. In the four-plus years following that well-received record, bandleader Ryan Necci has cycled i...

Abby Jeanne, GGOOLLDD among Radio Milwaukee Music Award winners

Tyler Maas

December 8, 2017

Following weeks of voting, band campaigning, and DJ deliberation, 88Nine held its 10th annual Radio Milwaukee Music Awards ceremony at its Pittsburgh Avenue headquarters Thursday night. Between performances by ...

Tucked Away: Milwaukee’s original Coney Island hot dog lives on at a Mexican restaurant in a pool hall

Tyler Maas

December 7, 2017

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...

“Lake Effect” is an instant holiday hit from Tenement singer Amos Pitsch

Tyler Maas

December 7, 2017

When he isn't leading us to top-notch fish fry in Menasha and helping to put Wisconsin music on the map with his work in Tenement and Dusk, Amos Pitsch is doing his part to spread holiday cheer. Last December, ...

Space Raft eliminates any doubt another holiday is here with “Another Holiday Is Here”

Tyler Maas

December 7, 2017

Though it's not beginning to look a lot like Christmas in any capacity, it's at the very least starting to feel like it. Temperatures have finally started to dip to normal December levels, the Chicago Bears are...

3 Milwaukee musicians tell us why they love the Cleveland Browns

Tyler Maas

December 6, 2017

The Cleveland Browns are bad. That's the no secret, though. Since returning to the NFL as an expansion team in 1999 (following a heartbreaking move to Baltimore after the 1995 season), the franchise has managed...

Here’s every conceivable thing you need to know about Milwaukee’s (and Wisconsin’s) first Shake Shack

Tyler Maas

December 5, 2017

In case you missed it here and at virtually every other publication in town, a Shake Shack will open in the Third Ward at 11 a.m. tomorrow (December 6). We're not usually the type to go unjustifiably crazy when...

Steven Look talks about almost dying, getting back to basics, King Eye & The Squirts

Tyler Maas

December 5, 2017

On Friday night, King Eye & The Squirts will play an album release show at Club Garibaldi. The event is an extra special one for the Milwaukee garage rock quartet because the release of the band's debut rec...

BMO Harris Bradley Center was witness to Katy Perry and the world was okay for a while

Tyler Maas

December 5, 2017

The world is fast becoming a terrible place. Compassion is depleting at an astounding rate, as both economic and political divides widen more with each day of a polarizing presidency. Meanwhile, vital natural r...

Tucked Away: Lala’s Place treats Cudahy to authentic Mexican food, replica Brett Favre memorabilia

Tyler Maas

December 4, 2017

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...

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

Tyler Maas

December 1, 2017

After 11 months of fun, it’s almost time for Milwaukee’s events calendar to flip to a new year. Not even counting the city’s six-month run of festivals, block parties, and seeing Corey Feldman knock out his fro...

Monster Pizza MKE is closed, Oakland and Locust down to only four pizza places

Tyler Maas

November 30, 2017

Back in January, Milwaukee heralded the opening of Monster Pizza MKE. Finally! Pizza in the Oakland and Locust area! Big pizza! Our First Impression verdict at the time: Though Oakland Gyros isn't at risk of a...

Milwaukee’s (and probably Earth’s) premier Chumbawamba tribute band is calling it quits…again

Tyler Maas

November 29, 2017

In July, Milwaukee Record posted an article entitled "Milwaukee’s (and probably Earth’s) premier Chumbawamba tribute band is calling it quits." The final show mentioned in the post was eventually cancelled, for...

Rocket Baby Bakery’s Bay View Satellite has closed

Tyler Maas

November 29, 2017

After years of success in its flagship location in Wauwatosa, Rocket Baby Bakery became a full-fledged local franchise in early 2014 when the area cafe and bakery opened a second location in May of that year. A...

BLAX’s Adebisi Agoro veers into instrumental, experimental territory as “Armstrong Ransome”

Tyler Maas

November 28, 2017

Since moving back to Milwaukee from New York in 2013, Fresh Cut Collective co-founder Adebisi Agoro—who raps under the stage name BLAX—has worked hard to regain his footing in the hip-hop scene he’d temporarily...

Get up to speed on the Wisconsin Herd before tonight’s Milwaukee “home” game

Tyler Maas

November 28, 2017

While the Milwaukee Bucks struggle to get out of a 1-3 skid, another Wisconsin-based professional basketball organization is off to an impressive start to their inaugural season. Yes, the Wisconsin Herd have am...

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