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...
Buckle up and stream Slow Walker’s new single, “Ride”
We've said it before, but it still holds true: There's nothing slow about Slow Walker. Since the band's 2011 start, they've averaged one album or EP per year. Their continually-expanding catalog is full of fast...
Abby Jeanne talks breakout 2017, “Fire In February” residency, what’s next
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-received debut album, ear...
Eagle Park Brewing will relocate to Like Minds Brewing site
If you've been paying attention to the various craft breweries that have been popping up in Milwaukee with regularity of late, Eagle Park Brewing is surely on your radar. The brewery and taproom, owned by Jake ...
Holy Shit! once booked a tour around trying out for ‘The Price Is Right’
Both tonight and on February 5, Riverside Theater will host a live rendition of The Price Is Right. The touring show gives people all over the country an opportunity to watch and participate in some of the game...
Milwaukee drag star Trixie Mattel survives to compete another week on ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars’
Milwaukee-born drag queen Trixie Mattel achieved international notoriety as a contestant on season seven of RuPaul‘s Drag Race, where she finished in sixth place. Since the reality show put her on the map in 20...
Twin Brother goes solo, so low on emotional ‘Rightfully So’
Back in December, Twin Brother announced it was no more. Fortunately, the sudden end of the band didn’t last long, as singer/primary songwriter/founding member Sean Raasch decided he wasn’t quite ready to say g...
Hear a sports agent talk about being fired by Lorenzo Cain
The life of a sports agent isn't always glamorous. Beneath the veneer of expensive suits, luxury cars, and pricey meals with world famous clients, the job has its fair share of rejection. Of course, most agents...
Here’s everything you need to know about Burnhearts Mitten Fest 2018
After months of cold, dreariness, premature darkness, and an absence of outdoor activity, the sixth annual Burnhearts Mitten Fest is just days away. For eight hours (noon to 8 p.m.) on Saturday, February 3, por...
Adam Levin puts passion for hometown history into “Old Milwaukee” Facebook group
Milwaukee is always changing. For every new building erected, every new amenity added, or for each conceptual change and ownership overhaul that happens in our city, a piece of Milwaukee's past is lost in the p...
Get in on the ground floor when In Tall Buildings play The Back Room @ Colectivo in March
Over the course of less than three years, The Back Room @ Colectivo has established itself as an invaluable East Side entertainment destination and a trusted source for all-ages shows, up-and-coming musicians, ...
Great Job, Wisconsin! Green Bay is the best city for football fans
Here at Milwaukee Record, we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job, Milwaukee! Bot to keep track of the city’s many appearances on dopey online lists, as well as any time a national publication deign...
DJ Jobber tells us his essential playlist of songs performed by professional wrestlers
When we last checked in with Ryan Fox, the Milwaukee filmmaker responsible for “The World’s Longest Mannequin Challenge” and the Adult Swim-featured R.P.M. 2 was explaining his decision to attend a nationally-t...
’18 And Life To Go: Acupuncture is the most relaxing thing you can do with 20 needles in your body
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...
Thanks for making Local Coverage 2018 great, Milwaukee!
Last Friday, Milwaukee Record hosted our fourth annual Local Coverage show at Turner Hall. There, a diverse cast of eight Milwaukee acts took the stage to perform (approximately) 15-minute sets of another proje...