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The Fatty Acids use best parts of old footage for “Worst Part” video

October 19, 2015

On top of The Fatty Acids' energetic live shows and steady wave of increasingly great records (including Boléro, which we called the third best Milwaukee album of the 2010s last year), the synth-pop outfit is k...

Rx Drugs cure Joe Crockett’s creative ailments

Tyler Maas

October 16, 2015

For more than a decade, Joe Crockett served as the unmistakable voice and bandleader of locally-lauded folk band The Championship. At the tail end of that time, though, the gaps between shows grew wider as Croc...

Milwaukee Record presents Local Coverage 2016

Tyler Maas

October 15, 2015

This past January, Milwaukee Record hosted the inaugural Local Coverage at Club Garibaldi. The benefit found eight different Milwaukee acts across the age, neighborhood, and stylistic board covering one another...

Wait, did Marlon Wayans convince Greg Monroe to sign with the Bucks?

Tyler Maas

October 15, 2015

Yesterday, ESPN.com posted an article by Brian Windhorst called "How the Bucks landed Greg Monroe" that detailed, well, how the Bucks landed Greg Monroe. The piece is a great insider's glimpse into the NBA's fr...

Stream Old Earth’s European single, “Pretty Steep”

Tyler Maas

October 15, 2015

It's been about a year since Oak Creek native Todd Umhoefer, the mad genius behind experimental folk project Old Earth, up and moved, taking his moving and criminally under-appreciated tunes to the artistic enc...

Andy Kindler is coming to Club Garibaldi next year

Tyler Maas

October 14, 2015

Even if Milwaukee's comedy clubs are utterly failing to book notable comedians (unless you count Pauly Shore), you have to hand it to a small-yet-passionate group of independent promoters for filling the city's...

Casual Vocals’ “You Are I Am We Are” video spells it out

Tyler Maas

October 14, 2015

In 2013, Colleen Webb and her husband moved to town from Chicago without knowing anybody “for sheer love of Milwaukee.” Once here, she put more focus on Casual Vocals, her literal bedroom project. After some lo...

Maritime explores new territory with Magnetic Bodies/Maps Of Bones

Tyler Maas

October 13, 2015

Typically at this point in a Maritime article, the band is referenced as the new project of two former members of The Promise Ring. Perhaps the writer did their research and realized members of two other semina...

Exclusive: Stream Myles Coyne’s untitled EP

Tyler Maas

October 13, 2015

As a guy who is so deeply involved in all facets of Milwaukee music, it’s kind of astonishing that Myles Coyne hasn’t managed a proper release under the project that bears his name in more than two years. Since...

Sklars, Glaser, Dore bring laughs to Adler’s Fall Comedy Classic

Tyler Maas

October 12, 2015

Say what you will about the station's music rotation that pretty much ranges from The Offspring to Pearl Jam to that song where the dude yells "SAIL!" and back to The Offspring again, but FM102.1—and, more spec...

Extra Points: Who is the better Jake Ryan?

Tyler Maas

October 9, 2015

Entering Week 5 of the Green Bay Packers season, there isn't much to be lodged in the way of complaints. The team is off to a 4-0 start. Aaron Rodgers remains the best quarterback in the universe. The oft-diffi...

Kaitlin McCarthy produces results in local comedy

Tyler Maas

October 8, 2015

In the world of stand-up, the producer is one of the more thankless roles involved with a comedy show's execution. When an event goes as planned, kudos are almost exclusively allocated to the on-stage talent, w...

Listen to The Vitrolum Republic’s ‘For The Lovespun Ramblings And Ghosts In Our Shoes’

Tyler Maas

October 7, 2015

Way back in 2010, Milwaukee gypsy-folk outfit The Vitrolum Republic came onto the scene with the then-trio's debut full-length, For Highbrow Sideshows And Rowboat Serenades, a 14-song introduction rife with emo...

First Impression: Beerline Cafe

Tyler Maas

October 6, 2015

As recently as five years ago, the culinary landscape surrounding the Humboldt Bridge had a much different look. Ironically, an unthinkably long construction project on the causeway connecting Riverwest and Mil...

Burnhearts’ Three Floyds Punk House Kegger Party returns November 19

Tyler Maas

October 5, 2015

After an incredibly well-received inaugural installment that featured music from Volunteer and Soup Moat and rare fermented delicacies from Three Floyds Brewery pushed the bar to Mitten Fest-like capacity last ...

South America’s Team?: A Q&A with Packers Brasil founder Marcus Rovere

Tyler Maas

October 2, 2015

Every NFL season, an ongoing dispute rages between fans of teams like the Packers, Steelers, Cowboys, Patriots, and (lately) Seahawks about which franchise holds the impossible-to-confirm title of "America's Te...

A Friday on the “Fruit Loop”: A straight man’s gay bar crawl

Tyler Maas

October 1, 2015

By all accounts, it's a great time to be gay in America. It took far too long and required incalculable amounts of pain, hardship, and opposition to get here (and there's still so much work to be done), but now...

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

Tyler Maas

October 1, 2015

In September, we officially said goodbye to Milwaukee's brief-but-bursting summer festival season. A few days after the Bay View Bash, fall officially started and, in doing so, also signaled a mass entertainmen...

Stream Moon Curse’s heavy new song, “Vicious Sky”

Tyler Maas

September 30, 2015

Save for putting out its previously-unreleased single, "Seminary Woods" in early 2014, Moon Curse—far and away one of the city's loudest and most abrasive acts—has been ironically quiet since stomping into loca...

Herman Astro moves on, morphs into Mercy Company

Tyler Maas

September 30, 2015

Just over a year ago, long-running Milwaukee blues-rock quartet Herman Astro announced it was calling it quits after close to eight years together and three releases, including Mean Gene, which they released ju...

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