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Beet Street extends Milwaukee’s festival season into autumn

September 16, 2016

Most years, Bay View Bash signals an unofficial end to Milwaukee's glorious festival season. Fortunately, that won't be the case this year. Thanks to a trio of Bay View businesses, a new block party will ke...

“Sin Bad Wig” and 20 more punny Milwaukee music mergers

Tyler Maas

September 15, 2016

Saturday night, High Dive will play host to a bill featuring both Sin Bad and Bad Wig. Punny coincidences like this weekend's "Sin Bad Wig" show aren't entirely unheard of in Milwaukee music. Bo Triplex occasio...

The “Milwaukee Fuck It List”: My city through my mom’s eyes

Tyler Maas

September 14, 2016

I love my mom. Any good that resides within me is the direct result of something she, my dad or my stepfather instilled in me. As lame as it probably makes me sound, she's one of my best friends on this dum...

First Impression: Taco Bandito

Tyler Maas

September 13, 2016

Along with the influx of new microbreweries, distilleries, and faceless luxury apartment complexes, Walker's Point has also become a go-to destination for an exciting cast of new restaurants. Following the ...

Eric Andre Live! takes sold-out Turner Hall on a wild, naked, ranch dressing-infused ride

Tyler Maas

September 12, 2016

With his unmatched energy and penchant for taking his comedy to unpredictable, uncomfortable, and occasionally even dangerous places, Eric Andre has fashioned a career through forcing audiences to expect th...

Hannibal Buress will DJ at The Tonic Tavern tonight

Tyler Maas

September 11, 2016

If you didn't act fast enough to get tickets to tonight's sold-out Eric Andre Live! show at Turner Hall, you might be in luck. No, the venue isn't releasing more tickets, but The Tonic Tavern is offering th...

Here’s the fall/winter lineup for Blackbird’s “From The Stage To The Booth” DJ series

Tyler Maas

September 9, 2016

In addition to offering close to 90 Wisconsin-brewed beers, having outstanding happy hour specials (seven days a week!), hosting a great selection of pinball machines, and being an all-around delightful pla...

Holy shit! Here are 15 more Milwaukee patios

Tyler Maas

September 8, 2016

broadstreet.zone(32806); What more can we say at this point? Patios are great and everybody seems to love them. Over the last two years, we've listed seven patios that make you feel like you're not in Milwau...

Fox Face caps off big year with release of ‘Teen Wiccan’

Tyler Maas

September 8, 2016

With just under nine months in the books, it's safe to say 2016 has been Fox Face's biggest year yet. Since January, the punk quartet has headlined nights of Riverwest FemFest and Arte Para Todos, played Mi...

Rapper arrested in association with Juggalo “ritualistic memorial” jailed, may miss Cudahy concert

Tyler Maas

September 7, 2016

This week, reports surfaced from the Green Bay area about a Juggalo “ritualistic memorial” in which a woman is said to have volunteered to have her blood consumed and her pinky finger cut off with a hatchet...

New bar, music venue opening at site of Hotel Foster (for a night)

Tyler Maas

September 7, 2016

Last month, The Hotel Foster closed its doors for good. The five-year-old bar and occasional music venue's unfortunate conclusion put a stop to months of speculation and uncertainty regarding the bar's fate...

Exclusive: Stream Something To Do’s ‘Not Making A Sound’

Tyler Maas

September 6, 2016

When we last checked in with Something To Do, the band was riding high, having recorded the music for an Adult Swim show. With the money the band earned scoring Gigglefudge USA, the state's premier ska outf...

Green Bay Juggalo cuts off woman’s finger, drinks her blood

Tyler Maas

September 6, 2016

If nothing else, Insane Clown Posse's fans are devoted. It's not uncommon to see members of the brood—commonly called "Juggalos"—with the Detroit rap duo's hatchet-wielding logo tattooed on their skin. Last...

Great job, Milwaukee! We’re the 5th least attractive city in America

Tyler Maas

September 2, 2016

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, or any time a national publication deigns to ...

Palomino is hosting an adult pinewood derby

Tyler Maas

September 2, 2016

Remember the pinewood derby? For more than 60 years, Cub Scouts have been racing painted blocks of wood on plastic wheels down tracks with their sights set on pack bragging rights and a merit badge. Some of...

Brooklyn’s Smallest Penis Pageant winner and Shrekfest co-founder discusses schlongs, Smash Mouth, ‘Shrek’

Tyler Maas

September 1, 2016

Much like the very film the event honors, Shrekfest is an underdog story. In 2014, after learning a Madison festival dedicated to the hit DreamWorks series—which spawned four successful motion pictures, two...

Avalon Theater and Rosebud Cinema to remember Gene Wilder this weekend with screenings

Tyler Maas

August 31, 2016

Monday, both Milwaukee and the rest of the world mourned the passing of one of the most beloved comic actors of all time when Gene Wilder died at the age of 83. As literally everyone you know acknowledged in th...

Here’s the 2016 Bay View Bash lineup

Tyler Maas

August 31, 2016

As August gives way to September, Milwaukee's once-bountiful batch of summer festivals has dwindled to just one. Saturday, September 17 doubles as the unofficial end of summer and all its opportunities to l...

POEK runs from “Indifference Machine” in new music video

Tyler Maas

August 30, 2016

With At Latl on the shelf until further notice, the band's frontman Kent Watson has redirected some of his artistic focus to POEK. The cross-country recording project—an acronym for "Property Of Eric and Ke...

Teletubbies, Viagra, and Elian Gonzalez: Here’s Beloit College’s latest Mindset List

Tyler Maas

August 29, 2016

Since 1998, Beloit College staffers Ron Nief, Tom McBride, and Charles Westerberg have welcomed incoming freshman to the school and simultaneously reminded the rest of us how fucking old we're getting with ...

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