Author: Tyler Maas | Page 172

Help Purple Door Ice Cream and Bounce Milwaukee name new flavor

May 11, 2016

// Ever since Bounce Milwaukee opened two years ago, Purple Door has been the Bay View-adjacent inflatable fun zone's exclusive ice cream provider. Evidently the bond between the two young businesses is str...

Remembering the brief, beautiful Smash Mouth and Milwaukee Record feud of 2015

Tyler Maas

May 11, 2016

// The guy from Smash Mouth once famously said, "Somebody once told me the world was gonna troll me." At least I think that's how the lyric went. Was it "roll"? I know it was something like that, but who ca...

Mozaic and Zed Kenzo shimmer in “Imitation Diamonds” video

Tyler Maas

May 11, 2016

// Over the last year or so, Milwaukee rappers and filmmakers have shown an innate ability to forge outstanding videos with little-to-no budget. WebsterX's locally-shot videos for "Doomsday" and "Lately" ar...

Here’s everything you need to know about the Cream City Comedy Festival

Tyler Maas

May 11, 2016

// On Thursday night, the inaugural Cream City Comedy Festival will begin and, in the process, will usher in four days worth of laughs during a total of 11 shows featuring more than 70 comedians performing ...

Something To Do talks Adult Swim employment, the state of ska

Tyler Maas

May 11, 2016

// Depending on who you ask, ska on its deathbed. Though some have reduced the once-formidable genre to a cheap punchline, a small-but-passionate guild of musicians with horns and a proclivity for upstrokes...

Set caps to LOCK, commenters! Ryan Braun will (probably not) be traded to Cubs

Tyler Maas

May 9, 2016

// Oh how time changes things! Scantly two years removed from being booed by his own fans (some of whom were donning poorly-doctored "Fraud" jerseys and foolishly calling for his outright release), Ryan Bra...

Bar Rescue seemed to actually work for Campbell’s Irish Pub

Tyler Maas

May 9, 2016

// As we reported last week, Nick's House—the East Side dive formerly known as Y-Not III until Bar Rescue turned it into a '70s-themed bar and Smirnoff vodka emporium—closed its doors for good in the wee ho...

Support MKE Puppet Theater and watch “Zombie Sunday”

Tyler Maas

May 9, 2016

// When Ryan Lowe puts his mind to something, he can't be stopped. Not only is the veteran comedian one of the funniest and most innovate people in Milwaukee stand-up, his mad genius has manifested itself i...

Bar Rescue can’t rescue Nick’s House from Bar Rescue

Tyler Maas

May 6, 2016

As first reported by OnMilwaukee.com last night, Nick's House is closing. Back in September 2014, we broke news that popular SPIKE TV "reality" series and thinly veiled Smirnoff commercial Bar Rescue was com...

Eve 6 is playing at a sports bar in Sturtevant, really

Tyler Maas

May 6, 2016

// Ever since the music world was set ablaze last month with rumors Limp Bizkit would be playing a 4/20 show at a Dayton, Ohio gas station, there has been a growing online trend of people making fake Facebo...

Tracklist: 12 Milwaukee sibling bands

Tyler Maas

May 4, 2016

// Thursday night, Mike Krol will bring his hissy, police-impersonating power-pop stylings to Cactus Club. Despite the recent frequency of the L.A.-dwelling member of the Merge Records family's Milwaukee vi...

Here’s the Chill On The Hill lineup

Tyler Maas

May 4, 2016

// It's amazing that Chill On The Hill has only been around for 12 years. The concept of the mid-week Bay View occurrence is so simple: laying out on a blanket and imbibing food and beverages brought from h...

Exclusive: Batten down the hatches for Antler House’s stormy ‘Across The Waves’

Tyler Maas

April 28, 2016

// Two years ago (almost to the day), we streamed Through The Dirt, a collection of a dozen emotionally devastating and beyond-their-years indie-tinged folk renderings crafted by an unknown trio called Antl...

Here’s the Cream City Comedy Festival lineup

Tyler Maas

April 28, 2016

// Last month, Milwaukee Record (a proud event sponsor) announced the existence of Cream City Comedy Festival. Founded by up-and-coming Chicago comics, Milwaukee comedy scene expats Sammy Arechar and Liz Zi...

“Martial Arts May” kicks off at Avalon Theater

Tyler Maas

April 28, 2016

// With tonight's showing of A Clockwork Orange being the final screening of Avalon Theater's well-received "Antihero April" film series, the Bay View cinema (that also brought you "Shocktoberfest" last Oct...

Exclusive: Traverse Rx Drugs’ first single, “Mountain Of Dreams”

Tyler Maas

April 27, 2016

// When we first checked in with Rx Drugs last October, the Milwaukee super group fronted by The Championship singer-guitarist Joe Crockett and featuring members of Dashboard Confessional, Hugh Bob & Th...

Here’s the first single from the final Caley Conway And The Lucy Cukes album

Tyler Maas

April 26, 2016

// Beyond her set at Arte Para Todos last weekend, a performance at FemFest, and a scant few outings around her Riverwest home, Caley Conway has been uncharacteristically quiet of late. There are two good r...

Hear haunting new songs from Ghost Cuts’ forthcoming album

Tyler Maas

April 26, 2016

// You've never heard of Ghost Cuts? Don't worry, it's cool. After all, none of the members live in Milwaukee (Glendale, Cedarburg, Sheboygan). Moreover, they've played exactly zero shows in their near-two-...

Exclusive: Feast your ears on Paper Holland’s new EP, ‘Fast Food’

Tyler Maas

April 25, 2016

// Last month, we premiered "Jazzy Jeff," the new single and first-recorded peep indie-pop project Paper Holland has made since 2013's Happy Belated. In the three-plus years since its impressive and emotive...

Take a look at Milwaukee Boat Line’s Concert Cruise lineup, mateys

Tyler Maas

April 25, 2016

// Despite the dozens of festivals, block parties, and weekly outdoor music series taking place on Milwaukee soil every summer, Milwaukee Boat Line sees fit to extend the city's celebratory spirit to the wa...

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