Yield Bar has closed
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After more than a decade in business, Yield Bar screeched to an abrupt stop at bar time this morning. According to sources within the business, Thursday night (or bar time Friday morning) was the end of ...
Midnight Reruns debut “Warm Days” in Wisconsin Public Radio video
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Last year, Milwaukee rockers Midnight Reruns truly made their mark in local music with the release of its wonderful sophomore record, Force Of Nurture (which earned the No. 2 slot on our Best Milwaukee A...
Tuk’s Thai Kitchen is closed
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As first reported by OnMilwaukee, Tuk's Thai Kitchen—the latest in a long line of restaurants to try their luck at 1000 E. Locust—has closed its doors for good. The restaurant was opened in July of 2014 ...
Here’s the PrideFest Milwaukee 2016 entertainment lineup (including the Milwaukee Record Stage!)
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With all due respect to earlier-occuring newcomers Riverwest FemFest, Arte Para Todos, Gloss Weekend, and Tasty Fest, Milwaukee's festival season truly and officially begins with PrideFest. The first fes...
We’re showing ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ at Times Cinema
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Being exactly a month out from summer, the temptation to cut class or call in sick to work is only growing with each temperate and sun-soaked day. While the rest of the world toils away, you'd probably l...
Space Raft comes full circle with 360 degree “Hang On Hang On” video
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We've said it before and we'll say it again, Milwaukee has stepped its music video game up considerably in recent years. Just as local filmmakers were beginning to truly find their footing with inventive...
Ha Ha Clinton-Dix’s “Official Website” is pretty rough
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Though most with even a faint background of professional football are well aware of his work with the Green Bay Packers, starting safety and name joke inspiration Ha Ha Clinton-Dix recently sought to exp...
Exclusive: Stream the pretty Ugly Brothers single, “Again & Again”
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By the time the first Ugly Brothers full-length, 16 Tiny Mountains, is released on August 13, close to two years will have passed since the Riverwest folk project put out its self-titled debut EP. To be ...
Tracklist: Summerfest Place and 10 other ultra-specific Milwaukee streets
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Last Tuesday, a chunk of Third Ward concrete that had long existed outside Henry Maier Festival Park as "Polk Street" was officially renamed "Summerfest Place" after an application filed by Milwaukee Wor...
Exclusive: Stream Midwest Death Rattle’s ‘Post-Apocalypso’ opener, “Tacoma Narrows”
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After going more than three years without making so much as a peep (at least in the recorded sense), Midwest Death Rattle has spent much of 2016's first five months issuing small-but-frequent samples of ...
Check out the 9th annual Burnhearts/Pabst Street Party lineup
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With summer's true beginning just over a month away, most of the uncertainties about the city's staggering number of festivals, weekly music series, and block parties have cleared up. In the last two wee...
Listen to, download Soul Low’s ‘Unplugged’ set
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Back on February 18, Soul Low stepped on stage at the Helene Zelazo Center For The Performing Arts to play a show unlike any the band had ever played before. Joined by an all-star cast of Milwaukee strin...
Here’s the 2016 Lakefront Festival Of Art lineup
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Milwaukee Art Museum’s Lakefront Festival Of Art has always been one of the city’s classier summer festivals—no beer runs or zany street performers here! Still, per Milwaukee summer festival regulations,...
Arte Para Todos 2016 raises close to $18,000
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Arte Para Todos 2016 was awesome. Between April 21 through April 24, an outstanding lineup of more than 90 bands and rappers took to 25 Milwaukee venues in five of the city's neighborhoods. Even more imp...
Rollie Fingers brings comic relief to Screamin’ Sicilian commercial
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Between having a remarkable career as one of the most dominant closers in Major League history and having a distinct handlebar mustache above his upper lip for much of that legendary career, Rollie Finge...
Urban Bay View will open next weekend
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Last May, we broke news that Tonic owner Paul Jonas would be opening a new Bay View bar called UC Jonas' in the site Gerry’s Diamond Tap (939 E. Lincoln Ave.) had occupied from 1987 through 2014. More th...
A fond farewell to John Kuhn, King Of Scrap
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You could almost feel it in the air. While an otherwise bright and inviting mid-May day signaled an impending epoch of warmth, sunshine, and rebirth throughout Wisconsin, the serenity was interrupted by ...
Relive GGOOLLDD’s Turner Hall sellout in behind the scenes video
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While Milwaukee as a whole is slowly beginning to come around to the wealth of homegrown talent making great music within our city limits, it's still quite an accomplishment for a local band to sell out ...
Casual Vocals’ Milwaukee roots grow stronger with “Plant”
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Last October, we introduced you to Casual Vocals—the solo folk venture of Chicago native-turned-Milwaukee resident Colleen Webb—by way of her inventive homespun music video for the first single and title...
Help Purple Door Ice Cream and Bounce Milwaukee name new flavor
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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...