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I tried (and utterly failed) Zaffiro’s first “Big Z Challenge”

November 3, 2015

// I'm incredibly sad to inform you, reader, that this is quite possibly my final post at Milwaukee Record. You see, I am dying. Probably very soon. Okay, perhaps none of that stuff is exactly true. Howe...

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

Tyler Maas

November 2, 2015

November. Summer is now far in the rear view mirror. Your Halloween costume has been washed, de-vomited, and stored away for later use. The extra hour of sleep you enjoyed over the weekend as a result of daylig...

Temple is breaking up

Tyler Maas

October 31, 2015

Friday, Milwaukee post-punk quartet Temple announced the band will be ending. After forming early iterations of the project almost a decade ago when the members were high school students in Green Bay, the lo...

Extra Points: Projecting John Kuhn’s next beard

Tyler Maas

October 30, 2015

Congratulations! If you're reading this, you survived the Packers bye week. Hopefully you found some bullshit to help occupy you last Sunday as you waited for the green and gold to return to action. Green Bay p...

Ozmi Osbourne talks comedy, honesty, Palestine

Tyler Maas

October 30, 2015

With about a year to his credit, Azmi Abdel-Hamid (better known as "Ozmi Osbourne") has no problem admitting he's new to doing stand-up. However, he's no stranger to the Milwaukee comedy scene. Before he steppe...

Bill Burr takes Riverside Theater on a wild ride

Tyler Maas

October 28, 2015

In this ongoing epoch of never-before-seen comic saturation that finds Netflix and iTunes releasing new stand-up specials at an astounding rate, every person who has ever told a joke beginning a podcast to talk...

Addie Blanchard starts strong in Milwaukee stand-up scene

Tyler Maas

October 27, 2015

During a six-month stint of comedic mass exodus that saw four of the city's strongest stand-up comics relocating to Chicago, another four funnymen heading to L.A., and one comedian even moving to Washington D.C...

Say goodbye to The Midwestern Charm and hello to Bad Wig

Tyler Maas

October 27, 2015

There's a pivotal moment many bands face in which they must decide whether to trudge on with a name they no longer enjoy or risk confusing (or downright upsetting) loyal listeners and bookers by keeping an iden...

First Impression: Camino

Tyler Maas

October 26, 2015

Ah, the Walker's Point restaurant renaissance! These days, the transitional neighborhood's culinary and cocktail climate is all but indistinguishable when compared to the dining and drinking options available b...

Amy Schumer is coming to BMO Harris Bradley Center December 4

Tyler Maas

October 26, 2015

In a year that saw Amy Schumer partnering with Judd Apatow on Trainwreck, hosting SNL, winning an Emmy for her eponymous Comedy Central series, putting out her Live At The Apollo special on HBO, and crossing th...

Exclusive: Stream HoneyBee’s gorgeous ‘The Hollow Tree EP’

Tyler Maas

October 23, 2015

Milwaukee music is in the midst of a renaissance. Much of the rapid growth, inarguable improvement, and increased national attention to which the city has been privy lately can be largely explained by the ongoi...

Extra Points: 25 bullshit things you can do during the Packers bye

Tyler Maas

October 23, 2015

Though Packers season is only six weeks old, we've already grown quite accustomed to the weekly ritual of gathering with friends and loved ones in living rooms or a wealth of Wisconsin bars to watch Green Bay w...

New look Static Eyes set sights on new horizons

Tyler Maas

October 22, 2015

No matter what widely circulated memes, dated musician jokes, and frequent placement behind everyone but the drummer may lead you to believe, the bass player is an integral part of a band. Aside from rounding o...

Plug in and listen to BLAX’s “The Headphone Experiment Volume 1”

Tyler Maas

October 21, 2015

Since moving back to The Good Land from New York in 2013, Fresh Cut Collective co-founder Adebisi Agoro—who raps under the stage name BLAX—has worked hard to regain his footing in the hip-hop scene he’d tempora...

Midnight Reruns’ latest is a ‘Force’ to be reckoned with

Tyler Maas

October 20, 2015

While the band's unpolished, distorted, and often self-deprecating songs routinely put its name in close proximity to the term "slacker," Midnight Reruns aren't lazy. In fact, they work really hard. Lately, the...

Twin Brother’s “Bury Me Dear” is black, white, and sad all over

Tyler Maas

October 20, 2015

Back in June, Milwaukee folk quintet Twin Brother played an extra special show at Club Garibaldi. Not only was it one of the band's first outings as a five piece and a homecoming for frequent show partner Old E...

Local Coverage tickets are on sale now

Tyler Maas

October 19, 2015

Last Thursday, we announced the date and lineup for our second Local Coverage benefit concert. On Friday, January 15, an eclectic and talented group of 10 Milwaukee bands and rappers will take the stage at Turn...

Tracklist: 15 Milwaukee Halloween shows

Tyler Maas

October 19, 2015

Yeah, we know there's still one weekend sitting between now and Halloween, but with the holiday falling on a Saturday, there seems to be even more awesome concerts, comedy shows, and other entertainment ameniti...

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

Tyler Maas

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...

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