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

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...

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...

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...

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