First Impression: Camino
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
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’
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
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
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”
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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”
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
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
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
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
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?
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...