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Comet Denominator: How one restaurant nourishes Milwaukee music

September 24, 2015

// As one of Milwaukee’s best known restaurants, Comet Cafe is seen in a lot of different ways by a lot of different people. To some, it’s a beacon of comfort food anchoring the city’s east side. Others regar...

Tim Higgins talks improv, acting, elaborate beer passing

Tyler Maas

September 23, 2015

// If you've spent enough time in Milwaukee, you've probably seen Tim Higgins. The humorist has been teaching and performing improv at ComedySportz since 1992. He's dabbled in stand-up and acting. Perhaps h...

Barry Crimmins adds a comedy show to his Milwaukee Film Festival itinerary

Tyler Maas

September 23, 2015

On Monday, the Milwaukee Film Festival announced that veteran comedian Barry Crimmins would be coming to town to attend two screenings of Call Me Lucky, the Bobcat Goldthwait documentary about the influential h...

Hannibal Buress rises to the occasion at Riverside Theater

Tyler Maas

September 21, 2015

// Hannibal Buress is having a moment right now. Since packing Turner Hall in February of 2014, the comedian/actor's star has grown exponentially, oddly, due in part to being among the first to publicly re...

Why Milwaukee could, should (but probably won’t) host Riot Fest

Tyler Maas

September 18, 2015

// Last weekend, Chicago hosted its 11th iteration of Riot Fest. The annual festival, which was founded in the Windy City, started as a punk-, ska-, and hardcore-focused affair that bounced around exclusively...

Here are some updates for next week’s Wet Hot American Summer screening

Tyler Maas

September 17, 2015

// It’s going to be hard to say goodbye to summer, but at least about 200 of us will be able to do so in one of the best ways imaginable. Last month, we were proud to announce that we convinced Avalon Theater i...

Direct Hit! now has its own hot sauce

Tyler Maas

September 17, 2015

// It’s been a big 2015 for Direct Hit! This year, the Milwaukee pop-punk quartet toured Europe, headlined a stage at Summerfest, created a widely successful all-ages festival of their own, released a re-reco...

Jade Tree is reissuing The Promise Ring’s Nothing Feels Good on vinyl, cassette

Tyler Maas

September 16, 2015

Earlier this week, we chronicled 15 notable reunions in Milwaukee music. Of those, none were more meaningful than the return of emo kingpins The Promise Ring, who remain one of emo's most important acts and arg...

Nate Seek returns home with new perspective

Tyler Maas

September 16, 2015

// Milwaukee's stand-up comedy scene experiencing a state of transition. This summer alone has seen four of the city's best and most active comedic performers leave Milwaukee to see how their material fares i...

The cupcake is fucking dead: A eulogy

Tyler Maas

September 16, 2015

// It was the English scribe John Keats who first fashioned the prose, “A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.” There was a time, once—a time not...

Here’s who will play Comet Cafe’s 20th Anniversary Block Party

Tyler Maas

September 15, 2015

// Comet Cafe is nothing short of a Milwaukee institution. Beyond being a southeastern Wisconsin dining staple, a place where Guy Fieri was filmed face-fucking himself with a meatloaf sandwich, and an establi...

Hover Craft 2015 announces vendor lineup

Tyler Maas

September 14, 2015

// Attention, shoppers! Though it’s still technically summer, we’re pretty much nanoseconds from the oncoming onslaught of holiday advertisements, yuletide music re-entering radio rotation, and the intense pr...

Here’s the crazy good lineup for the next Riverwest FemFest

Tyler Maas

September 10, 2015

// Milwaukee musicians were feeling especially charitable last winter. Adding to the long-running annual Pablove show, January and February of 2015 saw more than a dozen punk and metal bands taking to the Bor...

Jen Kirkman is manic, magnificent in Turner Hall debut

Tyler Maas

September 10, 2015

// With her New York Times best-selling book I Can Barely Take Care Of Myself: Tales From A Happy Life Without Kids, her self-flagellating Netflix special I’m Gonna Die Alone (And I Feel Fine), and her Drunk ...

Mondo Lucha plays with pro wrestling’s pillars

Tyler Maas

September 9, 2015

// At this point, Mondo Lucha is one of those distinctly Milwaukee events. Though some may struggle to recall a time before Turner Hall was transformed into a wrestling and variety show facility, the local bl...

Exclusive: Stream Brat Sounds’ winning album, Born Loser

Tyler Maas

September 9, 2015

// A little more than a year ago, Scott Cary quietly announced the presence of Brat Sounds—and, simultaneously, the burial of his other project, Dinny Bulca—with an eponymous eight-song debut. Beyond publicly...

SAFS Crew wins 2015 Bandsketball championship

Tyler Maas

September 8, 2015

// The second annual Bandsketball has been waging in Riverwest since the beginning of July. Starting with 32 acts, the music scene-wide basketball tournament whittled down to just two teams. On Saturday after...

Yes we can: An afternoon at an international beer “CANvention”

Tyler Maas

September 8, 2015

// It's been said that one man's trash is another man's treasure. Apparently the same holds true for one man's recyclables. Last Thursday through Saturday, hundreds of collectors and vendors hailing from mo...

Things we learned from Violent Femmes’ Nerdist Podcast episode

Tyler Maas

September 4, 2015

The latest episode of the Chris Hardwick-hosted Nerdist Podcast featured the prodigal sons of Milwaukee music, Violent Femmes. Like the vast majority of the 700-some Nerdist episodes before it, the 77-minute re...

Light Music casts a big shadow with Ocean’s Daughter

Tyler Maas

September 4, 2015

Two letters. One word. When it comes to music, "of" is the sturdy wall of preposition that spans the border of two distinctly different regions of familiarity. Close as it appears, hearing of a band does little...

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