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Brian Posehn will anchor the Milwaukee Comedy Festival on August 9

May 1, 2015

The Milwaukee Comedy Festival has been a late summer fixture in the city since, to be perfectly honest, before Milwaukee even had a viable comedy scene worth celebrating. A decade after what was jokingly referr...

Underwear Comedy Party strips stand-up to the bare essentials

Tyler Maas

April 30, 2015

Given the daunting task of stepping on stage armed with only a microphone and a batch of deeply personal thoughts, feelings, and past experiences in effort to make a room full people laugh against their will, s...

At Random is for sale

Tyler Maas

April 29, 2015

At Random—known for its specialty cocktails, surly servers, and sporadic hours of operation—is usually nestled somewhere between Bryant’s and (insert other local bar du jour) on the onslaught of online “Best Ba...

Graham Hunt discusses new Midnight Reruns releases, opening for The Replacements

Tyler Maas

April 29, 2015

Though Midnight Reruns had an EP in circulation already, the release of the band's next-to-flawless self-titled 2013 album truly brought the rock outfit to local consciousness and saw them privy to nods from na...

Kevin Nash, Princess Night, and Jurassic Park: Here’s your 2015 Lakeshore Chinooks preview

Tyler Maas

April 28, 2015

With nearly an eighth of a season in the books, the 4-16 Milwaukee Brewers are playing historically bad baseball right now. Not only does the franchise have the absolute worst record in the league at the moment...

Exclusive: Stream The New Seven’s Look Closer, Say Something

Tyler Maas

April 27, 2015

Good things come to those who wait. Following a false start in the genre of progressive bluegrass, a shake-up in membership, and a long hiatus that followed, The New Seven reemerged of late. Now locked in as a ...

Haircuts and hilarity: The Jessie Mahne story

Tyler Maas

April 23, 2015

Jessie Mahne does it all. Since first taking the stage in 2007, the Swiss Army Knife of Milwaukee comedy has done stand-up, sketch, improv, musical comedy, and character acting. Off stage, the versatile humoris...

A piece of paper with Phylicia Rashad on it convinced me to listen to a song

Tyler Maas

April 22, 2015

Last weekend, while partaking in Record Store Day festivities, I was sipping a sample of Ale Asylum Hopalicious—now in cans, by the way (I'M A COMPANY MAN!)—outside Bullseye Record and Comet Cafe. There, I was ...

First Impression: Van Buren’s Whiskey Bar And Grill

Tyler Maas

April 21, 2015

With the recent wave of theme bars, lounges, dance club/pizza restaurant hybrids (RIP, Crisp!), and national beer bar franchises (Don't RIP, World Of Beer!) sprouting up on and around the already night life-equ...

Tracklist: 10 celebrities who did time in Milwaukee

Tyler Maas

April 20, 2015

As Wisconsin’s largest city, Milwaukee plays host to its fair share of touring musicians, top-tier comedians, professional athletes, and other pop culture figures of note. That said, it’s also the type of city ...

Here’s the list of the 2015 WAMI winners

Tyler Maas

April 20, 2015

Last night, the 35th annual Wisconsin Area Music Industry (a.k.a. “WAMI”) Awards came to Turner Hall. Those who shelled out $35 to attend—or an unthinkable $59.99 or $99.99 for single and couple VIP passes, res...

Off base: A Milwaukee Brewers-themed Follow Friday

Tyler Maas

April 17, 2015

Yeah, we know it's early, but through nine games, the Milwaukee Brewers haven't exactly done much on the diamond worth highlighting. With a dreadful 2-7 record, the makeshift franchise is not only mired in last...

Born in a barn: Holy Sheboygan set to unveil its farm-grown EP

Tyler Maas

April 16, 2015

Originated in Appleton as a project in which Lawrence University art students incorporated unconventional instruments, mixed media, and percussion provided by actual garbage into their eclectic, genre-jumping s...

Steven Look goes back to basics with King Eye & The Squirts

Tyler Maas

April 15, 2015

For more than a decade, Steven Look's voice could be heard bolstering beyond-their-years indie rock projects The Meteah Strike and, later, Fable & The World Flat. Following a two-release 2013 from Fable, th...

Watch Maritime’s local love letter, “Milwaukee”

Tyler Maas

April 14, 2015

Not including some live Whips covers we put out, Maritime hasn't had a release since 2011's great Human Hearts. The veteran indie rock band's forthcoming record is currently in the mixing stage, but as yet anot...

Tracklist: 10 ways Milwaukee is celebrating Record Store Day 2015

Tyler Maas

April 13, 2015

Originally started as a single-day rally cry for music lovers to get out and support traditional music retailers instead of buying digital music and/or ordering online, Record Store Day has quickly become an ex...

Exclusive: Stream four tracks off Airo Kwil’s re-invention, Dark Cinema

Tyler Maas

April 13, 2015

When we introduced you to Airo Kwil—the rapping alter ego of Calamity Janes and New Boyz Club drummer Will Rose—last November, the multifaceted emcee was putting the finishing touches on his first effort since ...

Warped perception: A guide to the worst Warped Tour lineup in recent memory

Tyler Maas

April 10, 2015

Earlier this week, the lineup for Warped Tour was announced. If that sentence makes you feel incredibly old, then you probably won't like hearing that Warped Tour is now 20 years old. Spawned in 1995 by Kevin L...

Awkward Terrible chips in on Classic’s concert series

Tyler Maas

April 10, 2015

If the name Awkward Terrible rings a bell, you probably recognize it from its normal place near the bottom of local show flyers and beneath a band or two on Facebook event listings. That should in no way sugges...

Gary Zajackowski plans to bring laughs to Midwest Gaming Classic

Tyler Maas

April 9, 2015

During his four years on stage, Gary Zajackowski hasn't shied away from taking his material to strange, off-putting, and occasionally very alienating places. The unofficial wild card of Milwaukee comedy's body ...

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