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Cast your vote for the 2014 Radio Milwaukee Music Awards

November 5, 2014

Today, as you nurse your hangover caused by either celebrating your preferred political party’s performance last night, or coming to terms with your candidate falling short, please take some time to cast your v...

Bob Odenkirk unleashes literary laughs at Pabst Theater

Tyler Maas

November 5, 2014

For more than three decades Bob Odenkirk has amassed an absolutely unfuckwithable comedic résumé that includes co-starring on Mr. Show, writing for SNL, penning dozens of TV and film’s most irreverent comedies,...

Catacombz will play its final show December 6

Tyler Maas

November 5, 2014

For close to 10 years, Milwaukee psych-rock outfit Catacombz has been a staple of the local music scene. Formed when most of the members were still teenagers, the band toured extensively, released a series of g...

First Impression: Tornado Brewing Company

Tyler Maas

November 4, 2014

Brewing is in its golden age. No matter when you’re reading this sentence, there are currently more varieties and brands of beer on Earth being produced by more brewers of all skill levels than ever before. Eve...

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Eric & Magill: In This Light

Tyler Maas

November 4, 2014

Since 2010’s solid debut, All Those I Know, tangential Milwaukee dream-pop duo Eric & Magill (ex-Camden, Decibully, The Promise Ring) has been putting out material at a greater rate and of a higher quality ...

Beware of Cinnaminiatures’ Halloween release, Haunt’s Catsup

Tyler Maas

October 31, 2014

Milwaukee's self-annointed "premier, all girl, punk rock, holiday jam band" Cinnaminiatures are back and in the Halloween spirit. In honor of the spooky season, the unabashed novelty band released its chilling ...

Soul Low’s “Blatz Beat” video will make you happy, thirsty

Tyler Maas

October 31, 2014

After Soul Low came out of nowhere with its incredible debut, UNEASY (a debut that’s firmly a top 10 local album this decade) in the summer of 2013, the city that had just met the indie rock prodigies—who, at t...

The Olives take to the woods in the “Haunt Me” video

Tyler Maas

October 31, 2014

The Olives have been delighting gallery spaces, clubs, and Riverwest basements (and upcoming Milwaukee Record benefit shows) with its instantly-fun brand of Great Lakes surf punk for a few years now. The all-fe...

Halloween Comedy Show is set to scare up some laughs

Tyler Maas

October 31, 2014

Long after one’s acceptable trick-or-treating years have elapsed, Halloween weekend remains intriguing in adulthood because it offers a hiatus from all things ordinary. It grants a grace period from behaving as...

Crack a beer and watch the new Platinum Boys video for “Candy”

Tyler Maas

October 30, 2014

Those rapscallions in Platinum Boys are fresh off a mischievous summer that saw the Riverwest rock quartet dosing Milwaukee’s festivals, block parties, and clubs with pristine party anthems about indulging in t...

Ramie Makhlouf: From sports talk to stand-up

Tyler Maas

October 29, 2014

For thousands of listeners spread from Fond du Lac to Kenosha and all around metro Milwaukee, Ramie Makhlouf's voice is a part of the afternoon drive time commute, a trusted source of athletic information, and ...

Extra Points: Milwaukee Record’s completely arbitrary NFL city rankings

Tyler Maas

October 24, 2014

Despite their differing performance, the Green Bay Packers and New Orleans Saints have been two very similar organizations this season. Each are perennial NFC favorites who usually rely on their Hall Of Fame-ca...

A Monday in Cudahy: My third-shift bar crawl

Tyler Maas

October 23, 2014

There’s no getting around it: Cudahy is Milwaukee’s punching bag. If you live anywhere in southeastern Wisconsin, you’ve undoubtedly heard dozens of jokes, putdowns, and generalizations cast in the direction of...

Field Report goes all in on Marigolden

Tyler Maas

October 21, 2014

You could hear it from the chapel steps. As the volume of the acoustic guitar and the lone singer’s wavering, vulnerable voice subsided, it was overtaken with thunderous applause of close to 500 people seate...

Brett Newski’s “Vs The World” video shows the plight of life on the road

Tyler Maas

October 21, 2014

Milwaukee folk rocker Brett Newski lives a largely nomadic lifestyle that finds him touring the vast majority of each year. His musical wanderlust has found him touring in six continents (Sorry, Antarctica!), a...

Burnhearts, Three Floyds partner for inaugural “Punk House Kegger Party” November 12

Tyler Maas

October 20, 2014

Hop-heads and punkers alike have reason to rejoice. In an effort to fill that cruel show-free gap that sits between the Burnhearts/Pabst Street Party each June and the annual February street celebration that...

Brian Regan comes clean in hilarious, wholesome Riverside Theater show

Tyler Maas

October 20, 2014

Clean comedy is something of an oxymoron these days. In an age that finds stand-up at its crudest, most brazen and experimental, and with little in the way of limitations, the clean, folksy, identifiable comic ...

Exclusive: Stream Wealthy Ghost’s EP, Cold Hands

Tyler Maas

October 17, 2014

Much like the catchall “indie rock” classification that’s often applied to bands on major labels that don’t play rock and roll, “bedroom pop” seems to be the sub-genre du jour to describe delicate, exposed sing...

Chris D’Elia plays the part of Pabst Theater headliner

Tyler Maas

October 17, 2014

Though he’s been performing stand-up comedy for eight years, Chris D’Elia is far better known for his comedic efforts in two immensely different formats. The comic got his start in acting, which yielded a regul...

Greg Bach makes up for lost stage time

Tyler Maas

October 16, 2014

Stand-up comedy is widely considered to be among the most difficult forms of entertainment to master. Like anything, the earlier one starts, the more lumps he or she can incur on the way to developing a set tha...

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