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Extra Points: 5 more Aaron Rodgers post-game beverages

November 28, 2014

Last Sunday’s 24-21 Packers victory over the Vikings in Minneapolis was a rather unexciting affair compared to the two consecutive routes in which Green Bay scored more than 50 points. One of the few highlights...

Goodnight Milwaukee Show and Tall Boys combine comic forces

Tyler Maas

November 26, 2014

Saturday night, live and localized late night talk show The Goodnight Milwaukee Show and the Tall Boys improv troupe will perform together in an instance of multifaceted comedic collaboration. While both groups...

Brewers Double-A affiliate gets new name and logo, loses everyone’s respect

Tyler Maas

November 25, 2014

Following 30 seasons as the Huntsville Stars (that past 15 of those as the Milwaukee Brewers Double-A affiliate), the Southern League franchise was sold in January and was promptly uprooted from the Alabama spa...

Christopher Schmidt wins Battle Royale IV title

Tyler Maas

November 24, 2014

Almost two weeks ago, approximately 30 comedians from Milwaukee (and a few from Madison) stacked their material against one another while participating in Caste Of Killers' fourth annual Battle Royale. After th...

Summertime Dudes return for benefit gig, “huge milkers”

Tyler Maas

November 24, 2014

Milwaukee tribute band The Summertime Dudes doesn't take the stage for just anything. Though the all-star cock-rockers are usually busy enjoying the fruits of their robust catalog of solid gold '70s and '80s cl...

Extra Points: 15 Wisconsin athletes turned awful actors

Tyler Maas

November 21, 2014

If you were anywhere within the Wisconsin state border yesterday and had access to a computer, radio or television, you almost certainly learned the Hollywood gossip about Green Bay Packers players Clay Matthew...

Trapper Schoepp plays Paste’s “Live At Aloft Hotels” series

Tyler Maas

November 21, 2014

Milwaukee folk fixture Trapper Schoepp And The Shades has spent much of 2014 either on the road or in a Nashville studio with Brendan Benson recording a new album (that may or may not feature Marc Maron playing...

Help save the Frosty Mug

Tyler Maas

November 21, 2014

Since early 2008, the Frosty Mug has been an everyday part of each weekday for a sizable segment of Brewers fans. But without some help, the trusted daily treasure trove of Brew Crew news could cease by year's ...

Double Vision: Will Rose plays musical chairs

Tyler Maas

November 20, 2014

The side project isn't a new phenomenon. At a time in which more bands than ever are active, and there are perpetually more descriptors being placed either before or after genre-narrowing hyphens than the pr...

Chris Chuzles breathes new life into Hot Coffin

Tyler Maas

November 20, 2014

This time last year, Chris Chuzles (second from left) was preparing to say goodbye to Disguised As Birds, the decade-old Milwaukee rock band he fronted. Not longer after the release of the band's outstanding sw...

Battle Royale finalists weigh in on title chances

Tyler Maas

November 19, 2014

Following last week's trifecta of Caste Of Killers Battle Royale IV preliminary rounds that found a field of nearly 30 of Milwaukee (and Madison for some reason)'s finest and funniest comedy contest competitors...

First Impression: Uncanny Soup Co.

Tyler Maas

November 18, 2014

As one of easiest foods to prepare, among the least expensive meals to purchase, and one of the few edibles whose prepackaged store-bought version can be remarkably close in quality to many restaurant rendition...

Get Rad will play Punx Give Thanx benefit show Black Friday

Tyler Maas

November 17, 2014

Milwaukee hardcore aficionados now have reason to give thanks. Some 20 months removed from its last show and more than six months after releasing its most recent split, Get Rad will return to the stage for a go...

Interpol beautifully blends old and new in Pabst Theater sellout

Tyler Maas

November 17, 2014

At this point in the iconic post-punk band’s existence, there are two distinctly different eras of Interpol. There’s the indie blog darling that came out of nowhere with a pair or formidable, borderline-legenda...

12 funny comics: Battle Royale IV heads to finals

Tyler Maas

November 14, 2014

This week’s trio of preliminary rounds in the fourth annual Caste Of Killers Battle Royale saw close to 30 comedians taking the stage at three combined venues in as many nights to pit their funniest five minute...

Johanna Rose lets New Boyz Club out of the house and onto the stage

Tyler Maas

November 14, 2014

As the upright bass player of Calamity Janes And The Fratney Street Band, Johanna Rose provides the rhythmic backbone and contributes one fourth of the gorgeous and formidable harmonic wave for which the buddin...

Appleseeds and Strange Matter announce GO MILK YOURSELF split 7-inch, release show

Tyler Maas

November 13, 2014

Perfectly self-described as “super-fast post-punk type stuff with vox that’ll make you look at the person next to you and be like ‘woah dude,’” Appleseeds is as quiet and avoidable from a promotional sense as i...

Exclusive: Stream Buffalo Gospel’s unreleased song “Here Lies Our Lovin’”

Tyler Maas

November 12, 2014

Last summer, Buffalo Gospel came out with its outstanding and emotionally wrought first full-length, We Can Be Horses, which straddled conventions of classic country and Americana whilst easily earning a spot i...

Rusty P’s to return with original lineup, new album in 2015

Tyler Maas

November 12, 2014

In December of 1995, an upstart hip-hop quartet called The Rusty Pelicans played its first show. Since that inaugural outing at The Globe (which closed more than a decade ago), the group has opened for some of ...

Let Field Report’s animated video for “Wings” take you to outer space

Tyler Maas

November 11, 2014

It’s been a hell of a year for music videos in Milwaukee. Local bands have really stepped things up of late to consistently churn out videos with rich production values, inventive and hilarious concepts, and an...

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