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More Milwaukee-made songs worth stocking on your holiday playlist

December 24, 2016

Milwaukee musicians can be quite festive from time to time. Through the years, local bands and solo artists have amassed an extensive playlist of amazingly tolerable holiday songs. This December was no differ...

Snoop Dogg and company bring good vibes, plenty of smoke to Riverside Theater

Cal Roach

December 23, 2016

Snoop Dogg's original Puff Puff Pass Tour rolled out in 2001. Its sequel, which sold out the Riverside Theater on Thursday night, featured only Kurupt and Warren G from the first iteration. Fans of '90s G-fun...

Study: Milwaukee ranks 47th in cities “most attractive to immigrants”

Matt Wild

December 21, 2016

Over at Abodo.com—a Madison-based apartment listings site that enjoys reminding everyone how much their rent is going up—a new study identifies the top U.S. cities that are "most attractive to immigrants." Ne...

6th Annual Holiday Hip-Hop Party joins forces with Arte Para Todos

Tyler Maas

December 21, 2016

For the last six years, Joey Grihalva's Holiday Hip-Hop Party has served as a means of providing the city with quality holiday-adjacent entertainment that raises funds for a noble cause along the way. The ann...

Watch Sylvan Esso play “Radio” on ‘The Tonight Show’

Tyler Maas

December 21, 2016

Compared to the band's breakout 2014 and a 2015 that found the duo touring and playing major music festivals with regularity, this year has been a fairly quiet one for Sylvan Esso. Though the Durham, North Ca...

Cheap Trick is playing at UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena (after an Admirals game) March 10

Tyler Maas

December 19, 2016

When we examined the best and strangest promotions of the 2016-17 Milwaukee Admirals season back in October, we weren't aware the promo schedule was incomplete. In the subsequent months, the AHL franchise add...

You’re a blizzard, Harry: MSO’s ‘Harry Potter’ show bravely plays on

Rob Wieland

December 19, 2016

Milwaukee has some great Christmas traditions. The Milwaukee Repertory Theater performs A Christmas Carol every year. The LED-decoration arms race of Candy Cane Lane makes WE Energies smile. Soulless automato...

Riverwest FemFest 2017 releases first comp, weekend passes

Tyler Maas

December 17, 2016

Believe it or not, Riverwest FemFest 2017 (January 18-22) is just a month away. Up to this point, the third-year benefit for Milwaukee Coalition For Justice and Milwaukee Women’s Center has released its treme...

Mysterious Milwaukee rapper Stallion Buckwild featured on ‘Jimmy Fallon’

Matt Wild

December 16, 2016

Here's the story: Earlier this year, The A.V. Club's Josh Modell launched a column called Binge And Purge, an excellent series that found the former Milwaukeean picking through his collection of more than 2,0...

The 15 best Milwaukee music videos of 2016

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 15, 2016

As our recent rundown of the 25 best Milwaukee albums of 2016 showed, a dizzying amount of great music was made and released in our fair city this year. And, as evidenced by things like the Milwaukee Film Fes...

Download the Local Coverage 2016 concert

Tyler Maas

December 14, 2016

Way back on January 15, 10 acts from all corners of Milwaukee music came together at Turner Hall to do something special. Milwaukee Record's second annual Local Coverage benefit brought a varied mix of bands ...

Members of Decibully, Maritime, and The Promise Ring are ready to resurface as Dramatic Lovers

Tyler Maas

December 13, 2016

A band's first show usually isn't that big of a deal. However, when the project that's debuting includes members of three of the more accomplished Milwaukee projects in recent memory, that first show is rende...

Exclusive: Stream Dashcam’s smoldering “Fire Escape,” featuring GGOOLLDD’s Margaret Butler

Matt Wild

December 13, 2016

Thanks to the success of shows like Stranger Things and films like Drive, the gauzy, retro-future sounds of the 1980s are enjoying a surge in popularity not seen since, well, the actual 1980s. In Milwaukee, t...

County Board Supervisors to consider external investigations of deaths under Sheriff Clarke’s watch

Matt Wild

December 12, 2016

While professional internet troll, hat-wearer, television pundit, podcast host, speaker, and, oh yeah, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke spent much of 2016 performing five of the above duties, four people...

The 25 best Milwaukee albums of 2016

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 12, 2016

Do end-of-the-year lists matter? What purpose do they serve? Isn't it all just subjective? Who knows, but there's nothing more satisfying than immersing yourself in a year's worth of terrific music, rediscove...

Jay Anderson aligns the stars for new VoodooHoney record label

Matt Wild

December 9, 2016

Jay Anderson is working. The prolific Milwaukee musician is in the middle of a rehearsal—his second-floor Riverwest apartment pulling triple duty as a practice space and office—but he's not thinking about,...

Moon Curse’s “Beneath The Waves” video is a drunken nightmare at sea

Tyler Maas

December 8, 2016

Roughly one year ago, Moon Curse broke three years of relative silence with the release of The Spirit Remains, a five-song salvo of ’70s-tinged stoner rock. Save for a few live outings that included Mitten Fe...

Mike Mangione is releasing live videos for every song on his forthcoming EP

Tyler Maas

December 7, 2016

Between his penchant for both philosophical and spiritual matters, the all-around uplifting presence he exudes, and the impressive guests he routinely books on his great "Time & The Mystery" podcast, peop...

Inside Milwaukee’s green rooms: Pabst Theater, Riverside Theater, Turner Hall

Tyler Maas

December 6, 2016

While countless people flock to Milwaukee's numerous clubs, theaters, arenas, concert-equipped coffee shops, and other performance spaces every year, only a select few are allowed to peer behind the scenes. U...

Orchestral maneuvers in the dark: Creative uncertainty shapes Milwaukee’s emerging DIY chamber scene

Justin Kern

December 6, 2016

Riles Walsh flips through sheets of poster-sized paper composed of handmade symbols, blown up 16 times his original scribbles in black on white. These symbols seem familiar—perhaps from one of those expensive...