Announcing Bandsketball 2016
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Since 2014, Bandsketball has served as a means of bringing musicians from all ends of Milwaukee's music scene together in an unconventional and incredibly fun way. Each summer, a combined 32 bands or hip...
Tracklist: 15 Milwaukee bands with food names
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With Downtown Dining Week set to run June 2-9, Milwaukee Record decided to spend the next eight days devoting at least some of our bandwidth to covering local dining, both downtown and beyond. Before all...
A-side/B-side: Are Milwaukee’s festival lineups too similar?
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In A-side/B-side, two Milwaukee Record writers tackle various city issues in an informal, crosstalk style. Insults are hurled, feelings are hurt, and everyone learns something in the end. Maybe.
Tyler...
Tracklist: 11 unofficial Milwaukee theme songs
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In case you missed it, Milwaukee Record has a theme song now. Courtesy of local auto detailing and carpet cleaning professional Joshua Jones, the song touts our "music and news" coverage, while the accom...
Welcome to May: Here’s what you’re doing this month
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May in Milwaukee usually serves as the calm before the storm that is summer festival season. By this time next month, we'll be gearing up for block parties, weekly concerts, and a massive wave of occurre...
Join author Steven Hyden at the first “Milwaukee Record Book Club” on June 24
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For those who don't know Milwaukee Record's backstory, this noble endeavor in mid-market entertainment journalism started as a result of A.V. Club Milwaukee's demise. Then-City Editor Matt Wild and frequ...
Old Milwaukee: Turner Hall’s connection to the feminist movement
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The four-story, Cream City brick building on 4th Street known as Turner Hall is well known for hosting a wide variety of shows that range from concerts to comedians to live wrestling. Turner Hall also ho...
Whatever happened to that dumb “Love MKE. Blow Up A Car” thing?
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Every Wednesday at noon, Ryan Schleicher, Evan Rytlewski, and Matt Wild take to the WMSE airwaves to discuss all things Milwaukee. This half-hour fun-fest is called The Disclaimer, so named because none ...
Sheriff Clarke parked in a handicapped-accessible spot at the War Memorial on Veterans Day because he’s lazy and morally bankrupt
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When he’s not busy squeezing out liberal-baiting tweets so tired and by-the-numbers they make Rush Limbaugh look like Oscar fucking Wilde, Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke, Jr. is keeping Milwauk...
End of an error: Milwaukee’s Comedy Cafe scales back
Last week, a new era dawned upon Milwaukee’s Comedy Cafe. Though it was “consistently rated as one of the best comedy clubs in the country for two decades” (source: a Shepherd Express print ad that gave no attr...
Summerfest on low attendance: “It’s not my fault!”
There were a lot of weird things (including “Weird Al”) about the recently wrapped Summerfest, but one thing we welcomed was the absence of crushing crowds. Even on the fest’s biggest days, it was possible to m...
Lineup for 10th annual Milwaukee Comedy Festival announced
Last month, we were excited to reveal that certified Comedian Of Comedy Brian Posehn would headline the final night of the 10th annual Milwaukee Comedy Festival, which is taking place at Turner Hall on Sunday, ...
Welcome to April: Here’s what you’re doing this month
Though we won't discount the possibility of experiencing one last volley of snowfall this month, April is typically a period of rebirth. Baseball season begins, the first full month of spring is upon us, and ra...
Tracklist: 9 ways the 1990s are still alive in Milwaukee
These days, ’90s nostalgia is all the rage. It makes sense, really: In this fast-paced, invasive world utterly devoid of mystery, who can blame folks for seeking some small refuge in an era when the Internet wa...
What can a Milwaukee music compilation from 1980 tell us about the scene of today?
At some point during last weekend’s ridiculously great Arte Para Todos festival—possibly while passing a block-long line for GGOOLLD at Company Brewing on my way to see Canopies at Club Timbuktu—I had a thought...
Streetcar rape, chicken sacrifices, and 5 more Milwaukee scare stories of 2015
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The world is a vast and wonderful place, full of people, places, and experiences just waiting to be discovered. Every day holds the possibility of a new beginning; every hour, minute, and second ripe wit...
Tracklist: 10 final Bar Rescue takeaways
And so it’s come to this. Okay, so it’s not quite Woodward and Bernstein-level journalism. No, we didn’t compile an irrefutable report that a Heisman trophy candidate’s deceased girlfriend never existed, nor di...
Tracklist: 12 Bar Rescue takeaways
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It finally happened. Months after revealing Spike TV “reality” series Bar Rescue was scouting locations in the city, then subsequently breaking the news of what bar would be featured on the show and when...
The Olives take to the woods in the “Haunt Me” video
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...
On living in Milwaukee for half your life and never wanting to leave
Beginning this fall, I will have lived in Milwaukee for half my life. I moved here in 1996, an incoming UWM film student with a part-time job and a questionable haircut. I played in an equally questionable rock...