First Impression: Junior’s Hook
As unfair as it is, any business that opens shop at 1517 S. Second Street will inevitably draw comparisons to a legendary former tenant of the understated Walker's Point site. In early 2012, Bomb Shelter was fo...
Milwaukee Record’s favorite moments from Arte Para Todos 2015
On paper, the inaugural Arte Para Todos festival seemed too good to be true. Seventy of the best Milwaukee musical acts would be playing dozens of shows at 15 venues spread throughout three neighborhoods and th...
Jake Kornely’s last stand: The comic and musician says goodbye to Milwaukee
Jake Kornely joined Static Eyes in 2011. Roughly a month after joining the Milwaukee punk band, he attempted stand-up comedy for the first time. Since then, the art forms have jostled for position, but both rem...
Watch Rock ‘N’ Roller Remote Controller’s Season 2 premiere
Originally expected out last fall, the long-awaited Season 2 premiere of Milwaukee-made show Rock ’N’ Roller Remote Controller was posted on YouTube today in rather unheralded fashion, especially considering th...
Tracklist: 12 Milwaukee-on-Milwaukee covers
If you haven’t heard, Milwaukee Record is putting on a little show Friday, January 16. Essentially, the inaugural Local Coverage will feature some great local bands playing at Club Garibaldi as part of a Girls ...
The 15 best Milwaukee concerts of 2014
There was a time, not too long ago, when Milwaukee was on the “don’t-bother-playing” list for big-ticket touring acts, and regularly lost big-ticket shows to Madison and Chicago. Now, anyone claiming the latter...
The 15 best Milwaukee music videos of 2014
This year was an incredibly bountiful year in Milwaukee music. Meanwhile, the utter success of the 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival suggests the city is coming into its own, both in the ability of locals to capture...
The 25 best Milwaukee albums of 2014
If the sign of a deliriously overstuffed and overwhelming year in local music is the almost paralyzing difficulty in ranking it all come year’s end, then 2014 was one for the books. The number of assured, accom...
Exclusive: Hear two songs off Migo’s bonkers debut, Napkin Back
Migo is a hard band to reduce to a single genre. Its Facebook page describes the eclectic Milwaukee quartet as “Lost Dog Fan-Fiction” and “Piñata Rock.” As nonsensical as those descriptors sound, we can’t offer...
Black Friday, touring smart, restaurant renaissance
On select Fridays, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.
• Fuck Black Friday, right? This "holiday" sends rabid consumers to big ...
Tracklist: 7 things Milwaukee can be thankful for
Thanksgiving is a time for taking stock of the year gone by; stuffing your face; and participating in an elaborate, multi-family holiday bowling tournament that has gone on for seven years now, and involves det...
Ladies Rock Milwaukee seeks campers, volunteers for first year
After two successful Girls Rock Milwaukee camps, the organization rooted in the principle of encouraging and empowering girls through musical collaboration has decided to implement a winter edition tailored to ...
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...
Exclusive: Listen to Ladders’ excellent debut album, Suha
In just five short years, the Riverwest-based Breadking collective has made its mark on the city’s music scene by nurturing a seemingly endless number of young bands, and by providing an informal support networ...
10 standout moments from the 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival
And that’s a wrap: After 15 days of movies, more movies, and even more movies, the 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival has come to a close. Bookended by an opening-night screening of 1971 and last night’s sendoff from...
Exclusive: Get pummeled by Volunteer’s four-song EP, Goner
In a time when the number of bands on planet Earth rivals the amount of water on planet Earth, it’s rare to find a “band’s band.” You know, a band that other bands respect, regardless of style or genre. Milwauk...
Bay View Bash 2014: A minute-by-minute recap
And then there were none. After yet another Milwaukee summer rife with festivals and block parties, Saturday’s Bay View Bash unofficially brought the celebration of the season in the City of Festivals to a clos...
Watch the premiere episode of The Jake Kornely Show
When he’s not playing bass in underrated punk band Static Eyes, Milwaukee comic Jake Kornely is continually doing his part to push the local comedy scene forward. Apparently it wasn’t enough simply hosting a we...
Changing of The Vanguard
As part of this weekend’s Bay View Bash, highly anticipated specialty sausage bar The Vanguard will be selling cased meats in front of its yet-to-be-completed property. The pop-up sausage station will grant eag...
Tracklist: 13 more bands Milwaukee can claim by association
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As great as Sylvan Esso is, you have to think at least some of the reason for Durham-based duo’s Pabst Theater sellout Friday had to do with Milwaukee being the hometown of Nick Sanborn. Prior to startin...