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April 24, 2023

"It might not be too exciting to hear how few beavers there actually were, but hopefully the scale of the movie is giant and it feels like a big adventure." That's director and Whitefish Bay native Mike Ches...

Milwaukee Record Recommended: August 29 – September 4, 2022

August 29, 2022

Our fat-free, dolphin-safe Milwaukee events calendar is chock-full of things to do, but only a handful of events are worthy of the lofty honor of "Record Recommended" (patent pending). Here are our recommendati...

Prepare for the Big Gig with My First Band episodes featuring 2022 Summerfest performers

June 23, 2022

broadstreet.zone(81112); Each and every year (with the obvious exception of 2020, of course), Summerfest brings some of the planet’s biggest entertainers to Milwaukee. In addition to the dozens of world-renown...

A guide to Milwaukee acts playing Summerfest

June 21, 2022

Thursday marks the official start of another Summerfest. Now in its 54th year, the "Big Gig" has long been home to deep fried delicacies, prime people watching, and hundreds upon hundreds of musical acts from a...

Washington Park Wednesdays are back! Here’s the 2022 lineup

May 20, 2022

And the summer music lineups keep on coming (and coming, and coming, and coming). Today, Washington Park Wednesdays revealed its 2022 lineup—its first full, in-person lineup since 2019. Here's who's playing the...

My First Band’s year in review: The 10 most-listened-to episodes of 2021

December 31, 2021

broadstreet.zone(81112); As of midnight tonight, another year will be in the books, as will another year of our My First Band podcast. The show's third year found us releasing 52 episodes, reaching more people ...

Milwaukee Music Roundup: October 2021

October 31, 2021

Looking for new music? Looking for new Milwaukee music? Then look no further than our monthly Milwaukee Music Roundup. (Want to hear us discuss a few selections on WUWM’s Lake Effect? Click HERE.) LPs AND EPs ...

25 Milwaukee Halloween events

October 26, 2021

Halloween as we know it didn't happen last year, but thanks to vaccinations (hey, get vaccinated!), the world is once again in a place where the holiday can be enjoyed in something resembling a "normal" capacit...

SistaStrings set sail on the Milwaukee River in new ‘No Wake!’ music video series

October 22, 2021

Summer may be over, but that doesn't mean the memory of summer has to be over. A new music video series, No Wake!, is here to keep that warm-weather memory alive, showing various local musicians boating along t...

A guide to Milwaukee acts playing Summerfest

August 31, 2021

Thursday marks the official start of another Summerfest. Now in its 53rd year, the “Big Gig” has long been home to deep fried delicacies, prime people watching, and hundreds upon hundreds of musical acts from a...

Summerfest adds Shaggy, Spin Doctors, sound effects guy from ‘Police Academy,’ more

July 27, 2021

It wasn't me. Just go ahead now. Yes, that's right, Summerfest just went ahead now and added a whole bunch of additional headliners to its already stacked 2021 lineup. Among those headliners is '90s legend ...

This Friday: Present Music closes 39th season with virtual “Neon Life” concert

June 9, 2021

Call it "normal" or a "new normal," but it feels like we're collectively returning to...something. That mixed feeling of closure and relief and uncertainty will course through "Neon Life," the season-closing co...

10 good things to happen in Milwaukee during this awful year

December 29, 2020

This year will surely go down as one of the worst of our lifetimes. We'd say the worst, but we're honestly not sure how 2021 will turn out. Though the past nine-plus months have been racked with unthinkable tra...

18 more Milwaukee-made holiday songs

December 21, 2020

Over the course of a few Decembers of Milwaukee Record‘s existence, we’ve rounded up a mess of amazingly tolerable local songs that are helping to improve the largely unsatisfying holiday music genre. (You can ...

Brush up on some of this bad year’s best Milwaukee music with the 2020 Silver City Sampler

December 17, 2020

Even though 2020 has been so unusual/unprecedented/awful, a wealth of great music was still made and released in our fair city this year. Though there’s no shortage of Best Of lists that help recognize the reco...

The 15 best Milwaukee music videos of 2019

December 11, 2019

As demonstrated in our recent rundown of the 25 best Milwaukee albums of 2019 (not to mention our list of 15 standout Milwaukee EPs from 2019), a dizzying amount of great music was made and released in our fair...

8,000th version of Milwaukee flag to be unfurled at City Hall on April 9

April 5, 2019

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed (formerly Off The Record, which is now the name of our print-only Colectivo publication) looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout th...

The 15 best Milwaukee music videos of 2018

December 5, 2018

As demonstrated in our recent rundown of the 25 best Milwaukee albums of 2018 (not to mention our list of 10 standout Milwaukee EPs from 2018), a dizzying amount of great music was made and released in our fai...

Here’s what we’re seeing this week at the 2018 Milwaukee Film Festival