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Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Week 9: Walter’s On North

November 9, 2015

In Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Milwaukee Record contributor and Green Bay native Maggie Iken sets out to find the best Packers viewing experience Milwaukee has to offer. Catch up with Week 1, Week 2, We...

Watch Red Letter Media predict exactly what will happen in ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’

Matt Wild

November 5, 2015

// It’s hard to overstate just how much Red Letter Media has influenced the way the Internet talks about Star Wars. The Milwaukee-based production company—made up of Mike Stoklasa, Jay Bauman, the cherubic ...

Welcome to November: Here’s what you’re doing this month

Tyler Maas

November 2, 2015

November. Summer is now far in the rear view mirror. Your Halloween costume has been washed, de-vomited, and stored away for later use. The extra hour of sleep you enjoyed over the weekend as a result of daylig...

“Larry Sultan: Here And Home” brings suburban ennui, flaming oranges to MAM

Matt Wild

October 22, 2015

There’s a moment in the Manos: The Hands Of Fate episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 where Joel comments on the unnerving nature of the infamously terrible film: “Every frame of this movie looks like someon...

Midnight Reruns’ latest is a ‘Force’ to be reckoned with

Tyler Maas

October 20, 2015

While the band's unpolished, distorted, and often self-deprecating songs routinely put its name in close proximity to the term "slacker," Midnight Reruns aren't lazy. In fact, they work really hard. Lately, the...

First Impression: Sal’s Pizza

Matt Wild

October 16, 2015

If you tweak the old expression “May you live in interesting times” to “May you live in interesting pizza times” (and why wouldn’t you want to do this?), Milwaukee surely fits the bill. The last few years have ...

Extra Points: Who is the better Jake Ryan?

Tyler Maas

October 9, 2015

Entering Week 5 of the Green Bay Packers season, there isn't much to be lodged in the way of complaints. The team is off to a 4-0 start. Aaron Rodgers remains the best quarterback in the universe. The oft-diffi...

A Friday on the “Fruit Loop”: A straight man’s gay bar crawl

Tyler Maas

October 1, 2015

By all accounts, it's a great time to be gay in America. It took far too long and required incalculable amounts of pain, hardship, and opposition to get here (and there's still so much work to be done), but now...

Brandi Carlile goes big and gets intimate at stunning Pabst Theater show

Matt Wild

September 30, 2015

Before anything else is said about Brandi Carlile’s sold-out show at Pabst Theater Tuesday night, it should be noted that halfway through the evening the singer-songwriter performed the impossibly gorgeous and ...

I went to Chicago to (try to) get drunk at Taco Bell

Tyler Maas

September 29, 2015

After I arguably risked death and certainly demolished my spirit whilst eating something at every Taco Bell in Milwaukee over the course of eight hours back in mid-May, I've severely limited my runs to the bord...

I crashed a family reunion in Wauwatosa and Public Enemy was playing there for some reason

Corey Baumann

September 28, 2015

Social media can be a man’s best friend. Saturday night I had gotten home from work, ate take out, and planned on watching Wet Hot American Summer. It was going to be a pretty uneventful night. That all chan...

Comet Denominator: How one restaurant nourishes Milwaukee music

Tyler Maas

September 24, 2015

// As one of Milwaukee’s best known restaurants, Comet Cafe is seen in a lot of different ways by a lot of different people. To some, it’s a beacon of comfort food anchoring the city’s east side. Others regar...

Old Milwaukee: The 40-day strike that created Bernie Brewer

Erin TerBeek

September 23, 2015

// Fireworks explode! The crowd cheers! Get up! Get up! Get outta here! Gone! These are the familiar sounds after a Milwaukee Brewers home run at Miller Park. For fans, this is a time to celebrate and have...

Return to Haunchyville

Matt Wild

September 22, 2015

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: There’s a place, somewhere deep in the woods of Muskego, where a group of mysterious little people have created their own pint-sized mini-utopia. Travel down a disused g...

I climbed to the top of City Hall and it was awesome and kind of terrifying

Matt Wild

September 17, 2015

// I’m climbing to the top of Milwaukee City Hall and there’s only one thing on my mind: death. Death, death, death. Not “lose-my-balance-and-plummet-to-Earth” death, though there’s that, too. Measuring 353 f...

Tracklist: 15 notable reunions in Milwaukee music

Milwaukee Record Staff

September 14, 2015

// Tonight, Milwaukee will play host to a reunion show of sorts when Desaparecidos comes to Turner Hall. Probably better known as “Conor Oberst’s old band,” the Omaha act disbanded in 2002 when the frontman s...

Things we learned from Violent Femmes’ Nerdist Podcast episode

Tyler Maas

September 4, 2015

The latest episode of the Chris Hardwick-hosted Nerdist Podcast featured the prodigal sons of Milwaukee music, Violent Femmes. Like the vast majority of the 700-some Nerdist episodes before it, the 77-minute re...

Tracklist: 11 non-Milwaukee acts that play Milwaukee a lot

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 31, 2015

// If you’re a regular Milwaukee show-goer, you’re bound to encounter dozens of local acts playing dozens of local shows a year. Miss your favorite band one week? No problem—they’ll be across the street lat...

Mythinformation Conference to bring secularism, Wu-Tang associate Killah Priest to Milwaukee

Matt Wild

August 28, 2015

A recent study by the Pew Research Center found that the percentage of Americans who identify as atheist or agnostic has risen in the last seven years from 16 to 23 percent. And while a staggering 71 percent of...

Why do some Milwaukee musicians leave? Why do others stay?

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 27, 2015

On Saturday, August 29, glistening electro-pop outfit Dream Attics will mark its impending relocation to Austin, Texas by playing a goodbye show at Linneman’s. Milwaukee bands packing up shop and heading elsewh...

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