The 25 best Milwaukee albums of 2017

Milwaukee Record Staff
Do end-of-the-year lists matter? Probably not. What purpose do they serve? Who knows! Isn't it all just subjective? Of course. Still, there's something incredibly satisfying about immersing yourself in a year's...

12 Milwaukee gifts to buy this Cyber Monday

Tyler Maas
Congratulations! If you’re reading this, you survived Thanksgiving, made it past Black Friday unscathed, and successfully navigated your way through regional retailers during Small Business Saturday. And now it...

Beet Street returns to Bay View October 14

Tyler Maas
Last October, a two-block chunk of Bay View was transformed into a fall utopia. The inaugural Beet Street Harvest Festival—a collaboration between Goodkind, Palomino, and Cactus Club—brought live music, kegged ...

Here’s the MishMash Fest 2017 lineup

Tyler Maas
One event we failed to mention in our otherwise thorough and exhaustive Summer Festival Guide was MishMash Fest. Since The Fatty Acids unofficially christened the inaugural event with an amp fire back in 2011, ...

Summer Soulstice 2017, a minute-by-minute recap

Matt Wild
For nearly two decades, the East Side's annual Summer Soulstice Music Festival has marked the arrival of summer with music, food, drinks, and that one guy who always shows up carrying a giant lizard. On Saturda...

The SummerRest: 50 non-Summerfest shows

Tyler Maas
Summerfest begins Wednesday, and will bring more than 700 acts to 10 stages—not even counting those weird side stages near the lake—and close to a million people through the gates for 11 days of music, activity...

Gloss Weekend returns in May

Tyler Maas
Since its start in early 2015, Gloss Records has played an invaluable role in Milwaukee music. The label Joe Peterson (Rio Turbo, Platinum Boys) and Harrison Colby (NO/NO, Sex Scenes) founded just over two year...