Search Results for: "public domain"

March 31, 2016

// Last month, Midwest Death Rattle broke more than three years of silence (at least in the recorded sense) with a public domain footage-packed lyric video for "Post-Apocalypso," the first single and title ...

Midwest Death Rattle returns with “Post-Apocalypso” lyric video

February 9, 2016

// Back in December, we compiled a list of Milwaukee bands making albums we were excited to hear in 2016. Though our WordPress theme apparently ate that post for some reason, we assure you that Midwest Deat...

The 15 best Milwaukee music videos of 2015

December 9, 2015

// As our recent rundown of the 25 best Milwaukee albums of 2015 showed, a dizzying amount of great music was made and released in our fair city this year. In addition to the continually growing and ever-im...

Casual Vocals’ “You Are I Am We Are” video spells it out

October 14, 2015

In 2013, Colleen Webb and her husband moved to town from Chicago without knowing anybody “for sheer love of Milwaukee.” Once here, she put more focus on Casual Vocals, her literal bedroom project. After some lo...

Watch Jack Tell’s endearingly simple “My Name Is Jack” music video

July 3, 2015

Milwaukee's collective music video game is strong these days. In the last year alone, local artists have given their music visual representation in a series of impressive, ambitious just plain inventive ways in...

The SummerRest: 15 non-Summerfest recommendations

June 23, 2015

With tonight’s Rolling Stones show, Summerfest has (unofficially) arrived. The Big Gig gets into full swing come Wednesday, bringing more than 800 acts to 11 stages—not even counting those weird side stages nea...

Stand-Up Cinema brings comedy to classics

May 13, 2014

Movie buffs can confirm that Back To The Future finished five whole weeks of filming before Eric Stoltz was ultimately replaced by Michael J. Fox in the role of Marty McFly, forever altering the timeline of the...

Gov. Evers kicks off annual Pothole Patrol tour

Press Release

May 24, 2023

Gov. Evers Kicks Off Annual Pothole Patrol Tour Governor to fix potholes across Wisconsin while highlighting budget initiatives to build 21st century infrastructure, improve roads, highways, and bridges MADIS...

Beauty Steps show us the life of the mind in video for sublime psych-pop “Peaches”

February 23, 2023

Some songs drill down and focus on one idea—love, sex, the power of partying, whatever—while other songs contain multitudes. "Peaches," the debut single from Milwaukee psych/dream-pop duo Beauty Steps, is the s...

Pre-order ‘The Milwaukeean,’ an in-depth and wide-ranging book on the incomparable Klassik

November 24, 2020

We've written about Milwaukee musician and performance artist Kellen "Klassik" Abston innumerable times in the digital pages of Milwaukee Record. Whether it's best-of-the-year album lists or our own video serie...

Here’s a new trick: Watch Wes Tank rap ‘Fox In Socks’ by Dr. Seuss over beats by Dr. Dre

March 29, 2020

Ever find yourself stuck at home with a bunch of unruly children as you await the end of a national quarantine and the green light to go back to work and to send the little rugrats back to school? A purely hypo...

12 (more) Milwaukee bands you maybe didn’t know broke up

October 2, 2019

broadstreet.zone(32806); For every Milwaukee project that has a well-publicized last show, knowingly puts out what’s to be its final album, or crafts a long and respectful farewell to those who have supported ...

Let’s take a close look at this ’70s-era cartoon map of Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin

July 30, 2019

Maps! Who doesn't love maps? Old maps, new maps, weird maps, unnervingly accurate maps drawn by Racine talk show hosts in under three minutes! Oh, and cartoon maps of Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin that look...

It’s Milwaukee Record’s 5-year anniversary! How about that!

April 7, 2019

On Monday, April 7, 2014, Milwaukee Record became a thing. Following months of planning, fretting, and drinking at the BBC for some reason (R.I.P.), former A.V. Club Milwaukee city editor Matt Wild and former A...

Say goodbye to The Midwest Beat and stream a song from the band’s final album, ‘Incantations’

February 14, 2019

Following 14 years, close to 300 shows, three European tours, and a trio of albums, The Midwest Beat is coming to an end. The longstanding Milwaukee-Madison project will officially call it quits today with the ...

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

March 1, 2018

March is a period of transition. The month straddles two seasons, a part-time resident in the ass-end of winter and a temporary tenant within the burst and bloom brought on by spring. As the season changes and ...

Get in on the ground floor when In Tall Buildings play The Back Room @ Colectivo in March

January 29, 2018

Over the course of less than three years, The Back Room @ Colectivo has established itself as an invaluable East Side entertainment destination and a trusted source for all-ages shows, up-and-coming musicians, ...

Milwaukee Record’s New Year’s Eve entertainment guide

December 27, 2017

It’s been a rough year, Milwaukee. Still, between the celebrity deaths, frightening political developments, and various other sources for internet outrage, at least a few decent things happened. Come Sunday, mu...

The 25 best Milwaukee Record stories of 2017